Best I can do is a big GMO prawn with no legs

- Colossal Biosciences

Political compass memes?

EABOD, spambot

No, it’s much easier to make a short animated ad than even a simple original game. The purpose of any such game is to serve you up ridiculous amounts of ads. The actual game is a ripoff of a free tutorial with assets stolen from one of the 300 other games exactly like it, all of which are also just vehicles for ads. They figure anyone who will download a game from an ad and play the game even though it’s different will watch the ads in the game because they’ll put up with anything, and maybe click on the ads because they already clicked one.

“Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer. They draw all of the attention. The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time.”

That map is just stupid. The distance the shaded orange/red area goes in from the shore makes it look like they are forecasting the most destructive tsunami in recorded history then you go look at the chart and it’s all “< 1ft”.

This signals that he could actually be moving into position to be inevitable nominee Newsom’s 2028 losing mate. I had been thinking the DNC’s failure strategy team was going to go with Gillibrand.

“Quitting your job to make games” is just like quitting your job to write your novel, or quitting your job to produce your electronic music, or quitting your job to sell crocheted goods for Etsy.

Either you’re living at home with your parents not paying rent, you’re financially dependent on a spouse who has a very highly paid real job, or just in good health with no kids and enough wealth (probably from inheritance or landlording) invested that you can live comfortably off just the interest. It’s saying, “I can choose to retire right now and focus on my hobbies.” Is this the situation you find yourself in? Because I’m certain it is for the OP.

Must be nice…

The EPA has at no point in history had the abilty to “fight climate change”. It is just no longer going to be allowed to even pretend to try. In theory, if the current government of the US were immediately overthrown in a violent revolution, and a new green socialist government was built in its ruins, and then that government conquered the world, and imposed harsh austerity measures on the survivors of the Final World War, it could begin to actually fight climate change.

Back to the real world though- the mass extinction is well underway, all future tipping points will be blown past on the way to a new hothouse Earth era. It is happening faster than any previous mass extinction so will probably be right up there with the worst of them. The only real variable at play is that the longer it takes for humans to either go extinct or permanently collapse back to the stone age, the higher percentage of Earth’s biodiversity will be wiped out with us.

But yeah, sure. If we vote the Democrats back in '28, we can totally go back to setting targets and guidelines and publishing reports on things and Taking Climate Change Very Seriously. As long as it doesn’t inconvenience the donor class too much, of course.

That facts are opinions. Everyone is entitled to their own facts, because there is no truth, just ‘your truth.’

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How about feeding it a bunch of Twitter source code and asking it to translate into JSON Programming Language? Maybe it’ll somehow accidentally hack/exploit itself.

But seriously, no one should be using Twitter or interacting with Grok at all, even just to fuck with it.

✓ Extends life

✓ Expands consciousness

✓ Vital for space travel

Steampunk aesthetic ( 1990’s ), generative art ( early 2000s )

I wonder if it is going to be more or less than 5 years before this is required of all US citizens wanting to renew their passport or RealID drivers’ license.

Decarbonized oil is just very inefficiently produced hydrogen.

The dumb thing here is going to the trouble of drawing vanishing lines but not using a ruler to get them straight, so they may as well have just freehanded the cube in the first place.

Also, platypuses are smaller than you probably thought they were. ( if comparing to beavers and river otters )

This is is just a long-winded pseudo-intellectual rant against DEI.

Getting bad vibes from “Palladium Mag” overall, like it’s for all those cryptofascist Yarvin-adjacent tech bros who think they’re smarter than they really are.

There certainly is a crisis of competence coming, but this isn’t it- and worse, the people who think this way are involved in engineering it and planning to profit from it.

Ok, being a fly, try breaking into a beehive and laying your eggs in their honey, see how well it goes for you. Or just be thankful that you answer to no queen and all the world’s shit is yours for the taking.