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Been too long since I've been in touch with the music scene in Chengdu. So good to hear something new from 开山刀! #ElectronicMusic #ChineseArt #Trance
Thanks @Charlie Owen for the tip to get a MH-Z19. I now know that the CO2 levels in here are AAAHH FUCK AAAAHH.
Is There Any Twinge of Regret Among the Anti-Abortion Justices?
First thought was, Betteridge's law says "no".
Second thought, I bet the final paragraph says "no".
Final paragraph:
So no, I don’t think the Dobbs justices are sorry...
The great thing about the NYT is that it's so digestible.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/23/opinion/abortion-supreme-court-dobbs.html
Didn't see anyone else mention this, so putting it here. The battery pack is Apple confessing that they didn't solve the nausea problem. If the battery is on your waist it can be as big as you like. 4 hours. 8 hours. It's two hours because if you use it more than two hours you'll puke, then sue Apple for making you puke.
Note that the device is mostly aimed at people who will use it for work. Work is the context in which people will keep using it long after they're starting to feel sick, because imposter syndrome makes them think they need to go a bit further to "pull their weight". And that's the best case. Some bosses will make employees wear it until they're permanently disabled, because you can replace employees but you can't replace a missed bonus. There will be lawsuits, and Apple's defense is that using the device while it's charging is against their explicit instructions.
I've been looking forward to virtual reality since the 90s. I always assumed the nausea problem was solveable. It's not. The idea is dead.
I would cheerfully pay $3500 to not be trapped in Apple's playpen. But Third Room is free.
https://mastodon.matrix.org/users/thirdroom/statuses/110503869279807173
Congratulations to Mark McGowan. When leaders cling onto power it's a warning sign that the political system is dysfunctional. Last election Labor won 53 out of 59 seats, which is also a warning sign. Mark McGowan's resignation suggests that maybe the system is healthy after all.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/wa-premier-mark-mcgowan-announces-he-is-stepping-down/uuj3lgn5r
Voting in the Sozialwahl. It's not an especially consequential election, but it's the closest to democracy I've experienced for a while. Time was I'd vote in three countries: national elections in UK and Australia, local elections in Germany. These days I think I'm completely disenfranchised.
For the record, I believe in universal suffrage, in both the strong and weak forms. The weak form says that if you live in a place, you should be able to vote in that place's elections, without regard to age, citizenship status, legal status, or any other qualification. The strong form says that you should be able to vote without regard to age, citizenship status, legal status, or any other qualification.
Okey dokey, Bruce Schneier, of all people, and @Henry Farrell literally suggesting we make a LLM president. Now, finally, I'm starting to worry, since apparently LLMs have begun eating brains and replacing our friends.
A.I. chatbots could run national electronic town hall meetings and automatically summarize the perspectives of diverse participants. This type of A.I.-moderated civic debate could also be a dynamic alternative to opinion polling.
His iPad shows fields of black and green surrounding Bakhmut. As far as the drone’s electric eye can see, everything up to the horizon is a giant moonscape of black impact holes.
Time and again, new plumes of smoke rise up in the field from fresh impacts.
“Our godawful Starlink just isn’t working the way it should,” the specialist says as he angrily digs into his laptop.
“How am I supposed to work when the internet is so damn slow?”
As simple as that, the Ukrainian military shares the picture from drones with other units via link-only live streams on YouTube.
I was once baffled to discover that gender-api.com claims to be able to "determine the gender of an email address", a ludicrous claim.However, thanks to the advanced technology of genders.wtf, I have been able to one-up this feat, and I am proud to announce that we can now gender fediverse instances.
Uncanny. @Effy Elden
Image source, Stuart Ford / PA
Image source, Stuart Ford / PA
