A leftist entering their middle age and becoming more punk with every year
PBS NOVA is great. That playlist has 20 documentaries on it about a range of topics, most just under an hour long, one that is just under two hours long.
Even if we do bootstrap AGI. why do you think it’d become a singular central authority? And maybe you should update your fantasies. If you want a pretty glorious look at the concept of space habitats as havens for the spectrum of cultural modes humans can create, I recommend Alistair Reynolds The Prefect, which takes place in the Glitter Band, an environ of thousands of space habitats in the Epsilon Eridani system
Is there any indication that this desperate ploy to reframe any criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza or recognition of innocent Palestinians’ basic humanity and rights as purely foreign propaganda is working at all? It’s absolutely craven
Executive Editor Kevin Merida said journalists who signed a harsh condemnation of Israel would not cover the war; The newspaper’s owners criticized the decision, and Merida resigned
Good, fuck Kevin Merida
In the decentralized network of the fediverse where freedom of association is king, you’re free to start your own instance that will federate with everybody. Of course, the other admins are as free as you are and may decide to not federate with you. Such is that degree of freedom.
Right? There are many imitators, but The Onion has that special extra something ineffable pretty much all other satire sites rarely touch, and if they do it’s a one-off
The only objective purpose in life is to spread your genes.
Not even that. It’s not like you’ve failed at life if you don’t have kids. You just haven’t spread your genetic information. Saying that its your purpose to spread them implies it’s the genes purpose to be spread. Genes simply are, they don’t have a purpose just like you don’t; evolution has just given organisms behaviors and mechanisms that make it very likely that they will be regardless of that lack of purpose.
There’s a Wikipedia page for that: Vandalism on Wikipedia. The short answer is that they don’t allow it, it’s done by malicious editors and it’s something they have been combating since its inception.
Does this really solve the ethical wicket of human embryo testing? Is tricking stem cells into forming an embryo really that different from fertilizing an egg with a sperm cell to form an embryo? Like, would this still develop into a functional human being if implanted into a womb?
Maybe it’s just a carryover from my time in reddit where I never ever chose to look at /r/all but y’all are making me glad I stick to just my subscribed feed
First, some friendly snark
Second, direct link to Ideology and Policies section
Honestly? Questions like this one
They can “blast” them all they want, until they start calling for lessening oil subsidies while majorly increasing investment in and incentivising deployment of renewables I’ll just assume they’re all full of shit
I’m also returning to a more plant based diet in part because of animal cruelty but also because creating demand for plant based meat alternatives could potentially reduce the need for agricultural land use by ~70%. But not all animal production has the same impact on climate change: just cutting out beef and eating more nuts will help.
Who’s the loser that’s downvoted every comment on this post? Please actually argue why we should treat animals even more unconscionably than we already do. I’d like to see how pathetic it is
This is perfect for /c/Antiwork, do you mind if I cross post this?
This coupled with the decline of insect populations (as someone who regularly drives from Missouri to Georgia in the states, you can count me as one of the anecdotal points of the windshield phenomenon) is like the icing on top of my climate doomerism. It’s hard to find reasons for optimism.
On the other hand, I’m even more vindicated in my desire to keep moving toward a plant based diet:
The hardest hit were grassland birds, down by more than 50 percent, mostly due to the expansion of farms that turn a varied landscape into acres of neat, plowed rows. That equates to 750 million birds, from bright yellow Eastern and Western Meadowlarks with their incessant morning songs to the stately Horned Lark with black masks across the male’s eyes and tiny hornlike feathers that sometimes stick up from their heads.
Nope. Deleted my account as soon as I heard about the API pricing and never looked back. As far as I was and still am concerned, even if they backtracked the API bullshit the writing is on the wall: reddit no longer cares about providing value to users, if they ever did. They’re no in the endgame of enshittification of trying to extract value from anywhere they can, quality of service be damned.
Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another.
The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination.
What’s more, people are unwittingly helping the mega-colony stick together.
Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) were once native to South America. But people have unintentionally introduced the ants to all continents except Antarctica.
It’s so exquisitely stupid to deploy an unproven and very-well-known-to-fuck-up solution at this kind of scale and importance. It really drives home how science and technology communication are crucial and that the recent hype around “AI” (what a fucking misuse of the phrase; it’s a very complex weighted plinko board) was criminally negligent.