Republicans. Would. Be. Worse.
Republicans. Would. Be. Worse.
We will be more like China
We won’t be like China. We’ll be more insulated and divorced from Chinese media, culture, and conversation.
That’s the stated end goal. Bringing up sharp walls between nationalities in order to control the flow of information between people.
If we keep TikTok open, we risk exposing American young people to Chinese norms, ideals, and social standards. We might even be exposed directly to Chinese mass media (ie, propaganda).
This is a real security risk, as it raises a possibility that younger Americans won’t accept American mass media at face value.
Nintendo gets to do this (the Yuzu shit) because so many other developers have stopped making anything except slot machines.
Behold, the unlimited power of a fully nationalized war time economy.
No Poor Muslims Allowed
The only response to this decision is to vote harder and get even madder at anti-war activists going uncommitted.
There’s a Sci-fi horror book I enjoyed, called “John Dies At The End”, that posits an alternative history in which computers were created from the brains of pigs.
As a consequence, the civilization is heavily invested in harvesting organs in the same way that we’re invested in drilling for oil.
That would require some kind of machine capable of learning, a model of language so incredibly large that it can comprehend these linguistic nuances, or an intelligent form of artificial device.
Wonder if we’ll ever have something like that in the future.
America deserves a President Kamala Harris
TrashFuture has hit on a few new attempts at Killer App firms, but it’s all Mindfulness this and AI that.
I think the last app I downloaded was an AI art app, which I used maybe twice.
Oh man, what do Boeing and Astrobotics have in common?
Can’t seem to keep all their lids shut.
Somebody explain to me why Eminence in Shadow is good, because I’ve watched three episodes and it just seems like horny Batman.
I mean, the joke is going to be in the enforcement, as a battalion of Australia’s largest and roundest uniformed fascist shitheads march through the streets breaking windows and swinging at the heads of anyone sporting a Palestinian flag.
You’re going to have folks with swastika face tattoos explaining why these anti-Zionist activists just need to obey the law.
given the age of the Universe and the relatively short time it would take for an advanced civilization to spread across the Milky Way Galaxy (650,000 years, by Hart’s estimate), Earth should have been visited by an extraterrestrial civilization (ETC) by now.
It took humans 30,000 years to cross the Atlantic. Using modem propolsion systems, it takes us two years to get to Mars and 40 to reach the edge of the solar system. This seems like an extremely generous estimate considering the Milky Way has a 50,000 light year radius.
I’m as bullish about extraterrestrial life as anyone, and I think a fuller survey of even just the current Solar System has potential. But I have no idea how you get a full galactic survey in so short a time, given what we know about the soft limits on speed of travel and communication.
By Tipler’s refined estimate, an ETC would be able to explore the entire galaxy in “less than 300 million years.”
That definitely feels like it’s more in the ballpark. But, again, it presumes a certain amount of steady cartography by the hypothetical fleet of Von Neuman probes.
There’s a Sci-fi series called The Bobverse that explores the idea of a sentiment fleet of Von Neumans exploring the galaxy, and the various trial and tribulations involved. One point it discusses is that even with a saturation of probes, you don’t get real time communication. So even in a hypothetical universe where alien life did exist and survey earth, what are they odds they’d be watching us at the moment of our development. What would an alien AI be looking for and what would it do when it was discovered?
We could still be too primitive to bare noticing. Or we could be living in between blinks of an alien camera that only reports back every 1000 years.
As we look out at the cosmos, we could be looking at things we don’t understand. After all, what does a star surrounded by a Dyson Sphere look like to a telescope that is searching for glimmers of light, heat, and gravity? SETI is operating purely on conjecture. That’s assuming alien civilizations are even capable of creating these hypothetical superstructures. Or that the structures would function as we intuit.
At some level, I have to question if we know what we’re looking for. Because so much of this feels like we’re searching for humans deep in space. Perhaps the reason we can’t find aliens is that they are simply… too alien.
Ah shit. Have the Tamil Tigers entered the chat?
M.I.A. is going to have to make a new music video about this one.
Weird how the size of your nose changes with your facial expression.
Politics are inherently inseparable from economics.
That doesn’t get you from “Democratic Socialism” to “Imperialism”, as evidenced by your own linked article.
They absolutely align with the US because of their political organization.
Per your own linked article, they remained neutral even after the end of WW2 and sympathized more with the Non-Aligned states than either of the two Superpowers.
Nowhere have I argued that socialist structures benefit from imperialism.
Alright, asshole. I think we’re done.
Diploma mills gonna mill diplomas