Rushdie should be more sympathetic to the Palestinians. After all, Hitchens, Maher, and Islamophobes at large have been using him as a human shield for years.

TED is just like sharktank. Only instead of having a good business idea contestants compete to sooth the guilt of wealthy liberals and promise them that technology is going to save us.

their highly-publicized repudiation of diversity initiatives.

That’s only the latest in a series of blunders by Target that date back to the pandemic. They used to have a reputation of being a pleasant shopping experience. They used to be the “not Walmart”. After the pandemic they were slow to re-staff and the predictable result was dirty stores, empty shelves, and long waits at checkout.

Here is an astrophysicist explaining mathematically why they suck: YouTube or Nebula.

They should have left the graphics alone and worked to squash bugs and add playability/quality-of-life features.

Those games are famous for being brilliant, but deeply flawed. Graphics were not the flaw.

This is a big deal. The emergence of eukaryotes may be more important to our biological story than the emergence of life.

Some have suggested (I saw it on PBS Spacetime) that eukaryotic evolution is the “great filter” that prevents civilizations and explains the Fermi paradox. Perhaps the universe is filled to the lid with slimes and bacteria, with complex cells being vanishingly rare or maybe unique.

The problem is that the US put sanctions on this person. Not that M$ is obeying those sanctions; it’s not optional.

Best practice is to criticize them for genocide profiteering. They chose that.

I was actually delighted when Windows 11 added tabs to notepad and explorer, and layers make MSPaint worth using.

But all of these things became buggy messes. Explorer showing ads for OneDrive and inexplicable behavior, On more than one occasion, the address bar would become unusable, and I deeply resent having to use the mouse to do simple tasks.

Now I know that this was prelude to Copilot.

So now I daily drive Debian making me a computer user, not a resource for billionaires to mine.

Chris Christie was the prosecutor that put Chuck in prison. This was a great source of friction during the first administration.

This is the most humane idea the administration has had. They could multiply the benefit and still save the taxpayer the price of cruel rendition.

Reddit has banned a community devoted to a nihilistic, anti-life philosophy

This sentence contradicts itself. Devotion to a philosophy or ideology is precisely what nihilism is not.

To the argument “The Earth is valuable and should be protected” the nihilist would point out that earth having value depends on the continued existence of Humans.

Obviously this fit’s the narrative of fossil fuel and xenophobes, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a serious concern.

Honestly, I’m nervous about my TP link network gear.

It’s weird that Linux certification requires rote-memorization of commands. The only people who make any effort to memorize commands are newbies and people studding for exams. You will always have access to bash history, man, and --help, even from an offline machine.

Every command I’ve memorized is simply the natural process of repetition. Is that your experience?

I’m decades younger and I wouldn’t want to be compared to Springsteen.

Countdown to Trump saying something deplorable. 10…9…8…

I hate AI as much as the next lemming, but nobody is going to tell me a babble fish for real isn’t cool AF.

I disagree. Those are vulnerable people and this kind of behavior is a big red flag for abuse. If Utah is overprotective of it’s wards, it’s the only State in the nation that is.

Boy, you had to read pretty far to lean that the suspect was dead at the scene.

“The subject had nihilistic ideations and this was a targeted attack against the IVF facility,"

I don’t dispute he had “nihilistic ideaitions”, but nihilism can never motivate terrorism or anything else. It happens to be the nature of the universe and I’m frustrated how many people treat it as synonyms with being disturbed and violent. Their was a time when ‘atheist’ was used in the same way.

However, the company said it had found no evidence to date that its Azure platform and AI technologies were used to target or harm people in the Gaza Strip.

A lawyer wrote that statement. I read between the lines that M$ has a don’t ask, don’t tell policy in regards to war crimes.

There are workarounds to almost every issue you may have. You can run Windows in a VM for software that requires it, or dual boot. M$ Office can be ran in a browser now. There is no reason to buy a license, just DL windows10 direct from M$ and never register, all they do is lock you out of some display options and add a watermark to your desktop.

Living proof that fascists don’t work food-service. Or maybe food-service workers are immunized against fascist ideology. Either way I hope 47 gets 86’ed.