My hot political-economic take? It is perfectly fine to replace workers, actually, because work is bad.

A month after launch, TLEs are now coming in for the Transporter-12 satellites. Also, ImpulseSpace
deployed the BlueBon and Fossasat payloads from the LEO Express Mira tug on around Jan 27 and Feb 2.

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

Arthur C. Clarke

And showers! I've done this for +6 hour international layovers before and it's great.

At least part of what we think of as "aging" isn't just because of the passage of time.

Like aging can cause cognitive and physical decline, but also older people are just, on average, more sedentary and less likely to intellectually challenge themselves

They're deporting me off-world to work in the glucose mines

reforming the government in accordance with the 36 Lessons

Lawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun. (A Talk About Risk & Preparedness) YouTube video by DeviantOllam

@deviantollam.bsky.social’s “Lawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun.” presentation is worth everyone’s time.

Not easy listening/viewing towards the end, but important, so important.

youtu.be/6ihrGNGesfI?...

schitzotypal thinking does so well in this environment because a lot of the connections are real, albeit not casual

I've joked in the past that 2016 was when containment failed on the internet, and I still think that's true, but the internet is really just the connective medium

you get a virus from the other side of the planet that causes your cousin to join a cult run by a neet in japan, your other cousin lsoes their life savings to a ponzi scheme pushed by a prank show influencer, the latest high-profile assassin worked on the UI for the map game you play

the closest thing I have to a unified theory of this is that the last decade is what happens when the graph of ~everything approaches being fully connected

the year is 2024

I couldn't remember what whiplash was called so I just searched "abuse drum movie"

Trauma Is All You Need: A Whiplash-Derived Adversarial Generative Architecture

automated wordcellery

market niche

This is really cool! The proliferation of night vision/thermal obviously is a big deal for the tactical/security space, but it's also interesting from a transhumanist perspective

Individuals learning to play with extended sensory bandwidth, quite literally new ways of seeing

Ahhh, gotcha

I've had a little bit of success with Graphviz. What goes wrong with Mermaid?

keeping most of my book collection in ebooks has done wonders for my mobility and wallet, but also sometimes makes me sad that I don't have a Book Fort

"If you were losing, would you know?" is something I think a lot about, coming from computer security.

Even after years (and Operation Grim Beeper) I think it's still going to take generations for society to internalize the websec mindset that absolutely everything is an attack surface

Armageddon was the last movie allowed to believe in America.

I'm at the rabbit island

I'm at the Imperial Japanese chemical weapons factory

I'm at the combination rabbit island and Imperial Japanese chemical weapons factory

okay after a few weeks is anyone using gpt o1 for practical stuff or is the whole swarm on claude

many such cases

This is a really cool idea! This part specifically, the first spin-up, is the place where I'd want to do some math and see how the numbers look. Spinning up nontrivial asteroids quickly needs a *lot* of energy