Nintendo suing US government over tariffs
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Nintendo suing US government over tariffs
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The recent launch of Moltbook underscores the limits of evaluating individual models, while ignoring ecosystem dynamics that should inform AI governance frameworks, writes Michelle De Mooy.
never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.
Silk Fire by ZabΓ© Ellor
In a total world city with reversed gender politics, dead gods, and limited magic, a male courtesan overcomes whiny politics & family strife to defeat death magic & bring brightness back.
There's no suspense and Star Trek did the gender politics thing better.
Are there any good scifi or fantasy books published since 2022?
I am very in favour of physical media but I would like to remind everyone how shit regional settings on DVDs were.
Fortunately, books don't have that.
The literal worst version of it has to exist first if you're ever going to get anywhere, so you might as well embarrass yourself by writing it
There must have been a similar movement in 1930s Germany to hyperfocus on the local and disconnect from the negative
All social research contains the risk of bias. Reducing and assessing bias is one of the major challenges in doing it. That doesnβt mean you donβt do it. It means you examine studies for how large the bias might be and in what directions it may pull it.
But human rights must be respected.
not once have I ever needed a text message or email summarized in my entire fucking life
Why does context matter? I need to remember which outrage machine led to me opening this article. What was I feeling and thus thinking at the time? I know why I think this is important now, but why was I excited to hoarde it then?
I don't often feel the ripples of context collapse, but just now I'm reading an article on my phone that's been open in a browser window for like a week and I can't remember if I saw it here, on Xitter, or in an email. Like, the source has fully fallen out of my head, after 7 days.
Every American reading this, regardless of color, political party, or profession needs to read this, because itβs been used against all of you:
οΏΌ vmfunc.re/blog/persona/
Underwater VR!
Floating free (compared to being docked in water or on dry land) caused more psychological ocean connection and positive emotions. Floaters believed they had drifted 4 meters even though they were stationary (i.e., vection).
Santoso and colleagues: vhil.stanford.edu/publications...
βAI companies seem to look at college students as a strapped customer base to hook when they are most stressed....The headlong pursuit of AGI...has significantly hampered building support for developing systems that might help make students smarter.β www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...
My favourite online performance of all time, iMelania by Varjack-Lowry, is back for a one-off on 3 March (4 for me) and I am 100000% gonna get up at 6 AM so I can watch it in my timezone.
cptheatre.co.uk/whatson/imel...
I've still never seen Titanic and I have long refused on principle
Roman altar with the face of the sun god Sol. It also includes carvings of the four seasons. Found in Inveresk in East Lothian, dating to about 140AD. It was designed so that light shone from behind, making the god's face and crown appear to glow in the darkness. This altar, along another one, were excavated in 2010 and are the only examples of their kind ever found in Scotland. They were set up by a Roman centurion whose name was written in short form as G CAS FLA, likely meaning Gaius Cassius Flavianus.
Two roman altars found near Edinburgh and related to the cult of Mithras are going to be displayed for the first time. One of the altars, dedicated to the god Sol, had holes so it could be illuminated from within, and don't tell me this is not the most rpg thing ever.
Yes funny, but also your physical experience of time is the only thing you can directly control for money in capitalism. More money or more time, that's the choice.
I have *a thing* (weird) for pimiento cheese. Yes, not "pimento", but "pimiento" (different pepper, sounds the same). South Carolina specific cheese salad/dip. I have had *other* cheese salad/dips that are similar though, so the idea is clearly a good one.
My students frequently ask me questions about info I discussed in class. Repeatedly.
How doth one acquire funding to write a book, anyway? I don't currently qualify for Australian government funding, so what else is there?
Macbeth: SHIT
The PowerSchool breach exposed 62M studentsβ most sensitive records. It also revealed a policy vacuum, argues Danai Nhando, as accountability mechanisms failed to address systemic problems, including the centralization of data, weak security defaults, and governance failures.
There is little of the original, good internet left BUT DoesTheDogDie.com continues to amaze me with genuinely helpful crowd-sourced info. Checking it is the main way I feel okay watching most films now.
Social media algorithms should now be called Maslow's Hierarchy of Screeds
I submitted a monograph proposal based on my PhD research and I decided to go big and send it to 3 of the biggest academic publishers.
No responses were outright No's, but each had one specific thing they needed me to fix or change in the proposal and I find the feedback disparity fascinating.
Apple, Google, Meta, Bluesky, Ring, Telegramβall these companies could offer stronger protections for our chats and our data. www.encryptitalready.org
I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home.
But did you look at the judge's order?
It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept."
Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...