Just watched the Nebula Q&A unfortunately for Taiwan I think that Trump's Venezuela invasion effectively gives the PRC carte blanche. I hope I'm wrong.

Ze deed me altijd denken aan een soort karikaturale slechterik uit een kinderboek. Lange tijd was dat Dorothea Omber (uit Harry Potter) maar de kinderhaat heeft ze toch duidelijk afgekeken van Bulstronk in Roald Dahls Maltilda.

This is a Trump variant on Hitler's the Big Lie - the Big Stupid. A stratagem so big and stupid that people think there must be a subtle hidden logic because no normal thinking person would ever put forward such a thing. Guess what ... Trump isn't a normal thinking person.

Apparently, the various degrees of pond life running chunks of the world these days think germs are their friends. 🤷‍♂️

Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. ... as with most things Trump

There is a definite distinction between a social media company that does no fact-checking and employs a sensation driven algorithm and a government directed misinformation campaign. In the public debate, these details matter.

I hope that modern judges will be as radical as the judge then, Lord Mansfield, when it comes to issues of AI and IP theft.

Is it possible that one side is less intensively worked to preserve the fossil imprint?

Nice to know that the planet purrs back at you in the [millihertz range](agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...)

Het feit dat het "Grok" heet straalt een zekere SciFi-fanboy niveau uit. Betrouwbaarheid lijkt mij iets anders. Niet al te serieus nemen dus. 😉