I find the lack of conversation about these border checks, which have become ubiquitous across the EU since 2015, incredibly chilling. At most you get dismissive comments that they are security theater and that they "don't work", and meanwhile new border infrastructure keeps going up.

I was incandescent mad for a few years that I missed out on C.J. Cherryh for the likes of Asimov et al when I was growing up.

Chanur is excellent, Foreigner series is something I reread multiple times. She is a force of nature kind of writer.

I wonder why they feel entitled to block the bike lane but not the car lane?

yeah one thing in common with these 8 is that they are either retiring or their term ends in 2028/2030.

this means that a large part of senate dems was on board with caving, and they should be primaried.

It is sign of a safe, collaborative environment where people do not do this

This doesn’t count right?

Why would a combination of deep technological skill and adrenaline in a controlled environment attract neurodivergent people. It is a mystery.

Honestly the only complaint I have is that you got me listening to podcasts now.

You yearn for the comforts of tradcrypto

It's more about not popping tesla valuation immediately, just postponing it.

Not only is it a lie, that is something we will not see in our lifetimes.

The human brain has a few orders of magnitude more processing power in terms of a neural net, with a vastly more advanced architecture than current LLMs.

It will take decades to get even near that.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsing...

This is not so fucking complicated:

"According to Reil, part of the motivation for starting the company was Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014. The company pledges to only sell to democratic governments."

Guardian is really iffy since they sold The Observer to a propaganda group, journalistic capture on some level.

Plus Viner is a horrible editor in chief

Honestly this isn’t much deeper than that Ross Douthat is a misogynistic loser and the NYT has fallen to a very low journalistic standard in the last decade.

If facts made a difference most NYT opeds and headlines/subheds wouldn’t be written.

inline this into my veins