A lot will depend on how fast/hard the hardware will commoditize and improve. 2nm H100 descendants available at like $400 would enable a lot of smaller scale AI fauna. If it never costs down, we’ll get a large dinosaur ecology dominated by states and corps

Fast. Sometimes.

Swisscom has a v good spam call filter

Love the ^

Have you tried snus?

I get no takers either, seems The Network is already on here

Why don't you?

Differences among specializing nations - lindy.

Imho what Heinlein, Asimov and many others get wrong is their default assumption that we will evolve an amalgamation of the many distinct cultures and patterns-of-thought.

Successor states organize around cultural lines, perpetuating certain clichés about earthly family-held governments

Monarchies are in the (family-held) business of governance with much longer time horizons afforded by lack of short-term result focus.

An even better portrayal than Foundation or Starship Troopers comes with the BattleTech books: after the hegemony of the Star League and its defense forces, cont/

Well, isn't that ironi—

<gigantic hook yanks me off stage>

Symmetry and BF% can easily be measured

At first the bluesky was designed as a.. perfect website..
the feeds didn't glitch out.. every post was funny & high effort.. there was no inscrutable drama or 'main character's

it was a disaster.

which is why the bluesky was redesigned to this.. 2012 twitter.. the peak of your civilization

AC not being common in Europe, this should go well with our demographics...

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They don't remember how Arab spring was organized and how it was virtually impossible to shut down, being decentralised

Do they

Waiting for that day like... 💀👻