These days, you really do.

Phwoar.

It’s an example of corporate regulatory capture, just like the US Democrats. Corbyn was the last gasp of actual Labour values, and they made sure that all possibility of that died with him. Labour will never again be a left-wing party, it’s centre-right from here on out.

The only reason Starmer’s not sacked yet is that whoever replaces him is definitely losing the next election.

That’s actually pretty sad. Also a serious problem for the USA. NYT, for all its faults, really was the best one.

Ideally, we would have our own personally run AI instances that can give us a probability that what we are reading is LLM generated. It’s still pretty good at recognising itself. That will be an arms race, though.

One of my favourite bits of TOS is when Space Abraham Lincoln calls her a Negress, then apologises for being racist, but Uhura genuinely doesn’t know what the fuck racism is.

Unlike Sisko, she’s never studied history, so she doesn’t even know Earth used to have that sort of bigotry. That’s the sort of culture I aspire to be part of one day. One where racism is so dead that nobody knows what it is.

The flat surfaces make them look very… stackable. Do you know anyone with a crane?

Americans don’t think so. They think they’re all Arabs.

It’s morgin time!

Ah, that’s the problem, we’ve been getting all these chatbots to generate “hellworld.exe”.

All true. If you know all this, you must know that Israel and Russia have been very close when it suits them to be. It’s quite possible that Epstein had connections to lots of Russian powerful people.

Not really, she was too young to own a phone.

Liberate is standard army slang for steal, yes.

Conveyor belts, like in The Roads Must Roll! Continuously moving main conveyors, with feeder conveyors to get on and off!

Did the information that they were atheists come from the church? Also, did the experiments carefully make sure that the wine was not switched out for blood in the test? You gotta think like James Randi here.

I felt like that when playing Pod Racer.

Yep, it’s kind of the wild west out there eh.

There is no mandatory certification system for midwives. So you might get lucky and get a former emergency room nurse, or you might get unlucky and get someone who believes crystals will stop the bleeding or turn the baby around.

That would be a reduction in the service quality, which is the other thing that always happens when utility services are privatised. So you get to pay more money for less service. The company has no incentive to provide a good service, because what else are you going to do?