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"We report the first three cases of cat-transmitted sporotrichosis caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis outside South America, and the first ever cases of cat-transmitted sporotrichos…

A thought-provoking piece, albeit a depressing one, because we've been cooking for decades in the fetid juices of compassion-destroying propaganda (largely to support unfettered ca…

Looks like the author is geoblocking in protest of the UK Online Safety Act (and fair enough).

14 years here. Thanks @dang and @tomhow.

"That's the hoof! That's the best part of the stew! Oh, man, think of it as a marrow nugget wrapped in a thick toenail."

Fellow Home Assistant/Apple Home user here. You may already be aware, but Apple Home/Siri can talk to Home Assistant directly using https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/homek…

Feels like only a couple of years before AIs can take a movie and reconstruct it entirely as an "open world" VR experience.

Even if you don't care about those people, what about the people who would be affected by them? A would-be bomb-maker might only blow themselves up, or they may kill many in a crow…

Too few people recognise this. Corporations are already the unrelenting paperclip machine of AI thought experiment. God knows what hope we could have of getting AIs to align with "…

Will we have AIs doing an increasing amount of the research, theory and even publication, with human scientists increasingly relegated to doing experiments under their direction?

I strongly urge people to read Thomas Babington Macaulay's speeches on copyright, its aims, terms, and hazards. Very well reasoned and explained. In particular, people often cited …

That isn’t my experience. We own a 15th C house which was originally a coaching inn beside the main road, which ran along the bottom of a hill.

I only regret that several of my old Classics masters are no longer around to celebrate this.

We used to have some very nice beaches, but unfortunately the Tory government thought it would be a great idea to allow water companies to discharge sewage into the waterways at wi…

“I have no mouth and I must scream” territory.

Given that Welles agreed to do the outtakes to prove incapacity for insurance purposes, I wonder whether he'd hammed it up a bit to be sure that they met the necessary bar.

Pretty sure that Sutskever understands the technology, and it looks like he persuaded the others.

In other words, they keep cargo-culting it, claiming responsibility for the wins and blaming staff, the economy, etc. for the losses.

I met Mr Banks once (empty bookshop signing) and he told me that he wrote the Culture books because he was sick of so much popular SF being “capitalism in space”.

The Framework laptop is particularly good if you have a family member who is clumsy or accident-prone because replacing the input cover (keyboard plus touchpad etc.) is dead simple…

What is the impact on the immediate local environment? Drawing the heat out of the ground throughout the year surely means the ground will be colder going into winter. What impact …

Some of this is people wanting to recreate the artificial scarcity of the real world so that they can profit from it, see the recent land rush in some nascent proto-Metaverse platf…

Reminiscent of Rincewind's roll-up cigarettes made from fragments of old roll-ups: "The implacable law of averages therefore dictated that some of that tobacco had been smoked almo…

There are Dragon's Teeth on the banks of the River Wey behind Waverley Abbey in Surrey, England. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dragon%27s_Teeth,_Wa...

https://mud.co.uk/richard/How%20to%20Be%20a%20God.pdf