Huh, I never noticed the toilet on a chess board.

And that’s how I met your mother.

Pants down and you could be donating your own turds to the park. Equilibrium restored.

This reminds me of that terrific quote from “The Internet’s Own Boy”: “Aaron [Swartz] thought he could change the world just by explaining the world very clearly to people.”
What he possibly didn’t understand was that the people in power are, indeed, perfectly able to understand the facts, but they can and will simply refuse to do so. Or, as Karl Deutsch once put it so succinctly, and I’m paraphrasing here: “Power means not having to listen.”

Whoah.

Needs more “Yes/ Ask again later” pseudo-choices.

♪ Nightswimming, remembering that night
September’s coming soon, I’m pining for the moon ♪

It quite depends on your use case, doesn’t it? This decades-old phrase about an algorithm in Fractint always stuck with me: “[It] can guess wrong, but it sure guesses quickly!”
Part of my job is getting an overview - just some generic leads and hints - about topics completely unknown to me, really fast. So I just ask an LLM, verify the links it gives and create a response within like 10-15 minutes. So far, no complaints.

You’re not going to find any disciples of Schumpeter in this thread, I’m afraid.

If you control social media, you also control who gets to see what in their feeds.

That’s great and all, but what if… what if he needs to go to the toilet?

If you’re not knowledgeable about the topic you should comment about it.

Has this also been translated by an AI, or am I missing the point?

Didn’t know there were so many albino hedgehogs.

From the depths of history, Vasily Grossman once again:

One of the most astonishing human traits that came to light at this time was obedience. There were cases of huge queues being formed by people awaiting execution – and it was the victims themselves who regulated the movement of these queues. […] And it wasn’t merely tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of millions of people who were the obedient witnesses of this slaughter of the innocent. Nor were they merely obedient witnesses: when ordered to, they gave their support to this slaughter, voting in favor of it amid a hubbub of voices. […] What does this tell us? That a new trait has suddenly appeared in human nature? No, this obedience bears witness to a new force acting on human beings. The extreme violence of totalitarian social systems proved able to paralyze the human spirit throughout whole continents. A man who has placed his soul in the service of Fascism declares an evil and dangerous slavery to be the only true good. Rather than overtly renouncing human feelings, he declares the crimes committed by Fascism to be the highest form of humanitarianism; he agrees to divide people up into the pure and worthy and the impure and unworthy. The instinct for self-preservation is supported by the hypnotic power of world ideologies. These call people to carry out any sacrifice, to accept any means, in order to achieve the highest of ends: the future greatness of the motherland, world progress, the future happiness of mankind, of a nation, of a class. […] The violence of a totalitarian State is so great as to be no longer a means to an end; it becomes an object of mystical worship and adoration. […] Another fact that allowed Fascism to gain power over men was their blindness. A man cannot believe that he is about to be destroyed. The optimism of people standing on the edge of the grave is astounding.

No, I’ve been afraid before.

🎶 What’s love but a second hand in motion. 🎶

Very difficult to immerse yourself into these, though, because of their density being about 2x that of the human body.

You’ll completely float on mercury, and cesium does no good to your body. Like, at all.

At least early Christianity is in many ways socialism. Remember the feeding of the 5000 with “five loaves” and “two fish”?
The true meaning is that there will be plenty if everyone shares. That’s the real miracle.

When the true king’s murderers are allowed to roam free, a thousand magicians arise in the land.
Where are the feast we are promised?

(Jim Morrison, An American Prayer)