Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

@JohnShirley2023 @DavidMHarlan I felt really old when someone told me they'd just read Dan Simmons' Hyperion quartet and "liked it even if it was a little old-fashioned". And that was a while back.

@JohnShirley2023 Makes me want re-read Peter Watts' (very dark) Blindsight, about a non-conscious intelligence.

@JohnShirley2023 @DavidMHarlan Clearly we're living in the prequel to Ellison's "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream". Or if you prefer, Terminator.

@JohnShirley2023

"Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye."

@JohnShirley2023 Oh oh. Anyone could tell them that bottling it up only makes it worse.

@ottocrat Now I know how my hard-smoking brother felt as I told him how easy it was to instantly quit smoking the moment I found the right reason.

It's unfortunate that some countries need a bitter reminder of just how much you need the rest of the world. I don't know if Turkiye is prepared to reconsider its foot-dragging on NATO admission for Sweden, and of cousrse Sweden's too decent to couple the two.

And I wouldn't, for example, wish a natural disaster on Hungary either. It's just a pity that that seems to be what it takes for these sorts of regimes to remember, oh, yes, we need each other.

#Twitter. I don't usually, but if this doesn't seal it nothing does:

@wsw777

With such alacrity is good honest British produce snapped up by the grateful British public. It is nothing less than Freedom Veg

If I'm ever arrested, detained while traveling, or otherwise likely to have my phone taken away from me and accessed in ways I don't want, I should be able to disable face unlock immediately on my phone, and I may not have time to go through the menus to do it.

So as an experiment I said "Siri, disable face unlock." She said "I'm sorry, I can't do that."

Apple seriously needs to enable this.

@zak I have it on good authority he hasn't fired the person who follows him around picking up his fingernail clippings and storing them in jars.

Old news by now but I still can't understand why any Air Force officer on the ground or in the air would try to use a $400K heat-seeking missile on a balloon.

Balloons don't have hot jet exhausts. Even hot air balloons -- and this wasn't one -- are scarcely warmer than their surroundings.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/f16-missed-first-shot-lake-huron-ufo-1234679415/

@JohnShirley2023 The universe is vast and inexpressibly impressive.

Minds are impressive too, and this planet has produced a few. We can stand pretty tall.

People who justify Russia's invasion of Ukraine with "well NATO was expanding" are actually worse than the "well, what was she wearing?" crowd.

It's actually more akin to "what were other women wearing that day that set him off?"

@uanews Is Chinese Ambassador to the UN Zhang Jun aware that Ukraine is not attacking and has not attacked Russia?

@uanews Yeah, both-sidesing, that's always helpful. Thanks, Chinese Ambassador to the UN!

@jaykuo Still, it's depressing that "I actually believe my horseshit" is as valid a defense as it is.

@JohnShirley2023 I kind of admire the way Microsoft skipped the preliminaries and went straight to the "HAL murders everybody" part of the narrative.