Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

@trinsec

This morning we noticed the cat's water bowl on the back deck was full of dirt. This usually means that a raccoon has been by.

We have cams on the front and back door. Checked the footage. At 11.40 pm Stanley the neighborhood cat was asleep on our front porch. Suddenly he woke, sat up on high alert and began peering at something. Then he got up and left.

He walked up onto the back deck a few moments later and took up a position by the back door. Within a minute a big raccoon, easily three times Stanley's size, came up the steps. Found Stanley's water bowl, washed his li'l raccoon hands in it as they always do. Then he started accross the deck toward the back door. Stanley rose up and hissed. Raccoon backed away, went back down the steps.

Stanley waited a minute, then walked back up the driveway and round to the front porch and went back to sleep on the chair we leave out for him.

Stanley's a remarkable cat in many ways. He's not even ours, we just accommodate him because, like everyone on our block, we think the world of him.

@shadychars But what is the equation for flame?

@guilanpour

I clearly remember the "Free poop in every river, stream and foreshore" promise on the side of the bus, don't you?

@dsfgs What a load of horseshit.

@gwagner @BBCRD I was afraid if just exactly this. Even when March of the Penguins was made, retreating summer ice could overtake their breeding colonies. It's so much worse now that I couldn't imagine they wouldn't suffer huge colony losses.

@tinkel Remarkably exact. I never had much respect for McCain (I lived in Arizona back when he was vouchsafed Goldwater's seat) but even with hindsight, everything he says here is faultlessly accurate, neither a single unnecessary word nor anything important left out.

@number6 @tinkel Yep. Our businesses didn't so much export their manufacturing -- that was a side effect -- as export their manufacturing _costs_. Those costs being having to pay living wages, health and safety, and increasing environmental stewardship. So they just said "hey look, we don't have to do any of those things if we just build in in China, because they sure as hell don't do them"

@kevinrothrock @elCelio Graham made a callow, simpleminded proposal -- not at all uncharacteristically -- to which Zelenskyy tried to say "you have no idea what you're asking... let me put it in perpective that you'll understand." I've no doubt Fox and OANN would gladly pretend it was a serious request, but they lie all the time anyway; whether it's a willful misinterpretation or a fabrication out of the whole cloth is, no pun intended, immaterial.

@kevinrothrock @elCelio

Perhaps there is Ukrainian nuance you're sensitive to that machine translation doesn't provide, but this seems pretty plain -- he responded to Graham asking if he was going to hold elections by asking him if the world was going to provide the sort of thing that might make it possible. Very rhetorical and very off the cuff, and it's pretty silly to compare $5bn to what it costs to run an election in the US. He clearly hadn't costed it; That's not how this sort of rhetoric works.

@kevinrothrock @elCelio Only if people think he actually was asking for it, because of, say, commentators spreading that interpretation.

@elCelio @kevinrothrock

As of last March, 25-30% of Ukraine's population were displaced. 8 million have left the country entirely. 20% of its land is under hostile military occupation, and civilians even in uncontested cities are under nightly threat of missiles and drone bombardment.

The US held elections while at war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, etc. Because of course things remained perfectly comfortable at home. This is certainly not the case in Ukraine.

@elCelio @kevinrothrock This. If not sarcastic, certainly rhetorical. He is not proposing to actually do those things. The post (in the original) says as much in the last sentence.

In the middle of a download, it's going at a leisurely 40MB/s, and I just flashed on the fact that the first hard drive I ever owned, a 5.25" Seagate 20MB in a 4.77MHz IBM PC clone, would have completely filled up in 1/2 sec*. It's right up there with the fact that you can get a cheap storage device smaller than your little fingernail that holds 50,000 times as much.

(*If of course, it had been capable of writing that quickly, which of course it wouldn't.)

@AnnemarieBridy If you liked Slow Horses, The Ipcress File (2022 miniseries, not the 1965 film) is almost certainly for you as well. I was surprised at the unexpected ways it did and did not depart from the novel; good decisions in both cases.

The trick is getting it. Episode 1 is free on Amazon Prime but after that you need to have AMC+ or Sundance. I suspect these are things one might already have with a cable subscription.

@c_dan4th @fortune
Lord Peter Wimsey was the Duke of Denver, you know. But it wasn't any of those Denvers.

When you land on the MIT Technology Review page, you get not less than 3 simultaneous popups overlaid on the page, each implemented in a different way by a different subsystem for a different purpose. For some reason I find this very amusing.

@johnshirley2024@wandering.shop The telepathy chip won't be called that. It'll have a brand name like Alexabrain or Google Think. It'll be closed source and will only work through proprietary cloud servers with a 10,000 word TOS that includes an ironclad legal indemnification and an agreement to use your thoughts in AI training and to target their advertising.

An open-source alternative will exist, but only an utter nerd with a great deal of free time will be able to implement it, and it won't interoperate with anyone using the above.