Why stop at Bats.
Try it on batty humans.
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"The solar panels delivered by a single container ship will generate as much power over their lifetimes as more than 50 ships carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) or 100 carrying coal, according to recent IEA analysis."
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Tesla convicted 18 times and ordered to pay thousands for failing to help UK police with investigations In each case, when British police officers tried to track down the details of speeding Tesla dri
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(There are also some problems with the single justice process, and with outsourcing of things that can generate income - more if agencies can be used to locate individuals. )
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US defense logistics agency is only able to resupply Thule in Greenland in the months of June/July using a convoy led by a CANADIAN icebreaker. The USA is militarily unable to occupy the nearest coast
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So he'll want to conquer Canada to get the icebreaker to invade Greenland to ...
... I forget what he wanted Greenland for. Golf courses?
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Found elsenet: seems reasonable to me.
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One of the short SF stories in #Nature #Futures described the situation of a simulated or copied rather than wholly artificial machine intelligence, once human, which had been put in a phenomenal number of jars and shaken, and then discarded, of course, over a long period into the future.
Seemed bad.
One of the #basilisks , perhaps.
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Just noting that "terrorist" has become so over-used and diluted that today it's a generic bad word, much as "communist" was in the 1950s, that denotes dislike on the part of the speaker. Unless there
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An essential ingredient of terrorism is, unsurprisingly, #terror.
Mild-annoyance-ists exist, and various laws probably cover them, but I cannot be terrified by for instance the application of cold #soup to a thing or person, nor a grammatical demand that un- or most specified actions be taken in or over some geographical area.
"ance" may be redundant. I expect there is a better #German word.
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Meanwhile, the media in the UK—and the USA—are TOTALLY IGNORING the ongoing revolutionary turmoil in Iran, with running street battles, a general strike, dozens of cities in open rebellion against the
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Is there
1) a reliable source or two of plain news about there;
2) anything we - State or otherwise - could plausbl6 do to 8mprove the outcome?
(For improvement meaning fewer deaths, more aggregate happiness, less gods)
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AAAHGH GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN I suddenly feel a compulsive need to write a thinly-disguised knock-off of Heinlein's "I Will Fear No Evil" about a dying billionaire who has his brain transplanted int
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Building and running a copy of the dead person has seemed to me more something a company etc would do for its convenience, or I suppose relatives would for theirs.
Thiel wakes, internally hated, officially dead, and with tasks set by the owners of the assembly.
OTOH attaching a device to the still-living person's skull which quietly programs and replaces module by module their biological brain might keep a continuous being.
Until "the seat of the soul" is replaced, and Will enacted.
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@CartyBoston@mastodon.roundpond.net He's on aspirin. Says so in the article.
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@cstross@wandering.shop @CartyBoston@mastodon.roundpond.net (He's probably lying!) For non-pharmacist-etc-s: Clopidogrel is more effective against infarction, causes bruising more markedly, and perhap
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@Photo55@mastodon.social @CartyBoston@mastodon.roundpond.net Clopidogrel has been in use since 1997 and is available as a cheap(er) generic, though. Causes thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, which i
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Dentists hate it.
It would fit Trump more convincingly, I think.
Odd place, America, so far as prescriptions and "co-payments" go. I assume Aspirin is OTC and Clopidogrel isn't, there, as here, and I assume this annoys people and causes some people to buy Aspirin rather than negotiate Clopidogrel.
Also, many Trumpists will have heard of Aspirin.
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So Trump has early-stages heart failure *and* is on aspirin, presumably because he's at risk of stroke. (Don't be surprised if he's hospitalized suddenly. At his age he's a lousy candidate for a heart
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@cstross@wandering.shop I'd hope our president is on a better blood thinner like Eliquis, he won't have a clot stroke but he could have a bleed stroke. I am a software engineer and I can tell you thos
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@CartyBoston@mastodon.roundpond.net He's on aspirin. Says so in the article.
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(He's probably lying!)
For non-pharmacist-etc-s: Clopidogrel is more effective against infarction, causes bruising more markedly, and perhaps is expensive enough there to annoy Americans who are not the POTUS/rich.
OTOH Apixaban is more effective against stroke if he is in AF.
I wonder if Aspirin has been Hoovered, become a generic name for bruise-encouragers as well as generic drug.
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Random thought: isn't it WEIRD how quiet Richard Branson has gone since Trump came to power and took a shit all over the business practice of slathering your name all over everything under the sun to
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@cstross@wandering.shop well, one might well.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 30: How much would writing by another means (by hand, digitally, audio transcription) change your prose? Significantly! I started out writing on a manual typewriter, then an electri
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(contd.) Speech transcription software is not designed for prose fiction, it's designed for business correspondence. Can't recognize dialog tags, is bad at punctuation, and caters only to the most fre
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The story of prolonged interruption of its development when the Mafia got involved was interesting.
Via Voice via vice.
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In principle, audio #transcription includes #dictating to a person, and offers the real intelligence feature of watching the #human react.
Jubal Harshaw is running through my mind.
Including "oh I finished that one boss and sent it off"
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@quixoticgeek@social.v.st @anon_opin@mastodon.social In any case, Euro banknotes of 500EUR and up have all had an RFID chip, going back years. (Only worth doing for the high denomination ones, and it'
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Money is, at root, promises.
The US dollar is severely devalued.
Because Administration.
They may not have noticed yet.
Like Wiley Coyote and cliffs.
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I was recently reminded of this. A couple decades ago, I wrote a short paper that described how the basic approaches of cryptography and computer security lead to an efficient and practical privilege
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Unexpectedly, my paper got some press attention. @jswatz_tx found it and wrote a short piece in the NY Times. And then locksmiths freaked out. I mean completely lost it. They were very upset, not so m
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A trade publication called The National Locksmith ran monthly guest editorials in which prominent members of that profession were invited to denounce me. My favorite quote, from a locksmith named Bill
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@mattblaze@federate.social it is a common failure mode. Our Post Office (counters, not mail delivery) embraced it when their Fujitsu software was obviously unreliable.
Bits of the health service, possibly of all health services fall into it sporadically.
The whole Administration of a major power are throwing it at themselves.
The Lock-Picking Lawyer is quite amusing.
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#PennedPossibilities 885 — How would your MC react to an unwanted romantic or sexual advance? (Current WIP, Starter Pack, has two MCs): Tabitha: An organized crime boss tried it once. His wired and mo
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@Photo55@mastodon.social That pun … I am going to appropriate it for the redraft. OK?
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@cstross@wandering.shop Fame! For very small values of fame. Please do.
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Uh … AI bubble costing the US as much money in 12 months as *two major wars over 13 years* is quite the buried lede! "If it can't go on forever it will stop." — economist Herb Stein, 1985. (The "it" i
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@cstross@wandering.shop I worry how much their collapse will drag down the rest of the world. At a time when there are larger clearer tasks for all hands than ever before.
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@Photo55@mastodon.social Planetary GNP is on the order of $80-100Tn/year. So this means up to 1.5% of the global economic product will evaporate if the bubble bursts right now. But there's a lot more
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I love that first phrase ;)
Much of finance isn't "product" in any meritorious way. People who build could build, etc, and there is plenty to build or fix.
The financial system is between a horde of parasites and a cancer.
A pity. The correction seems to be growing in size and sharpness.
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Uh … AI bubble costing the US as much money in 12 months as *two major wars over 13 years* is quite the buried lede! "If it can't go on forever it will stop." — economist Herb Stein, 1985. (The "it" i
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@cstross@wandering.shop I worry how much their collapse will drag down the rest of the world.
At a time when there are larger clearer tasks for all hands than ever before.
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My controversial take: Linux desktops peaked with KDE 3.5.x. (Gnome is a ghastly abomination and KDE's been going downhill ever since.) macOS desktops peaked with Snow Leopard (10.6). Everything since
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@cstross@wandering.shop CUI made sense, I assume sorted out by engineers.
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RESEARCH QUESTION (for work): I know what an instar is
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This Quiz was motivated because I'm thinking of using the term "instar" in an SF novel set in a culture that practices serial reincarnation (using technology): is it reasonable to use "instar" to deno
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I think you had it spot on in Saturns Children, where the successive instars are substantial changes, and with a definite vector.
Here? Less so, I think.
Host??
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@cstross@wandering.shop Well, there's good eating on posh gits, but are they sustainable.
Just that I'm conscious that I live in a country which can perhaps grow 2/3 of the food the inhabitants need to eat (and considerably less than they want to eat) and we recently left an association with countries who can grow more food than they even want to eat.
To set a desired population above the number the area can feed needs a plan, whether it is making enough electricity that people will send food, or whatever.
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(UK) Parliamentary Petition: Require generative AI watermarks & ban using people’s likeness without consent https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/736690
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I suspect the existing rules on using people's likeness to attribute or associate a viewpoint to them cover most of that.
And the exceptions.
And the people who maliciously ignore that are likely to ignore additional, criminal, laws, as well.
Possibly more effective to set up a foundation to chase them. And disseminate their likenesses ;)
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Stanford Institute report on the economic impact of Brexit: https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/working-paper/economic-impact-brexit It reduced UK GDP by 8%, investment by 18%, employment by 4%, a
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A stunningly successful blow which #Farage will have trouble topping
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Senator Kelly is 61—doesn't that put him over the mandatory retirement age? https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115606170261231905
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@cstross@wandering.shop I believe the "recall for a court-martial" is separate from the general "recall for active duty" provision, and there's no limit on the first one.
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@jshawthorne@packmates.org But that's a different problem, isn't it? The military can't court-martial arbitrary civilians under military law, and the senator *is* a civilian at present.
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Something similar is a plot element in one of the Reacher books, and as I recall ends badly.
Reacher would be younger though.
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Ooooooh shit: the AI boom sits on top of a $610Bn stock fraud (detected by trading algorithms on Thursday evening) https://substack.com/inbox/post/179453867
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$610Bn is nearly a Musk
(I think that may become a large unit of currency.)
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#WritersCoffeeClub 22 Nov: What has been the biggest change to your style since you started out? As I started out (trying to write and submitting work for publications) in my mid-teens and I am now in
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@cstross@wandering.shop not sure about style, but you seem to keep more balls in the air in your more recent books.
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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org You *have* to keep a lot of balls in the air in a long-running series! That, or murder most of your characters every few books (which annoys the readers).
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Game of Ball-Levitation.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 15, Does the bulk of your research come before starting a work? During? Or not at all?! I write fiction for a living: I don't have time for a separate pre-writing research phase
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Do you make Wikipedia edits?
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I hope it is a PhD, and not in one of the serious subjects.
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