Bar coaster in the former British consulate in Chiang Mai… (not clear to me if there is any connection to Thailand, or Britain, for that matter)
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Question: is it better to be in a sweatshop folding laundry, or in a VR headset sweatshop teleoperating a laundry folding robot? https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/laundry_folding_robot_8000_dollars_teleoperated/
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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 @researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host although best paired with: “Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” - John Maynard Keynes
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@jered@metasocial.com @kottke@mastodon.social Well, low infant mortality *does* mean that women aren't so ground down from popping out babies and burying them all the time that they can compete with t
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@cstross@wandering.shop @kottke@mastodon.social I was thinking more a grave misunderstanding of Darwinian "survival of the fittest", as if the "M&M duels" guy from he early days of USENET was serious, a sociopath, and now head of Health and Human Services.
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