not going to lie. i thought that the relationship would last a bit longer. still would flame out the moment trump first saw a “president musk” joke thou

wow, how lucky we are that the ultimate deciders on litigation are not a bunch of partisans hacks, right?

Richard Rhodes’ The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a great book that kind of explains all that in detail…

but i would say it is either the Curie’s experiments, discovering the neutron, splitting the atom, Fermi’s reactor, or the tests during the Manhattan project; all really well documented.

Mac owners have money? more like had money

LEGI

the techbros that think that with sufficiently advanced AI we could solve climate change are so stupid. like, we might not have a perfect solution, but we have ideas on how to start to make things better (less car-centric cities, less meat and animal products, more investment in public transport and solar), and it gets absolutely ignored. why would it be different when an AI gives the solution? unless they want the “eat fat-free food and you will be thin” solution to climate change, in which we change absolutely nothing of our current situation but it is magically ecological

If he thinks that any positive change in an election year is election interference, then that would explain 2020. Maybe it is not that he wanted the pandemic or that he was too incompetent to just let experts help us. He was too concerned with election interference! /s

will it cover treatment for when a tech overlord decides to cut your hand on a whim?

https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas

“dominance”… You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means

I guess random, but i really like this alternative to the periodic table:

Because you can see how, after H and He, you do 2 loops of 8 and add the transition metals to the next 2 loops; then you add the lanthanides and actinides to the next 2 loops. And can easily see how the superactinides guy in the extended period table

i’m going to stop calling it twitter when twitter.com redirects to x.com, and not the other way around

at that point i would stop talking about it, because X is just too stupid