I could see Linux attracting the “I am a superior intellect” types and then those people drifting rightward over the last ten years. If they didn’t start out far right.

The best way of conserving nature is to build a ginormous wall 110 miles long and 1,600 feet high that utterly destroys wildlife’s ability to traverse territory it has been traversing for eons. It is known.

“Why… why do they need a racing team? Why does the racing team need a lego set? Who is buying it for 27 dollars? (Well apparently the answer to that last question is nobody).”

Apparently NEOM is sponsoring some McLaren Formula E teams. (Formula E being electric). Google Pixel, Tumi luggage, and the UK Ministry of Defence are other sponsors, but NEOM seems to be the major sponsor.

I assume the market for these is not so much NEOM fans but rather McLaren fans.

As to why NEOM is sponsoring it, I think it’s a bit of Saudi boosterism or techwashing to help MBS move past the whole bone saw thing.

Apparently there’s another brand that describes its scents as “(rich durian & mellow cheese)”

I suspect a 194 dB fart would blow the person in half.

Doh! Should have read the full Wikipedia article.

Pfft. Real hoopy froods play Heroclix.

I do not play Heroclix but I bought some about 20 years ago.

Jesus christ 20 years? Huh. Also I didn’t notice but it was discontinued in 2008.

Yeah that was my read of the game from my first exposure to it. “You have to buy cards sight-unseen hoping to get good ones? That’s a scam.”

It’s like they looked at Dungeons and Dragons product churn and thought “No, that’s not shitty enough”

I haven’t seen the details but apparently Apple may not be paying OpenAI for the ChatGPT functionality. So macOS may not be using ChatGPT heavily.

Facebook conspiracy theorist grannies suggest that employment isn’t required.

Yeah, I’m not going to believe anything out of OpenAI that isn’t produced as part of discovery.

So who is going to be first to set up a grifty EA think tank where the thinking is admittedly all done by LLMs, and why shouldn’t it be us.

Shirley Manson or GTFO. But I don’t think they’d like her.

One wonders if one of those ready to go apps in Slack is a Slack app that runs inside of Slack.

Could be worse, they could be English.

Frankly I’d be more impressed if they had a lab of non-thermodynamic devices.

Are you sure he limits it to his foot skin?

Play your cards right and you could put him to work like one of those fish that eat dead skin off feet as part of a pedicure.

Apropos of nothing, does Stallman still request access to a parrot? It’d be funny to find him a place to stay with a person whose parrot is trained to talk shit about Stallman. “KWOK! SHUT UP ABOUT HURD!”

Just to confuse things design a logo that references both Margaret Hamilton from NASA and Margaret Hamilton the Wicked Witch actress. Maybe a woman flying on a NASA rocket-propelled bicycle, but maybe not because the slow and judgey might think that’s calling NASA Hamilton a witch.

Actually referencing a non-technical woman might even help repel HN types.

“Cathedral Central”

I hate ‘edge’ in its new form as pseudotechnical marketing guff. Frex, “AI-driven MCU market surge sparks innovation in global and Chinese firms for edge AI”