Conservative leadership race turns nasty between Poilievre and Brown
Peter Saint-Andre: Idealism and Identity
Personal identity is a deep, and deeply meaningful, subject: at some level, what’s more important than what makes you you? Paradoxically, throughout history and across cultures, often personal identity has been a social construct, tied closely to tribe, clan, family, ethnic group, race, caste, class, societal role, and so on - usually in opposition to some Other (“I’m a Capulet, not a Montague”, “I’m a proletarian, not a bourgeois”, etc.)…. ⌘ Read more
Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains The Billionaire Space Race ⌘ Read more…
Malcolm Gladwell - AI, Autonomous Vehicles, and Race – Oh my! ⌘ Read more…
The Parable of Alien Chess
A parable on the Logical Postivist “interpretation” of scientific models.
Suppose an alien race comes to Earth and wants to observe our games.They are very interested in chess, despite the fact that they have eyes with properties that make it impossible to make out what actually happens on a chess board.(The whites and blacks and squares all blur together.)
They can still learn about … ⌘ Read more
How we found and fixed a rare race condition in our session handling ⌘ Read more…
On the blog: Superheroes and Race https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/07/super.html #rant #superhero
Fixed the race in tw. Mostly; now it’s just while tw/r is running. Close enough.
Ooo, tw has a race condition between tw/r and pull/mktl, in the case you /r after a new post but before pull & mktl have run. Oops.
geodes are Earth’s crystal wombs but only rarely bear fruit now, the race of elementals they’d carry having left for the inner core
Facebook Ad Algorithm Is a Race and Gender Stereotyping Machine https://theintercept.com/2019/04/03/facebook-ad-algorithm-race-gender/
What It’s Like To Write About Race And Video Games https://kotaku.com/what-its-like-to-write-about-race-and-video-games-1832886047
Gender-swapped and race-flipped remakes aren’t living up to their potential - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/12/18220797/what-men-want-ghostbusters-the-hustle-remakes-gender-race-flipped?curator=MediaREDEF
How capitalism reduced diversity to a brand - Vox https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/2/11/18195868/capitalism-race-diversity-exploitation-nancy-leong
In the sunken and forgotten city, Senpai lies not dead but dreaming, as blissfully unaware of mankind’s rise above as that of other prior races. We have just begun to meddle in forces that may cause Senpai to notice us for the first time, and rise.
Band name of the day: racing lawnmowers
It is not that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, but that anything is indistinguishable from magic from the perspective of the sufficiently ignorant. Clarke assumes we will lose the red queen’s race with polymathy.
It doesn’t pay to be smart in interstellar space - once out of the gravity well, most races lose their sentience in favor of longevity, radiation tolerance and stealth
Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptati… http://locusmag.com/2018/01/cory-doctorow-persuasion-adaptation-and-the-arms-race-for-your-attention/
The most wholesome internet trolls ever are reclaiming racist subreddits one by one https://mic.com/articles/184347/the-most-wholesome-internet-trolls-ever-are-changing-racist-subreddits-to-discussions-about-racing#.N8Mt38l4y
How a tax haven is leading the race to privatise space | News | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/sep/15/luxembourg-tax-haven-privatise-space?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
Lecturer: In order to have no single basilisk hog all the mindspace and win the race, there need to be several in competition.
At first, NLP-powered memeblockers are a huge success - but the memes catch on and the resulting arms race renders most of the net illegible
Many generations of arrivals dwell here. Living fossils, kingdoms of men and sauropods, ancient spiral cities of even older snail races
Programmers have dozens of words for mistake: error, bug, glitch, crash, race, null deref, panic, hang, deadlock, exception, programming,
a race of mechas that hatch from large geodesic domes they’re assembled in
there once was a race of primates through whose veins ran alcohol but we’ve rendered them extinct and now have to make do with rotten grapes
Clouds have been reproducing asexually since angels died out. Meteorologists currently race to preserve the remaining breeds in a cloudbank.
karaoke in dead languages: sing along to the ruin of other races, rendered toothless by time, in sounds your throat can barely produce
@kdave@kdave.github.io I had a race condition btw 2 txtnix processes. The obvious solution is to flock, but then config edit will flock for too long.
The humans, like many other races, bring tiny bits of their world along against homesickness↵https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/flowers http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/688513453921816576/photo/1
Bush endorses McCain
Bush endorses McCain in US race
US President George W Bush has endorsed John McCain’s White House bid after the Vietnam veteran sealed the Republican nomination on Tuesday.
Mr Bush said his one-time rival would be a president with the “determination to defeat an enemy and a heart big enough to love those who hurt”.
Now you know who not to vote for. Clear, right? Any questions? ⌘ Read more
What counts as an issue…
George Lakoff: What Counts as an “Issue” In the Clinton-Obama Race?
There is a reason that Obama recently spoke of Reagan. Reagan understood that you win elections by drawing support from independents and the opposite side. He understood what unified the country so that he could lead it according to his vision. His vision was a radical conservative one, a vision d … ⌘ Read more
We remember: Six years ago
Today, six years ago, a group of animals belonging to the human race decided to take away thousands of innocent lives by destroying the Twin Towers (see World Trade Center). Let us not to forget how stupid they were, how criminal th … ⌘ Read more
Remembrance
Today, three years ago, a group of animals belonging to the human race decided to take away thousands of innocent lives by destroying the Twin Towers (see World TradeCenter). Let us not to forget how stupid they were, how criminal they were, how non human they were. L … ⌘ Read more
Definitely, humans are born violent
War topics are prime news. From the time we wake up to the hour we go to sleep, war news are the focus of people’s attention. We are a violent race, it is not a stereotype: humans are born violent.
My son is barely two years old. He hasn’t seen violent television programs, our home is a stable one, no fights, no yelling. Still, when he is around his little cousin, and more often that we would like, he constantly hits her. They play along, like pals, but … ⌘ Read more