Maybe it’s a way to launder dirty money or take bribes, the way solid booking a floor at the Trump Tower for a few months is a way to launder money.

Oh teh noes, not UK waging a proxy war on Iran and North Korea!

It’s 2050. The sea levels have risen 3 metres. Hurricane season lasts 9 months of the year.

Eric Schmidt: ChatGPT 4zz++ Premium Elite, how do we solve global warming?

ChatGPT 4zz++ Premium Elite: I don’t know, but I drew you as a minor being abused unprompted.

Possession of any cryptocurrency should be punished by 5 years in prison. The only use case is paying ransoms to North Korea, and the side effects are destroying our climate

The Fediverse has 1 million active users. Threads has 130 million active users. This is not an EEE play because a 100% successful EEE play would amount to increasing the Threads userbase by less than 1%. Meta is doing this for non-EEE reasons.

One possible non-EEE reason would be to have plausible deniability for monopolistic practices. If they make a show of interoperating with irrelevant nobodies like us, they can pretend to be a nice tech company rather than a mean anti-competitive monopoly.

That’s literally Russia’s military strategy: conscript minorities and throw them as human waves into the meatgrinder in order to ethnically cleanse Russia while genociding Ukraine

The Internet Archive picked a dumb fight that it couldn’t win. I want to donate money to the Wayback Machine, but I can’t because they’ll spend it appealing this stupid thing.

Which other crimes should also be punished by drowning you and your children in the ocean? Shoplifting? Speeding? Littering?

Ontario has now passed two different bills banning cell phones in school. It’s a great distraction from actual problems. I fully expect we’ll pass a third in a few years if our provincial government is re-elected

Teachers don’t need a sheet of paper at a legislature somewhere to take away cellphones. They can do that already, and if the kids disobey a legislature won’t help. I assume no one is expecting kids to go to prison for having a cellphone

• Man: Hi, I’m from Pakistan. May I move here?
• Other country: No.
• Man: I guess I’ll have to open a club in Pakistan.

What exactly is a permanent ceasefire?

The South Korea-North Korea ceasefire has been in place since 1953

I would expect smog to block or reflect incoming sunlight, lowering local temperatures

The TreeStyleTab extension for Firefox has added vertical tabs for a decade

Jazz musicians have a name for gibberish talking that sounds real: scat

We have to stop ignoring AI’s scat problem

Gen Alpha has a name for gibberish talking that sounds real: skibidi toilet

We have to stop ignoring AI’s skibidi toilet problem

The private sector takes the profitable popular routes first, which the public system is already serving, meaning the public system would not longer be able to use the fare revenue from the popular routes to subsidize the geographical coverage unpopular ones which are nevertheless needed to get the full network effect

We’ll soon be hearing that only Luddites care about continuity errors

Every gallery in the world did not rush out to exhibit every submitted photograph with no curation or quality filter when photography was invented

AI can’t count the number of letters in a word

If they had spun off Windows and Office into independent companies, Windows would have made a competing office suite and Office would have made a competing OS

List of companies incorporated in the Cayman Islands: https://capedge.com/company/by/incState/E9/active/true?sort=latestQuote.marketCap

Mostly obscure to me, but I looked up GlobalFoundries. Originally divested from AMD, bought IBM’s chip business, got a contract from US Department of Defense in 2023 for manufacturing military chips

I imagine you wouldn’t object to GlobalFoundries suing the US government