A Korean scifi flick from the director of Parasite… but.. uh.. is the dystopia the present or the future ?

Just like me, fr

I find it sad that we’re so compute/energy limited that all transformer variants are focused just on saving compute

Cormac McCarthy: "The arrival of language was like the invasion of a parasitic system. Co-opting those areas of the brain that were the least dedicated. The most susceptible to appropriation."

Again!? If you're in hezbollah, put your phone down, wtf.

If I wanted to build an ant based computer, what's the BOM? Electrons - ants Silicon - sand DC source - sugar Resistor - ? Capacitor - ? Inductor - ? Diode - ?

I LOVE SQL

"Doing the work" actually means the opposite of "working." English is really complicated.

folie à deux implies the existence of folie à N (Where N is the number of users on x dot com)

slanderer

There are radios everywhere for those with eyes to see

What is a "Jamie?" Is it a smarthome app? I just say, "Hey Jamie, can you tell me what goatse is?" and then that triggers an LLM webcrawler to scroll some relatively safe research on a nearby screen. Then, I guess it has some kind of tts to mumble a vague explanation to move on.

IF YOU DO NOT PUT YOUR DEVICES IN AIRPLANE MODE AS INSTRUCTED, YOU ARE THE TERRORIST. FOR ALL YOU KNOW THIS IS THE REASON THEY SAY THAT.

Who decided usury was ok in the first place? It's prohibited by Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, and Daoism. Not some abstract or archaic restriction, but a sin so dangerous it's universally prohibited. When, why did we forget? Why can't we see the roots of our problems?

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Arguably, the "value" comes in the form of the facilitation of resource allocation, but: A) Resources are mostly allocated to a narrow band of oligarchs who waste them B) The need for this facilitation is totally obviated by social media, just like journalism and human resources

I don't know how, but my house is full of baby lizards.