Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

@ricci

I have self-testing alarms that report the results to my automation server, so I test the self-testing every few months instead.

Europeans can now be comforted to know that all social scoring will be carried out by the traditional natural intelligences, famed throughout space and time for their complete lack of unfortunate biases and nonexistent error rate.

@ricci

For the first time, I can feel the long-term secular language change slipping through my fingers...

@isaackuo @dashdsrdash @thisnorthernboy

In fairness to the Alliance Cruiser, it looks like a committee was given "make it look like a flying city" as design directions and implemented that using all the least potentially offensive or risky decisions they could possibly take.

Which is, I wager, within a *millo* of the actual Alliance ship design process.

Mission accomplished.

Pretty sure I am on every watchlist ever now, though. And quite glad that I'd already decided not to try and fly anywhere for unrelated reasons.

Just saw:

#PennedPossibilities 390 — If the FBI were to look through your computer, would you be concerned about your search history? What’s the worst / weirdest thing you’ve ever had to research for a story?

Well, you know, they did - https://noiseinmysignal.substack.com/p/what-the-hell-happened - and I'm still here. 😂

One of my few regrets in demanding my lawyer up front is not getting to learn what they thought of my several gigabytes of notes on interesting chemistry, SFnal weapons, alternate government forms, etc., etc.

@izaya

By curious coincidence, last night I have discovered a similar phenomenon with Stellaris.

Finally, I thought, I have enough RAM for it not to lag horribly in the late mid-game... and now, oh look, a dozen extra fleets later it runs right into the CPU wall.

Insofar as there are troll farms out there trying to convince people not to vote, I most vigorously despise them for ruining the reputation of those of us merely rich and redolent with righteous contempt.

Can't a man just despise some motherfuckers any more?

@cinebox @izaya

(To clarify, this is not a commentary on either candidate's position in terms of politics, merely that they're both civilization-destroying shitheads I'd rather cut out my spleen with a wooden spoon than empower even trivially to wreak more ruin.)

@cinebox @izaya

To use a metaphor:

I'm Poland in 1939, and you're asking me to endorse Stalin over Hitler.

Yay?

Evidently the recruitment bots have stumbled onto my fiction, since I'm now getting solicitations for aerospace jobs.