Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

If there is a kind of eugenics I unquestionably support, it's finding the allele responsible for flagrant misuse of the word "eugenics" and having all its carriers sterilized.

100. No matter how wearied you are by the incompetent fools surrounding you, you may not spray knowledge-bearing nanites from high-flying aircraft.

No-one will care that they aren't technically chemtrails.

- _145 Things Not To Be Done In The Associated Worlds_

#eldraeverse

bend down to check the hot end

inhale a lungful of the warm, sweet smell of hot PLA

sigh in pleasure

"ahhh,,, the delicious scent of productivity!"

#3dprinting #weirdkinks

Today's Musical Discovery -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJPlyAZvmQI

Fictional event of the day: On this day, at 2:14 am, Skynet becomes self-aware. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

Real moral of the day: Trying to murder sufficiently smart children gets you all nuked, hunted down, and killed.

#ai

Favorite German word of the day: Maulwurf.

Which means "mole".

See, to me, moles are associated with weak vision, and good housekeeping, and nice cups of tea, and at this point I must admit that everything I learned about moles came from _The Wind in the Willows_.

"Maulwurf", on the other hand, sounds ridiculously badass.

Like, if someone told me they'd seen a maulwurf in the garden, I'd be all "Get my shotgun. And maybe the flammenwerfer."

This disconnect is entirely too amusing.

Everyone talks about election interference, but no-one talks about proposed policies so self-evidently self-destructive that they should be presumed evidence of working for a hostile power.

I am very tempted to record the presidential debate, whenever it happens, so I can pause after each question, type it into ChatGPT, and see if the LLM can give a more coherent answer than either candidate.

My money's on the stochastic parrot.

(No, not Trump, the other stochastic parrot.)

When your species has telekinesis, you can spin a generator with your brain.

I call this "will to power".

Normalize sending each other large blocks of random numbers.

So, today it occurred to me to wonder what a unit of blood is, in volume.

The internet said "approximately a pint", so I said, "oh, those bloody medics again, too special to call it a pint like everyone else".

Except it's not. It's around 525 ml, which is 43 ml smaller than a proper Imperial pint and 52 ml bigger than a colonial pint, and 40-odd ml may not be much blood but is frankly more than I care to lose track of.

So, again, what the hell, medics?