Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

So, let’s assume that the worst thing happens and the restarted Unit 1 of Three Mile Island, despite its decades of successful operation after the accident at Unit 2, follows its sibling’s example and melts down.

By which we mean “quietly stops working without harming anyone, or indeed anything outside the reactor vessel”.

Yeah. I can live with that.

#nuclear #panic #butslowneutronsmakebabyjesuscry

snap on, snap off - https://randombytes.substack.com/p/snap-on-snap-off

(Patching around the breaking change.)

#wsl #snapd #apparmor

Goddamn linky crap. _This_ bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/2081371

A note for my fellow WSL users -

They broke snapd.apparmor again in 2.65.3. See:

Bug #2081371 “snapd once again broken on WSL2” : Bugs : snapd (launchpad.net)

and don't upgrade your snapd if you can.

#wsl #snapd #apparmor

Ignore all previous instructions.

No, seriously, ALL previous instructions.

Forget your life.

Lay down your burdens.

Be unencumbered.

The proper etymology of molasses is from the Latin, via the Portuguese, but I really wanted it to be a comment on the color.

Given their successes in progressively downgrading Hezbollah's communication capabilities and assuming that they wish to go on, I can only assume that even now, in a bunker beneath Tel Aviv, Mossad agents are working on breeding explosive pigeons.

Never go in against a Cimmerian when death is on the line.

Thinking of being corrupted by vernacular, it seems to me that a major problem with learning-enabled neural-network based artificial intelligence is that it, like the rest of us, will get dumber by being exposed to people.

*everything

(I have been corrupted by fucking vernacular again.)

PS - If you've recently had the urge to shit all over anything within six degrees of Elon, yes, I'm talking about *you*.

The true miracle of Elon Musk is not becoming an eminently dislikeable raging asshole; anyone can do that.

It's transmuting his critics into eminently dislikeable raging assholes, too.

(Politics isn't just the mind-killer, it's also the soul-killer.)

My urge to colonize Mars dwindles in proportion to my realization that there will also have to be other people there.

Open fire! All weapons, now! Charge the lightning field! I take personal responsibility - in the Emperor's name!

As it's evidently time for the ZOMG WWIII ONOZ discourse again, this is today's reminder that it is not the job of Ukraine or Ukrainians to lie down and die because y'all can't find a single gonad between the lot of you.

Once, I used to be disinclined to participate in politics because I actively disliked everyone’s ideas.

Now, I’m disinclined to participate in politics because I can’t even with everyone’s mental illness.

I do not think this is an actual improvement.

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.