My favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace. It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.
all these white people openly talking about how much they hate minorities and minorities speaking other languages does not encourage me, a visible person of color who speaks Cantonese and Spanish, to continue my green card application
Also ofc nine times out of ten, this is the "surely I can still play Hogwarts Legacy???" argument. You won't die without your ineffable boyfriends fix, show some solidarity.
This tbh? I am very sad for all the people that worked on the thing, but it's also hard to not see this as "let's do *absolutely nothing* to the rich powerful guy who apparently is to face no consequences at all". Seed the ground with salt. Good Omens S2 wasn't even good apart from the flashbacks.
Way too much press coverage of "AI" is spent debating the hypemerchants' claims of speed & efficiency & scale of impact, & not nearly enough is time spent on 2 very basic questions: Are these systems outputs anything like correct? And, if & when they get things wrong, how much harm will that cause?
Negative European energy prices hit record level https://www.ft.com/content/1f94d0b4-c839-40a2-9c8d-782c00384154
Rapid rollout of solar and wind generation has outpaced ability to store power
That seems very odd to me. Mumsnet, yes, absolutely, but I was down that rabbithole for a few years in the mid-10s and never saw any links. Or anything I'd consider particularly sceptical, tbh. Most of those people, like Bindel, had been on that kick since the 70s or 80s, long before New Atheism.
My mom immigrated to the US when she married my dad, and I grew up thinking that everyone should aspire to know as many languages as possible. So the idea of reacting with alarm to hearing people around me speak a language other than English is just baffling to me.
I told a bunch of teens that included my own kid the other day that we fixed the ozone layer problem years ago with government policy they were all like WHAAAAAT tell the kids!!!! this shit works