Me a decade ago learning about the worldbuilding in Dune: so they basically had a religious uprising against computers because they were destroying their world and culture? How bizarre; it's wild that Herbert could have dreamed up something so far-fetched. Me in the last year: 👀
NEW: License plate readers are creating searchable databases of political lawn signs, t-shirts, and bumper stickers. What could possibly go wrong? @mattburgess1.bsky.social@dmehro.bsky.socialwww.wired.com/story/licens...
From Trump campaign signs to Planned Parenthood bumper stickers, license plate readers around the US are creating searchable databases that reveal Americans’ political leanings and more.
How many cold brews is too many? And also, it is this many?
The one thing the Terminator movies left out is that by the time our civilization builds Skynet, we will deserve Skynet.
i've started just saying "twenty gallons of water" immediately and flatly whenever someone tries to tell me how they used ChatGPT on some work project and boy it's pretty effective to dissuade people from using ChatGPT
YOUR HISTORY TEACHER NEVER TOLD YOU- *me, checks lecture notes* I definitely told you. YOUR TEXTBOOK LEFT OUT- Me: It is on page 37 and again on 54. HISTORIANS NEVER ADMIT- Me: Look will you just admit already that you slept through class?
I AM NOT A LAWYER BUT SUPREME COURT STRUCTURAL REFORM SHOULD GIVE THE PRESIDENT A NEW SEAT TO NOMINATE AT THE START OF EVERY ADMINSTRATION THAT TAKES OFFICE BY WINNING THE POPULAR VOTE, WITH AN UNBOUNDED UPPER COURT SIZE., ONLY A MINIMUM OF FIVE. ALSO, PERMANENT SPECIAL COUNCIL FOR COURT CORRUPTION.
His jaw slack, a look of shock on his face after hearing all of that and taking it in, he asks "What do you call an act like that!?" The other man responds, "The Aristocrats!"
Of the next 50 years, This is the decade with the fewest big hurricanes.
