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Comment · 2 days ago
I'm not usually invested in celebrity deaths, but this one is heartbreaking. TNG was a formative show in my life.

He was a wonderful actor and by all accounts a wonderful person.

Comment · 11 days ago
I've got whiplash from the speed at which we've jumped from overpopulation doomsday to demographic degrowth doomsday.

It seems likely we lend too much credence to experts ability to model complex systems over a long period of time.

Comment · 24 days ago
For those well suited through intelligence and demeanor to pursue a career in mathematics, what problems do these people reorient towards after this?
Comment · 1 month ago
I just finished this and had the same thoughts. As an anime fan since Akira and Ninja Scroll days, it was easy for that entire book to play out in my head as an anime. I had no idea so many of the tropes could be traced back to that book.
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Comment · 1 month ago
This is all well outside my area of expertise, but my impression is that Michael Levin's work with bioelectricity is on the cusp of #6 Somatic limb regeneration.

SMEs please correct the record if I'm mistaken.

Comment · 1 month ago
The domain was purchased and redesigned. It still exists but lost something ineffable in the process.
Comment · 1 month ago
So glad to see this preserved.

It was sad to discover zombocom finally died an undignified death earlier this year.

Comment · 2 months ago
We're evolutionarily programmed to stop everything and focus on anything that elicits fear in our environment. Enormous amounts of money has been invested to design algorithms that capture our attention with fear because they need your attention to sell advertising. Everything's optimized to make you enraged and afraid because it works. They're really good at it too.

I know they got my number. I've had to delete every social media site I used to be engaged in (I suppose except this one) for the sake of my mental health.

Comment · 2 months ago
I'm on my last Samsung for this reason. Just way too much bloatware, need to agree to a new privacy policy once a week, and every time it updates I find a few new apps on my phone I didn't want.

Gonna hold out for the Motorola/Graphene phone though. One of the models is supposed to be a flagship foldable.

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