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But it's not like those guys will just pocket that money. They will use it like all academic grant money is used: to hire PhD students and postdocs.

But in democracy you do get to say which government you want.

There is an incredible (alas unfinished) multipart Grothendieck biography by the German mathematician Winfried Scharlau: Wer ist Alexander Grothendieck? Anarchie, Mathematik, Spiritualität, Einsamkeit. I think an English translation exists, at least for the first and in my opinion most interesting volume: Anarchy. It mostly deals with Grothendieck’s childhood and his parents, who lived unbelievably fascinating lives as anarchists in pre-war Berlin.

Presumably, being able to use Sora to generate some pictures or videos involving Disney characters does not mean being able to actually distribute those pictures or videos, right? Those are still copyrighted characters.

It wasn’t an election. One of the more prominent youth groups involved in the protests used Discord to organize and decide internally which leader they should endorse and suggest to the president and army leadership. No one was directly elected on Discord.

I am absolutely implying that blockchain tech is fundamentally useless, and cryptocurrencies doubly so.

God this is infuriating. Apart from being an obvious scam, NFTs are actively doing harm to the environment. This is not funny, it's just bad. It’s a net negative for humanity.

As, of course, are any and all cryptocurrencies and blockchain-related get-rich-quick schemes. I can’t wait for this whole pyramid to collapse.

The worst effect the GDPR had was on offline bureaucracy. "Data protection" has become the go-to excuse for blocking every single goddamn thing.

The font change seems like a wash to me. Notice how the decimal points and thousands separators for the balance column don't line up in either of the screenshots? A change that would actually improve readability would be to use tabular numbers, supported by both San Francisco and Inter.