littlebluespark

littlebluespark , 5 months ago to science in 2 broods of screaming cicadas will emerge this year for first time in 221 years

If all the cicadas reemerged at the same time, we could have something like Pitch Black. 🤪

littlebluespark , 5 months ago to Technology in Pope calls for treaty regulating AI, warning of potential for ‘technological dictatorship’

Don't even get me started. 🤘🏼

littlebluespark , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to Technology in Pope calls for treaty regulating AI, warning of potential for ‘technological dictatorship’

He's afraid for his job, NGL

edit: please tell me there's someone (or, better yet, multiple teams) already training an LLM on every Abrahamic religious text and leaders' speeches, etc. so that the new Cyber Pope can be this species' new monolith...

littlebluespark , 5 months ago to News in DOJ report on Uvalde shooting cites 'cascading failures'

Fucking AND‽

littlebluespark , 5 months ago to White People Twitter in Day is the anomaly

You are correct, and that was not the point I made. See above.

littlebluespark , 5 months ago to White People Twitter in Day is the anomaly

Inaccurate. For example, a location on the perpetually-dark side of an object is shrouded in "night", whereas the opposite side is always "daytime". The argument there is simply: does day/night depend on axial rotation of said object, or does it include the personal transit of a viewer across the boundary and thus cause the rising/setting of the dominant light source by that alone?

Regardless, darkness is the default state of the known universe.

littlebluespark , 5 months ago to White People Twitter in Day is the anomaly

They don't think of us at all.

littlebluespark , 5 months ago to White People Twitter in Day is the anomaly

Both a statement and a question, and multiples of each, depending on where the missing punctuation goes.

littlebluespark , 5 months ago to White People Twitter in Day is the anomaly

False. Day is a causality. Darkness is the universal default state.

littlebluespark , 5 months ago to White People Twitter in Day is the anomaly

Don't fuck them up like that.

littlebluespark , 5 months ago to White People Twitter in Day is the anomaly

And yet, you can not see light in far more places. In fact, 99.9999999%... of all atoms across the whole of reality are, at any given moment, not connected to or part of an entity capable of sight.

Light is the aberration.

littlebluespark , 5 months ago to politics in Supreme Court action already upending January 6 rioter sentencings, being looked at by Trump defense

I'm 100% sure someone will remember your civility when it's your turn to be exploited, maligned, and otherwise assaulted. I'm almost as sure that then doing so will be as helpful to you as a distant candlelight vigil in your honor. 🤗

littlebluespark , 5 months ago to politics in Project 2025 will cement America as a rightwing authoritarian state

What about one in each hand?

And, I know, before you stop to remind me: "Well then, what would you carry the molotov in, smartypants?", but who goes around carrying two fully-legal half bricks without a like-minded compatriot just as passionate about nonchalant, platonic sight-seeing strolls? And, if only a half brick per person is the limit, why we just hand off one to the other and then we're fully kitted with both the question and the answer, neighbor.

littlebluespark , 5 months ago to politics in Legal experts: Trump lawyer’s “embarrassing” performance “making the jury dislike her intensely”

Points A and B are not my concern, but the implication that the fetid fuckpuppet is somehow "handing" over his money at any point is. It's being taken from him, against his will, and deservedly so.

littlebluespark , 5 months ago to politics in Legal experts: Trump lawyer’s “embarrassing” performance “making the jury dislike her intensely”

Fair, though the phrasing is what I questioned: he's not handing over anything. It's being taken from him and awarded this specific victim. Let's not, by any stretch of our language, give him one iota of benefit to any doubt. 🤌🏼