That’s the good ending! It means we’ve carefully maneuvered Sol through the galactic disc to do a hand shake with a red dwarf’s liquid water zone. It means there is time, time to explore to test to get it right. Life goes on going on, sentience ripples through the whole ecosystem and people learn to come together for cake! …well, except that fellow in the trees… that’s a tad bleak…

that’s so sweet, a tea party on a spek orbiting a red dwarf

For a while I was posting the thing they keep calling “AI” is going to implode our ability to maintain computer networks and bring an end to the Silicon Valley bubble, but I started second guessing myself. Like, if that seems like the obvious conclusion to me, an idiot, then at least some of the people in charge must notice this.

Today I saw a tumblr post detailing how to rig an adblocker to get a google image search to turn out actual images. Nobody in charge has noticed, and… I don’t think they will notice. Not until it’s fully busted. They’re dreaming of electric sheep meanwhile the actual machine has got cholesterol in its arteries.

Winning power is actually the loosing position; when things go wrong, when there are problems longstanding or otherwise, people expect you to do something. Loosing election and being the opposition party is a far more preferable state of affairs – all you have to do is criticize the “winners”.

Going from “The Ukraine war risks nuclear armageddon” to “this is a cold-blooded calculation between large geopolitical actors” would be a huge leap in perspective. It sounds like the exaggerated position was her way expressing a real concern; meaning something more like “I’m worried about this conflict, what do you think of it?” You respond with a specific analysis and she agrees with it. If she doesn’t see her own perspective as changing, then it is because your analysis doesn’t contradict her own understanding of the world. It sounds like she values your knowledge on these things.

think i may need to start pestering local politicians about how wildfire prepped we actually are

I’ll be able to start biking more places thanks to climate change (no snow in February is freaking me out)