My bank emailed me "AI is changing check fraud. Here's what you can do to protect yourself."

Nonono, Mr. Banky-bank. Tell me what YOU are doing to protect me against check fraud. This is a you problem, caused by a system you designed and run. How about you don't externalize that cost onto me?

I have, since the 1980s, DESPISED any excuse like "oh sorry we got a new computer system" or "we can't do X anymore because of the computer". How you do business isn't my fucking problem. Don't give me excuses for not having your shit together.

This is the same as "we are experiencing unexpectedly high call volume." Well, that's pretty fucking poor planning on your part, then, innit? Hold times aren't long because of the forces of nature, they are because you're too fucking cheap to pay sufficient staff.

Fundamental physics has long strongly suggested that time is not a basic property of the universe. It is a local emergent byproduct of quantum interaction.

We still need more experimental proof for the math though, and it's starting to come in.

Here's a short piece discussing an experiment that really opens up how the emergence of time can work:

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-scientist-miniuniverse-clock.html

And of course, time emergence has zero to do with human thought.

#physics #philosophy #science #quantum

Rusty the old battle-scarred and limpy #raccoon showed back up today. He's in the garden eating cat kibble and peanuts right now. We hadn't seen him in over a week, so we were worried. 🦝

Hi Rusty! 👋

31 years ago today
Red Medicine is the fourth studio album by the American post hardcore punk band Fugazi, released on this day in 1995 at Dischord Records

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcore #hardcorepunk #fugazi #redmedicine #history #punkrockhistory #otd