Hey. Nations are made up. Citizenship is made up. Naturalization is made up. We have these things because this is the social contract we grew over hundreds of years.

The idea of an immigrant becoming a citizen is no less legitimate than the idea of someone being born a citizen. They are both and equally legal constructs that exist because things were worse without them.

If an immigrant can be denaturalized, then anyone the government wants to be rid of can be denaturalized.

Chiropractic Awareness Week is 13-19 April this year.

Make yourself aware that Chiropractic is actually quackery. You do not need a "chiropractor" for anything. This is because they are not actual specialists who treat musculoskeletal pain, and do not subscribe to scientific methods or mainstream medicine at all.

They have done an excellent job spreading misinformation about what they actually are and what they do, peddling themselves as legitimate medical practitioners. They are no better than a massage therapist, and cost way more.

You need a massage therapist, or an orthopedic doctor. Chiropractors are NOT orthopedic doctors. They MAY be doctors (depending on where you live), but their methods are not rooted in science, but quackery.

The use of “hallucinate” is a stroke of true evil genius in the AI world.

In ANY other context we’d just call them errors & the fail rate would be crystal clear.

Instead, “hallucinate” implies genuine sentience & the *absence* of real error.

Aw, this software isn’t shit! Boo’s just dreaming!

Iceland Air is running a search for the worst photographers in the world so they can fly them to Iceland to take photos of Iceland.

https://reallybadphotographer.com

I don't own a car. I take public transit everywhere, and I do think personal vehicle use has real environmental costs. But I don't think driving is inherently unethical.

I live in Seoul, and the city makes transit easy for me. That's not a virtue. It's a condition I happen to benefit from. Some people live where transit barely exists, or where it doesn't get them to work, school, or care. In those places, driving is not optional.

The same is true of flying. In parts of Europe you can cross borders by train. In island nations, or in places with weak land connections, flying may be the only realistic option. “Just fly less” means very different things in those places.

A lot of what gets called my ethical choices comes from the conditions I live in. That makes me wary of turning structural failures into personal morality. If the alternative is missing or unusable, shaming people for not choosing it solves nothing.

When environmental harm gets framed as individual moral failure, attention shifts away from the structural changes that would actually matter. It's not an accident that oil companies spent decades popularizing the idea of the personal carbon footprint.