With @davidjshipley the @washingtonpost has turned into bizarro world. There is absolutely no proof that we're grossly over-counting #COVID deaths, but the paper under @SallyBuzbee is all-in on this nonsense. WaPo has lost its way on the facts alone. https://bit.ly/3XQ5Mpr

The #MilkyWay over an #abandoned #TrainStation just outside the #GhostTown of #Kolmanskop in #Namibia #Africa was #amazing. The town used to be a #diamond mining town. Once the #diamonds ran dry the town was left to the #desert . 

#LandscapePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #travel #Wanderlust #PhotoOfTheDay #TravelPhotography #NightPhotography #NamibDesert #MilkyWay #LongExposure #foto #stars #night #spooky

It’s very funny to me that the dominant Twentieth Century conception of AI was a slightly awkward nerd with an inhuman mastery of facts and logic, when what we actually got is smooth-talking bullshit artists who can’t do eighth-grade math.

You know, I know I've said people should not talk, go on TV, go on radio, or tweet about their crimes, but I must admit I have never specifically said not to substack about them. That's my bad.

One of the website UI modalities that I just *despise* are sites that block copy/paste (either via mouse clicks and sometimes also keyboard shortcuts) for filling important fields, out of some sort of misguided belief that this somehow enhances security. Actually it easily makes it worse in most cases. This is similar to sites that have crazy password rules (that they often can't even implement properly) that also tend to make security worse, not better. E.g., "Your password must contain between 10 and 22 characters, include no less than 3 characters between G and Q, at least two special characters, and a lowercase m and p. Thank you."

Over many years, I have been gradually replacing all of the paragraphs in the Ship of Theseus Wikipedia article.