Turns out that scientific consensus and public policy matter a lot.

https://ourworldindata.org/smoking-big-problem-in-brief

A pet peeve of mine in video games is when developers get the moon wrong. Stuff like:

• Stars being visible in front of the moon
• Stars being visible behind the dark side of the crescent moon, like it's physically c-shaped
• The moon having phases but only ever being visible in the nighttime sky

I'm aware this doesn't actually matter, but maybe some day I'll do a big tier list of video game astronomy and have fun ranting about this

#Gaming #Astronomy

Musk going after #Wikipedia is exactly the sort of future I fear for the internet. I'm not too worried AI leading to the singularity or mass unemployment, but I do fear a future where humanity's collective knowledge is locked behind gates controlled by a handful of ultra-wealthy companies. I feel we're already heading down that path with search engines and LLMs attempting to replace forums

If you can be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you can be told what to say or think

Hacking then:

People on an image board found an XSS vulnerability on a homophobic politician's website so they uploaded gay porn for the lulz

Hacking now:

State sponsored actors from the worst country you've heard of found a router with the default password at a hospital for orphans, and are now threatening to release a list of the children's greatest fears and insecurities unless they are given ten million dollars in cryptocurrency

😔🚬 things have changed...

(this isn't a serious post)

• Google loses antitrust lawsuit
• Forced to stop paying Firefox for search priority
• Mozilla goes bankrupt
• Chrome-based browsers are now the only ones available on PC

No idea how likely this is, but if Google losing an antitrust suit makes them even more of a monopoly, that's going to be... very stupid