Cycling helps fight climate change and makes cities more livable. More profoundly, people who cycle regularly are more oriented toward the common good.
Cars turn people into sociopaths; bikes reverse that.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494423001731
As a quick reminder: AI doomerism is also #AIhype. The idea that synthetic text extruding machines are harbingers of AGI that is on the verge of combusting into consciousness and then turning on humanity is unscientific nonsense. 2/
At the same time, it serves to suggest that the software is powerful, even magically so: if the "AI" could take over the world, it must be something amazing. 3/
36 years ago today was the Max Headroom TV STL hijacking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking
I regard this incident as the best and purest hacking prank in modern history. The combination of sophisticated, meticulous technical planning and execution, utterly juvenile content, essential harmlessness, lack of financial motive, and never getting caught or identified (or later taking credit) remains, in my opinion, unmatched to this day.
Pure art.
Back in December of 2020, when I first heard on the news about the GOP plan to have “alternate slates” of electors at the ready in the contested battleground states, I remember thinking, “Good luck with that.” I had understood their effort was to mirror what
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