Madrigal

Puny god.

Judith Collin’s is a truly awful person, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Hamas is getting what it wanted, albeit slowly.

Those corporations are about to find out the fun way that these algorithms, in their current and near-future states, cannot replace human beings.

Well, except for maybe lazy copywriters who pump out pointless listicles and executives who do - whatever it is they do - but any non-trivial task requiring creativity and understanding is beyond these tools.

Y’all should watch the head of IRD tell them to get fucked (more or less) at this year’s FEC hearing.

And that’s their only “good” product.

The rest is utter garbageware, designed for one purpose: to check boxes on RFPs.

The HR profession’s reputation as pond scum remains intact.

Or, as I’ve heard it, moving above and below decks regularly.

Good point. I’m so used to using unisex bathrooms at home…

Thanks, I guess. Shame I can’t compete in the olympics or read books to children any more though.

TIL I’m a transwoman.

The law: Do what we say, don’t challenge us, give us all your wealth, we can change the law at any time.

“On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” - Charles Babbage

Top-level comments always get more votes than replies.

I increasingly feel like religious indoctrination in childhood creates a kind of mental illness or disability by disrupting the development of critical thinking skills.

This is not accidental. Many religious scholars have talked about the need to “instruct” children when they’re very young - by the age of three or four.

There are other forms of MGM too. Fortunately most of them are rare these days. Castration, subincision, penectomy.

And then there’s intersex people. That are routinely subject to “corrective surgery” in infancy. As adults they tend to be firmly of the opinion they should have been left alone and that the surgeries were harmful.

IMO bodily integrity and autonomy is a fundamental human right that should be absolutely respected for every human being.

MMA

Mexican Martial Arts?

I thought this one was declared “satire” a couple of days ago.

For web browsing? No.