Notices by MrAlanCooper (mralancooper@hachyderm.io)

@inthehands I think the moral of this story is obvious: password fields should not obscure what you are typing.

@skinnylatte okay, there's a Tarling volume in my BetterWorldBooks shopping cart. Thanks for the recommendation.

@skinnylatte I *knew* I'd get that wrong and I thank you for setting me right. I know very little about that part of the world and I suspect my learning has just begun.

In the book the author quotes the contemporaneous (British) actors referring to everything east to the Phillipines as "India."

Which would I rather have:

A) USA changes from imperial measures to metric system.

2) Abolition of the Senate filibuster and the Electoral College.

First guess doesn't count.

If Thiel thinks "capitalist democracy" is an "oxymoron" I would rather dispense with capitalism than with democracy.

If you believe that you shouldn't vote for a woman just because she is a woman, then you clearly believe that you should vote for a man simply because he is a man. That's weird.

I'm simply giddy about Vice President Harris' candidacy. I was staunchly against Biden giving up the race because I simply could not see the DNC backing Harris. I am so very happy to have been dead wrong. Go get 'em VP Harris!

Corporations: "I don't want the government interfering with my freedom to make business decisions the way I want!"

Also Corporations: "I made a series of bad business decisions and now I want significant financial and regulatory assistance from the government to make my company profitable again!"

@inthehands It's a race to bottom...

AI learns from the internet. Everyone is so excited about "AI" that everyone is using it. The output of AI is flooding the internets. Soon AI will be learning from AI. AI is a coprophage.

@thomasfuchs Are parsecs metric?

I'm not a trekkie, and haven't seen many of the shows or movies, but I have to think that they don't use Imperial measures in the Star Trek Universe. Right?

This video is now 5 years old, but I'm sure many of you have not seen it. It was funded and produced by the august professional organization IEEE. It's called "Slaughterbots." https://youtu.be/9CO6M2HsoIA