@lowqualityfacts In Roman times months with fewer than 31 days were called "hollow" months. And originally there were only 10 months because nothing much got done in the winter. They also only had 12 hours in a day, with each hour sized so that the 12 hours were from sunrise to sunset, causing winter hours to be something like 45 minutes, and summer hours like 75. The 12 hour day lead to the phrase about getting things done in the 11th hour, and just before end of day.
@lowqualityfacts He is often misquoted. He said "guest infinite" referring to the guest who won't leave. Hearing problems have existed throughout history, and this has resulted in some words and phrases that had no actual basis in reality.
There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll: How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul. - Emily Dickinson
“Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.”
@JustGrist Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’
We probably have a thousand Mozarts now, but they are stuck working in an Amazon warehouse.
#AI bros have lost billions of $$ in a crusade to justify their fever dreams. They need to steal copyrighted materials. They need nuclear #fusion. They need all our drinking water. Now #Microsoft wants to re-open the #ThreeMileIsland#NuclearPowerPlant that caused communities to take potassium iodide in 1979 to protect their thyroid glands.
All this so we can have real-time analysis of cat poop.
They warned that #AI would lead to the extinction of humanity. Listen to them.
@tomiahonen Private citizen Trump is building not only civil cases for theft of intellectual properties, but criminal cases for things like violating the Logan Act in negotiating with Netanyahu. He and his campaign are so proud of their illegal activities that they regularly say aloud that these are just an exercise of their "liberty", a keyword in many RW declarations.