It’s an own-goal for Biden - an unpopular law that starts being enforced the day before Trump gets to stop enforcing it.

Much less funny because it’s deliberate.

Being a chordate is great but sometimes I wish I could just scuttle along the sea floor again without a care in the world.

Can’t gloat much with Bush…

Neo-Nazi madness

Wow, that is savage. Doubly so because it’s coming from a man who chooses his words carefully. Lemley is doing the exact opposite of the obsequious grovelling that Zuckerberg and others are performing for Trump.

Oh, and ladies? He’s looking to to reenter the dating market. I guess that’s neither here nor there, but for some reason he’s available!!!

I’m a man and if I met a woman serious about life extension then I would consider that a positive. It’s evidence that she is smart (at least in the high-INT/low-WIS way), motivated, and will always have something strange and new to talk about. Her eccentricity may turn out to be of the sort that makes a serious long-term relationship impossible, but that’s a risk that someone who wants to date eccentric people must take.

With that said, I expect that women who think the way I do are quite rare.

If it were real research, it would involve a group of recognized researchers and scientists testing products and activities on a small group of volunteers who are fully aware of what they are participating in. And the research has to last for several years using multiple controls.

For most of the time since the start of the Scientific Revolution, the way this guy does research was the standard way that research was done. Controlled clinical trials certainly have an important role in the development of new medicines, but they’re slow and expensive. They aren’t good tools for quickly trying out a lot of very speculative ideas. I expect that if a powerful anti-aging technique is discovered, it will be used for self-experimentation years before a clinical trial.

A couple of caveats: first, I think that a powerful anti-aging technique is probably not possible with today’s technology or the technology of the near future. Second, I think the self-experimentation is more likely to be done by a scientist in an academic lab studying senescence than by someone doing research outside of academia.

I think that putting in the hours to be very good at PoE2 is more embarrassing than being an amateur who only played a little bit. I say that as someone who looks forward to playing a lot.

I’m glad someone other than me is trying this sort of thing. He bears the risks, but if he succeeds then I share in the benefits.

The story about selling to Musk is coming from Bloomberg. Meanwhile the “pure fiction” quote comes from TikTok’s reply to Variety’s request for comments. Variety is unlikely to have access to anyone at TikTok senior enough to know the truth and willing to talk about it.

The purchase of valuable assets by someone in the president’s inner circle after the government forces their owner to sell them is the sort of thing that usually involves Russian oligarchs. It would be a shameful act by the US government.

Is this price gouging or is it the new, higher long-term price? Rebuilding will take years and so the housing shortage and therefore the higher prices seem like they will last.

Whatever it is called, it does seem to be illegal at the moment.

I don’t think the sort of people who would have paid $10,000 are going to end up homeless.

I don’t see the rental listing for 120 1/2 but 120 Galleon St costs $25,000 a month.

I skimmed the Reddit terms of service and I didn’t see anything about bots or damages to Reddit, but if Reddit does ban bots like this then can’t they sue an American company whose publicly announced business model involves breaching a contract? Astral isn’t some guy without any money or a foreign organization beyond the reach of American law…

(Could Astral be criminally liable due to the extremely broad definition of hacking in US law?)

I would be surprised if hostile countries thought that Lemmy was popular enough to bother infiltrating. They probably haven’t heard of Lemmy at all.

I think the explanation is simply that Lemmy’s users are all contrarians, or else they would be using Reddit. Frequently they are of the international leftist sort due to the founder effect.

Nationally, large insurance companies net an average profit of 4.2 percent on insurance transactions. In California, they lose more than 6 percent.

So why do they offer insurance in California at all?

You’d go to the school gym to see friends? I don’t even know if I’m being sarcastic. On the one hand, I don’t think I’d do that no matter how many friends I had and how nice the gym was because it’s such a bizarre thing to do. On the other hand, the past is often bizarre.

Who would want to go to

libraries and school gyms and union halls

to have fun? “Hey guys, let’s all go hang out at the, uh, school gym! No? How about the union hall?”

Maybe people had lower standards back before technology made having fun alone at home easy.

Being able to actually do anything you understand well enough, the way that magic works in many settings. A brilliant engineer can design an airplane, but he still needs lots of workers and machines and materials to actually build one. A wizard who knows how to cast “fly” can just go ahead and cast it and fly around. If he has the right books, he doesn’t need other people for anything at all.

The sort of mystery only possible in a story where the author himself doesn’t have to know what the secret is. I love science but I was very disappointed when I was a kid and I realized that science meant that everything ultimately had a mundane explanation. A mysterious structure? Built by some Bronze Age dudes. Dinosaurs? Unusually large animals. Legendary heroes? Made-up stories. Even if elves or unicorns turned out to be real, they would have a mundane explanation too because the whole universe follows rules.

I think this is just OpenAI marketing.

“Insane thing: We are currently losing money on OpenAI Pro subscriptions!” he wrote in a post.

The problem? Well according to @Sama, “people use it much more than we expected.”

Oh no, ChatGPT is too useful to customers! Altman isn’t going to be telling any real problems that OpenAI has to the whole world over Twitter.

I was worried that this would be like those cookies pop-ups, but the functionality is still present here in the land of the free…