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Fillory and Further by Christopher Plover

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The Magicians by Lev Grossman

Harris is a common name for Americans. Sarah is too. Her name isn’t Kalama. The error shows how exotic it is to you and your autocorrect.

I hear female supporters refer to her as Kamala. I think it might have more to do with the uniqueness of the name. I don’t know of anyone who referred to Sarah Palin as Sarah.

there were enough checks on his power that he mostly managed to simply be incompetent and chaotic

There were no real checks. He had way too many Republicans in Congress for there to be. Most of what protects America is gentleman’s agreements that we all assume a normal president wouldn’t defy.

If the leader of the FBI attempts to investigate him again, they could just hire a new one who won’t.

That is literally what happened last time. The house (where Republicans are a majority) wouldn’t pass a bill that makes firing the FBI director illegal so there’s no real difference.

Moats. I was kidding at first, but I’m now thinking lazy rivers are modern moats.

That sounds like an adult with a social and/or psychological issue.

I think Reddit killed forums more than Facebook did.

Warnings probably work better on products you’re putting in your body. If you have blackened lungs on the cigarette packaging I can’t imagine choosing to smoke.

On social media, you basically have to destroy my experience for me to stop using it in the same way. All effective options are terrible: ads, microtransactions, auto-playing unexpected sounds, nonresponsive interfaces.

I liked Devs. It had a dope concept. That show didn’t get much buzz.

Humans are as smart as they ever were. Tech is getting better. I know someone who was tricked by those deepfake Kelly Clarkson weight loss gummy ads. It looks super fake to me, but it’s good enough to trick some people.

Facebook is basically a dinosaur. The demographic that were the first users ran away right around the time when their parents got accounts.

Lemmy users seem older than most social media to me. Why is Star Trek TNG so popular here if not?

I think he argues in bad faith. I saw an interview he had with someone who had a disability where they were both arguing against a specific mobility technology because it could have military applications.

Everything can have military applications.

It sort of reminds me of people who don’t care about an arbitrary technology or research (let’s call it Z) and start saying “why are you working on Z, shouldn’t you be working on a cure for cancer instead”

9 times out of 10 the complainer isn’t trying to cure cancer themselves and the researcher doesn’t necessarily have the skillset to immediately switch to curing cancer.

Doesn’t seem staged. The demo was imperfect in very normal ways. One imperfection was when it was referencing an old picture that he had earlier sent to the program.

I’d be more convinced it was staged if everything were perfect.

Oddly, “wreckless” might mean the exact opposite.

Watching the video seems better than reading an article since you get to hear from the patient. It’s in the article, but they posted a Twitter video link.

https://youtu.be/79VvxBStbWY

Synchron has a similar technology and their death count appears to be lower than Neuralink’s in animal trials. Unfortunately, this article doesn’t actually show the death rate of the trials.

This tracks. Lewis Hamilton hates driving if he’s not racing.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/aug/08/lewis-hamilton-dislikes-driving-outside-of-f1-stressful

Also, it’s incredibly low effort to cover it. There’s no subscription plan for covering a webcam.

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