Sabine Hossenfelder spoke about a year ago at the RI about all the things we don’t know. https://youtu.be/fl9oDJzfg58?si=flC_BcGafmj0Glsl
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Sabine Hossenfelder spoke about a year ago at the RI about all the things we don’t know. https://youtu.be/fl9oDJzfg58?si=flC_BcGafmj0Glsl -
We are watching Korean forensic procedural “Partners for Justice” on Netflix.We are watching Korean forensic procedural “Partners for Justice” on Netflix. The five word précis is “Bones with god level shouting”. It is very good. They are working their way through the police procedural trope canon; we have just done “one of our own has been framed for murder” arc, and are on to “traumatic secret from ten years ago reopened”.
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BANG BANG BAN-BANG BANG BAN-
“Wharrrr. Why are you pounding on my door it’s five ayem dammit”
“Officer of the court. You are hereby arrested for transport to a corrective institution for a term of five years”
“What the fuck. What is the charge? Trial? Get the fuck away from me with those handcuffs. I want a lawyer. Jury of my gorram peers. All of that stuff”
“Your Recall database was interviewed and appeared for you at trial. A Large Legal Model was appointed for your defense. Avatars of your neighbours’ Recall were selected as jurors. Get in the Hilux, convict.”
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The Unicode Consortium announces release 17.2.0 of the Unicode standard.@danderson your code fu is excellent
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The Unicode Consortium announces release 17.2.0 of the Unicode standard.The Unicode Consortium announces release 17.2.0 of the Unicode standard.
A. Summary
41 new Emoji characters have been added, most notably:
◦ The smell of rain
◦ The feeling of being asked to remove your headphones on public transport by a stranger hitting on you (U+F0AD)
◦ The sound of standing on your spectacles while trying to locate them in the dark
◦ The moment at 5am when a cat is delightfully making biscuits on your abdomen but you need to get up to pee -
attn @liamvhogan@liamvhogan @Kels_316 @oysta @geordie I can hear the voiceover in my head: “A message from the Quiensland Government”
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They busted my door down before sunrise.They busted my door down before sunrise. Didn’t even knock. Charge was receiving stolen goods. Look, my neighbour didn’t want their old TV any more, and mine was on the blink so they gave it to me. Prosecutor said that since PIPMA Act¹ 2027 ownership rights remain with the manufacturer, and that both resale and gifting are theft. Judge not only agreed but tacked on another five for “stealing the profits of the manufacturer” of the new TV I consequently didn’t buy. Neighbour got six months, plus the bastards shot her dog.
What are you in for?
#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot
¹yes I know that’s redundant; Perpetual Intellectual Property for Merchandise Act Act
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They call us “jar scrapers”. They mean it in a pejorative sense, as in eating from garbage.They call us “jar scrapers”. They mean it in a pejorative sense, as in eating from garbage.
We revel in the term; any parent knows that there is at least one more slice of toast in the “empty” jam jar that your kids gave up on.
Earth is gone, but there’s jam left in the asteroids if you scrape for it.
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To the casual observer, I was staring at a blank page.To the casual observer, I was staring at a blank page.
Look closer.
At the scale where the page is an uneven rubble pile of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms, the spaces between are a foam of ideas, forming and annihilating quickly enough that by the time an idea attracts the attention of the laws of physics, it has moved on out of their jurisdiction.
Let the edges of your perception blur with the paper, a quantum superposition of emptiness and possibility. When conditions are right, a fleeting idea may leap from page to mind.
Grasp it, pull it apart before it can self annihilate. There is no free lunch; this will consume some energy.
Now, write it down before it decays.