The Melancholy of Miss Distance

i want some kinda engineering side project to work on; what should I make, anyone have ideas?

@datadriven_tdoc @RayAlexWilliams clocked it

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Humanity as unforgivable sin-carriers to be extirpated. Humanity as rational individual economic agents. Humanity as "boot-loader for artificial intelligence." That's it. Christianity or anything positing human divinity and dignity has been dead for centuries among elites.

Everybody knows the Soviet Union sucked because it was run by communists. Well if I told you a country was run by competing coalitions of communists, libertarians, and massive nerds, that would go a long way towards explaining a lot of problems too.

what’s everyone’s thoughts on this in 2026

what changes in an ARM (Adjustable Rate Mentoplasty), is of course, the APR (Aggregate Pogonion Realignment)

looking at the surgeon's fees, you might conclude that he specializes in SARPE (Surgically-Assisted Rapid Portfolio Expansion)

if you get a loan for your double-jaw surgery; is the ensuing financial instrument created called a Collateralized Lefort Osteotomy (CLO)?

I love a novel argument. I have a client who may have autobrewery syndrome. Got charged with a felony DUI. Oregon is a strict liability state. And I have to figure out a way to make this work as a defense when mens rea doesn’t matter. It feels like a damn law school exam.

I can shed a little light. Many of the new sUAS warheads are unacceptably dangerous: they are designed by people with no understanding (or apparent desire to learn and implement) the necessary precautions they must take to avoid killing our soldiers. I am speaking in the general case about very new players in the munition market, not about anyone in particular. I specifically CANNOT speak to the munition involved in this incident or the company that makes it (which has been around for more than twenty years, they are not new) as I know nothing about either. We recently returned from the National Armaments Consortium's Annual Fuze Conference, where I was shocked to discover that the fuze safety experts I had been led to believe would have horns and breathe fire were in fact making such unreasonable requests as "please don't smush your commercial detonator into your C-4 and wire it directly to your AI board." An inexact quote, but that's the sentiment: they didn't like that SOME people chose to make obliteration the consequence of a little too much static electricity or another LLM oopsie moment. Unbelievable what these people ask for, the nerve. Jokes aside, we ourselves are very new to the field. As normal people new to a field, we assume we have a lot to learn and that everything the greybeards say is gospel. It seems not everyone feels that way about keeping their limbs attached. Or yours.

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Immaculate vibes from the deck of Project Bob So far the score is: autonomous boats: 0 ocean: 3

Hughes Mark II COLIDAR (COherent LIght Detection And Ranging) laser range finder, circa 1963. 🔗 aip.org/history-progra… 📷 archive.org/details/missil… 👁‍🗨 @internetarchive

@IWllNvrBeAnEloi they got too good

You don’t here about spymasters much anymore

@lumpenspace "gaussian splatting content"

the gooner singularity is upon us

“let’s go to another country for a clinical trial that gives us superpowers” is going to be a burgeoning horror movie subgenre, I can feel it

one of the biggest wrong beliefs of the rat-adjacent/tpot community is "The Sort". it is an extrapolation from "smart conscientious Americans tend to do well" into a law of nature. in reality, meritocracy is an emergent feature of the system, not any sort of individual guarantee

I have been saying this x.com/jon_stokes/sta…

I contend that normie fears about _sufficiently-capable and autonomous_ AI (it will take all the jobs, runaway data center buildouts will make water land electricity economically inaccessible for mankind, and killer robots end us) seem more correct than "post-scarcity/abundance".

the "AI water use" stuff makes more sense if you see it as inchoate, symbolic, and vulgarly expressed fear, hate, and revulsion towards that which "entire surface of the earth would be covered with solar panels and data centers" describes, and less about literal water use by GPUs