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  A brief introduction to Gravitational Economics First things first: money follows the law of gravity, by trickling. Just like in Newtonian mechanics, 'down' is the direction of the largest nearby havy object, in moneyspacetime, pieces of money trickle down — towards the largest nearby rich object. At the same time — and this is something that classical econogravyists don't really like to talk about —, the velocity of money is limited by the speed of green light. Which is not even a...

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  "Yes, in 1300, peak Middle Ages, people were LARPing the earlier Middle Ages, or at least some romanticised version of it. Now, if that doesn't boil your brain, try this one: people were doing ren faire before the Renaissance." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqyKiy6F3T0

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  Tetris reckons that taking an antifa stance is profitable: "The Tetris Company was not involved in the creation of 'Build the Wall,’" the company said Friday, according to Newsweek. “We take copyright infringement very seriously.” The White House a day earlier launched a slate of five retro-style games on the administration’s new arcade.gov website. In “Build the Wall,” players are challenged with stacking blocks into a border barrier — an obvious reference to Trump’s mass-deport...

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  Apparently, Darth Melon is blaming the popular opposition to building new genAI data centres to other genAI generating hostile propaganda. :blobcatfacepalm:

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  Tirritate a transphobe claiming a bogus gender by affirming it on principle anyway, thus causing them dysphoria. :blobcatgiggle:

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  RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/117209589228291712 Perhaps one needs to check a sillionaire for clinically significant affluenza before he's allowed to run for office.

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  In West Virginia, a cis man has been charged with creeping in a girls' dressing room.

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  The reason that no Oracle ever told a Pope if you christen the pagans, you will give rise to a great schism is, the Popes were always too full of themselves to consult the Oracle. :blobcattea:

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  Ukraine's navy (wdne) has been entertaining the people suntanning in Sochi by a spectacular spectacle of making a memorable hole into an offshore platform supply ship.

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  A brief yet detailed explanation of the link from yearning for slavery to return, through eugenics when it was not yet a taboo, to the Muricans' refusal to recognise public health as a public good. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YhBf3vpf2oc

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  An ounce of spoonerism covereth a multitude of lack-o'-spoons.

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  Sick Nhirley is suing California to argue that shirley it must be illegal to give immigrant support service workers the sort of privacy rights that cops have.

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  Today is the parliamentary election in Sachsen-Anhalt . If you're eligible, please vote. This one might be annoyingly important.

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  In post-natal fœtal rights news ... A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation this week in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation. https://www.notus.org/immigration/baby-asylum-hearing

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  In lead news ... On Friday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit against the city of Jackson, Mississippi, which alleged the city knowingly let residents drink lead-contaminated water. The lawsuit, first filed in 2022, says the contamination violated Jacksonians’ constitutional right to bodily integrity. Donald Trump-appointed judge Kurt Engelhardt disagreed. “The Constitution does not provide redress for every governmental wrongdoing,” Engelhardt said. “Defe...

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  Tirritate corporate librivores by letting it slip that a Scroll of Amnesia is carefully forgotten between the pages of some rare books.

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  Tirritate dot-com investors by prophecying them that in less than thirty years, this will be a real lawsuit: Joel Gavalas says that Google's flagship AI product fuelled a delusional spiral that prompted his 36-year old son, Jonathan, to kill himself last year. The lawsuit also alleges that Gemini, which exchanged romantic texts with Jonathan Gavalas, drove him to stage an armed mission that he came to believe could bring the chatbot into the real world. Google said in a statement Anyway,...

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  A young billionaire adult dystopia in which a botched attempt to thrush genAI upon the people too early, when it's not nearly ready yet, leads to a massive backlash, giving the Butlerian Resistance years and years to prepare and to succeed at the Butlerian Jihad, so the poor billionaires' souls will never get uploaded into their powerful mecha titan bodies.

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  The rise of cameraphones quickly got rid of flying saucers. The rise of genAI will bring them back.

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  Time lords travel times like British lords travelled places in the empire.

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  Meow. :blobcatevening:

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  Got told by a recruiter that I "didn't seem to take AI seriously" in the interview, so they decided to go with another candidate. :blobcatnotlike:

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  Btw, in light of the McConnell playing the Schrödinger's Turtle, it might be fun to recall a bit of collision of the then-nascent and not-yet-quite-science endocrinology and the rise of modern gerontocracy. After one of the Lenin's strokes — the second one, I think, but I'm not entirely sure about that —, there was a short swell of public demands that Soviet Russia's government should pay for the poor overworked man's "youth restoration". At this time, Bolshevik co...

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  These gender reveal parties are hitting new heights, er, lows. A Delta Air Lines plane carrying 52 passengers and six crew members was hit by fireworks as it prepared to land at a Chicago airport on Saturday night. The flight from Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport to Midway International Airport "reportedly made contact with a firework while on descent," a spokesperson for the airline told the BBC. "The flight safely landed and taxied to the gate," they added. There...

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  Tirritate Tesla fanboys and quantum woo enthusiasts alike by pointing out how useless the Tesla valve is at directing a properly quantised flow.

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  The existence of a Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools implies that a cisnational one must also exist.

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  Tirritate people who attach signs like All metals to machining machines by remembering that titanium exists.

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  Tirritate the sillionaires by reminding them that it can be legal to eat one under English Common Law doctrine of necessity when the eater is starving.

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  If you liked mall cops, you might also enjoy: queue cops. Russian Police Officer Pulls Out Sidearm to Enforce Gas Station Queues in Siberia's Irkutsk The man reportedly tried to jump the five-hour queue for gasoline and threatened a police officer as Russia deploys police and national guardsmen to the Irkutsk region to enforce gas rationing amid an unprecedented fuel crisis. Source: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/79710

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  Tirritate a modern child by telling them that there used to be TV ads for TV sets.