nooses (78)in #international • 23 hours agoIran goes nuclear?If Iran continues to be run by a group of medieval-minded ayatollahs with nuclear weapon ambitions, VERY BAD THINGS…nooses (78)in #google • 2 days agoGoogle screwed up adding AI to Google Search, but very few people understand why.GPT-4 and Claude Opus avoid making the same mistakes in common-sense reasoning. Despite being an AI pioneer, Google…nooses (78)in #ai • 3 days agoWill AI turn evil and wipe us out?The danger of AI is NOT that it will turn evil, that it will want to wipe us out, that it will develop free will, or…nooses (78)in #israel • 4 days agoShould there be a sovereign, independent Palestinian state?PROBABLY, EVENTUALLY. . . AS THE RESULT OF NEGOTIATIONS WITH ISRAEL. Should a unilaterally-declared Palestinian…nooses (78)in #nyt • 5 days agoWhy has no. of female executives fallen?Easy. #metoo painted all men as sexual predators so men have adopted the Mike Pence rule of never meeting with a woman…nooses (78)in #fed • 6 days agoDon't be fooled by this destructive policy.The loss is because they bought government bonds at high prices from bondholders to facilitate their replacement…nooses (78)in #word • 7 days agoDepending on the circles you move in, the word "energy" can be used in a ridiculously large number of different ways.And in some of these circles, people are really not careful to distinguish between them. Type 1: Personal - the…nooses (78)in #alan • 7 days agoAlan Rickman was a genius who died too young.“Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas!” The Sheriff…nooses (78)in #libertarian • 8 days agoAm I a "right" libertarian?Honestly, I don't quite know what the term means anymore. Like, at it's heart, right is overall preference for…nooses (78)in #science • 10 days agoOn social distancing.This is not actually news, but for those who haven't been paying attention, most of the politicians and bureaucrats…nooses (78)in #israel • 11 days agoObjections to war crime protests, instead of war crimes themselves?Once again a moral panic arises over college students protesting war crimes, rather than over the war crimes…nooses (78)in #nyt • 11 days agoNew York Times doing what it does.Exculpatory passive voice. It’s a lot like you sometimes see in reports on police shootings, which get into comically…nooses (78)in #air • 13 days agoAir fare differentiation.This whole airline “business class” vs “first class” category distinction for US flight search engines is useless.…nooses (78)in #northern • 13 days agoAurora spotting.I recently took a night-time flight and was hoping to get a great glimpse of the current solar storm auroras. I was…nooses (78)in #sports • 14 days agoBen Hogan.Ben Hogan played his last PGA tournament at age 58, in 1971. It was just down the street from me, at Champions Golf…nooses (78)in #elon • 16 days agoElon might be a troll, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.People would have thought Elon was much smarter than he was, were he to have stayed away from social media and not…nooses (78)in #environment • 16 days agoIndustrial-scale CO2 removal is getting started.This is so exciting. Still tiny in scale relative to global emissions, but this is our future. Currently $1000/ton…nooses (78)in #economy • 18 days agoUnemployment rate.If people told you in 2019 that we would have a pandemic like we did, would you have predicted unemployment would be…nooses (78)in #democrats • 19 days agoThis is why Democrats win elections.They have caused the disintegration of the downtowns of the 13 largest cities, the worst crime stats by state, city…nooses (78)in #law • 20 days agoHow to (not) build trust for law enforcement.So it's 9 PM and I'm sitting here in this parking lot beside the recreation center, contemplating how American…