Women can be victims of women too, though. Look at how many mothers have subjected their daughters to genital mutilation, for example.

I think it’s pretty reasonable to say, “please don’t use exclusionary language that implies some victims are more valid than others”.

What? Why would you choose that over Baptist Church of Missouri SynodOS, you heretic?

Certainly, but Apple was comparing itself to other computer companies with international reach, not to the white box PCs coming out of the Floppy Wizard store in the strip center.

Well, that button probably dates from the late 80s or early 90s, when Apple was comparing Macs to branded IBM PS/2s and such that were sold to schools and enterprises.

And they weren’t wrong, at the time. Those PS/2s were fuckin’ expensive.

I also have the Humble Bundle version :-)

I don’t really do Android gaming any more, the Shield K1 is long gone and my cheap-ass Chinese tablet is mostly for Newpipe and other Android-only media consumption.

Harebrained Schemes’ critically acclaimed Shadowrun games disappeared from the Play store years ago – I played them back in the day on my Shield K1. The apps supported modding, and changes to the Google Play TOS meant they would require significant updates to make them compliant with new policies.

Harebrained worked on it halfheartedly for a year or two, but eventually decided not to bother updating them, so they were gone forever.

“We wouldn’t have to kill so many civilians if the criminals would stop committing crimes.”

No idea how the compensation structure works on Medium. But I also have no idea what their content moderation policies are either.

I’d love to say that, but unfortunately journalists I respect, who are doing very excellent content that repudiates fascism, don’t really have anywhere else to go. Radley Balko, for example, is a preeminent journalist on the topics of police brutality, law enforcement misdeeds, and failures of the criminal justice system. But WaPo didn’t want to publish him any more, so where does he go?

I hope they find alternatives, but I’m not going to stop paying for journalism from people like Balko. I don’t want to let white supremacists force any more epistemic closure.

I think the only difference with this proposal is that they “skip the middleman”. The water is never released back into a natural watercourse.

But yes, I grew up in TX drinking water that had been returned to the Trinity post-treatment by locations north.

Anything that complements your career as a Cheese Greeter

Do what you enjoy. Half-ass all the things.

Is joke. There is no potato.

I told Latvian cousin to buy store brand potato. He laugh, I laugh. There is no store.

I saw “Pictrs Migration” and I thought was about to open a map porn post regarding the movement of ancient Scots.

we’re trying to sort of figure that out

Well that inspires confidence.

FYI, the new official Office default is Aptos. I’ve been making work docs with it for a few weeks and I have to admit, it looks really clean and technical.

https://medium.com/microsoft-design/a-change-of-typeface-microsofts-new-default-font-has-arrived-f200eb16718d

I’m familiar with that thought exercise, but I find it to be fearmongering. AI isn’t going to be some creative god that hacks and breaks stuff on its own. A paperclip maximizer AI isn’t going to manipulate world steel markets or take over steel mills unless that capability is specifically built into its operating parameters.

The much greater risk in the near term is that bad actors exploit AI to accomplish very specific immoral, illegal, or exploitative tasks by building those tasks into AI. Such as deepfakes, or using drones to track and murder people, etc. Nation-state actors will probably start using this stuff for truly horrible reasons long before criminals do.

That, in my mind, is a non-threat. AIs have no motivation; there’s no reason for an AI to do any of that.

Unless it’s being manipulated by a bad actor who wants to do those things. THAT is the real threat. And we know those bad actors exist and will use any tool at their disposal.

“Prove you’re human by chopping off a finger.”