I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying ‘flee at once - all is discovered.’ They all left town immediately.
― Mark Twain

Faux outrage?

Do you count audio books as reading?

The 3-leaf clover has religious/national significance in Ireland—there’s a legend about St. Patrick using it to demonstrate the unity of the Christian trinity.

The voice-over is usually trying to approximate the lip movements and timing as well as the meaning.

I think it’s like one person writing something down vs a bunch of people using a Ouija board.

Does my doppelgänger go to my workplace and do my job?

If he doesn’t, there’s your answer.

If he does, I’ll leave him to it and go read a book in the park.

But even landlords need to at least give notice before they can legally enter.

The most suggestive study I’ve seen was of squirrels who re-bury nuts at a later date if other squirrels were watching them bury the nuts initially. But it can still be argued that they’re just keeping a mental map with some nuts marked as “need to move” without remembering the specific experiences that made them think the original locations were compromised.

I don’t think it’s ever been conclusively proven that other animals have episodic memories. (Partly because it’s hard to tell whether they’re actually replaying an experience or just remembering the relevant information in a less immediate way, without being able to ask them.)

So the shareholders are declaring that Thompson’s killing successfully disrupted the company’s “aggressive anti-consumer tactics”.

It’s almost like they’re trying to encourage more of the same.

From the text of the resolution:

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING, That the General Assembly of the State of Iowa rejects the decision of Obergefell v. Hodges ; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the General Assembly of the State of Iowa calls upon the Supreme Court of the United States to reverse the Obergefell decision, and restore the natural definition of marriage, a union of one man and one woman…

Does the Supreme Court even have the power to reverse a previous decision without a new case revisiting the issue?

And doesn’t it violate the separation of powers in multiple respects for a state legislature to tell the Supreme Court how to interpret the federal constitution?

100% tariff on indulgences.

In Italian or Latin, it would be “Papa Pizzaballa”.

You can create an AI avatar before your death that will haunt them on your behalf.

Reducing Google’s monopoly on search is at least a marginal improvement in its own right, even if Apple’s search ends up being equally shitty.

“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind. How true that is.”
― Dan Quayle

That and Magnolia.

Hopefully that just means using AI to find and index existing content, not to fabricate its own results.

One person making all the decisions is a dictatorship, which is distinct from both fascism and monarchy.

Unless we replace the meanings of distinct words with the principle that all bad things are the same thing.