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"According to the arrest report, a user identified as Carli made a statement on Sept. 26 saying she was going to 'shoot up' the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators say the same user made another statement the following day saying she had gotten a new gun."

At a certain point, intervention seems appropriate. This meets my personal threshold, and I'd hope a friend would do something if they came across that in my journal.

> because mumble mumble history and tradition mumble

Definitely has nothing to do with SCOTUS's retirement accounts, no sir.

> Ever wonder what a country waging a grinding siege war could do with a plague lab?

There's a reason the US and Soviets were largely willing to get rid of the stuff - it's fairly useless geopolitically, because you mostly can't target it.

While also working as Viceroy of Venezuela.

Oh, and National Security Advisor.

Is it in someone's best interest to let them die in a shootout?

What? Yes, we do.

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/uncovering-...

https://sealevel.nasa.gov/resources/75/the-bedrock-beneath-a...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AA_bedrock_bedmap2.4...

> Somehow people always land in nice flat areas.

Well, yeah. You pick those.

It's why Blue Origin does their tourist flights out in the desert.

We've even found some specific such sites. Forest coverage turns out to be a very minor issue on Mars.

https://www.space.com/nasa-perseverance-mars-rover-sample-re...

Apologies, you're right. I mixed the two up.

Rifters has some very, very yikes moments later on in the series.

> And I don't know many people into hard scifi who really care for the religious imagery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(Simmons_novel) is a massive classic and is full of that stuff. The Matrix has The One die and be resurrected as a godlike glowing being.

Most atheists/Christians aren't as rigid as you imagine.

> a universe where there's no doubt that there is no god

The vast majority of scifi (and other genres) doesn't care or take a position either way. Nothing in Blindsight says "there can't be a God"; it has nothing to do with that.

> The primary idea was “intelligence can take different shapes”…

IIRC, it was more "intelligence may be a maladaptive dead-end".

Watts did a whole academic presentation on the science of vampirism in the book's context. It's a fun watch and makes it feel much less random. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEOUaJW05bU

If you want a really shoehorned scifi vampire, there's a David Weber book in which it comes out of fucking nowhere towards the end.

"Amazon hasn’t built anything innovative since the Kindle."

That was in 2007; S3 and EC2 were in 2006. The pace of innovation at AWS has declined, which is partially to be expected as it matures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Temple probably counts, too. They had auto-provisioned VPSes long before EC2. I'd also count VMware ESX.

They were a lot more necessary when each browser threw in fairly random sets of default styling. These days they've converged heavily on the same defaults.

> We've all seen Michelangelo's David, but none of us could recreate it.

But you can probably tell the difference between it and a crappy version.

> There was a DDoS problem and they got there early and don't charge much, if anything, to protect your endpoints. End of that story.

But part of the story is that they also protect the DDoS providers causing the problem! To some extent, they're the firefighter arsonist who suspiciously always is first to arrive on scene to be the hero. Recent example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025001

They had a very hard line on refusing to take anyone off their platform without a court order. There was a huge fuss here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15031922) when they told the Daily Stormer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer to go elsewhere.

The word used was "innovative", though.

> You have the whole session history right there.

But that's one session. Isn't memory for… the next session?

This one goes both ways, yeah?

The strongman approach, notably, never leads to corruption and warlords.

"We built a super intelligent slave. Neat!"

This is a nice argument for higher inheritance tax to pay for UBI, in my book.

> mastodon has failed to capture the audience numbers of the products it sought to compete against

I really don't think that was ever the goal.

Yes, but having to have iOS 27 means all those devs have iOS 27, which makes backwards compatibility for the dev tools something they can drop more aggressively than features for the general public.

I tend to doubt that. Apple's had a hard line on sharing that with devs for decades. They won't even let you refund a specific customer!

https://developer.apple.com/wallet/whats-new/

It looks a lot simpler than that.

> Passes now include interactive tiles called Featured Actions that give customers easy access to useful information through universal links to additional web pages.

The… QR code monopoly?

Devs are expected to test on the latest OS, and this is a dev tool?