Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

Not to assume you wanted to know what's trending over on that other place, but if you did, it's not only #SleepyDon, but also the hilarious #DonSnoreleone

@Carl_Zimmer The downside is they get green and huge and very, very angry.

@thomasfuchs

There's something telling about how we've entered this weird phase in which the next Great Leap Forward -- first cryptocurrency, now this -- absolutely requires squandering resources. As if being preposterously computationally intensive was the actual point, and now they're just trying to find ways to sell it to us.

@lukito See also, "all the more for me", and "good: I hate it when other people like what I like. Drives the price up."

Mostly just I wish people would realise that what they don't like isn't remotely as interesting as they think it is.

@AnnemarieBridy
I suspect also that people who get a warm cozy feeling from it would not be in any hurry to include, say, Puerto Rico in its meaning. Me, I associate it with the Bush/Cheney years. Gives me hives.

@w7voa
His last words were, "I found the real killer. It was.... aaaaaagh" [EKG starts going *beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....*]

@rubenbolling I've always suspected that Billy is a figment of Quentin's imagination, a way of externalizing his desire to live a life of adventure that would be unavailable to a parrot..

@brianklaas Probably the best-written disquisition on this subject I've seen.

The anthropologist Pascal Boyer talks about this quite a bit, how the one constant in human belief systems -- far outstripping even that of a creator god, or an afterlife -- is the presence of intentional agents in the environment. As you say, we are disposed to believe that everything happens because someone intended it to. And if you don't see or know of anyone who could have done it, well then, the next thing you know you're believing in gods and angels and djinns and wood-sprites and demons...

@anneapplebaum Interesting that out of that list of signatories CNN chose to headline it with Streisand and Penn, the most famously "lefty" among them. They've decide to make *that* the story. Not what is said or even who is saying it; but that those two are saying it.

@w7voa Are we sure they weren't just crisis actors pretending to be convicted?

@davidallengreen I think we need more stories like this.

"Publishing house fires employee for inserting his own fan fiction chapter into an edition of the Bible."

@ZillaMon @gerrymcgovern

They do indeed, but they also often fail to clearly distinguish between what they know to be true and what they imagine to be true. It's something most of us outgrow eventually; and if we don't we run for mayor of New York City, and win.

@bruces

Hey, we've only got one super toasty hot planet with a thick blanket of atmosphere and you want to mess it up? Plenty of chill planets and moons out there if that's your bag.

@gerrymcgovern Dumb as the chatbot is, it's not clear that it's less rational than a person, such as, say, the mayor.

We may in fact have achieved artificial intelligence: but very low intelligence, coupled to poor-to-nonexistent judgment. Effectively equivalent to a four-year old or a New York mayor.