o7___o7

Tangentially on topic:

Just finished The Regicide Report by friend of the instance Charles Stross. Hell of a finish to the main series! I'll ikely start a re-read of the whole series soon, and I'm hopeful that it'll win all the awards.

Had a couple of shower thoughts afterward:

1. In the previous novel, a bunch of American computer bois with brainworms concocted a plan to disassemble the moon and turn it into orbital datacenters, which is lol

2. Ghislaine Maxwell is the Iris Carpenter of pedos.

3. Keeping speculative fiction ahead of current events must be exhausting.

Tradesmen sharing tales of the worst bathroom they've ever encountered (positive). A++

Also, you dont look your age

The vibes were wretched. Why do people to have to battle emotional abuse from a goddamned web browser?

but hey, at least this way we now just know and don’t have to guess. so much easier

+1, yeesh. Btw, if Dingus McGee there resides in the UK, might some of that shit might be legally actionable? I'd certainly have strong feelings about being defamed by the representative of a rather well-funded technology company lol

YCombinator will let founders accept payments in butts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46875033

Thanks for lighting his ass on fire. o7

Very much "sweaty guy hovering over two buttons"

R3call

Buisness plan: daily reminders to Recall the Recall Recall. It's memento mori for CEOs as a service.

An orange kitty can have ketamine or an iphone, but never both.

When Woke 2 comes, we'll nationalize SpaceX.

Re datacenters in space:

Multiple hackernews insist that SpaceX must have discovered new physics that solves orbital heat management, because otherwise Musk and the stockholders are dumb.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46862222

Edit: may have gotten the ol URL switcharoo:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46862170

Current top comment is nice (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46862435):

it is possible to put 500 to 1000 TW/year of AI satellites into deep space, meaningfully ascend the Kardashev scale and harness a non-trivial percentage of the Sun’s power

We currently make around 1 TW of photovoltaic cells per year, globally. The proposal here is to launch that much to space every 9 hours, complete with attached computers, continuously, from the moon.

edit: Also, this would capture a very trivial percentage of the Sun's power. A few trillionths per year.

Tired: it's required to taste

Wired: it's an acquired taste

It keeps coming back to Gas Town doesnt it?