
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just...
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
After Trump got elected again, I wouldn’t be surprised if Musk will some day become US president somehow, even though he wasn’t born in the US. There are ample indications that many Americans want their country to be a plutocracy rather than a democracy.
your word for today is Coulrocracy: government by clowns.
I think complex numbers may be a better metaphor than real numbers. A flaw x a flaw is still a flaw but off in some orthogonal direction of weirdness.
O dear, our beloved director has died. Now what?
I think complex numbers may be a better metaphor than real numbers. A flaw x a flaw is still a flaw but off in some orthogonal direction of weirdness.
Sorry I don’t understand what you mean. If you multiply i long enough it will eventually become positive?
Perhaps you could think of it like this: a go player plays a unwarranted tenuki to “kill” an opponent group that was actually already dead, but the “killing move” is a self-atari of 11 stones, and the opponent can capture them in sente. That’s flaws upon flaws all the way down, not flaws cancelling each other.
Or when a bank robber botches a robbery, the end result may be worse for everyone involved than if they had been able to execute the robbery as planned.
I think these are like flaws and bigger flaws, not flaw in a flaw
Sorry I don’t understand what you mean. If you multiply i long enough it will eventually become positive?
I’m thinking of a+ib, more generally, rather than just i
If we’re going to translate “flaws within flaws” to math, I think we ought to think of something like the Koch curve.
A straight line being “flawless”, a straight line with a divot having a flaw, and divots on divots being the flaws within flaws. It’s quite beautiful really, much like our dear leader.
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
All nice and dandy, but I do not get this:
Now they are in my face daily
I heard that Zuckerberg went to Rogan and I know that the “supposed-workaholic” Elon is tweeting 24/7 like his life depends on it, but it is not mandatory to watch that stuff. I am not going to waste my time to watch Rogan’s podcast nor read the endless BS that Elon usually tweets/re-tweets.
This article is written as if we are somehow strapped in a chair, eyes forcibly open, and have to read and watch all that every day.
And talking about cringe:
It’s time for us to start getting revenge on the nerds.
Very cringe-worthy and off the mark. Wow.
If we’re going to translate “flaws within flaws” to math, I think we ought to think of something like the Koch curve.
Okay this is nice. I never expected that having so many flaws within flaws would make things beautiful
RedNote's Chinese users say it is the first time they have been able to speak directly to Americans online.
I wonder why RedNote is open to US but the China version of TikTok (Douyin) is not
Honestly this feels right out of a Cold War honey trap playbook.
The BBC article overlooks to mention that the Chinese name for this app (“Little Red Book”) is “coincidentally” the nickname for this:
Quotations from Chairman Mao (simplified Chinese: 毛主席语录; traditional Chinese: 毛主席語錄; pinyin: Máo Zhǔxí Yǔlù) is a compilation book of quotations from speeches and writings by Mao Zedong (formerly romanized as Mao Tse-tung), the former chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, published from 1964 to 1979 and widely distributed during the Cultural Revolution. The most popular versions were printed in small pocket sizes that could be easily carried and were bound in bright red plastic covers, thus...
Because the U.S. wants the money from forcing ByteDance to sell. Security is probably pretextual.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5089746-tiktok-ban-delay-schumer
"It’s clear that more time is needed to find an American buyer and not disrupt the lives and livelihoods of millions of Americans, of so many influencers who have built up a good network of followers.”
—Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
At least some politicians think of the influencers
Does that mean the Supreme Court is a joke?