The top 1% in the US is about 3.4 million people, but only about a thousand of them are billionaires. I don’t think you can generalize from the rest of the group.

My opinion of AI/LLMs aside, I think that even the joking use of a made-up slur against non-humans still legitimizes the general use of slurs (and many who use real slurs believe their targets are subhuman).

Astronomers had pretty much all agreed on the name “Uranus” by 1850, and the first spectrographic studies began in 1861—so yeah.

Having lived in both, I think there’s one important parallel between social media and rural culture: in both, you hear about the rest of humanity second-hand, through the filters of algorithms, news, and limited acquaintances; while in a major city you meet people from all over the world face to face.

I’m not sure threatening performers with million-dollar lawsuits is the best way to attract new performers to your venue.

Lots of actors never get into drugs, and lots of other people do anyway. We’re just more aware of the actors because they’re living under a spotlight. (They probably also get more attention because they contradict the stereotype of drug users being poor and unsuccessful.)

Also, plenty of actors do volunteering, charity, and activism too.

The actual article copy is ok—I was referring to the title (“South Carolina pastor charged with allegedly cyberstalking wife before she died by suicide”).

a hard cardboard sleeve

So is it more like a slipcase, then?

In an ICE facility for undocumented aliens.

This (mis)use of “allegedly” is a bit of a pet peeve of mine: he’s not charged with allegedly cyberstalking her, he’s charged with actually doing it. A charge is already a type of allegation, and you can’t just nest in an extra “alleged” for good measure—it’s not idempotent.

And it matters because sprinkling the word into articles without regard for its meaning gradually strips it of meaning, leaving it with nothing but a general association with crime (which negates its ostensible function).

I guess it’ll be when the majority of the working population is Gen Z or younger.

Capitalism incentivizes risk-taking, which can be productive when there are potential opportunities that are otherwise too risky to explore.

But after they’ve exploited the productive risk/reward opportunities, capitalists increasingly rely on amplifying the risks—but now the risks are at the expense of the rest of society, while the rewards accrue only to themselves.

I dunno—on the one hand, I can see where data consent that’s folded into a long user agreement might get overlooked and approved without thinking, and a second verification would be helpful; but on the other hand, the more times users are asked for consent, the more likely they are to agree reflexively to everything.

It seems like a user-configurable setting would be the best solution.

It was a ritual of social inversion (a fool was crowned king, the ruling class was mocked and identities were concealed, religious and social rules were relaxed, etc.)

There are differing views, but one theory is that it served as a reminder to both lords and commoners that the social order could be overthrown if the lords became too oppressive.

Orbán also revealed before Thursday’s EU summit that Putin had warned the Hungarian leader that Moscow would take countermeasures if the EU tapped Russian assets to help Ukraine. […] “So we Hungarians have protected ourselves,” Orbán said.

Submitting to extortion is a dubious policy; advertising your susceptibility to extortion is practically an invitation.

Carnival.

For a second I was hoping they’d bioengineered stromatolite.

“Archaeologists Uncover Evidence of First Archaeologists”

Stupid fat hobbit!

I think it’s more like a police sketch: it might help you clarify an image you have in your head and communicate it to others, but there’s generally more to art than that (just like conveying an idea through a pastiche of song lyrics isn’t poetry).