For Jimmy Sharman’s boxers it’s no better if you win

It sounds like a rehash of Plato’s Euthyphro dilemma… which Smith must surely have been familiar with, yet never references?

The Emperor’s New Stigmata.

I propose detecting atmospheric anomalies induced by their infinite improbability drives.

I considered that, but couldn’t think of any actual examples.

Is it the same thing, though?

Technically, any independent blogger or YouTuber is a “content creator”. But (at least in my impression of normal usage), an influencer is specifically a content creator trying to leverage their “influence” over the purchasing decisions of their followers.

The word “influencer” doesn’t appear in any quotes from party sources or the linked convention material—it’s just editorializing on the part of the Washington Post.

Is WaPo just inserting the term to discredit non-corporate media?

While the labels give retailers the ability to increase prices suddenly, Gallino doubts companies like Walmart will take advantage of the technology in that way. “To be honest, I don’t think that’s the underlying main driver of this,” Gallino said. “These are companies that tend to have a long-term relationship with their customers and I think the risk of frustrating them could be too risky, so I would be surprised if they try to do that.”

How to tell if an academic doesn’t get out enough.

See the talk page on his Wikipedia article—they’re currently comparing sources (including the New Statesman article you linked to), but don’t yet consider it conclusive.

Yes, but in the meantime you no longer have a vehicle to get from the car dealer to the bike shop.

When

• the expected return becomes negative, or
• the risk/return ratio moves away from the efficient frontier with no other motivating factor.

Other than the fediverse support, are there any other differences from last year?

It doesn’t make sense that we couldn’t see it and the particles that could explain it seemed like they were invented just to justify dark matter

It always seemed like a natural assumption to me: the particles we know about were discovered because they interact with each other via at least one other force in addition to gravity. But there’s no other force common to all particles, so why not expect particles that only interact via gravity? They’d naturally be hard to detect, since gravity is so much weaker than the other forces.

Assuming that the only particles that exist are the ones that happen to be easy for us to detect feels like observer bias.

Everyone tried to warn Elon not to use Fury Road as training data.

I think that in practice, whoever writes the prompts would be able to adjust the wording to get the bot to output whatever they want.

Every screw colony has a queen screw.

Turns out it was just Chris Hadfield playing Space Oddity on the ground station channel again.

Every time it caused a coup that we know about.

True, but even the info from the family member was just confirming that his condition hadn’t improved since the “medical event” he suffered a full year ago.

It doesn’t sound like there’s necessarily been any recent change in his condition—their ultimate source is a month-old Reddit post from his former assistant, who was relaying information she’d heard from his family a month prior to that.

Edit: This AP story has more info: he hasn’t been able to speak since a stroke last year, but he was able to travel to Brazil with his wife via hospital jet and is still following the news from Gaza.