Yeah, I definitely read that as an effort to preempt the folks who were going to yell about how clearly this means the Flipper Zero should be illegal. Hacking has been so poorly represented in TV and films that there are a distressing number of people who don’t realize the term can even have a positive connotation.

Also the mathematicians wouldn’t decline to give an answer.

Are you sure? I only minored in math, but even I would struggle to provide an answer to this. It would have to be something incredibly vague, like “a number is a mathematical object that has certain consistent properties relevant to the field of study.” Because otherwise you get situations like “is infinity a number?” and you can’t answer categorically, because usually it’s not, but then you look at the transfinite numbers where you can indeed have omega-plus-one as a number. And someone asks if you can have an infinite number of digits to the left of the decimal place, and you say “well, not in the reals, but there are the P-adic numbers…” and folks ask if you can have an infinitely small number and you say “well, in the reals you can only have an arbitrarily small number, but in game theory there are the surreal numbers, where…”

So yeah, I’m not sure “what is a number” is even a math question. It’s more a philosophy question, or sometimes a cognitive science question (like Lakoff and Nuñez’s “Where Mathematics Comes From”).

Obligatory XKCD: https://m.xkcd.com/1428/

I’m not getting the same error anymore, but the site still seems fucked up. At one point it loaded the desktop version of the old reddit format for no apparent reason on Firefox mobile.

The speculation I saw was that it’s just Firefox in general. Folks were saying turning off ad blocking didn’t help.

https://genius.com/John-mulaney-the-comeback-kid-annotated

I guess it’s not technically a new movie, but I just bought the 4k blu ray rerelease of Dark City that came out this year. So there are still some new releases in the format.

For those like me who had to look it up, Bazzite.

Bulgur wheat makes a really good textural element in vegetarian chili.

Yeah, that’s not what I was disagreeing with. You’re right about that; I’m on record saying that capitalism is our first superintelligence and it’s already misaligned. I’m just saying that it isn’t really meaningless to object to generative AI. Sure the edges of the category are blurry, but all the LLMs and diffusion-based image generators and video generators were unethically trained on massive bodies of stolen data. Seriously, talking about AI as though the architecture is the only significant element when getting good training data is like 90% of the challenge is kind of a pet peeve of mine. And seen in that light there’s a pretty significant distinction between the AI people are objecting to and the AI people aren’t objecting to, and I don’t think it’s a matter of “a meaningless buzzword.”

I mean, not really? Maybe they’re both deep learning neural architectures, but one has been trained on an entire internetful of stolen creative content and the other has been trained on ethically sourced medical data. That’s a pretty significant difference.

I got the number from this page: https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2024:_Analysis_of_voter_turnout_in_the_2024_general_election

which lists it as “eligible voters,” which is in turn based on data from here: https://election.lab.ufl.edu/2024-general-election-turnout/

which discusses the methodology:

The denominator for these VEP turnout rates is constructed by estimating the voting-age population or VAP (everyone age 18 and older residing in the United States). Ineligible populations are subtracted from the VAP consisting of non-citizens and felons (depending on state disenfranchisement laws). Eligible overseas voters are added to the national VEP estimates only as no reliable method exists to apportion these eligible voters to states.

So no, it’s not just registered voters. It’s their best estimate of how many people are old enough and not disqualified.

There’s also “Book” by Robert Grudin. At one point

Remember most eligible voters don’t vote.

Voter turnout in the 2024 election was 63.7%. That’s still a lot of folks who didn’t vote, but it’s not “most.”

That was the joke. The link I was replying to was talking about how Trump always says everything will be happening “in two weeks.”

He keeps hearing that fortnights are all the rage with the kids these days.

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It was the Long Island Ice Tea Corp., which changed its name to Long Blockchain Corp.

https://www.ft.com/content/2ef64f85-18b4-3538-b67e-7fe8ccc4e5e5

Edit: Or the SkyPeople Fruit Juice company. https://www.inquisitr.com/two-months-later-whats-happening-in-companies-with-blockchain-name-changes