Indeed! When I saw that title I sighed and thought "alright, time to post the link to the Dartmouth workshop where the term AI was coined in 1956 and get downvoted a bunch for it." But someone else took my bullet? How dare!

And worse, the thread in general seems to be filled with mostly rational comments about nomenclature and stuff!

I don't know how to respond to this.

Well there's a headline that's going to have a lot of sane comments under it.

It's possible that it's a bluff at getting ready for another round of mobilizations. If Putin thinks that Ukraine is at a breaking point and is relying on Russia also being at a breaking point then doing things that make it seem like Russia's ready to draw this out a lot longer might force them to the table.

I don't think Ukraine actually is at a breaking point, but Putin might think so - I seriously doubt he's getting good intel from his underlings.

It's so dumb that these things are done "in rebuke" to things.

Israel should recognize the Armenian genocide because it fucking happened. As should every other country, for whatever it's worth that a country officially "recognizes" facts like these.

Thought this was headed for Warhammer40k at first.

I'm not even clear on how the bamboo is supposed to damage the data center.

Ah, in the name of environmentalism, go forth and plant invasive species?

What do people think this is actually going to do to data centers? Oh no, there's plants growing near them... like there weren't already?

Conversion from epub to txt is a highly lossy process, there's a lot of formatting that gets thrown away.

Regardless of how individual ebook readers may display epubs a little differently, epub is an open format so I would recommend keeping it in that form at least for archival purposes.

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From the perspective of someone who's leading a country that's around number 3 or so on Trump's "invade and annex" list, having America lose a war against Iran in an expensive and humiliating manner is very much worth it.

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Meanwhile, Europe is pursuing replacements for Ukraine. Obviously none as good as Starlink and there'll be a rough time in the switchover, but Musk is not the only source for this kind of service.

And in the meantime, by merely making this statement Musk has doomed Starlink to never be seriously considered again as a provider for critical services like this elsewhere in the world.