It’s true—“Loan relief” is beyond “Lawless” and “Dangerous” in the alphabet.

Plus... this isn’t a remote area—you can walk across the whole range from Santa Cruz to Los Gatos in less than a day. Even if you were too panicked to think of an obvious strategy like “follow a stream” or “always walk downhill” and were essentially stumbling around blind, it seems like you’d be bound to run into a hiking trail or other landmark by chance alone within a day or two.

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

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.

Is there a word for a form of government that rules entirely by throwing people out of windows?

Maybe “defenestrarchy”?