Not sure I’m entirely sold but it looks promising. I was actually pretty excited at the little Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon snippet

Haha parasitic is a much better word to use for laypeople

The correct term is entomopathogenic instead of carnivorous. Species might be Ophiocordyceps humbertii

Stinkhorns basically pop out of and expand out from an “egg”.

Here’s an example of Clathrus rubrus emerging

“Waymo reports that Waymo cars are the best”

Haha there’s a reason why the Xenomorph from Alien is in part inspired by parasitoid wasps.

If you study wasps, you’ll find that they very frequently have odd symbioses from species to species, most often as parasites/parasitoids or hyperparasites. Some even have symbiotic relationships with viruses that assist them in their parasitism - ichneumon and braconid wasps have symbiotic viruses called polydnaviruses.

If you wanna learn about some more wasp pollination, look up fig wasps (Agaonidae). Wasps are legitimately one of the coolest groups of animals.

Not sure if I’d call Novocaine a flop yet considering it had a relatively modest budget of $18m. It might make enough to break even or profit still. The bigger indictment is Black Bag with a budget of $50m and opening lower than Novocaine.

I think instead we’re seeing more evidence that the mid budget movie doesn’t have a place in theaters anymore and the only movies worth putting in theaters are tentpole blockbusters or lower budget movies that don’t have to make a ton to break even.

I think Novocaine is original. Mickey 17 is an adaptation of the novel Mickey7

But I can’t pirate copyrighted materials to “train” my own real intelligence.

Most likely someone at the AI company would catch it and filter those strings out of the training data.

It stems back to a PR from the SerenityOS project where someone changed a “he” to a “they” in the documentation and the PR was declined for “personal politics”

Here’s an article about it: https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/

It does leave out this response by Kling on Twitter:

Librewolf is a fork of Firefox.

From their site:

LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM.

In the future, Ladybird or a browser built on top of Servo might be alternatives, but both projects are pretty far from being usable right now.

Alternatively, let’s nationalize Starlink

In our recent election, I was led to believe the president controls the price of eggs.

Honey can technically expire. If it crystalizes, some portions of it can become more diluted, leading to a low enough osmotic pressure for bacteria and fungi to exist. If you do buy in bulk, check your local universities. One in my area does honeybee research and sells bulk honey from their bee lab at cheaper prices than any of the private beekeepers. I use it to make mead.

Lengua

Can your toaster produce fascist propaganda?

Mozilla says that “there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners” so that Firefox can be “commercially viable,” but it adds that it spells those out in its privacy notice and works to strip data of potentially identifying information or share it in aggregate.

Sounds like they’ve already been selling (or trading) data and this whole debacle is a way to retroactively cover their asses.