Madagascar’s always the hardest to wipe out in that Pandemic game, if that helps :P

If you go to New Zealand, you’ll have to deal with the shithead billionaires there who will have moved there a few days ahead of you, (since they’ll get extra warning of course), who will have moved already into the fortress-bunkers they’ve been making for a decade or so there.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/billionaires-are-building-luxury-bunkers-to-escape-doomsday/

https://www.massivemagazine.org.nz/articles/9ifugmdie5ofe1utd1bgsw4zascn61

It should be a life mission of anyone in New Zealand, when the time comes, to find out where their air systems reach the surface and throw a few grenades down the ducts. For the good of humanity (whatever’s left).

exile to the orbital asteroid mining colonies.

Can we start with Sam Altman please? Hah.

I was amazed at first with ChatGPT, outpainting, and the early stuff; it was fun making ‘paintings’ and playing with other imagery, but the main uses are taking such a dark turn I really think we’re going to regret this technology’s existence.

With modern face recognition, … If you want anonymity then don’t include your face (or signature) in the video.

Duh, good point :)

Web of trust – it’s always been so hard to make easy enough to use for the non-technical public, sadly… but yeah that might be the only/best way to really give attestation.

This is scary indeed. We may someday soon need something like an active tattoo on our face, or a badge on clothing, with a pattern that changes each second based on a private/public key pair, so videos can’t be easily faked of our own likeness with a valid visual signature.

That could actually work – a QR code that updates at regular intervals, encoding an ever-changing signature. It could be validated to certify the video of a person was genuine.

Of course that would also mean any authenticated video can never be truly anonymous :(

Xerox?! In my day we only had those faded-ass mimeographs, stinky sheets of blurry purple letters :P

…and we learned phonics in Canada in the late 70s.

Streisand Effect engage!

Hercolobus Or Red Planet, by V. M. Rabolou… it’s ‘interesting’.

https://archive.org/details/en-hercolubus-or-red-planet

Are there any minor failures in your Tesla that you can claim warranty against? I wouldn’t begrudge anyone stuck with one now who bought in the past, but a sort of civil disobedience, aimed at costing the company as much as possible, would be an ethical imperative here. Claim any warranty repair you can. Be a ‘picky’ customer. Make support and sales spend extra effort and money in any way possible for your property. After all, you paid for it, make them spend as much money as possible.

Oh yes, fruit! I should have included that of course. Some peaches or berries are so good with Muesli.

It’s great stirred into plain or vanilla yoghurt for breakfast. I think that’s in fact the “traditional European” way it’s eaten?

Or at least at nearly every Bed & Breakfast in western Canada that tries to be “Victorian” :)

Thank you for posting an archive link instead of paywalled annoyance.