The rest of its brood had already dissolved.

One dead baby duck was caught floating in the pool over the weekend, though the cause of death was unclear.

Did they charge it with vandalism too?

Depends on your position on philosophical realism.

It should be considered a universal law of corporate behavior: any information that has theoretical value will eventually be sold.

Even if current management has no intention of exploiting it, they’ll be replaced by the board, or the division and its data will be spun off and sold for its IP—that’s how corporations work by nature. (As Stafford Beer would say, the purpose of a system is what it does.)

The sun can only end life on earth if life survives humanity in the meantime.

Trump just told his chief of staff to write down the nuclear launch codes somewhere where he wouldn’t keep losing them.

Mark Zuckerberg, probably.

There’s no objective measure for quantifying similarity. We can measure relative similarity, though—but that scale will vary depending on what it’s relative to.

We could measure genetic similarity relative to a typical unrelated person, or relative to the nearest non-human animal, or relative to the most distantly-related living organism, or relative to random noise. (And you can do the same for facial similarity.)

My first thought is survivorship bias: in states with harsh winters, the unwell move away or die.

Why not ask them to buy two tickets while they’re at it?

At this point I wouldn’t trust Boeing to make a safe can opener.

He has a fuselage in his hangarage.

Are you talking about a philosophical zombie?

Technically these aren’t logos, they’re wordmarks (AKA “logotypes”).

So the Butlerian Jihad begins.

Her Wikipedia page says she was a Republican until 2022 (the year she left the pro-PRC news site and joined the city council), but then switched parties.

Wang and Sun operated the news website U.S. News Center, aimed at the Chinese American community, and were instructed by Chinese government officials to post pro-PRC content on it.

So was she acting as a Chinese agent in her role as mayor, or just as the operator of a website posting PRC propaganda?

If I had to coin a term, I’d call it “aesthetic ergodicity”.

As in, a culture that keeps revisiting every combination of aesthetic parameters over and over with no long-term trend.

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Even if it worked perfectly… isn’t clerking the way future attorneys and judges are supposed to get experience?