subspaceinterferents @ subspaceinterferents @lemmy.world

The shell cracked. I emerged. How it will end is anyone's guess.

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Thank Me very much.

I can only imagine that at some point in the future humans will be on deck for such modifications. Brave New World, eh?

An a.i. clarification of the article's summary: Researchers proved that stem cells from mammals can turn into any cell type like cells from an early embryo. These are called naive stem cells. They've shown naive stem cells work great in rodents, but not as well in primates since the donor cells don't match the host embryo. So they tried different conditions to produce naive stem cells from monkeys and got better at growing chimeric embryos. A chimeric monkey is one that has cells from two different embryos combined together. They created an aborted fetus and live chimeric monkey with high donor cell numbers. Testing showed the donor cells integrated into many tissues (including sex organs and placenta) of the chimeric monkeys, up to 90%. This is a big deal for researching naive stem cells and genetically modifying primates.

If a bear shits in the woods, is the Pope Catholic? (Equally perplexing question...)

I admire a man who speaks the truth, plainly.

So, I'm sitting here in the "library," where I do most of my best reading, holding my mobile device in my left hand and scrolling with my right thumb. I'm trying to imagine how this would work with a widescreen foldable device, kind of like a tablet, TBH. I just can't see it. Holding a standard normal phone is super easy, a firm grip on both sides. A foldable would require some extra gymnastics... I don't get this "really got to have it" feeling.

Vee heil, heil, right in der Führer's face.

I would pay cash money to scratch that belly.

I think the next hundred years will bring more changes to humanity than the last 10,000 years have. We have devised methods to gaslight ourselves; we're moving into a world where the concept of truth is malleable and unknowable. The machines will get smarter, the rich will get richer. I'll be 66 years old in about a month. I have many more yesterdays than tomorrows. I'm not looking forward to leaving this world, but I'm not particularly interested in being a participant in what comes next.

Sure, the guy was a murderer and somewhat nuts, but this quote of his always rang true with me. This is, in a nutshell, the future: "But I am suggesting neither that the human race would voluntarily turn power over to the machines nor that the machines would willfully seize power. What I do suggest is that the human race might easily permit itself to drift into a position of such dependence on the machines that it would have no practical choice but to accept all of the machines' decisions. Eventually a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in effective control. People won't be able to just turn the machines off, because they will be so dependent on them that turning them off would amount to suicide."

You both have a look of relaxed satisfaction. You in a human way and Sheldon in a kitty way.

Genuflection in progress...

Fullblown christian nationalist whackjob. Listening to him speak in Congress, seems he has confused the speaker's chair with a pastor's pulpit. Whackjobs gotta whack.

Welp, there's your two choices ...

Can't get them to run on Windows.

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Well that's fine, but I want to know what they were drinking.

Now you come to me and you've got green streaks in your hair

You walk like Greta Garbo, but you talk like Yogi Bear

What's going on? What's going on?

I really don't believe what's going on; what's going on?

— Al Stewart

Simply a sweetheart!

Yep. That's why I also pay for it. It's a reasonable price for a valued service. Moaners gotta moan.