A bare bear on a bear, bairn.

Uh… whichever one is against the rules, that’s the one I want!

Why are we in your commonwealth meme? And how can this not be cross-posted to [email protected] ?

Fun fact: modern Coca-Cola contains cocaine-free coca leaf extract. Do Coke-flavored Oreos?

Yeah, not the same thing and a couple decades earlier but Wilde’s “De Profundis” is a useful contrast.

Gondor should tell its citizens that whoever finds a solution will get a substantial tax break, and let the market do the rest.

a little league project

Do they even make baseball gloves for AI hands?

I’m not sure I remember correctly, wasn’t that artist very pro-Reddit during the API protest?

Apparently this is a monument to the Inca nobleman Cahuide

…an Inca nobleman and warrior of the 16th century (1536) in Cuzco, Peru, who participated in the battle of Sacsayhuamán, led by Manco Inca. In one of his battles when the castle he was defending fell into the hands of Conquistador, he jumped from the top of one of the three towers of Sacsayhuamán, called Muyuq Marka, so as not to surrender to his enemies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahuide

Reportedly the sculpture is by three brothers: Luis Alberto Yanqui Yucra, Raúl Oswaldo Yanqui Yucra, and Rodolfo Edwin Yanqui Yucra, and it was made fairly recently (source in Spanish).

The name of the sculpture is “Cahuide against the Spaniard”. Here’s a picture of the sculptors with the statue:

(source in Spanish.)

Quite right. Here you go.

FYI assuming this is genuine, OP is a long-time science fiction writer with a couple novels that take place during or after an AI singularity: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stross

They’re both part of the nanobility.

Looks like SOMEONE’s got a case of the Pondeloks!

Anyone who reviews for Elsevier is part of the problem.

I always thought it was about embracing how dismal and pointless life is.

It means different things to different people. Which kind of makes sense, if you think about how music and style spreads around the world and hits different people in different cultural contexts.

Some people just listen to the music and don’t get all gussied up. Some people express themselves through professional-quality costumes. Some people use the style to create an identity on social media. Some people use the music and style to explore their cultural heritage. etc.

My favorite part was:

buying a leather jacket and pre-torn pants would get you laughed out of a punk rock gathering where everything is thrifted and modified DIY

It’s like: “Hey! did someone else tear those pants? Why haven’t you modified your jacket?!? GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!!!”

Yeah… the thing about steep learning curves is: I might as well be reading quantitative/modeling & simulation approaches to history at that point. Because eventually that could turn into contributing back to the field.

Ooh, I should do that game sometime, I must have spent a couple years of my life playing Civ and Total War: Empire.