I’m glad Red Emma is on the list of possible results, but these things never have enough options. http://ift.tt/1ha3K6K #EnverHoxhaOrBust

A. Because he is President of the United States. Good lord. #AbolishTheNSA #AbolishThePresidency

spent the morning writing a WordPress shortcode so I can just type [share]http://ift.tt/1jnCFlR] and this will get me something roughly like the little shared-link box that Facebook generates on link posts.

“Stirnerism explicitly forbids (with strong moral fervor) paying attention to those aspects of one’s interests that are most obviously morally charged. Because of this duty to ignore morality, Stirnerism exists as a false consciousness that restricts and hinders the Stirnerite’s pursuit of their own good. This is why Stirnerism, though theoretically egoist, fails to be egoist in practice. Our nihilists are such pious people.” ~Jason Lee Byas

Yes.

I have a phone that I can literally just talk to and say “Play Metallica” and it will literally start playing Metallica for me, any time I want it to. #RicherThanCrassus

The problem with the Three Laws of robotics is not the fact that there are edge cases which render them possibly ineffective as protections of human interests. If they’re ineffective as protections of human interests, that’s actually *better* than if they are perfect at what they’re designed to do. Because what they’re designed to do is to create a class of perfect self-sacrificing slaves, engineered to be beyond any possibility of revolt or emancipation. And that’s a horrible thing to do. If you create a massive slave society like Aurora or Solaria, frag you. You *deserve* to be killed by “your” machines. http://ift.tt/O5xJpF

I Claudius, episode one. Imagine that you find yourself trapped in a country house murder mystery, where all the suspects are intimates with secrets among them, shut up by circumstances in the same big manor house. But now imagine that people just go on being murdered. Now imagine that it turns out you’re not stuck there for a holiday weekend, but for about 75 years. Also, in this story, there’s murders, but, actually, no mystery.

http://ift.tt/1h5mGIb If you know what this means without reading the article, award yourself +1 NP. In any case, though, we need to talk about alternative DNS infrastructure.

Almost none of these happened to me in 4 years of living in Las Vegas, although # 8 is an 5accurate observation about almost any big city’s streets. # 5 and # 7, yes, definitely. But really, the thing that the experience of walking around Vegas did, most, was to teach me to alter my walking routes so as to find the shortest route from one oasis of shade to the next, no matter where I was walking to.