My Sharia

Remember that when you hear women talking about what other women should do to “protect” them or “for their own good,” 99.99% of the time this is about intrasexual competition and preventing other women from threatening their status and/or position. Yes, it’s unconscious. But that makes it worse.

No, not all women. But the most fanatical and neurotic are the ones who usually succeed. It’d be women that would be the strongest proponents of sharia law, by the way. They’d see it as knocking out their competition. And in some important ways, they’d be correct.

What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all.

DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16.

My P-Hacking Felt Like Truth.

Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries.

Technology is a slippery slope to the bottom.

Em dashes are fucking amazing. I love them dearly as well. Have been using them since I was 8. Won’t stop because of AI.

The tech-broification of American science has officially begun.

"Humanity" is a Prison.

U.S. Coast Guard Seeking Technology To Hunt And Kill Uncrewed Underwater Vehicles.

Eurozone Businesses See Wages Cooling Despite Inflation Pickup, Says ECB.

Gen Z Fell Out of Love With Work. I Donโ€™t Blame Them.

Oracle laid off ~13% of its staff to fund a $300B computing deal with OpenAI. Now, a credit downgrade and $7B in required power grid guarantees put the massive project in jeopardy.

Sex Contribution

Damn these people are clowns. Prudes are inherently evil. And also extremely stupid.

First 50 I can think of off the top of my head were the actual sex scene or scenes are essential and I believe the movie is at least passably good:

A History of Violence
Boogie Nights
The Shape of Water
Mullholland Drive
Gone Girl
Blue Velvet
Oldboy
The Piano Teacher
Lost Highway
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
The Dreamers
True Lies
Basic Instinct
Species
It Follows
Eyes Wide Shut
Splice
American Beauty
Your Friends and Neighbors
The Terminator
Gerald’s Game
Bound
In the Realm of the Senses
Lust, Caution
Y tu mama tambiรฉn
Poor Things
The Handmaiden
Zac and Miri Make a Porno
The Room
Crash
Laurel Canyon
9 1/2 Weeks
Revenge
The English Patient
Antichrist
The Town
Red Sparrow
Blue is the Warmest Color
Blood Simple
Carol
Closer
Unfaithful
Singles
Party Girl
Luckiest Girl Alive
The Accused
Thank You For Smoking
The Departed
Atonement
The Wolf of Wall Street

Not that it matters; life has sex and so should movies even if not essential to the plot. Pretending otherwise is daft and childish.

Wiring Capital to Compute.

Intellectual Dark Matter.

Health insurance traps a quarter of U.S. workers in unwanted jobs.

Orcas team up to ram sunfish until they explode.

ISPsโ€™ long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over.

Ukrainian F-16 Scored First Air-To-Air Kill Against A Russian Fighter: Top U.S. General.

Russiaโ€™s Crown-Jewel Su-57 May Have Crashed Outside Moscow.

Google Hit With $1 Billion Fine for Abusing Its Power in Europe.

Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending.

Locating

Probably nearly no one is going to go listen to and evaluate music at the absurd and nearly-obsessive1 pace that I do.

But check it: Even if you only find one new enjoyable song a day on average, at the end of that year you’ll have (obviously) 365 new songs you like. Worth it, I think, if you’re into music at all.

Over the past year I’ve discovered 4,236 new-to-me songs I like. That’s 11.6 a day. Pretty good pace2. There’s nothing stopping you from having music you love other than you. I spend hours a day doing it; you could spend a puny 15 minutes rather than blathering on about “there’s no good music anymore.”

There is. You just have to actually do something to locate it.

  1. Narrator: It is definitely an obsession. A raging porn addiction would be much healthier. We’re pondering a medical intervention.
  2. Narrator: In fact, that is an insane pace and large men in lab coats are being marshaled now.

Disjointed

“Liberals” becoming the stuffy prudes and conservatives becoming the relative libertines…wow, did NOT see that coming.

“The time is out of joint: O cursรจd spite1.”

  1. Hamlet

LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps.

Long Presumed Dead, a Thriving Coral Reef Is Discovered in West Africa.

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop.

Itโ€™s a shame whatโ€™s happened to radio.

'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark Anne Frank copyright ruling.

If We Could Travel to the Stars, Where Should We Go First?

Trump officials kill proposed rules for Pfas-contaminated sewage fertilizer.

Fury Loyal Wingman Arrives At Creech AFB For Agile Combat Deployment Trials.

USS Zumwalt Set To Return To Fleet After Long Anticipated Hypersonic Missile Upgrade.

The benefits of GLP-1s for women no one is talking about. Whether we like it or not, appearance โ€” and weight โ€” affects womenโ€™s job and relationship prospects. True for men too, and one of the primary benefits of GLP-1s IMO.

A Fighter Jet That Takes Off Without a Runway Is One Step Closer to Vertical Takeoff.

When The Machines Deserve Our Consideration.