And where would that be?

Look up the history of the Sahara

I agree. Given the problems in the Panama Canal, an ice-free Arctic Ocean would be a HUGE boon to shipping across the top of the world.

Added a "User Space" slashbox to my side bar with the code for My Messages

Write In Journal

Given the banking industry's history of racial bias, I sure hope somebody's looking out for the 3/4ths folks. Depending on what they're ingesting for source material into the large language model, redlining could come back by accident fairly easily.

Rowling's been consistently harassed and attacked online with the intent to silence the author. Fans have coordinated to boycott her works. Bookstores have pulled her books over her views. Some folks have burned her books. Any mention of her has been removed from museum galleries dedicated to the Harry Potter series. There was a recent campaign to boycott the new Harry Potter game. Players of Quidditch changed it's name to to dissociate it away from her. In short, a whole group of people attempted to silence Rowling, erase her existence from society, and remove her written work. That's censorship.

Ok, now I know you're full of it. Both Dawkins and Maher are left-of center and always have been. Neither have moved from the positions they've defended for decades. Dawkins is promoting basic biology just like he has over his entire career. Males have a penis. Women have a vagina. Sex is immutable and can't change. No one can self-ID into the opposite sex. Cutting off a man's penis doesn't turn him into a woman. The only difference now is that today there's a significant amount of anti-science, anti-fact nonsense currently being promoted by gender ideologues and social justice warriors, who claim to be part of the left while promoting sexism, racism, and homophobia. (Wearing pink clothes or a dress doesn't turn a boy a girl. Likewise, girls who wear baseball hats and play sports doesn't make them boys. Those are sexist stereotypes. Blacks being bigoted against whites is called racism. Yes, it's possible for blacks to be racist against whites. Trans women who denigrate lesbians for not wanting to have sex with someone who has a penis are homophobic.)

As for content moderation, it's clear that departments are run by woke ideologues who equate any and all criticism of ideas as hate and violence. They take the authoritarian stance of silencing all opposition by banning critics. Many of the social media sites have become echo chambers in which only woke social justice opinions are deemed appropriate despite their promotion of racism, sexism, and homophobia.

Sorry, the folks getting censored are more than right-wingers. Liberal feminists such as JK Rowling are regularly getting censored for pointing out the fact that men have a penis, women have a vagina, and men should be kept separate from women in places like rape crisis centers, prisons, sports, toilets, changing rooms, etc. Other liberal-leaning folks who agree with her such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Ricky Gervais, Bill Maher, Dave Chappelle, Macy Gray, Bette Midler, and Alice Cooper have also faced cancellation attempts, including on big tech platforms. The authoritarian, regressive, woke, social justice warriors constantly attack the progressive left while also falsely claiming to represent the progressive left. This group controls the moderation departments of big tech companies and purposefully target anyone who questions their ideology, from both the right and the left.

Years ago, tech companies didn't want speech on their websites regulated because the text they display comes from users. Companies didn't want government intervention for speech they didn't create. In fact, the companies wanted laws passed to protect them from the consequences of user's free speech. Why blame the companies for what the users wrote?

Now, companies are claiming a first amendment right to show what they want on their own websites. They claim it'd be government infringement on their rights if we impose any requirements guaranteeing free speech for users. Companies now claim the right to display what they want on their own websites!

As usual, it looks like companies want it both ways, whichever benefits them the most.

(And, is it just me or is it weird as hell that it's the Republicans fighting for free speech today? Free speech used to be a progressive, liberal Democratic topic. It's certainly not just the Republicans that are getting silenced by the tech companies.)

They see themselves as the agent of God's wrath. Which is a good thing, because the one thing you can count on theocracies to do is tell you the rules ahead of time (unlike atheist regimes, that change the rules from day to day and then put you in a work gulag for not knowing the rules).

China's good at copying goods, processes, and technology that the US and the rest of the world originally invented. This has been true across multiple industries over the last 25 years as US and the rest of the world moved manufacturing to China. That move was only because China had lots and lots of cheap labor. It wasn't because China were smarter or somehow better at making things than anyone else.

I think weight, in this case, refers to number of stored and fully vectorized tokens.

The Nubians, who were pushed upstream. But not before the new Egyptians learned how to build pyramids from them.

You might have missed my previous post, I agree and want to add that to me it is even a bit more than that.

There is a complex interaction when you see a milk jug full of water hit by a bullet, or see the flow of plasma on the sun twisted by gravity and magnetic fields, or the plasma of the big bang as the expansion of the universe pulls it apart.

But they can be summed up as a expanding force vs a force of cohesion in all of them. Gravity is a force of cohesion on a cosmic scale, but so is magnetism. And at the great inflation, the lingering cosmic filaments of stars and galaxies look very similar to the water spreading from a hit from bullet where the cohesion is from more molecular forces.

If there was a "then a miracle occurs" part of cosmology that still existed, it would be the dark energy that continues to accelerate the expansion of the universe.

But it has one other side effect that isn't spoken of much -- creating clean entropy. How did we go from a homogeneous plasma at the big bang to such different hot/cold regions in the universe? Expansion, which has a similar effect on condensing gasses into liquids and even freezing them into solids. Only in this case some of that condensation ignites and creates the starts, pinpoints of very clean entropy to power whole solar systems. Expansion is what winds the clock of entropy, creating the differentials that then re-mix and make work happen.

So I completely agree, and if you ask me the story of creating entropy differentials for the universe to do work is the "then a miracle occurs" part of the story that still remains.

God is Gravity! And what better preschool example of gravity do we have, than how liquid flows downhill!