See Pygmalion.

People often say that parents are no longer the allies of the school when it comes to discipline or punishment or breaking the rules and that the parents always think their children are special or exempt from these things. I always think that might be a generalization but here is one data point anyway.

Atari already has 80% of the console market. This merger should not be allowed due to anti-trust laws.

Glad it's still 1982.

Some folks think that we know everything about the laws of physics, and what might exist out in the universe. This is an example of an extremely cool phenomenon that I don't think anyone would have expected, or really even dreamed of before we saw it ourselves. We don't know the smallest percentage about what is out there. We need to keep looking, seeking, exploring.

it's time to revisit the whole idea of 'intellectual property'. The US Constitution created copyright to 'promote the useful arts and sciences' but AI does not have a profit motivation for creation. This may be one of those 'resource abundance' situations that philosophers have discussed.

Seems like my newsfeed has had tons of articles about how ChatGPT is going to take my job, everyone else's job, etc. It is a very impressive product, don't get me wrong. But the hype is insane. Remember when companies could inflate their value by just adding 'BlockChain' to the company name?

So basically, they started with a regular game that cost money, but no ads.
Then they created a free game, with ads and other revenue.
So the "negative impact" is a loss of revenue for Rovio.
I would say this is NOT a negative impact for the customer.

Movies that have a divisive message would tend to lower audience scores, not critic scores. (See: The Last Jedi, for example). This article says that audience scores are much higher than critics scores, so I don't think this is the issue in general.

Been a while, but I basically remember quarks being the basic building blocks of protons and neutrons. 6 types of quarks:
top, bottom, strange, charm, up, down. (Not sure why up and down AND top and bottom). But the above just describes some new particles made up of these things. I guess there are antiquarks too. If I recall correctly, protons and neutrons contain 3 quarks generally.

This is just saying there are some particles that contain 4 or 5 quarks. I don't think it's too hard to parse the sentence above, given this.

Davis Marcus must be leaving because he used proto-matter in the Diem project. Something no reputable scientist would have done.

I'm not so sure about that. There have been Star Wars parodies for years, including the video Troops (cops parody) https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... This was actually hosted at starwars.com. I don't know that Lucas sued everyone for everything. Although I think they did try to take down the Phantom Edit, a 'better' version of Phantom Menace, though that was kind of the whole film. So I don't know.

I would kind of expect Disney to be more aggressive about stuff like this, but I am glad that they are trying to hire the person.

I remember reading at one point the national archives have to keep anything that has been sent out from his @realDonaldTrump account. (As opposed to the official POTUS trump account.). If he gets banned or his account deleted, will this be available for the archives to use?

Wouldn't this need to be an actual law? I understand some executive orders, such as how government departments can be run (at least at the federal level) and POTENTIALLY emergency measures such as pandemic prevention but the executive is supposed to enforce the law, not create it. Is this legal? It would be a simple matter to bring before the legislature.

The only truly safe & private computer is one that is not attached to any network & isolated to one or two people who are routinely tested for violations of policies.

I like the switch, but never use the JoyCon controllers. The buttons are about half the size that they were on the Wii U. I understand wanting portability, but some of us bigger folks might like it too. I'd pay for bigger buttons on the joy cons.