Don't misunderstand what was found. What they found was fossilized blood cells and veins. I doubt they'll even be able to detect the ribosomes, which were almost certainly there.

Yeah, is an extremely well preserved fossil, but don't overread it. It's really no more surprising than the detection of the colors of dinosaur feathers.

Not until January 20, 2027.

It could well be that he doesn't trust either party. This is quite reasonable, and neither deserves trust. (Personally I tend to be left of most Democrats...so I think of myself as independent, but if the two parties are on the ballot, I generally hold my nose and vote for the Democrat, even though they hardly represent my position.)

Those are showing up. The robots *are* coming. But not just to the US.

The US surged to dominance in the aftermath of WWII, when most of the other major countries had sustains severe damage. Since then, they have recovered, so the US no longer has that much advantage. Several of the other countries are smaller, or have other disadvantages, but the US has some disadvantages of its own. And we've essentially abdicated out position. China seems to be moving in to fill the vacancy. (Don't take this too seriously, I don't spend much time analyzing this stuff, but that's my take.)

AI *IS* going to be extremely important and shape the world over the next decade. It's an extremely important thing to get right, and getting it wrong could be deadly. But it's already clear that it's going to dominate repetitive jobs. And China is well aware of this. So, apparently, is Amazon, and a few other places. What's not clear is just how cheap it will be. (But China is pushing it hard...so probably cheaper than humans.)

The US is not at war with Russia. I think that has been decided as the definition of an enemy country under the treason definition.

Odd, I thought he was acting more as a Russian puppet, even though China was the main beneficiary.

Both the Democrats and the Republicans are fascists by the central part of Mussolini's definition. It's mainly about centralization of powerful entities under the control of the state. If you believe in a powerful state, fascism is practically a necessary part of your beliefs. And both the Democrats and the Republicans believe in that, whatever else they disagree about.

For that matter, it's not clear how society should be structured without a powerful state. I've yet to hear proposed a believable anarchist system that was both scalable above Dunbar's number, and stable. Some MinArchists have a point, but the US started out as a MinArchist system, and didn't stay that way.

Try DuckDuckGo. I rarely need to use anything else.

Well, Debian has signed updates. I assume most other distros do. I'm not clear what the benefit of this is. Who are you going to trust to do the signing? Does the entire system need to be resigned after every update? At first glance this only works if your entire system is in one "file", and you sign that file with a unique signature. But who's going to know what the proper signature is?

Signing individual packages seems much more reasonable. Then two people can compare the signatures on a particular piece of software to determine that they are the same. (But for that, why rely on signatures when things like sha256 exist...unless that what they mean by signature, in which case the prior caveats still apply.)

*You* may know that, but that doesn't make it true. It *may* be true. At this stage I expect most attempts to use AI to fail. The same thing happened when computers came out. And again when personal computers came out.

Power new tools have a learning curve. AI is definitely a powerful new tool, but it's currently changing so rapidly that we haven't really started learning how it should not be used.

Well, the first computer game I found really attractive was Orbquest, a text game on a Unix system. No graphics at all.

Obsessing over graphic is at right angles to the quality of the game.

Well, for things headed out, power supplies are the crucial problem. For things in the inner solar system, solar storms are irregular, but *will* happen. So I'm not really convinced by this test for anything but LEO (as those are temporary anyway).

That said, as long as it's intended for "special missions" it's reasonable. But AI is power hungry compared to fixed electronics, so that's going to be a continuing problem.

The problem with testing radiation hardness that way is that solar storms are quite erratic and severe ones are infrequent...but definitely not absent.

This test may work for things intended for low Earth orbit, as those are temporary anyway, but I don't think it's going to validate other uses. A better choice would be to send something to orbit Jupiter, where harsh radiation challenges are predictably present.

While true, Idi Amin, e.g., was not white.

OK. That puts them in the same basket as Flock.