Diaries
Grok and the platform formerly known as Twitter
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 04/11/2024 - 11:54amFresh of the "success" of the Tesla Cybertruck Elon Musk decided that now was a great time to introduce AI into X. The product was Grok. It didn't go well.
Bernie Sanders Goes on Pod Save America
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Thu, 04/11/2024 - 11:10amOpen Thread - Thurs 11 Apr 2024 - Domesticated Foxes!
Submitted by Sima on Thu, 04/11/2024 - 5:00amDomesticated Foxes!
A couple days ago an article appeared on the BBC website about archaeological finds from South America which showed an extinct species of fox buried with human remains. Cool! But the article was very misleading, in that it seems to imply that foxes were domesticated before dogs. Here's the lead: 'Our ancestors may have kept foxes as pets long before domestic dogs came on the scene.'
Another article in the Daily Mail implies the same thing, that early man's 'best friend was the fox'. The problem is neither article states, at least in the headline, where 'early' man, or 'our ancestors' were from and how old 'early' is. The burial is from 1500 years ago. Dogs were domesticated tens of thousands, if not more, years before that. Of course, in that region of South America (Patagonia), foxes seem to have been domesticated before the arrival (to that area) of domesticated dogs, but, neither article says that.
An image of the extinct fox, from the New York Times.
BLM protests and infiltration
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 04/10/2024 - 4:21pmAccording to a recent poll, a quarter of Americans believe that the FBI instigated the January 6 riot, despite a lack of evidence. Were there FBI agents in the crowd? I'd be surprised if there wasn't.
The Evening Blues - 4-10-24
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 04/10/2024 - 3:09pmOT WED 10 APR 24 ~ social unrest
Submitted by QMS on Wed, 04/10/2024 - 5:00amWhen in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for an Oppressed People to Rise,
and assert their Natural Rights, as Human Beings
The Evening Blues - 4-9-24
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 04/09/2024 - 3:51pmWar on homeless continues
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 04/09/2024 - 12:20pmA new study has been released that measures the homelessness problem in stark numbers.
Three-quarters of a century
Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:21amThat's how old I am today.
Sixty-five years ago I didn't think I was gonna make it here.
I was already making calculations of my age at the distant twenty-first century mark if I made that milestone.
That seemed like a long way to go back then.