From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.
Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal…
They’re pretty good. Especially when there are intersections between tech and politics that boil down to “replace e-mail with postal letter and see how batshit insane your policy is”
Do billionaires actually save money with such moves? After purchasing a new mansion, new staff/relocations, still having to travel to “librul” cities for their fine arts/entertainment, seems it just about cancels out.
Terrorists Are Paying for Check Marks on XTwitter (www.nytimes.com)
US House to vote again on impeaching Biden’s homeland security secretary (www.theguardian.com)
OpenAI Gives ChatGPT a Better ‘Memory’ (www.nytimes.com)
Cryptocurrency maker sues former Ars reporter for writing about fraud lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
PornHub Sister Company Wins $2.1m Piracy Damages, But No Blocking Order (torrentfreak.com)
Russell Simmons sued over alleged rape of Def Jam executive in the 1990s (www.theguardian.com)
A landslide in Turkey has trapped 9 gold mine workers (www.npr.org)
Usher Marries Jennifer Goicoechea After the Super Bowl (www.nytimes.com)
After Seeing Controversial Contract-for-Deed Home Sales Affect Constituents, Minnesota Lawmakers Propose Reforms (www.propublica.org)
How Congress Could Bypass Republican Opposition to Funding Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)
Performance by Maestro With Russian Ties Is Canceled in Vienna (www.nytimes.com)
Russia places Estonia’s prime minister on wanted list (edition.cnn.com)
Biden Denounces Trump’s Support for Russian Attack on Allies as ‘Un-American’ (www.nytimes.com)
Police Announce an Arrest in the Theft of a Jackie Robinson Statue (www.nytimes.com)
Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs (arstechnica.com)
Judge tosses Big Pharma suit claiming drug price negotiation is unconstitutional (arstechnica.com)
Apple’s iMessage is not a “core platform” in EU, so it can stay walled off (arstechnica.com)
We love you trans people, however... (lifeteen.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.today/post/6487712...
My boyfriend asked me to more Muslim for him, so I read the Quran. And then I left him and denounced Islam.
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Media Matters Very Strong Response To Elon Musk Very Dumb Lawsuit (www.techdirt.com)
I know you're dead, but we're really understaffed today. (startrek.website)
Jeff Bezos will save over $600 million in taxes by moving to Miami (www.cnbc.com)