In the literal sense of the time it takes neuronal spikes to travel from your retina to your visual cortex, no.

What makes it feel that way, I think, is a reduction in the amount of resources your brain is devoting to the real-time modeling of your environment that those visual signals feed into, and that has to be processed before you become conscious of any changes.

Doom Quixote.

I kind of see the relationship between computer science and programming as parallel to the relationship between linguistics and speaking foreign languages. You don’t need to learn linguistics to speak another language—so AI translation isn’t taking the linguistics out of translating because it wasn’t a necessary element to begin with.

As a 50-something, I can see the case for putting the “golden age” of the internet between the birth of Wikipedia in 2001 and Facebook in 2006.

Last finished: The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind by Dan Davies.

Currently reading: Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism by Leif Weatherby.

They’re about how two mid-20th century intellectual movements (cybernetics and structuralism, respectively) that would have provided valuable tools for managing contemporary issues (institutional collapse and artificial intelligence) were sidetracked in the 70s and 80s by other movements (neoliberalism and poststructuralism), and proposals for updating them for our present needs.

Interesting that two of the few countries that prefer the US to China are China’s fellow BRICS members Brazil and India.

Right. It’s estimated that there’s about an asteroid’s worth of dark matter passing through the solar system at any given moment, so it’s possible that that has already happened.

Idealistic people work harder than anyone—for idealistic causes.

They don’t work so hard for companies that betray their idealism.

Pretty sure that’s Donald Trump—he even discussed his plan to shoot a man on 5th Avenue.

Pope Francis: ”Today the ugliest danger is gender ideology, which cancels out differences ... Erasing differences is erasing humanity.”

St. Paul: ”There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Jesus Christ.”

The U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) provides a comprehensive set of standards which guide those who build the U.S. government’s many websites. Its documentation for developers borrows a “2% rule” from its British counterpart:
. . . we officially support any browser above 2% usage as observed by analytics.usa.gov.

Reminder to self to always use FF when visiting .gov sites.

The thought of a nuclear reactor running on Windows is terrifying.