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[2009] Doctor admits Israeli pathologists harvested organs without consent
  • "This article is more than 14 years old." Right in the header.

  • Opinion: Bring back the 20-plus-episode TV season
  • In the past couple of years I’ve seen a few cases where 8-episode seasons contain a lot of filler, maybe because the writers felt like they couldn’t bring in more than one major plot point in so few installments.

  • Seth Meyers on ‘Battlestar Galactica’: ‘The Most Incisive Show About Post-9/11 America’
  • This is really well thought out. There was something that always bugged me about BSG that I couldn’t quite put my finger on, and you explained what it was quite nicely.

  • Seth Meyers on ‘Battlestar Galactica’: ‘The Most Incisive Show About Post-9/11 America’
  • It really pissed me off that the writers swore up and down that they had the overall storyline established and that they knew where they were headed, and then it turned out they were just winging it. Stories that depend on the answer to a big mystery to tie everything together need to be worked out ahead of time.

  • What you're missing when you leave Reddit, all of the "friendly" users
  • Reddit’s value has never been in the “average redditor” or the “popular subs”. The real value is in the niche tail of communities and the fact that they have such a massive amount of people that even if “only” 10% of their users were decent people, it still meant that they had enough decent people to talk with something to contribute.

    Yeah, I don't use Reddit any longer, but it was really great that there were active subs devoted to incredibly obscure topics. If you wanted to talk about something, chances were that thousands of other people did too.

  • Apple Computer Check Signed by Steve Jobs Sells for $46,000
  • And why is the area code of Apple’s phone number in single quotes?

  • After Radio Silence, Kbin App Artemis Shuts Down
  • Yes, the whole thing is especially frustrating because the app was quite nice. Harriette did a really good job really quickly.

  • News: Barr obliterates Trump's defense: 'He knew well that he had lost the election'
  • If so, at least it means the wind is blowing in the right direction for a change.

  • Musk threatens to sue researchers who documented the rise in hateful tweets
  • Not much good at anything, but incredible at self-promotion so people think he is

    A friend of mine once made what I thought was an absolutely brilliant observation: "Self-promotion is the only skill that is consistently rewarded."

  • The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media
  • I think governmental organizations should do the same. It's absurd that FEMA or whoever essentially has to rely of Elon's goodwill.

  • Moms for Liberty hit with tax complaint
  • Why should a political organization be tax-exempt?

  • AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models - Scientific American
  • Yes, that’s pretty much where I’m at.

  • AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models - Scientific American
  • If the quality of AI-generated content degrades to the point where it’s useless that is also fine with me.

  • AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models - Scientific American
  • So in order for data to be useful to AIs, AI-generated content will have to be flagged as such. Sounds good to me.

  • News: A confused Dianne Feinstein tried to give a speech in the middle of a Senate hearing vote and was told to 'just say aye' instead
  • Why are you sure about this? Do you think her issue is a lack of education/knowledge?

    Exactly. From what the article says, the remarks she was attempting to deliver were accurate and on point. She was momentarily disoriented as to what particular action the Senate was engaged in at that time.

  • Musk says Twitter will no longer have a light mode, making dark mode the default option
  • I was thinking pretty much the same thing. He’s got the sensibility of a teenage boy. He thinks things like the letter X and the color black are totally cool, and he thinks naming his company “Space-Sex” and one of its spacecraft “Big Fuckin’ Rocket” is the height of humor.

  • Florida loses another multi-million dollar event over 'racist' DeSantis policies
  • Because they are quoting the organization that canceled their event.

  • X is just PayPal 2.0
  • Palm Pilots seemed so futuristic back then.

  • IASIP S16E8 Dennis Takes A Mental Health Day
  • I especially enjoyed the pressure cooker side plot, which was more “the gang” in tone than much of the material this season.

  • What films that flopped when they came out but you saw in the theater and loved, that are now universally acclaimed or cult classics?
  • I get the feeling that both the original and the sequel are the kind of film where word of mouth just doesn't do it for some reason. I had a friend years ago who mentioned that she had never seen Blade Runner, and immediately followed that by saying not to bother telling her how good it was.