December 2011
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Fun wikipedia debate...
Way back in the archives for Human, within an endless controversy over whether humans’ conservation status should or should not be listed as “least concern”….there is a secondary argument over whether humans should be described as “extinct in the wild.”
That’ll keep you thinking…
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Strong AI test #557
Auto-translating Japanese youth subculture blogs without getting a sentence like:
“Eliminated so that the rear kitchen complete control charging and meeting with management, you can write a diary with confidence negatively.”
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Why are all my news channels talking about the death of Christopher Hitchens, and none of them are talking about the death of Václav Havel? It reminds me of the concurrent deaths of Diana Spencer and Agnes Bojaxhiu, or as they are better known, Princess Di and Mother Teresa. And the comparison is singularly appropriate, because Hitchens hated Mother Teresa with a blinding passion. But the...
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The Revolution Not Being Televised Will Be...
This is the best story in months.
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BREIN Gets Busted
The Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has just been caught pirating music for their anti-piracy campaign. It’s like the Lily Allen situation all over again, except you’d think BREIN had a little more sense than Lily Allen.
Hypocrisy is a spectator sport….
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Siri vs. Abortion vs. Grammar
OK, there is a widespread narrative that Siri, the Apple agent that locates the nearest KFC for you, is against abortion. It’s widespread enough that Fox News has had to weigh in, delicately, to say that Siri is not, actually, anti-abortion. This position must have involved a whole board meeting about whether it was better to depict Apple as an elitist liberal corporation, or better to...