FWIW, I watched the show with a doctor, and he would occasionally comment stuff like "she would have gone blind way before she went crazy."
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Spirituality is kind of an odd word because it can mean either "rigorous self-examination" or "crystal magic." The former is indispensable. The latter... Not so much.
I haven't read those, but the general tradition of Secular Buddhism they seem to be describing is covered in a ton of great books like The Mind Illuminated and The Science of Enlightenment, both of which I recommend.
There's a difference between allowing speech about a thing and embracing the thing. This is a classic case of embrace, extend, extinguish.
If you're interested, I'd look into what happened with XMPP and Google talk. XMPP was a federated chat service. Google Talk became compatible with it, and instantly became the most popular client for it.
It then broke compatibility slowly, pushing more people from other XMPP clients onto Google talk.
They finally removed it completely, and because they were the most popular client, XMPP users moved to Google talk to maintain their connections to other users. The protocol basically ceased to exist.
People are broadly assuming that's Meta's plan with threads and Mastodon, because it's an extremely common way for corporations to get rid of open systems.
They're basically /r/the_Donald.
After all that work they did to screenshot Twitter?
An adult drosophila melanogaster. Amazing and incredibly useful work, but the title makes it sound like a bit more of a breakthrough.
Wait until he hears about the people who make memes.
Importantly, they are not consistent with it, and there are many approved games with AI art. Steam moderators have a surprising amount of autonomy, and this isn't necessarily indicative of a company policy.
There is a hoax romance novel called "naked came the stranger." Each chapter was written by a different author, with no coordination (except when they edited some chapters to make the prose intentionally worse).
I'm not sure why they decided to set the film adaptation in the Star Wars universe.
"The IceCube detector, which became operational in 2010, is the largest of its kind. The observatory can monitor 1 billion tons of the Antarctic ice for neutrino interactions. To build the detector, workers drilled 86 holes in the ice, each 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) deep, and spread a network of 5,160 light sensors over a grid that spans 0.2 cubic mile (1 cubic kilometer)."
Holy shit. I hadn't heard of this thing, but that's an amazing solution.
Don't forget a bathroom trash can with a bag.