Any corundum without trace elements is colorless. Corundum with trace chemical impurities makes the gems we know. Chromium gives the red to rubies, sapphire has iron and titanium, you can get other colors using vanadium or different ratios. Gems are neat.

Types of corundum maybe but I think that’s a stretch. Sapphire is (usually) blue Al2O3. Ruby is red Al2O3. Transparent aluminum is Al2O27N5.

Scotty would be proud.

The name of the AI is gospel? How can this possibly go wrong?

What happens in the scenario where a super-intelligence just uses social engineering and a human is his arms and legs?

So that’s how we got the Weinermobile.

There are several effects this could have on Earth and the atmosphere. The presence of these particles could affect how water freezes into ice in the stratosphere, and influence the size of stratospheric aerosol particles. They could also induce salt deposition on aerosol particles, and alter the stratospheric refraction of light.

These may seem like subtle changes, but they could have unintended consequences that we really ought to investigate, the researchers say.

Link here

Also vaporizing metals being added to the upper atmosphere isn’t exactly great.

8 inch legs? Eesh.

Oh windows 2000 how I miss thee.

Sounds like Poland is going to have to nationalize a train manufacturer.

If you can’t find something on piracy trackers you just need better trackers.

Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, CBE is an Emirati politician who the Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology of the United Arab Emirates, head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), and chairman of Masdar.

Emphasis mine.

That’s the first line from his wikipedia.

Yeah, pigs don’t like to be corrected. Or made to look like they don’t know what they’re doing.

Maybe this is why it was so easy to get a PS2 in iraq. That’s crazy, 20 years later and mystery solved for me.

I for one welcome our new robotic super intelligence overlords.

Switching to what? Firefox. I don’t see the problem here. Install Firefox and forget those monopolistic enshitifying fucks.

The delay also does not trigger just once; it is reportedly triggered every time YouTube links are opened in a new tab.

This part got me yesterday as I was listening to music. I loaded a new video in a tab and the other tab waited 5 seconds. I thought I had paused it or something but nope, every time you load a new tab it delays all the other tabs by 5 seconds.

He won’t though. He’ll say something like “now is not the time for changes as we are at war”.