

AVIF started heavily creeping in, too.
Astral Weeks


AVIF started heavily creeping in, too.
They make up these definitions themselves, then become entangled in them and nothing is won.
For starters, let me recommend Solé’s terrific book “Phase Transitions” which answers the question whether or not a virus can be considered “life” from a phase space POV.
From this, you can, with some years of pondering and meditating, abstract further and hopefully, finally go completely Zen: Can there be an answer? Does the question make sense? Do definitions make sense?


“Sorry I’m late. After all those scotches I had to piss like a racehorse.”
Or maybe it’s a butterfly’s dream of being TrackinDaKraken.
Or maybe a cocodrilo.
Dita von Teese wrote the foreword to R. F. Johnson’s “Working Girls” which features pictures of - mostly female, mostly dressed - brothel workers, taken in 1892 by William Goldman.
I like this photo in particular, it seems so weirdly un-1800s-like:



That’s what I was going to write. I don’t think people in 1981 knew what hit them.
What about eating it like this?

Privacy invasion. I doubt that would hold water in the EU.
Also, do we really want to normalize mandatory cameras broadcasting from people’s homes? Where’s the outrage?
The bots know what is bot content and what is not.
Actual users don’t.
In Catholicism, “hate the sin, not the sinner” is axiomatic.

(This is internet history)
I guessed your user name before I saw it.
I’m not an astronomer, but IIRC, our electronic signals don’t make it particularly far out of the solar system until they merge with the background noise. So I guess we are safe for now.
No strawmen?
At first, I thought this was going to be about constructing the cardinal numbers ℵ1, ℵ2, ℵ3 …