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It's a false choice. Metal straws are ideal, but cellulose straws are still better than both paper and plastic.

I've been saying since GWB cancelled climate action that the US has no continuity of honor in international agreements.

What could be more human than that?

The moratorium is actually since 2000, but only since 2006 in its current form. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_technology

Thankfully, no country, much less any multinational corporation, would ever dare cross the UN's nonbinding, unenforceable moratorium. Can you imagine how stern the tone of the statement of condemnation would be, once it was worded such that a reasonable plurality of countries would agree to back it?

😬 https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from-website/

I was mostly being facetious. I haven't tried it in decades, but I'm pretty happy with Cosmos.

🎤 Tap, tap, is this thing on? Posting again, even though this joke is probably only for me.

Presumably, this is F W DeMorgan's Law.

KDE: With too much power comes too much responsibility. 😉

Zero that axis, please.

I didn't even know they had GPS that long ago.

Bruce Schneier has been saying for something like 25 years that technological advances always favor attackers over defenders.