Rally Point: Zephon demonstrates that good 4X faction design is really characterisation
Factions. Here are the factions: the aggressive conquest Klingon guys. The evil insectoid hive mind who build stuff and/or have loads of cheap soldiers. The researchers who are probably robots and you usually pick because they can be competitive at anything. The diplomacy/espionage ones (humans, or The Greys…
Newsom Asks Biden to Violate Americans’ Freedom of Speech and Press Rights to Cover-Up His Failure
Newsom Asks Biden to Violate Americans’ Freedom of Speech and Press Rights to Cover-Up His Failure
Supreme Court sounds ready to back TikTok ban law
The Supreme Court during oral arguments Friday appeared ready to allow a law that would ban social media giant TikTok unless it divests from its Chinese parent company ByteDance Ltd. by Jan. 19. The justices occasionally questioned how the law would impact the free speech rights of the platform and its users…
Mark Zuckerberg Goes Full MAGA With Change in Hiring Policies
MAGA Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta announced Friday that it would be repealing all diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.An employee memo from Meta’s vice president of human resources Janelle Gale, which was obtained by Axios, announced five major changes to Meta’s “hiring, development and procurement practices,” amid the shifting “legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity…
Anita Bryant, singer and notorious anti-gay crusader, dead at age 84
Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma and popular singer who became known over the second half of her life for her outspoken opposition to gay rights, has died. She was 84…Human brain dynamics are shaped by rare long-range connections over and above cortical geometry
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 1, January 2025. SignificanceExplaining how structure of the brain gives rise to its emerging dynamics is a primary pursuit in neuroscience. We describe a fundamental anatomical constraint that emphasizes the key role of rare long-range (LR) connections in explaining …
Anita Bryant, a popular singer who became known for opposition to gay rights, dead at age 84
NEW YORK (AP) — Bryant died Dec. 16 at her home in Edmond, Oklahoma, according to a statement posted by her family. The post Anita Bryant, a popular singer who became known for opposition to gay rights, dead at age 84 appeared first on RNS…
OpenAI has begun building out its robotics team
Previously, OpenAI partnered with robotics startup Figure to provide the models powering the latter’s humanoid robots…
Isro plan for 1-2 years ready: V Narayanan
V Narayanan is set to become the new chairman of ISRO on January 14, succeeding S Somanath. Narayanan will oversee several significant projects, including the Chandrayaan-4 lunar mission, Gaganyaan human spaceflight, and space station development. His backgro…