cravl

Exactly, the image is wrong. The internet does not provide unlimited access to knowledge, it provides (easily manipulable) access to information which may or may not be true.

I think you may be confusing “getting money from the government” and “taking money from the government.”

See also: “Receiving contracts from the government for work that will not be completed.”

Semi-related: I like referring to gasoline as dino juice, pterodactyl purée, sauropod syrup, etc. The looks I get make me feel… something, for once.

I’m glad I finished school before the AI era—I put an em dash and a semicolon in the same sentence at least twice in a given paper; this would get flagged every flipping time nowadays.

+1 for http.cat reference.

But also, don’t think you have to do all the work yourself. I think we very often underestimate the importance of being the one that simply plants the seed. Of course the difficulty is that usually we can’t tell if said seed has actually been planted, so it feels like a waste of energy.

Actually this is a secondary effect, the root cause is that the virus is hijacking your system to mine crypto.