Is Tuvix managing other positions single-handed, or are there many Tuvices?

I do the same - except I upgraded to 64 GB at a point in my life when I was doing Haskell programming on a largish project, and I learned that 32 GB is not sufficient to run the LSP and the compiler at the same time.

When mine goes over 99 it just rounds up,

I also appreciate how the meter and rhyme match up!

Oh neat! Most of what I know is my recollections from the Revolutions podcast. I haven’t read Citizen Lafayette yet

Because he’s a pirate! That’s why he should be in a meme with an eye patch

Yes, but it’s the thought that counts. The Bastille had a history of being the place the government disappeared people to. Some of those were nobles who were treated very well. Others were regular people who were… not given the noble treatment.

From what I understand Parisians didn’t know how much the prison population had dwindled. Either way, the Bastille was a symbol of oppression.

Now tbf the people doing the storming were motivated to get in to grab the gunpowder that had been hoarded inside. But the unjust detentions were a part of it too.

Ah, good clarification. Thanks!

For a moment I thought the lower image was from Les Misérables which would be a fitting singing tie-in. It would also be fitting because Bastille Day is coming up on Monday.

Les Misérables depicts the June Rebellion which took place a month before the 43rd anniversary of Bastille Day. That would have been prominent in the minds of the people rebelling. Bastille Day is still celebrated as a critical point in the French Revolution when protesters stormed a detention center to free people who had been detained without due process.

I’ve been meaning to make a meme, but I’m too lazy to find the stills. Remember when Book gets a field commission? He says “Aye aye!” before Burnham corrects him, saying “One aye. We’re not pirates.” Then I think about half of the SNW cast say “Aye aye” at some point or other.

Hey, I’m sorry that “Jesus Christ” as an expletive feels alienating to you. I hadn’t thought about that perspective. As a lifelong atheist my feeling is that Christianity, and by extension blasphemous expletives, are so thoroughly enmeshed in Western culture that that’s what comes out when I’m startled. I don’t feel like I’m using the words to show distaste for another group; I feel like the words are part of my culture even though I’m not religious. My guess is that saying"Jesus Christ" is generally not intended to be a statement on Christians. But I can see how someone who is religious might see it differently. I suppose lots of people see their relationship with Jesus as a part of their identity that distinguishes them from people who don’t believe, and from that perspective I can see how a perceived attack on Jesus feels like a personal attack.

I’ll also mention that since I didn’t have a religious upbringing I was never taught to have any particular reaction to blasphemy, which tends to make me see those expletives as less-offensive alternatives to scatological or sexual expletives. I don’t have a good perspective of what such language feels like to someone who was taught that blasphemy is bad.

And why not add one more paragraph - I agree that when I view him as a moral philosopher and proto-socialist I find a lot of what Jesus said and did to be admirable.

Why is Laforge in charge of the cargo bay? He’s a busy guy!

I’ve done Mindfulness meditation, and I find it very helpful. It gets easier with practice too. But I haven’t developed a habit of meditating regularly so I don’t actually do it often. It’s hard to keep up with things that feel optional.

Something that helps me to meditate more often than never is to think of it as something I can do anywhere, without preparation. Then when I find myself waiting for something I can take that time to meditate. Like waiting for a train, in a waiting room, etc. I sit normally; I often don’t close my eyes.

Since traditional tiling window management hasn’t caught your interest you might check out Niri, which is a scrolling tiling wm. The differences are that windows always stay the size you set them to, remain in the relative layout you put them in, and you don’t fiddle with layout switching. Niri is also especially mouse- and touchpad-friendly. It’s great for pure keyboard use too - you have both options to suit your preference & mood.

I mention Niri despite it not being what you asked for because it checks all the boxes you listed (apart from stacking), and it’s amazing! https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri

That’s quite a poster!

I suppose this video essay is relevant: Actually, Star Trek Has Always Been Horny

There’s also the death slugs in The Expanse

There’s a relevant episode if you don’t mind DS9 spoilers:

I don’t think the Pegasus plan involves all levels of Federation leadership. I think it’s a conspiracy that, although it does include at least one of the highest-ranking Starfleet officers, doesn’t go all the way to the top. From the transcript:

PRESSMAN: It’s not just me, Will. The Chief of Starfleet Security has personally given me her assurance of complete support.

RIKER: Admiral Raner? How many other people know about this?

PRESSMAN: Not many, and it’s up to us to make sure it stays that way. Raner has given me written orders for you.

Pressman says that a small number of people are involved. He doesn’t mention the Federation president or any Federation officials outside of Starfleet (remember that Starfleet is the military-ish arm of the Federation, it’s not the whole organization.) He only mentions one Starfleet officer.

Pressman emphasizes that it’s important to keep the secret from getting out. Of course that’s partly because he doesn’t want the Romulans finding out. But I think it’s mainly that the conspirators don’t want to be held to account for unauthorized actions.

Later in the episode Pressman tells Picard, “the Chief of Starfleet Intelligence herself is watching this one”. I think it’s possible that Chief of Security and Chief of Intelligence are titles used interchangeably for the same office. Or it could be a second officer involved in the conspiracy.

There’s also this conversation:

PICARD: You know, it wasn’t easy to get this record. I had to pull in quite a few favours at Starfleet just to get a look at it. It seems that it was classified by Starfleet Intelligence.

[…]

PICARD: The Judge Advocate also believes that the surviving officers are deliberately withholding vital information from this inquiry. Further investigation is recommended. Will, there was no further investigation. This report was classified and then it was quietly buried. Why?

RIKER: Sir, may I suggest you take this up with Admiral

PICARD: I’m taking this up with you, Will! The Judge Advocate thought you were participating in a conspiracy to cover up the truth. Now, what the hell is going on here, Will?

The judge advocate on the case is not in on the secret. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t go higher, but the conversation does imply that whoever was involved had limited authority to, say, prevent that inquiry in the first place, or to instruct the judge advocate to avoid sensitive topics.

Someone did have the authority to classify and bury the report. Maybe that’s something the Chief of Intelligence could do unilaterally.

Note that Picard is confident that with the secret exposed the project will be shut down. If it had been authorized at all levels you might expect it to continue, but out in the open.

Now Section 31, that does seem to be institutionalized so that’s a different story.

The images probably don’t have to look meaningful as long as it is difficult to distinguish them from real images using a fast, statistical test. Nepenthes uses Markov chains to generate nonsense text that statistically resembles real content, which is a lot cheaper than LLM generation. Maybe Markov chains would also work to generate images? A chain could generate each pixel by based on the previous pixel, or based on neighbors, or some such thing.