so is it a common experience that the same dudes who were super into crypto like 7 years ago are the same dudes that are super into ai hype now? is it just the same group of guys getting scammed over and over while they lecture us normies about how we are missing out because we are stupid?

"Nordhaus’s models tell us that at a temperature rise somewhere between 2.7 and 3.5 degrees Celsius, the global economy reaches “optimal” adaptation." Unbelievably stupid. theintercept.com/2023/10/29/w...

C'est une catastrophe sanitaire et écologique. Si rien n'est fait, le coût des polluants éternels atteindra 1 700 milliards d'euros d'ici à 2050. Les PFAS doivent être interdits. Il y a urgence. www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

Same story over and over. These larpers - Kirkegard, Pesta et al - pumping out the same effluence with their strategy - exposed by @harryshukman.bsky.social + @hopenothate.org.uk - to normalise and spread scientific racism. They KNOW it's bullshit too. Read this: www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

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Big Oil has a long history of interference in Latin America. Documents reveal that "Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial," invest in "market-oriented public policies" and ensure "continued strong returns to Exxon’s investors.” 😑

A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

Time to update the list of US military interventions in Latin America.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

Oil and gas companies are war criminals. They are destroying the only livable climate in the known universe. They are Trump’s allies. They are the enemies of everyone good.

Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC... US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.

The US empire continues killing and pillaging without remorse or accountability, with most of its brainwashed population believing they are the moral ones.

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"How Europe and “the west” responds to Trump now and the actions that governments take downstream from that is going to set the path for 2026. Because Trump isn’t just a rogue, out-of-control president, America is a rogue state. And the longer we fail to acknowledge that, the more danger we are in."

Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.

Lest anyone for a single moment thinks this latest coup is a somehow a dramatic breach of long-term US foreign policy.

Remember that the US *does not care* about the people of Venezuela. It is not about "narcotrafficking", or "democracy", or whatever propaganda they have going. It is *explicitly* about US control over oil, capital accumulation, and geopolitical power.

From Iran to Chile to Venezuela, US regime change isn’t history—it’s policy, writes Barbara Koeppel. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Utterly shocking that the country that invaded Iraq for oil and suffered zero consequences internally or externally is doing it again.

The Empire strikes back, not just to grab oil and other riches but, fundamentally, to hide its own weakness at home – and to prepare the ground for subjugating its own people, in Chicago, Portland, NYC etc. Meanwhile, a vassal Europe watches in silence... www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

UGH, the @nytimes.com is NYTimes'ing again!

RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).

Absolutely this.

“A brutal state of affairs, profoundly inegalitarian - where all existence is evaluated in terms of money alone - is presented to us as ideal” - Badiou

Neo-liberalism has killed off imagination and creativity.

Fake references should lead to academic sanctions for the researchers involved, from both industry as well as from institutions. It needs to happen now, before every norm of academic integrity ends up sacrificed on the altar of production.

A fourth child has frozen to death in Gaza in just 10 days—two of them babies—as Israel continues blocking tents and winter shelter aid, despite UN supplies pre-positioned at the border that could immediately shelter more than 1.3 million displaced Palestinians.

possibly relevant:

The US continues as it always has, now they just lost all pretence. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

"LLMs are structurally indifferent to truth."

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Yet another example of what happens if we allow LLMs to become a form of epistemic grounding for society.

I saw this at my Department during my PhD at the US, and is pasted in my current department as well. I don’t think it means what they think, and is wrong on so many levels… it is a failure as scientists

Because in China, industrial policy means investment can be directed toward what is most necessary; whereas in the West investment is directed toward what is most profitable to capital.

In a sane world, the government guilty of committing genocide would be dismantled, and forced to pay reparations. Instead they are allowed to corral their victims into a concentration camp and steal their land. We live in the most obscene of all possible timelines.

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In an era marked by rapid climate change and biodiversity loss, it is imperative that we continue to invest in the unique value of natural history collections data "Global sampling decline erodes science potential of natural history collections" 🧪

We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions. #ScienceUnderSiege

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

I’m going to regret asking this, but… what mechanism are people proposing whereby AI will “end scarcity”? This feels like literal underpants gnomes thinking, and as I never tire of pointing out, it’s being driven by a lot of the same actual people

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Detecting Introgression in Shallow Phylogenies: How Minor Molecular Clock Deviations Lead to Major Inference Errors academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Officials acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing and can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors.

#PCM folks: What tools are out there for forward-in-time simulation under historical biogeography models (e.g., DEC) that include simulation of both range and lineage dynamics?

Great piece on the absurdity of brute force multiverse analyses. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

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Why is the U.S. targeting boats in the Caribbean, off the coast of Venezuela?