This is what happens when people think neurons are just doing a binary transmission of electricity around to "process information." Meanwhile even lowly bacteria are making and deploying stuff like this:

happy valentine’s day

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

This randomly came up in my playlist again, and RIP Mr. Mboweni. Your pilchards-and-chicken cooking adventures shall live in eternal memory. I mean, how many central bankers have banger hip-hop tracks made in their honour? www.youtube.com/watch?v=USqM...

reworking paper scrap doodles made at work just to feel something #mgs #vquiet #rkgk

It's funny how it's the loudest, meanest, most disruptive kids whose parents will come to school and eviscerate you for "mistreating" their precious baby angel. (I told the whole class - not one student - off for being loud and preventing my special needs kid from being able to focus on the lesson)

WSJ will have to pry our weekly rotisserie chicken from my cold, dead hands. @bododenden.bsky.social

Create Your Own Luck*

oh you want to pay attention to a videogame? isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?

Mood

It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.

Morning.

To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books. She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it. It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

I never noticed this either.

I was really excited to share this image of a particularly superb owl, given that today is #superbowl Sunday, but unfortunately, it soared away with its bedtime snack before I could get the photo...

bad people can and often do make good art. attacking the art as retroactively subpar to free yourself of moral dilemma and give yourself permission to not care means you're innately equating quality of art as representative of moral virtue (it's not) which is how you get purity culture

Lithuanian Olympic uniforms by Issey Miyake for the 1992 games in Barcelona. This was Lithuania's first time in the Olympics after gaining independence from the Soviet Union. Fabric was cut and shaped using heat, not scissors or sewing machines.

even if you don't care about sports you gotta admit it's awesome that this guy had to hear to his face how the world feels about him

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

HIS FACE

The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring

Ohne das Ausmaß relativieren zu wollen: Spätestens seit Pelicot ist klar Männer brauchen für Täter-Netzwerke keine Privatinseln und -Jets. Telegram reicht völlig aus

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I should have known once he wrote a book called Manufacturing Consent

This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all. "Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact." people.com/ballerina-fa...

Es gab mal Zeiten, da mussten Minister für solche Vergehen zurücktreten. Heute taucht das höchstens noch als kleine Notiz unter Vermischtes auf. Und morgen wird Frau Reiche wieder weitere Einschnitte und Mehrarbeit für die Deutschen fordern.

The French are taking none of Musk’s bullshit.

crazy that basically every person complaining about "woke overreach" over the last 12 years is also in the epstein emails being like "thanks for the pussy, jeff ;)"

unigiri 🍙

ICYMI, Gai*man is slinking out of the shadows and posting again, trying to scuttle his way back into the public's good graces. Please take care of yourselves, believe women, believe survivors, and fuck that guy.

don't mean to blow anyone's mind with this shocking insight but the direct line between epstein, 4chan, gamergate, tech bro fascists etc is misogyny. prolific rapists, guys who believe women have inferior intelligence, and guys who hate women for rejecting them all have something big in common!

Rowling's people inviting Epstein to a dinner and a performance of The Cursed Child, long after he was convicted of child sexual abuse... exquisite.

An entire political movement founded on uncovering hidden messages in documents to discover the powerful secret pedophiles and meanwhile the powerful pedophiles out here sending gmails saying "Hi fellow pedophile when are we meeting to do pedophilia again"

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Wochenendpläne.

Viele Menschen sind mehrmals im Jahr krank, es ist halt einfach so, es ist nicht Faulheit oder Inkompetenz, sondern gehört zum Menschsein dazu, es bringt nicht so zu tun, als wäre das ausgedacht oder vorgeschoben. Die Welt muss sich nach den Fakten richten, dann wird es für alle leichter.

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Falls ihr euch früher in der Schule gewundert habt, ob die Lehrkräfte die Notenkonferenzen dafür nutzen, um über Schüler*innen zu lästern: ja 😂

I've been hearing this refrain lately about AI- "Everyone uses it, some people are just honest about it." Bullshit. I can't stop search 'summaries' popping up, but otherwise it's not something I use or want in my writing process. Never prompted ChatGPT. Never spent AI credits on Microsoft/Adobe.

Afaik the availability of part-time work boosts labour force participation, i.e. to many part-time workers, the alternative is not 'work more' but 'don't work'. That strikes me as a major obstacle to any CDU/CSU plan that hopes to boost productivity by making it harder to work part-time.

GdP Sachsen nutzt KI generierte Bilder für eigene Narrative (Bild via @boschpolforsch.bsky.social). Es ist das erste Mal, dass ich solche Bilder von seriösen Stellen sehe, die Ereignisse so darstellen, dass sie besser ins eigene Bild passen. Das ist nicht gut, der DGB darf hier nicht schweigen!

This is like those loosmaxxing forums where guys try to convince each other that punching themselves in the face is improving their bone structure.

stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.