It occurs to me that most scientists have no prior education in the philosophy of science. In my undergraduate program, the only philosophy of science exposure I formally had was from an intro philosophy course where the prof thought it was particularly important. It wasn't a required course.

I want to note here that Democratic Congressman Mark Pocan just heaped praise on NIH Director Bhattacharya during his latest appearance before the House Appropriations Committee. “I am glad you’re in the position you’re at and I like you…I think you’re doing a very good job.” The opposition…

Milking the same LLM magic trick without solving any practical hard problems that devs actually face on a day to day basis is good for investors and fooling managers but I still don't think it has sticking power once the subsidized pricing goes away.

I'm no angel, I would use an AI UV-unwrappimg tool. But no such tool exists, and understanding WHY such a tool doesn't exist answers a lot of questions about AI

A couple of interesting caveats- at least according to managers gamers only hate it in the USA and other countries are "more ready to accept it". The big GDC survey also doesn't actually show more developers using AI than last year, so "everyone's using it" may not even be correct.

oh no it’s deleted but I don’t really think you should get away with dirty deleting this level of racism

Well, Tana is making "we're about to pivot ourselves into a grave" noises, so my motivation for actually building my own PKM tool that has the parts that work so very usefully for me has jumped up a couple of notches. (though the mobile capture would honestly be... difficult to do, I dread)

Dear SciFi, you were always allowed to sync up the music to the 60 BPM beat of an Orion pulse drive. Look at how @sadfrontier.bsky.social did it! The whole video is just stunning. There's a lot to love. Watch it! youtu.be/q0qwCD-cOwc

Just feels like every material representation of masculinity for 12 year old boys, all crammed into a tiny digital space that will fit your screen. So farcical that I don't know how anyone working on or watching this production doesn't feel like their intelligence is being insulted.

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

Most of the studies in the imagery lit (and cog psych as a whole) report group effects that hide dramatic differences like aphantasia I want my students to realise that if they don’t see themselves reflected in the textbook, it is the literature that is lacking, not them!

Here’s my deal. Somewhere between 5% and 15% of my class have no (or very little) imagery. There is a whole chapter of the textbook that describes effects that make zero sense to a LARGE chunk of our students! I can’t teach this subject ‘straight’ without addressing this gap first.

The Trump administration is systematically trying to frame European regulations as censorship. They try to find evidence, they leak documents, they intimidate civl society, journalists and scholars. They are not finding anything. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

… y'all I'm so tired

super racist sexist exactly... > he has repeatedly advanced claims about the supposed cognitive inferiority of Black people , along with broader arguments about the “feminization” of academia and suggestions that eugenic ideas deserve renewed scientific consideration. www.change.org/p/stop-the-h...

I don't really feel like the press coverage of the metaverse implosion honestly captures the access tech press' role in propping up Mark Zuckerberg's fake innovation mythology if you go back and read "journalism" from this era, 97% was indistinguishable from advertorial

Doctorow comparing UNIX to LLMs here and running LLMs on his own personal system to Linux. Unbelievable stuff. Throw in some references to “purity culture” and you have a techno-utopian viewpoint on generative AI that explicitly ignores and discounts all of the reasons why generative AI is toxic.

Can't contain my excitement for the #ProjectHailMary movie, so here's a little treat - when I saw the official poster for the movie, I knew I had to do my own take, with the designs based on descriptions from the original book by Andy Weir. Blender & Photoshop, 2026. #noAI #scifi #digitalart

Wrong. Universities need to recognize that populist parties *are in fact their enemies* and will continue to do *everything in their power* to destroy the very concepts of education and expertise.

Börsenverein-Vorsitzender Sebastian Guggolz zu Weimer in der ersten Reihe: „Ich bin stolz auf die Buchbranche, weil wir Ihren fragwürdigen autokratischer Gestus nicht akzeptieren“.

wrote a lil thing about a lil game noescapevg.com/marathon-the...

» I don’t so much feel like I’m at work while playing (another problem I had with Destiny at various points) rather that I feel like work has enveloped me, and that I am permanently, ontologically “at work,” whether or not that’s actually true. «

This @the-independent.com story is such an obvious lift of mine that they didn’t even bother deleting my site’s referral URL. And no, they do not credit me for reporting it first or (intentionally) link to my story. In j-school, rewording someone else’s reporting was called plagiarism. 1/

The reporter who lifted Gillian's story so completely she didn't even edit out the referral link went to the COLUMBIA JOURNALISM SCHOOL, per her bio

When I was in grad school, I announced my engagement to my ex-wife. A male prof cornered me at the celebratory toast and demanded that I explain whether this meant I didn't like dick. Biss is not an aberration. Biss is common. And Biss should not be sent to Congress. Happy Women's History Month!

Academic freedom doesn't mean you HAVE to hire race scientists, especially not one who says "In a meritocracy… Black people would disappear from virtually all high-ranking positions, with the exception of sports and entertainment"

Actually more pathetic than that, they want to simplify everyone down to the same shallow existence of a *Large Language Model,* so people stop pointing out LLMs aren't nearly as intelligent or capable as humans

Instant buy (I love sociotechnical considerations of electricity and power systems)! Congratulations! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205197...

Elon Musk was once so mad that a random guy based in Thailand made fun of his failed cave rescue effort that he accused him of pedophilia and hired a private investigator to dig into his life.

Surprising London moment of zen

It's genuinely kind of funny that in response to the George Floyd protests, Biden's campaign immediately rushed out to not only oppose "defunding" police, but called for increased police funding in hopes of not getting tied to the slogan... only for it to happen anyway. www.npr.org/sections/liv....

The war & AIPAC are nightmares, but so is Joe Kent, one of the most openly fascist figures in Trump’s regime, a comrade of Proud Boys and Fuentes, a man who says Black Lives Matter was a child trafficking ring, a guy who complains that Hitler is misunderstood. Don’t take the bait.

My point: The important part is not whether two people agree or disagree. The important part is what two people agree or disagree about. Civility discourse is the silliest weapon of racists, used to put silly rules on Black people who speak out against racism. Y'all fall for it constantly.

"DIH I GIT THAGHT ON MY FAWKN DASHCAM?!"

The rest of it:

A reminder that there are actual journalists out there, even inside the White House press corps which has been larded with loons and goons.

Thinking about it - how many people already distorted and denied reality because of cognitive dissonance. Now they‘re working on tying perception of reality to not just psychological safety but monetary safety and monetary power. Absolutely catastrophic, destructive incentives engineering.

Ah, reminds me of the famous Socrates line in Plato’s Apology: “An unexamined life is economically more efficient. Move forward.” As I wrote elsewhere, this is quite the cocktail of Randian nonsense and aggressive historical inaccuracy, served with a twist of psychopathy.

ya i know that. i went down a rabbit-hole parsing numbers with c++ in my readtextgrid package, so i wanted to see where they tripped. it looks like they use a strtod implementation that allows eEfFsSlLdD in numbers github.com/tidyverse/re...

NEW: Georgia cops arrested a woman for murder after a hospital said she had an abortion with misoprostol. But in a disturbingly similar 2015 case, a prosecutor said state law prohibits criminal charges—and @ifwhenhow.bsky.social tells @autonomynews.co the law hasn't changed. Both women are Black.

The NYT is now making scientific associations out to be the villain of a story wherein the government is threatening them with sanctions for not endorsing their preferred conclusions, in case you were wondering about whether it was anything but a right-wing rag.

Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

You'd think they'd want to discuss how it won as many awards as The Matrix, ET, Fellowship of the Ring, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Parasite... How it has the most wins of any Vampire movie ever... How its success further cements that Coogler's deal could be Hollywood's future. But alas. It's Black.

There's something very...apropos...about Firefly being both a.) a riff on Lost Cause propoganda and also b.) being recalled as a Noble Show That Was Cut Down Before Its Prime, Whose Patriots Know It Will One Day Rise Again

Cheers to everyone who delayed fossil fuel phaseout by saying "you can't switch off fossil fuels overnight" Because thanks to them everyone now has to face a situation where fossil fuels are switched off overnight 🙃🙃🙃

Some days, ya boy just wakes up and decides to make an app to solve a really small problem. This one is to search my saved and liked posts on BlueSky. Made with wails and svelte (sry tauri) tangled.org/did:plc:xg2v...

Would be nice, but no. In both the UK and Germany the current government is more and more loudly instituting fascist policies out of no other real reason than them liking it.

The employer tagging is dirty work though. I don't endorse that at all. If you've employer-tagged Alexander Kustov or anyone else, I strongly urge you to not make such a move again.

To put a very fine point on it: it is extremely bad that Alexander Kustov relies on a racist circle of bloggers when asserting his very negative opinion of Emily Bender and Alex Hanna’s book.

I remain firmly convinced that Kustov's trolling on Bluesky to cross post to X about how he was just being the noble truth teller to his luddite colleagues about the utility of AI and how he was martyred for it, was all to attract the attention of someone like Tan.