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it's pretty funny that tolkien *is* a conservative artist and the modern right *is* obsessed with him but they still absolutely do not understand lord of the rings

it’s because LLMs have no relationship to the truth. LLMs do not and cannot think or evaluate or decide or understand anything. the only things LLMs do is make sentences that seem like sense-making sentences, by choosing the most statistically likely next word in their input data set. THAT IS ALL.

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There is no world in which this is okay.     Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵

The number of people in the replies to this who completely misunderstand how property and casualty insurance (car, renters', homeowners', etc) works on a fundamental level means it's time for an explainer of What Car Insurance Actually Is!

The problem is that “I am often scared and angry about social change” does not inherently lend itself to interesting art. You can be as technically skilled as the greats, but art with nothing interesting to say is just a commodity.

there's a lot of people who dont realize just how many countries have austerity brained leadership that are happily cutting their own research funding while staging pr stunts to hire 1 or 2 americans

the uk needs a major reckoning with its ideas about who is most likely to settle, and that those people may well be completely unrelated to making as much money as possible. oh, my wife isn't the most "economically desirable kind of migrant"? too bad, feel free to roll yourself down a hill

We already called this GOFAI in the 90s, when I studied connectionist models in my psychology and cogsci undergraduate training. The critique then was, of course, that GOFAI models are brittle. But that is only true if you naively think they can scale to human-level cognition.

watching the chuds turn literally everything into Gender at all times is so exhausting and stupid figuring out that You Don't Have To Do That is, I believe, the single most helpful realization a young man can make, it's such an enormous life improvement to just embrace what you actually like

And to everyone who is wondering, “how could humans be causing more than 100% of the warming?” — it’s because, according to natural factors, the earth should be cooling right now. So our emissions are offsetting that cooling AND causing all of the observed warming. For more, watch:

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

The current vision of “masculinity” coming from the right is “spoiled asshole teenage boy who wants a mom who will fuck him in addition to doing his laundry and also will never tell him to turn off Call of Duty” and I don’t know why more Dems don’t push back on it by merely pointing that out

{holding in huge bong rip} Someone should do a comparative analysis of Joseph Smith / early Mormonism and Hong Xiuquan the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom {coughing heavil} I'm just sayin, they were radical, militant non-Christian Christianities that emerged around the same time

Ok, and also this. I’m glad Corey can experience Nazis on Twitter as just part of the wild and crazy cacophony of life in these interesting times. How nice for him. bsky.app/profile/goth...

So for anyone in Ontario wondering why infection control practice is so backwards here even away from the usual suspects, it turns out there's misinformation embedded directly in the CPSO infection control guidance, which incorrectly directs physicians to wear a medical mask for airborne pathogens.🙄

I've gained new followers off the #AI impersonation debacle, so I'd like to introduce the REAL me. I'm Dr Lindsey Fitzharris & I'm a medical historian. Yes, it's a real job! If you ever wondered how you'd treat a toothache in 1782, or what would happen if you broke a leg in 1845, I'm your gal. /1

the most surreal thing about this era of open yelling about masculinity is that, if you grew up anything like I did, you were exposed to several sets of standards of masculinity and would be hard pressed to identify which of them the Paxtons and Millers of the world are living up to

It all goes back to the Gamergaters. MAGA saw the online engine of incels and losers and just folded it into what "masculinity" is. You can be an undatable failure, but as long as you hate women and minorities, you're an alpha now.

Hey, so this is top-tier writing advice here from an award-winning pro…no project is too precious for you to jackhammer it apart and use it for scrap. If it’s not working, that’s fine! You didn’t make the meal you wanted but you’ve already chopped the veggies for the next dish. #writing #amwriring

This is why hospital staff need to wear proper PPE. They never know what illnesses are coming through the doors with coworkers, patients and visitors.

nearly every terrible thing trump has done could have been stopped by a legislature who views the other branches as inferior to their own, as was the intent from the very start.

i don’t want a president who does whatever they want, even if those are things i want them to do. i want a congress who aggressively guards their first amongst equals status and is representative of the people they are elected to represent.

This Vought policy is an attempt to choke out American higher education. America's fascists view its institutions of higher ed—and the people who staff them—as existential enemies of the purified nation

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

Wife just got back from a 3-day doctors conference and she told me that one of the keynote speakers mentioned AI during his presentation and the doctors in the audience booed. Loudly. Someone tell that Google CEO it's not just college kids who hate this shit.

Why did you do this, @hayfestival.bsky.social? Please tell me that at least this isn’t something you’ve changed since last Thursday. And please try to do better next year: there are plenty of visibly queer people here

The next time a director says bullshit like this, I want the interviewer to ask: "If AI was around when you made your other films, which artists would you have fired?" I mean it. Name real fucking names. Of all the brilliant people you worked with, who do you think doesn't deserve a job anymore?

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

And one element of specifically female tech literacy is being very well aware that when new software fails to deliver what's been promised to senior management happy to swallow the hype, women will be immediately blamed for 'operator error' far more than men.

Me to deer: GET OUT OF HERE YOU DAMP-ASS BUTT SPRINKLER! STOP EATING MY PLANTS YOU MISERABLE WALKING DENT IN A CHEVY TRUCK'S BUMPER! YOU CALL THOSE ANTLERS? I SAW BETTER FLESH-COVERED BONES IN COLLEGE! Neighbor to me: Hey KB my kids have some vocabulary questions...

A network of research centers that was well-positioned to respond to the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo had its funding canceled last year by the Trump administration. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/us-res...

JUST IN: Judge Williams is pressing Trump's lawyers to answer for allegations that they committed a fraud on the court and filed the president's lawsuit against the IRS as a "collusive" effort to create the $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

if one removed people who obsessively talk about teenagers' genitalia in public, a huge swathe of the conservative movement would simply vanish

What's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.

Judge Williams reopens the Trump IRS case and it’s a bogus settlement, acting on advice from 35 former judges. This is going to be very interesting.

First in-game look at Kyoshi in Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game.

NEW: The Trump administration's DOJ has been systematically removing materials from its websites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In response, @lawfaremedia.org has been systematically restoring them:

JUST IN: The judge who dismissed the Trump v. IRS lawsuit seems very open to the request by a group of former federal judges to reopen the case and scrutinize the settlement that led to the $1.776B slush fund. She gives Trump et al until June 12 to respond to: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72207...

I often think about how conspiracy theories are a response to fear and that it is actually more comforting to believe that bad things are due to the intentional acts of humans and govts rather than just the reality that individuals have very little control over what we encounter day to day. 1/

No matter how much evidence comes out about the disconect between wages and profits, we will still be lectured about the so-called vibecession.

Ta da! Norovirus is airborne. "Results showed vomiting generated substantial aerosols instantaneously, and subsequent cleaning disturbed settled particles, increasing airborne pathogen concentrations by 54% compared with pre-cleaning levels." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Conservative jurisprudence on regulation has two tenets: 1) the regulatory state is an unconstitutional abomination, every action it takes must be explicitly conferred by statute; and 2) GOP Presidents have unfettered power to wield this unconstitutional abomination, even in violation of statutes.

1/ This is awful for so, so many reasons. Just to pick one: even if you thought it was lawful and appropriate to vet funded research for consistency with the government's priorities, *the president is not the government*.

my favorite erick erickson moment is when he said that his family refused to eat asian food on the anniversary of pearl harbor to honor the tragedy. a reporter reached out to his mom to confirm whether this was true and she was like “i don’t know what the fuck he is talking about”

A federal judge temporarily halted the creation of Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund

Lawyer time. They’ll argue an AI likeness is not infringement. It may not be: AI slop can’t be copyrighted, but the courts haven’t decided on if it infringes. Your *name* however, is a different story. That is for sure infringement and quite possibly fraud.