These ppl don't understand anything. To them everything is just some thought exercise that can be solved by just being smart enough. So much of science is, "So this is weird. I wonder why X does that?" LLMs will never have intellectual curiosity bc you can't create that using a statistical model.

We desperately need a recall process for Senators.

So, we're just out of ideas huh? An AI powered dog washer? If this ever comes into being and you put your dog in it, then they should immediately rehome your pup.

I think about this headline all of the time.

To be fair, I trust the government a lot less now that Elon is in it.

I've always wanted to take Amtrak more, guess I have even more of an incentive to do so.

Thanks a lot assholes. Fuck you too.

Don’t believe the Trump administration’s lies. De-funding the NIH, excluding students from specific backgrounds from funding, and excluding research studying women and other underrepresented groups is not “efficient.” It’s destroying science. arghavan.substack.com/p/do-not-be-...

The more I think about this list, the worse it is. The people who came up with it presumably think AI is the solution to everything, so why not run the abstracts through AI to determine if it's too woke? Either they don't believe it's "smart enough" or it's too expensive at the scale needed.

What a loss. I think a rewatching of Twin Peaks is in the cards for me.

This old CGP Grey video popped into my mind randomly today. youtu.be/uqH_Y1TupoQ?...

The more I learn about the failed coup in Korea, it was so close to having been SO SO bad. History books bad. But the people have learned from their history and acted SO QUICKLY to stand up for their freedom en masse and hold politicians accountable that it was over before many knew it happened.

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So I have been promoting this like crazy to friends but by coincidence this weekend I read Banned Book Club by @ryanestrada.com and it gave me some great context around the history of Korean democracy that was helpful in understanding the broader implications of what happened yesterday. 📚👀 #booksky

Wow, crazy to see members of a government quickly move to hold leaders accountable who actively threaten democracy instead of dragging it out over years. We really need to spend a lot more time observing how other democracies function. apnews.com/article/sout...

🫡 heading out to see what I can clumsily report on the declaration of martial law in south korea

Most other countries don't do this. We should really be asking ourselves what makes America unique where this is acceptable or "needed".

This is a really interesting article exploring bird flight. The explanation of the complexity of feathers is fascinating. #scisky #sciencesky

Randomly checked Twitter and this post about Moana 2/LLM is the most bot filled post I have ever seen. Almost all the replies basically are versions of "talented people can be obnoxious", "skill with a quill is undeniable", "this was him last year with Wish", and AI sludge about sequels.

Randomly checked Twitter and this post about Moana 2/LLM is the most bot filled post I have ever seen. Almost all the replies basically are versions of "talented people can be obnoxious", "skill with a quill is undeniable", "this was him last year with Wish", and AI sludge about sequels.

*sighs* This is exactly why I am going to need you ALL to get behind Jentry Chau Vs The Underworld as soon as it launches on Dec 5th. I promise you’re gonna love it. You’ll be gutted if we don’t get to tell more of her story (not in a cliffhangery way, in a these-characters-freaking-rule way).

Is it me or are the new BART fare gate readers way less sensitive than the old ones?

Certainly one of the more unique Cybertruck wraps that I have seen. I can't really find a coherent theme.

Waiting to board my flight at SeaTac and hardly a mask in sight, even people with a cough can't be bothered. I love that we walked away from the pandemic learning nothing.

This article is talking about different DNA testing companies. It's true that Ancestry was bought by Blackstone, they do not use Atlas Biomed for their genotyping service, they use Quest Diagnostics which is US based. newsroom.questdiagnostics.com/2016-08-03-Q... www.ancestry.com/corporate/ne...

NEW: What to Expect From ProPublica in a Second Trump Administration Our job is to give readers an independent, verifiable account of what’s happening, even if the president is calling us enemies of the people or bloodsuckers.

On one hand it's very bad that so many of our political compasses boil down to 'it's only fascism when it affects me' but on the other hand at least the Trump campaign has made a pretty concerted effort to make sure almost every possible demographic know, "Yeah, I'm talking about you too."

Video test. Here's a clip of an immersive art exhibit from a TeamLab Planets from a recent trip to Tokyo. You had to wade into shin high warm water and multiple projectors projected koi into the water, if your shadow passed over the koi it would explode into cherry blossoms.

Fuck this shit man, I'm calling my Senators and Rep to tell them to steer clear of supporting this and so should you.

If you want to know how your Rep votes, here's the link. clerk.house.gov/Votes/202417...

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I swear to you this is real.

Great article by Katie Notopoulos on how the biggest news story in the country last night was covered by a student-run radio station. It's so easy to dismiss legacy mediums but they sometimes end up being the most relevant in certain situations. www.businessinsider.com/columbia-uni...

watching the Speaker of the House declare that campus protests in support of Palestine are per se not protected as free speech, that's cool

I need to write the whole piece about this, but the thing to understand is that the NYT is now just Facebook. The platform dictates narrative to normies, is totally gamed by the right, and is still so ubiquitous as to be unavoidable even by those who see how broken it is. It's just Facebook.

congratulations on your inevitable tech scam fraud indictments

Hoodslam! Only Oakland peeps will understand, I missed it so much.

Yet another reason to envy Europe

Truly astounding leadership qualities from the X/Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino. Just ignore your boss completely undermining you and the huge wave of anti-Semitism he fed over the long weekend. Great stuff.

Now we're about to see what kind of "CEO" Linda Yaccarino is. She was just actively undermined by the company owner so badly that any illusion that she has any power or influence is shot and the site has turned into a full blown crisis. There is no righting this ship, if she stays she is complicit.

after acquiring the platform, Elon Musk quickly became the most followed user on X / Twitter but who are Musk's followers? are they real? are they active? we looked at Musk's more than 153 million followers. what we found is interesting and…concerning.

Remember this when crypto bros say its the future. Compare this to the US Federal Reserve which extensively tests and has rigrous certification processes prior to any upgrades to the banking backbone because even seconds if downtime could mean hundreds of millions of $.