RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

This is embarrassing. I don't remember if it was the same in the book, but it bothered me how ridiculous Project Hail Mary's portrayal of the scientific process was. I know it's fiction, but one dude isn't singlehandedly solving the biggest problems in physics on his own alone in a lab.

I'm trying to respond to some of the replies, but Bluesky keeps glitching out.

So why exactly are they pushing Gavin Newsom so hard when he's polling below AOC and Kamala Harris? www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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Maybe it's the depression talking, but now that I think about it, Silly Putty isn't very silly.

I implore y'all to read a single book on philosophy before half-assedly reinventing Pascal's Wager.

The problem is the hype is objectively *not* true, but tech will make sure AI replaces humans anyway. We're seeing it already. It's really the worst of both worlds: people lose their jobs and we don't even get functional products as a result.

lots of people seem to be okay with AI doing whatever form of art they consider lesser.

the movies we truly deserve: thread

Not just because it’s how you get better but bad art is good for the soul to create

This is an excellent thread of very excellent dog pics.

Republicans: We don't hate immigrants. We just want them to follow the legal process to become citizens. Also Republicans: You don't seriously expect us to go through the hoops of the legal process, do you?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

I have like four followers but every little bit helps.

37% of the country *still* approves of ICE. Yes, this is what they voted for.

Not for nothing, but when was the last time you heard a current politician recommend reading anything other than the bible?

We don't have an immigration problem. We have a white nationalism problem.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

You know, maybe I'm out of line, but this doesn't feel like it should be an extreme position.

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon is roughly a million pages long, but it's excellent. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Sucks to be harassed, doesn't it?

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

I don’t use social media to argue about politics with strangers. I use social media to talk to people about fish. When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish.

Awww

"Drink whole milk, you'll come in 5th place" is an incredible ad campaign.

Agree. Hard drugs can be fun.

"If something confirms my bias, check it harder" is excellent advice.

It is one hundred percent possible to organise society in such a way that no people are kidnapped and/or murdered by the state at all

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Covid 19 welcome to the resistance i guess whatever

I have a note: journalists shouldn’t post AI slop in a time of national crisis

I've noticed this, too. If we have any level of expertise in a given subject, we can tell right away how bad Gen AI is at attempting that.

George Clooney literally told Joe Biden to stop being president and it hasn't affected his career one bit.

Is this the "War on Christmas" they've been warning us about?

This explains like 90% of American politics right now

People really need to understand that LLMs are not actually good at anything and it'll be obvious when you try to get one to do your job.

Fight it all you want, but the Virtual Boy is here to stay.

got my adhd upgraded to ad4k

This shouldn't even be mathematically possible.

I think it's because the shame is starting to work. Keep it up.

Bad news: I fell while running last week and busted my nose pretty badly. Needed three stitches. Good news: The photo I got out of it is EPIC.

A dog that I thought would almost certainly be put down found a home today. He was my favorite dog at the shelter and I hope he has a life full of belly rubs and fetch going forward with his new family.

Billionaires have never read Sideways Stories from Wayside School and it shows. wayside.fandom.com/wiki/Bebe_(b...

Creativity is not efficient! Creativity is not efficient! Creativity is not efficient! Creativity is not efficient! Creativity is not efficient! Creativity is not efficient! Creativity is not efficient! Creativity is not efficient! Creativity is not efficient! Creativity is not efficient!

One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.