I get astrophysics discussions too bsky.app/profile/numb...

This is lunacy. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is, at best, an environmental lawyer. He has no experience or degree in medicine or science. This is tantamount to me, an English major, giving NASA a Post-It outlining how they should revise their entire approach to the astrophysics of dark energy.

#OTD in 1967, Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars & changed our view of the universe. 𝘉𝘶𝘵... The #Nobel Prize in #Physics for their discovery went to to her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish & to astronomer Martin Ryle. theconversation.com/fifty-years-...#OTD#Nobel#Physics#WomenInSTEM #astrophysics #MatildaEffect

She’s a professor of Planetary Sciences and has a degree in astrophysics…she’s also a dominatrix who names her subs after stars ⭐️

Spent a couple days this week in the annual meeting of the Governing Board for the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics at @uwaterloo.ca. It’s great to be part of such a productive and impactful organization! (In addition to being on the board, I’m also an Associate Member) uwaterloo.ca/astrophysics...

A few fellas on strawpage liked me doing the retro thing so I did it again!

sleeping in beefter bunderland

give rabbits an orbital laser cannon. rabbits can be trusted with an orbital las(i'm rabbits) laser cannon.

recent commission for zoralla on #VGen ! #VGencomm #commission

3/3 CW: Vore

This is conspiracy theory stuff. China doesn’t need to spy on baby monitors to know what Americans are doing. They can just open Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, or one of the many apps that Americans use to share the kind of information that two generations ago couldn’t be waterboarded out of them.

It's not a conspiracy theory to say that Jim Comer is a lying sack of crap and any information that he's touched is suspect.

ah that explains it

My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.

Wait a minute

Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai

imagine relying on AI to write your bio and then having the nerve to say you're witty and full of personality

hier nochmal eine kleine übersicht zur ethisch/moralischen einordnung von diversen ki-modellen

AI "safety" and "alignment" are a joke. All they can do is either tweak the system prompt (which will never be 'safe', it just goes in the soup with the rest of the input) or pattern-match on input/output, the kind of the 9-year-olds figure out ways around in kids games.

At least once a month, Anthropic puts out an alignment paper d AI behavior where, if you saw it in a science fiction film, you‘d be screaming at the idiot scientists onscreen to stop development www.anthropic.com/research/eme...

This month marks 3 years since I drove across the country with 2 yowling cats and moved to Jersey It is wild to think about because honestly I feel more at home here than I ever did in Oklahoma and can't imagine wanting to go anywhere else in the US. Aside from pricey rent, it is my Ideal Home.

It's important to randomly act bored and indifferent towards your cats so they understand how that feels.

Caturday throwback. #cats #catsofbluesky #caturday

Pals. 🥰 Photo from my collection, no date/info.

My cats haven’t left my side since I got sick. 🥹 They are such sweeties!

People want more jiggle physics, so we give more jiggle physics! Wishlist here store.steampowered.com/app/2626570/... #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

36 years ago today, 14 women, most of whom were studying engineering, were killed by an anti-feminist gun man at École Polytechnique in Montreal. I was a young graduate student studying physics at the time and I will never forget. #MontrealMassacre #NeverForget 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ 🎢 #AcademicSky 🇨🇦

I was reminded of the despicable Supreme Court amicus brief written by 24 philosophers and associated right-wing cranks that have suffered no social repercussions for their harming of trans people. All of them are a disgrace to the profession; all operate with impunity www.aei.org/wp-content/u...

The LinkedIn visionaries have come up with a solution to their AI datacenter cooling problem. It involves putting them in the coldest place they know: space. Which is extremely funny if you know like any physics at all.

(vore) After days of fighting render errors, I have finally manifested a slightly fancier version of that thing I already made. Was it worth it? I dunno, the extra physics are kind of nice

Hey all! I'm LoS and I'm digging my way out of work deadlines and back into the arting routine! Here's a bunch of completed work from the past year or so, since I have NOTHING new lately A mix of surprise me comms and some personal pieces I still think holds up!

there’s just NO WAY there’s a dumber site than linkedin right now

Problem is: Neither our work culture nor our education culture incentivizes deep learning. Instead, we're incentivized to economize--to learn only what's needed to finish the task or get the answer right on the test. So, people use ChatGPT, even when they know they could learn more by other means.

It's been yet another heavy, scary, infuriating week in this country. It's easy to feel angry, scared, hopeless (those feelings are ok). But. But. The universe is incredible, and we are learning amazing things. Dive into this deep field; let it be a positive start to your weekend ✨

One of the first deep programming sessions for @slave102.bsky.social when I started learning hypno.

BACK IN STOCK 🥳🤩🥰👍 Film-O-Clean 8mm / Super 8 / 16mm www.wittnercinetec.com/FilmCleaning

Me: This design should reflect the old, but with a bit more distance, dissatisfaction, playing much more into a serious villain than a cartoon one as a coping mechanism Also Me: ...but if she didn't do stupid fucking bits or smirk like a gremlin she'd absolutely die.

The loaner, Ren. #art #digitalart #oc #characterdesign #anthro #furry

Here's a rule of thumb: If "AI" seems like a good solution, you are probably both misjudging what the "AI" can do and misframing the problem. >>

Very much agree with this. It’s bizarre that TGA has a category for fighting games that it can barely fill with actual new releases every year, but there is no mechanism for honoring either puzzle games or puzzle design. It’s a foundational genre with a booming scene.

Watching this YouTube UFO video of two guys talking about information theory & how the universe is a simulation and all I’m thinking is even if this is true it doesn’t affect my existence in any meaningful way

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

Toy chica is William Afton,,, I know this has been a joke thrown around but in UCN toy chica does rep William in her dating game cut scenes, and recently the guide book she’s featured in midnight motorist, so this silly joke theory becomes more true pff (Last fnaf comic I did!)

After putting the game back in beta and promising to stay heads down until next year, the Splitgate 2 devs announced they’re ending the beta for a December relaunch, and my meaningless conspiracy theory is that they’re doing this so they can relaunch their game at another Geoff Keighley gaming show

We think of the TTRPG space as a hobby, but it's really a collection of related hobbies. Some love playing. Others collecting. Others watching. Some prefer theory. For some it's hating. The number of people whose sole focus is hating on a game or edition they don't play is incredible. Joy vampires

Conspiracy theory I am floating: What if UVA’s AD, who is on the CFP committee, boosted JMU over Duke to force the ACC to rig the championship game in UVA’s favor. Sort of a double conspiracy theory

this report's interesting, because it's sourced to anonymous department of defense officials — not navy officials — and the whole attack is on video, would be a very dangerous game to play if the video evidence doesn't clearly support this theory

"Not me, I am a special snowflake who is immune to well known human cognitive biases and propaganda" okay maybe not you, you brilliant, strong-willed person. But Matt Yglesias? Someone like that? You don't think they are biased by "which of my posts do well" and "what replies do I see first?" Hmm,

Yes. stuff like that. Our tiny monkey brains are shot through with easily exploitable cognitive biases and its trivial for a malovolent actor who can control what appears on our phone screens to exploit them for his own ends. You are not immune! Your brain is a tiny monkey brain too!

In the last fifteen years, if i do something badly, i get stick on social media. That's fine. I'm realistic. However when i do things well, the number of people keen to ignore, make excuses for, diminish or attack shows the degree to which cognitive bias rules. Racism is one of many such biases.