Ben Green
@bengreen.bsky.social
(H/T) Board game and TTRPG designer. US tax advisor for creative weirdos @ Brass Taxes. Outdoorsy. Anti-Zionist Jew. The lives, needs, and dreams of historically colonized, queer, and trans people are vital to humanity. Panpsychic post-anarcho-socialist.
In Kelo v City of New London (2005) the SCOTUS ruled that eminent domain can be used to transfer private land to another private entity as long as the local government's development plan claims that doing so will help the community. Historically, this has been used to give land to corps but...
The commentary on the source material and historicity at the end adds to the context of the beautiful music and poetry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Mn...
Love Song Sung in Ancient Egyptian | Leiden Lyre (:
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If every computer on earth was fried, the world would be better off.
A really interesting piece on reducing AI cheating in the classroom from a Professor of English and former Dean of Humanities at University of Utah. The solutions? Smaller classes, lower teaching loads for faculty, and in-person classes.
How to limit unauthorized AI use in the classroom
A handy rule
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I know nothing about Jack Reacher, but algorithms saw it was my birthday and I'm a white guy, so I'm getting served a lot of clips and they're all "Reacher teaches bully/thug/smug asshole/evil boss/etc a lesson" where he watches them stoically until they back down or he beats them up. Is that it?
The tax laws necessary to implement a national wealth tax already exist. All that's necessary is to extend the application of existing law. #WealthTax #TaxTheRich
@ctnguyen.bsky.social are you the same C.T. Nguyen that wrote "The Score"?
In 1966, education researchers selected about 20% of the students at random from 18 classrooms and reported to their teachers that they were "showing unusual potential for intellectual gains". 8 months later, those students' IQ scores had significantly increased beyond the average for their classes.
This is what the UAE is doing in Sudan with our weapons, our money, and our blessing. Meanwhile celebrities go play in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. This is what that tourism money is spent on. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Sudan: Mass killings, abductions, and gang rape carried out in El Fasher constitute distinct markers of genocide, UN Fact-Finding Mission says as it launches urgent inquiry into El Obeid
GENEVA – Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out brutal mass killings, systematic abductions of women and girls, and mass gang rapes in El Fasher, the UN Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan said...
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In 2014, the @latimes.com reported that Border Patrol agents were intentionally stepping in front of cars and positioning their hips on the corner so that if the vehicle moved, they could claim the driver tried to run them over in order to justify deadly force. www.latimes.com/nation/la-na...
Border Patrol's use of deadly force criticized in report
An independent review of U.S. Border Patrol shootings criticizes the agency for 'lack of diligence' in its investigations and suggests that agents' tactics sometimes create a pretext to open fire.
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Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 4w agoICE says agent shot and killed Houston driver, FBI investigating
@harry-mack.bsky.social do you ever catch yourself rhyming in conversation without meaning to?
@aspenideas.bsky.social has been reputation washing for billionaires and executives for decades. I wonder if the workers who had to import that title into the website, make the programs, and set up the space were pissed, or if they let themselves believe they were talking about someone else.
I don't know what either of these are supposed to mean, but they captivated my imagination on the way home tonight.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's family didn't pass down the skills, traditions, and passions of their musical heritage FOR 600 YEARS so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable". www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDfE...
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Mustt Mustt (Live at WOMAD Yokohama 1992)
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Dana Stevens@thehighsign.bsky.social · last mo.Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
"Small potatoes fry easily" a phrase a tax client just made up talking about why the IRS cares about such small potatoes. I love it.
What if squirrels and other animals that bury seed caches aren't forgetting them, but are purposefully burying more caches than they'll need to collect? Has anyone studied whether squirrels recognize that they planted the seed that sprouted into a plant or tree?
Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now :) > neal.fun/cursor-camp/
If AI was as game changing as the industry keeps insisting it is, they wouldn't have to force everyone to adopt it, sneak it onto our devices, or unnecessarily replace cheaper effective alternative technologies with it.
Lady Talia@djtalia.bsky.social · 3mo agoChrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...
I'm surprised NASA didn't get get DOGEd to bits the way they're pushing woke gender ideology on entire planetary bodies and naming the mission after a notorious Lesbian.
One time, Trump witnessed a car accident and there was an injured woman in labor trapped in the burning vehicle and he ripped the door clean off with his bare hands and delivered the baby himself right there on the street. Grown men were weeping in the streets. It challenged a lot of assumptions I —
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 4mo agoRFK JR: One time, Trump grabbed a placemat, turned it over, took a Sharpie, and drew a perfect map of the Middle East. Then he marked the troop strength of every country along each border on that map. It challenged a lot of the assumptions I had been told about him.
This is some of the coolest music I've ever heard. IDK what to call it, maybe dada microtonal prog rock? www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...
Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
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When you discover a typo in an email to a client that's close enough to a real word that it looks right and also unfamiliar and you have a moment of panic that you accidentally wrote some crude and maybe offensive slang to them.
