Reading about the situation aboard the USS Lincoln and once again thinking that Sun-Tzu is the most vindicated man in history. Tbf people have wised up now but there was a period where people were making fun of how basic Art of War is as a way of mocking business bros too into it. No more of that!
one day our knees will buckle under the weight of our endles sins
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 13h ago
Too many circuses and not enough bread. but I guess we can always eat cake. 😉
Football has always intrigued me in that a lot of progressive love football but also it epitomizes everything to hate about capitalism and politics. I mean, I concede, man cannot live without *some* bread and circuses.
Citizen Paul Templeman@paultempleman.bsky.social · yesterdayIn other news Oceania has declared its support for Infantino. Eastasia and Eurasia have yet to declare their position, but Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. Or Eurasia. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Fun thread, but I think that if you put in the effort to make your AI generated writing undetectable as AI generated then good on you, you win.
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d agoI just ran three different Fable generated short sections in different styles (Hemingway, Naipaul, Asimov) through it and it caught every one.
shoutout to this exchange. top 5 Woke 1 moment, to be sure
Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰@urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 4d agoWe should highlight the funniest excesses. I still maintain Saira Rao starting a consultancy where she has dinner with white lib ladies and yelled at them to be my favorite part of woke 1. Her tweets were also awesome. Generational posting talent.
“The six vaccinations .. Trump .. would drop from the routine childhood immunisation schedule are: RSV Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Meningococcal ACWY Rotavirus Influenza” Is he fucking CRAZY?! I recall from early days of lecturing that rotavirus would kill 500K children/yr, RSV several 100K… 1/3
I've figured out a solution to the pervert glasses. You can wear them, but what you look at while wearing them gets streamed. Fair is fair. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘I’ve definitely lost followers’: influencers face backlash over Meta ‘pervert glasses’ content
Using ‘spy glasses’ made by Facebook owner leads to floods of negative comments, say content creators
theguardian.com
this is i think structurally harder than it looks because an essential part of rfk jr is that there's a whole ecosystem making money off the problem, both through litigation and through snake oil, and i'm not sure that translates to AI-world
just read a paper challenging our exercise guidelines. 150 mins a week offers modest heart protection, but this study points to 9-10 hours weekly for truly substantial cardiovascular benefits. makes you think, huh.
Scientists Reveal How Much Exercise You Really Need to Protect Your Heart
A large observational study challenges current public health guidelines, suggesting that the recommended 150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous exercise per week offers only modest protection against hea
sciencedaily.com
So much money spent chasing Russell's teapot. And measles will kill tens of thousands more while we keep expanding the search.
Jennifer Shin - WTAF@jennifershin.bsky.social · 7d agoResearchers at the Statens Serum Institut in Denmark have conducted multiple landmark, population-wide studies tracking hundreds of thousands to over 1.2 million children using national health registries to examine potential links between vaccines and autism. Every major study found no connection.
Very encouraging that all the people standing between us and annihilation at the digits of AGI are, to a man, brain dead, corrupt, and/or evil.
Big Joel@bigjoel.bsky.social · 6d agosee this is what I find confusing about the rationalists. no, Donald Trump, a president who invested the US in Nvidia and who is singularly devoted to the stock market, will not broker a no-more-AI treaty with China, a country with probably very little interest in such a thing. it feels like cope
What is more distressing about this is all the people responsible are genuinely incapable of ever seeing how they will have been responsible.
rich traditions@helldude.bsky.social · 7d agothe reactionaries sort of thought you could just thrust your chest out and slap a bunch of paint and memes on things and recover national pride and a lost era of white male triumph or whatever. how's your national pride now. are you proud yet. are you feeling strong
I'll admit there are a lot of places I can't find on a map because I rarely study maps. In this I am pretty dumb. I'd spot Australia but I might confuse New Zealand and Indonesia. Japan, Russia, China? Fine. Any of the -stans? Nope. Ukraine maybe.
Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 6d ago1746 Americans were asked to find North Korea on a map These are their guesses
Trump is like "Oh, by the way, we control every country and pick their leaders" and the US media has just been like "Oh, okay!" and proceeded to do breathless horse-race coverage of the selection process. Literal imperial metropole nonsense. Might as well be UK press writing about Africa in 1900.
From the frontlines of the #ClimateCrisis
French farmers 'heavily impacted' by climate crisis, both psychologically and economically.
Alison Sargent is pleased to welcome Jean-Mathieu Thévenot, farmer in the French Basque Country, a member of the Confédération Paysanne farmers' union in France, and part of the international movement…
france24.com
Neil deGrasse Tyson shared this on Facebook. Neil deGrasse Tyson is an enormous disappointment to me. WHAT ABOUT PAPER AEROPLANES, NEIL? WHAT ABOUT PAPER AEROPLANES??
Especially for the people those weapons are normally pointed at, like Venezuelan fishermen.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last wk.Is it good when the secretary of defense is so fixated on making sure everyone is white and has tv ready abs that he forgets about munitions bsky.app/profile/carl...
my “more nuance when it’s helpful, less nuance where it’s unhelpful, decide on a case-by-case basis” protest sign is somehow endearing me to neither the “less nuance” people nor the “more nuance” people
I do find it funny that republicans are grilling Fauci while screw worm and measles runs rampant. But also sad.
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · last wk.Republicans are trying to scapegoat the infectious disease expert, even as they have gutted healthcare amid outbreaks of measles, cyclosporiasis and Ebola
Like someone still has to be out there creating the knowledge the AI is going to chop up and regurgitate later on. I truly do understand that the technology can be powerful and transformative but it has to have something to transform. The research can’t all be just on improving the regurgitation.
Some of you may be surprised to know that I follow US politics quite closely. But it's a huge country with lots of nuance, and I occasionally ask LLMs to explain posts I might not have context for... 1/n
The question on my mind is this - will the Democratic establishment put up a harder fight against the DSA than they have against MAGA? So far, yes. And will they put up a harder fight than the Republican establishment put up against MAGA? So far about the same, - so not enough.
Ifeanyi Uddin@ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · last wk.If the MAGA Movement's takeover of the Grand Old Party hurt America and its global standing, wait until the Democratic Socialists of America's subversion of the Democratic Party is complete.
