giulio rospigliosi
@clementix.bsky.social
unpopular/unconventional/weird “what I do is me — for that I came”
Right Turn on Red was one of the biggest mistakes America ever made.
Gordon Padelford@gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 9h agoI'm hearing some concerns up about implementing "no turn on red" as a default policy in Seattle, so it's worth remembering that allowing turns on red only saves "1-5 seconds" on average for 🚗 drivers, meanwhile it increases 🚶🏼 crashes 60% and 🚴🏾♀️ crashes 100%. Info sdotblog.seattle.gov/2023/05/04/n...
New zine: pulling together quotes and recommended readings on the importance of thinking critically about AI, especially for people newer to this conversation. This link shares all the quotes/sources, plus a downloadable PDF for anyone who wants to print/share their own copies: guante.info/aizine
In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.
institutions of higher education are shuttering entire departments and laying off staff while signing multimillion dollar contracts to provide students with access to the plagiarism machine
our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)
Acheter, meaning 'to buy', is a French verb that it gets from Latin acceptāre 'to take'. The Old Norman equivalent to acheter was acater, from which Middle English gained the position of an 'acater', an official who bought provisions. This lost its initial A in English, giving us the word 'cater'.
This is so cool. Apple trees have such a complex genome that when developing new varieties, they don’t plant the seeds from the apple because it will not produce the same apple, but graft little branches from that new tree onto hearty stock.
Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 2w agoThis 2000-year-old grafting technique is why almost every apple, citrus and grape tree you know exists. Ancient China and Rome figured it out first.
(1) clearly invoke your 6th amendment right to counsel (2) clearly invoke your 5th amendment right to remain silent (3) shut up You can’t talk to cops. They aren’t your friends. Theyre not there to help you. They’ve targeted you & are looking to build a case against you. Don’t help them.
Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
"It takes more work to communicate with someone whose native language isn't the same as yours. And autism goes deeper than language and culture; autistic people are 'foreigners' in any society." -Jim Sinclair, from the foundational essay Don't Mourn For Us: www.autreat.com/dont_mourn.h... #autism
Don't Mourn For Us
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A Virginia lawsuit argued that Southern states’ felony disenfranchisement rules are violating the conditions of their readmission to Congress after the Civil War. “We should be seeing more lawsuits on this,” says a constitutional law scholar.
A Voting Rights Promise, Betrayed for 156 Years - Bolts
After the Civil War, Congress readmitted Southern states on the condition they not expand felony disenfranchisement—but they quickly ignored the restriction. It has finally caught up with one state, with a federal court ruling against Virginia and reviving the Reconstruction-era promise.
boltsmag.org
Hi, I am a psychologist and specialize in evaluating adults who went undiagnosed in childhood. We actually are noticing it more in older groups. We’ve also updated the diagnostic criteria to recognize people who were overlooked previously.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoRFK Jr on autism: "'Oh, we're just noticing it more.' But this is an absurdity ... if we were just noticing it more, we would notice it in older groups. But we're not ... so something happened in the mid '90s that changed our children"
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
carlsonlab.bio
Babylon 5 full episodes being made available on YT (Pilot plus first 3 eps so far) youtu.be/HQXZ3HZ-fFk
Full Episode Announcement! | Babylon 5
YouTube video by Babylon 5
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"The world’s organisations have been captured by people in the throes of frothing excitement, and saner people who now live in a state of constant commingled fear and frustration." hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani...
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking
The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.
hermit-tech.com
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
thenerve.news
nobody warned me that Nolan's The Odyssey is, for the most part, boring
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 01,1945
US COVlD Update, PMC, July 27, 2026 ▪️10 hot spots (see Alt text) ▪️Persistent high/very high levels in TX ▪️FL, AK, HI, & the continental northwest picking up ▪️1 in 198 people estimated actively infectious nationally ▪️1.57 million estimated weekly infections & rising (1/2)
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
lrb.co.uk
As good as many of you said. I really appreciate the unambiguous point that this primarily a racist moral panic before unpacking the nuanced second-order explanations. dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
dannykatch.substack.com
Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...
Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery
A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.
cnbc.com
Well…isn’t this a little gem. @jenpsaki.bsky.social did you know about this?
Yu Deng's path to math, and to the Fields Medal, took him through the worlds of competitive Go and classical Chinese poetry. I had the privilege of profiling him for @quantamagazine.bsky.social. www.quantamagazine.org/yu-deng-wins...
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