Agree - I think a lot of people are assuming the death threats Republicans get are "being a woman on Twitter" style, there's a good chance they're "crossed the local Mafia" style.
Ozmodiar, Space Elf@ozmodiar.bsky.social · yesterdayIt’s hard to avoid the conclusion that they are scared for themselves and family. I wonder how organized the threat machine might be behind the scenes
A tangent: I'm very aware of them because they are my daughter's worst sensory aversion. Though it's only the horn "chirps" like when you lock and unlock. She barely notices regular honks (like when someone doesn't notice the light is green).
tweety fish@sifu.tweety.fish · 5d agoCar horns. We've taken an incredibly high salience, ear-damaging emergency signal necessary for warning of imminent deadly heavy equipment failure and backed into filling out fucking lives with it to no gain.
Yeah, trying to imagine fully-ad-libbed edutainment videos and they would be pretty painful to watch.
Doll@dollspace.gay · 5d agoYou do know they are *all* actors with scripts right? All the youtubers you like? Right?? They are all actors with scripts! Thats the way its been for over a decade!
I think the right move, which I don't see enough of, is developing a synthetic philosophy of how to co-exist with all this, as humans have had to try do in past industrial revolutions. If I could convince a think tank to hire a cartoonist, I'd be doing it tomorrow instead of between projects.
reverse engineer biodigester glucagon-like peptide hard disk edutainment One that surprised me that it's the same age as me: "video game" One that didn't: "Watergate" (it was just a hotel name before then)
Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 5d agoFind the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/
Timeline synchronicity. FWIW I think a lot of "AGI is here/almost here" sentiment is from (subtle, subconscious) ELIZA effects. Then again AGI has to be possible unless souls are a thing.
Yep. 30-odd miles per dollar of electricity, and I don't even have time-of-use rates.
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · last wk.people really sleep on the must lower cost of ownership piece. yeah most EVs are pretty expensive to buy but the savings is thousands per year
Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18
Micah@rincewind.run · last wk.Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18
electability arguments are always but always bullshit that is trying to snow you. vote--and advocate as vigorously as you can for--your preference in the primary, vote against the greater evil in the general. anybody who presents a different option takes you for a rube.
whet moser@whetmoser.com · 2w agoyou should vote for the candidate that you think will do the best job in office for their constituents and not try to do some pool-trick bankshot based on ads that haven't been cut yet and perceptions of how median voters will react
"Scientists who use AI are morons who aren't reading" I'm a computational social scientist and I feel like LLMs are a lot of things, but one thing they can be is a computational tool for text-based information in science. Here is what I am doing this morning
Even Trump’s critics give him too much credit: they assume that this stuff is part of something grandly presidential, albeit evil. A cunning political ploy. A sinister plan to steal 2028. No! He’s that one unstable person you know who goes on and on about the time they were wronged a decade ago.
ID can be worth it as a tradeoff for packages including other things. But having all paper ballots / voter-verified paper audit trail is something we already have everywhere except Louisiana (long story but they'll get there by 2028) and it doesn't stop people from yelling about it as if we don't.
1000 counties, 100000 polling places, each with multipartisan oversight. Consider how many goons would be needed to bully one polling place, or one county. They'll refuse to accept the results, and spew fraud BS everywhere, but that's not new.
Richard M. Nixon@dicknixon.bsky.social · 3w agoI want to get ahead of this speech tomorrow. You are going to hear a lot of cries of the sky falling. Remember: the President of the United States does not control elections. States and localities do, and even if you say "he has the military," there aren't enough in the 48 states to make a dent.
Good morning everyone, reminder that if being this hard on yourself was going to work, it would’ve worked by now
Catherine 🌌@catieslaughts.bsky.social · 4w agoAnyway idk who needs to hear this but you can always start again
I've been kinda hoping LLMs cure the common "you must reuse at all costs" mentality. My job is working on an internal platform at a bigcorp so I see all the downsides of reuse. Arguably I see *only* the downsides.
TypeError@fubarchitect.com · 4w agosomething interesting about 'just use <extant tool>' as a finger wag about agents: <extant tool> is almost never made for exactly what you do with it i expect a lot of debundling and tool fragmentation as people replace 'the big thing they use for exactly one feature' with 'one thing well' homebrew
Social media makes the anti science, anti vax crowd seem much larger than it is. Surveys show it’s actually a very small share of the public greatly outnumbered by science believers. My new column: on.kff.org/4wthpni
Americans May Be Smarter About Vaccines Than You Think
In a new column that analyzes recent KFF polling, Founding President and CEO Dr. Drew Altman concludes that only a sliver of the public hold definitive anti-science, anti-vaccine views, and are greatl...
on.kff.org
It me. I remember an eval at work a few years ago: - Led DB design on major project ✅ - Mentored others in DB design ✅ - Knows fundamentals of DB design ❌
Elixir of Progress@elucidating.extradimensional.space · last mo.Also it's just factually the case that the average electrician knows way more about their craft and what they do/do not know than the average software engineer. Most SEs are poorly trained, have very spotty academic qualifications, and generally are 60% self-taught.
"ontology" is the study of placing one thing on top of, or onto, another thing
we do this every 2 years but we have so much turnover i’m the only one who remembers
In some ways our problems are truly solvable they just require conditions that seem impossible, chief amongst them having a *stable* congressional majority more than two years
“Over prior years, we didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers that have been with us through many product cycles.” Evergreen.
Big Sadness doesn't want you to know this, but just quietly being in the presence of someone you love and who loves you in return is very nice, actually.
it was really funny because we all remember the recent period where you were being messaged about HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO SPEND MONEY and IF YOU ARE NOT SPENDING MONEY, YOU ARE LOSING
To understand what's happening, you need to understand that some people genuinely, without any artifice, believe we are getting recursive self-improving intelligence in the next year or two. Folks view this as akin to the race for nuclear weapons in terms of international import.
