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she/her Professional photographer, amateur everything else

A lesson in bad optics: the nation's gun show is the same weekend as the 25th anniversary of columbine I know that every day in America is the anniversary of xyz mass shooting but this is The Big One that people need to be aware of when scheduling a gun show

remember back when we collectively looked at world affairs through the lens of anime pretty boys and saw nothing even slightly fucked up about it?

Now I was never big into the dragon ball franchise, but toriyama has had an incalculable effect on modern anime and manga. He will be deeply missed.

honestly something beautiful about the fact that they’re measuring the performance of something that’s supposed to aspire to human intelligence by total words generated like yes you cracked it sam the more words the more information what a perfect metric

Sam Altman tweet: “openai now generates about 100 billion words per day.

all people on earth generate about 100 trillion words per day.”

In clinical trials of new treatments, when the treatment is clearly and obviously immediately effective it is sometimes considered unethical to continue to withhold it from the control group. Pretty sure we passed that milestone about a decade ago with basic income experiments.

Scott Santens@scottsantens.com · 3y ago

Fresh basic income pilot results, this time from Arlington, Virginia where 200 people got $500 a month for 2 years. The findings: Employment INCREASED by 16%, and their incomes from paid work INCREASED by 37%. The control group saw no such gains. www.arlnow.com/2024/02/06/r...