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anti racist anti eugenics anti genocide funk acolyte ride bikes every day he/him
It is an incredibly grim time in a lot of professions and LLMs are a thread that connects them.
Prof. Nicole Holliday@mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 4h agoThis is the part that breaks my heart. "Generative AI has broken the sacred contract between professors & students: that the professors are there to teach and the students are there to learn. The understanding has been broken...That’s a very deep part of the grief” www.chronicle.com/article/thes...
this is the smokiest day of the year so far where I live. I have my windows closed (thankfully I'm working in my very cool basement) and my CR box running. I cannot imagine just sitting in this. That particulate is nasty shit that you do not want in your lungs.
The recent hysteria over bike and ebike regulation is infuriating, dumb, and counter-productive.
When we say "defund the police" what we mean is "they literally scam-overtime bankrupted this city."
A really funny complaint about the Zohran discount grocery store idea is that non-poor people could use it when there’s a grocery store half a mile from my grocery store that has everything cost 20% more that rich people go to because they don’t want to shop with normal people.
it's heeeeeere, you may now read my essay about how i achieved the millennial dream of home ownership and immediately lost my mind on nextdoor. thanks to the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org crew for their ongoing support of me being Like This
How I became the villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor
“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”
oaklandreviewofbooks.org
There's a lot of ink spilled on MAHA and vaccine hesitancy and related things, and not much of it talks about how public health completely undermined their own credibility with farcical low-effort lies like 'immunity debt'
Esther@elhopkins.bsky.social · 4mo agoMany are rethinking now this flawed strategy www.bmj.com/content/390/....
I interviewed Carney and all I got was this article (and existential dread)
The Beaverton@thebeaverton.com · 7h agoCarney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground
"At 18 months, the scores on most cognitive tests were significantly below expected premorbid levels (mean differences: 7–17 T-points). At 36 months, deficits persisted in most domains, with only WAIS Matrices and D2 KL showing modest improvement"
Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP@davidjoffe64.bsky.social · yesterday
Thrilled that @theguardian.com has run this fantastic profile of @gilduran.com and his intrepid reporting on the hard right turn coming out of Silicon Valley-- his forthcoming THE NERD REICH is as gripping and urgent as they come, a staggering piece of writing that puts the bigger picture together
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
theguardian.com
even in the last 10 years! Road disc was revolutionary. Modern mtb forks are revolutionary.
Detroit マッシュ aka Heavy Pedal@mubou-rider.bsky.social · 7h agoBicycles! Bicycles have gotten insanely better in the last 40 years, light weight materials, fashionable designs, so many form factors, so many avenues for fun and fitness while also varying levels of affordability and accessibility for all physical abilities. I love bikes (fuck cars tho 😅)
Bicycles! Bicycles have gotten insanely better in the last 40 years, light weight materials, fashionable designs, so many form factors, so many avenues for fun and fitness while also varying levels of affordability and accessibility for all physical abilities. I love bikes (fuck cars tho 😅)
Happy Birthday Rich
ALT: Happy Birthday Rich
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Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 22h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
This kind of thing is so interesting to me - cases where entire fields of science are compromised by mundane problems that the people within the field don't even consider archive link: archive.is/wSjtj
C.S. Lang@cslpoetry.bsky.social · 2d agoSomething Is Very Wrong with Modern Longevity Science www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Coyne is a loser but this will likely attract its subject's attention and maybe an Elon-style crashout, which would be funny
Mark Kersten@markkersten.bsky.social · 7h ago"Mr. Lütke himself is among Canada’s richest people, with a net worth in excess of $15-billion. He is also a first-class fool, when it comes to matters other than making money." One person, one vote is basic democratic principle. We should try it some time: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
it’s not that weird to say dogs are better than people, we fucking designed them that way on purpose
I saw a video from a recovering alcoholic. He talked about how he used to buy rounds of drinks all the time. It wasn't generosity. He was trying to get everyone else hammered so he wouldn't feel so guilty and awkward about being sloshed himself. I feel like similar happens with some AI pushers.
It's sad the way Seattle voters have lost touch with the Seattle Times editorial board.
So far, voters overwhelmingly approve Seattle library levy
A property tax levy to fund the city's public library system over the next seven years is solidly ahead after the first release of vote totals Tuesday evening.
seattletimes.com
from “Amusing Ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman 1985
Appropriate air quotes because the most infuriating part about Americans debating "lockdown" is that it simply never happened. Having to pick up your Applebees and eat it on the sectional does not count. There wasn't even a brief moment where "everything" was closed. That's not real.
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 3d agoif you hated covid "lockdowns" try long covid
Hey Flash Gordon how about you make a rocket that doesn’t blow up before we talk about “Moon Factories”
Technological Advancements Allow Data Centers To Run On Even More Electricity https://theonion.com/technological-advancements-allow-data-centers-to-run-on-even-more-electricity/
In Canada we got a demonstration of the power of Sikh trucking when all the white 'truckers' camped out in Ottawa for a month and somehow there weren't food or goods shortages anywhere
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 12h agothe funny thing about people in the western world being angry at sikhs for taking all the trucking jobs is that people in India are also angry with them for taking all the trucking jobs. It's not you. It's what we do. We are the Truck Guys.
I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...
We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector
In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...
defector.com
if you like modern jazz and you aren't listening to everything Nicole McCabe is doing you are MISSING OUT and you need to fix that asap
Virginia health officials have confirmed the state’s first known case of locally acquired dengue fever
Virginia resident has state’s 1st locally acquired case of dengue fever - WTOP News
Virginia health officials have confirmed the state’s first known case of locally acquired dengue, a viral disease usually associated with international travel.
wtop.com
in 2016 Elon Musk said he would build a fully automated factory in Fremont, California for the upcoming Model 3 and he then spent on the order of $2 billion on production lines that didn't work, forcing Tesla to assemble cars by hand in a tent but sure, now he's gonna do it on the moon
“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”
BrooklynVegan, Alt Press Hit With Mass Layoffs
Music publications Revolver and Goldmine have also been gutted by owners Veeps and Live Nation
pitchfork.com
"As society becomes more addicted to AI, our interior space will be increasingly hollowed out...resist both internally & externally. Sing. Write poems. Paint. Cook. Carve wood. Learn an instrument. Whatever you do is better than anything AI will create b/c you are awakening your own authenticity."
Charlie Angus@charlieangus104.bsky.social · 11h agoHere are my four steps you can take to push back the darkness. charlieangus.substack.com/p/push-back-...