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Dylan

@onemetricdylan.bsky.social

I used to study natural opioids. Midwest industrial chemist and hobby artist 🧫 🧪 🏳️‍🌈

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@naddpod.bsky.social · 2d ago

Welcome to the ParmaJohns family, where we sell more than decorative cheese graters, we sell... an idea. Audio from "D&D Court: Stolen Spells, Petulant Paladins, and Whacked Werehippos!" To hear the full tangent that inspired this short, listen to the D&D Court Collection at Patreon.com/Naddpod!

Dylan@onemetricdylan.bsky.social · 3d ago

I dont have proof but i feel like the online research has gotten harder as sites counter data-scraping I cant access chemical safety info without an approved account for a lot of suppliers 20+ year old papers are now paywalled. Outside of modern open access journals I cant find, like, any freebies

Iron Spike@ironspike.bsky.social · last wk.

Lichtenstein’s entire oeuvre was offensively shallow and profit-motivated from the jump. His original premise of recontextualizing “low art” was done better, earlier, and with way more joyful subversiveness by Marcel Duchamp, AND he lacked the skill to even render the work he supposedly “elevated.”

Ste Jormur@stejormur.bsky.social · last mo.

I'd never seen this Roy Lichtenstein painting before, but it's incredible how he manages unfailingly to make his copies worse than the original comics he's ripping off.

A drab pop art painting of a sinister man driving a car, watching a stoic blonde in leopard print fur. The proportions of the guy's face are off
Dylan@onemetricdylan.bsky.social · 2w ago

I know its his job to hype the product far beyond its practical use But i love the idea of tech giants hiring math illiterate engineers. A lot of software is held together on a house of cards, and they want an even shakier foundation

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.
Tom Pepinsky@tompepinsky.com · 4w ago

the hardest thing for the politician-bureaucrats to understand -- but which NSF staff *absolutely do* understand and always have -- is that you actually make scientific progress by giving young people money and promising not to bother them

Mark Histed@markhisted.org · 4w ago

Scientist here: It is widely known inside science that this—top-down imposition of a research agenda—leads to mostly rote, boring, non-innovative work. Building an institute to do discovery science is hard: you hire young people, put them together, hope synergies arise and ideas fall out.

Dylan@onemetricdylan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“manageable crisis” A childhood friend of mine is an ICU nurse in Detroit They kept running out of bodybags Its disappointing but not surprising how many people spent the pandemic just posting and complaining about not going out to restaurants. They assume it was uneventful for everyone

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 2mo ago

MAGA/MAHA sycophants now claim that because mitigation measures worked 6 years ago, this is proof they were unnecessary. The stupid, it burns.

Covid stressed many hospitals but almost everywhere it was a manageable crisis. In the spring of 2020, our system shut down almost all outpatient and “non-emergency” medical care before we had a single covid patient, anticipating a tsunami of cases that never came. Our peak covid census was <150 in a 900 bed hospital. We had hundreds of empty beds, empty clinics, and many laid off staff and sidelined physicians who had their practices closed. Millions of routine vaccinations, cancer screenings and treatments, delayed cardiac procedures. Panicking and terrifying the public was a mistake that made a bad situation much worse.