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Philip Wheeler

@philipwheeler.bsky.social

Organic Chemist. Beer Lover. Metal Aficionado.

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Chemjobber@chemjobber.bsky.social · last yr.

PEOPLE DON'T JOIN THE ACS BECAUSE THEY THINK IT'S NOT USEFUL, NOT BECAUSE IT HAS AN OLD LOGO quit trying to give the Titanic a new coat of paint and, I dunno, help out the 40% of your members who are freaking out about the Trump Administration setting fire to the American research funding apparatus

Birdpoof@birdpoof.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yeah, this applies to everything. Non-experts using AI will fail to catch errors in review precisely because they don't know the topic. Derp. And companies replacing junior employees with AI will find out the hard way that without the jr>sr pipeline, they'll have no senior SMEs to check the work!

Philip Wheeler@philipwheeler.bsky.social · 2w ago

Agree that finding the exact cutoff will be exceedingly hard, but maybe drawing some line that we can all agree is exploitation is where we start. Mine is a CEO earning more than 100x what he pays the janitor. If you can figure out how to pay him 100k per year, you earned your 10M.

Matthew Brooks@matthewrbrooks.bsky.social · 2w ago

I think he's pointing out that the fact there is no clearly agreed upon cutoff demonstrates a flaw in the original argument. The whole concept of "earning" vs. "exploiting" in capitalism gets pretty fuzzy when we dig into the details. Exploitation happens but it's hard to define.

Philip Wheeler@philipwheeler.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm for regulated capitalism myself. To get there, the first step needs to be trust busting 2.0, and politicians campaigning against corporate cronyism that hurts consumers are likely to get support from voters. Many people (stupidly) voted for Trump believing he would stand up to corporations.

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Again, what right wing Republicans and Democrats call "socialism" is the sort of regulated capitalism that was consensus for much of the 20th century. They pretend it's anti-market when really it's only anti-oligarchy

Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 2w ago

Failure to act on bullying and persistent negativity is a leading reason why employees leave an organization—more significant than salaries or wages. A study from MIT Sloan found “toxic corporate culture” to be 10.4 times more important than compensation in an employee’s decision to resign.

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𝙃𝘼𝘾𝙆𝙀𝙍𝙈𝘼𝙉ᴴᴹ@hackermanhm.bsky.social · 2w ago

it's exceptionally wild because PageRank is essentially a proto-LLM conceptually, except they used to have guys who fixed bad results and prevented people trying to game it, in recognition of the fact that the algorithm only recognizes patterns in digital text; it doesn't and can't think for itself.

Paul Bleicher@pbleic.bsky.social · 2w ago

Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.

FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)

In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.

nytimes.com

The Onion@theonion.com · 2w ago

“No bars can hold me!” this weekend as he entered his ninth consecutive hour of trying to pry open his cell. “Prison is only a mindset, and it’s only a matter of time before I release myself from its fetters!” said the red-faced, sweat-soaked Andrew Tate

‘No Bars Can Hold Me,’ Says Andrew Tate Entering 9th Hour Of Trying To Pry Open Cell

MIAMI—Confined to a federal detention center in Florida and facing extradition to the U.K. on multiple charges of human trafficking and rape, social media influencer Andrew Tate was reportedly heard t...

theonion.com

Chris Brennan@chris-brennan.bsky.social · 3w ago

In order to defeat the existential white christian nationalist threat, I will vote for anyone who fights for constitutional democracy that guarantees equality under the law for *everyone*--no exceptions and nobody left behind--regardless of how much I might disagree with their economic policies.

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Sam Neill’s character and how he responded to everyone with confidence but also kindness really stuck with me. It’s clear he knows his shit, but he’s not an asshole about it. Simple enough but shocking how uncommon that is.”

Sam Neill Inspired a Generation of Scientists

The actor, who died at age 78 on Monday, embodied a passionate approach to research and positive masculinity in his role as paleontologist Alan Grant in the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park.

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