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[SallyM]

Where's the questions thread?

How much mud would a mudruck muck if a mudruck could muck mud?

[SallyM]

Google, Meta, X and all the Tech Bros

The best use I’ve heard of was a group trying to make a medicine using AI to analyze thousands of chemical compounds and narrow them down to a few dozen that were worth having the human scientists actually test, which led to productive results that would have been impossible to achieve without that aid. I’m not sure if I’m remembering every detail correctly, but that’s the gist- using AI for something it’s actually better at than humans, analyzing and sifting huge piles of data. Not doing the ac…

[FSogol]

See it, post it

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[SallyM]

Google, Meta, X and all the Tech Bros

Sam Altman managed to both complain about China ripping off his work and insist that he is entitled to steal from anyone who has ever produced anything at any point, which might be some of the most spectacular hypocrisy in history. I’m sure when Elon says IP laws should be deleted he’s only thinking about ones that protect people from him.

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

On a rational level, I get it, but it’s still hitting me fundamentally, in whatever part of me was still holding on to the illusion that good guys win and bad guys lose, that respect and decency were still valued and valuable, that for the most part we’d learned from history and would keep striving to become better as a society. I know everyone isn’t so awful and evil, there are still many good people in the fight, and that at some point the tide must turn… but it’s getting harder and harder to…

[Nightflyer]

Thank you.

I’d like to nominate @Hanglyman 's reply, which IMHO is better than mine:

The goddamn Trump Administration

I feel this so much. I cannot understand why and how so much of the world is going fascist, as though some kind of virus is stripping people of reason and compassion. I cannot understand why anyone would want any of this or how they’re apparently fine with their heroes being insecure, stupid, lying criminals who have nothing but cruelty to offer. I cannot fathom such a huge percentage of humanity being monsters- not just misguided, ignorant or apathetic, but literal monsters devoid of every posi…

[SallyM]

I agree that that reply is great. Overall a good conversation.

[OhHai]

The goddamn Trump Administration

Honestly inelligence doesn’t look like anything and also isn’t a permanent state. Most of one’s life is attrition. People just don’t like to accept that luck and social privilege control 99.9999% of their life so they cling to any story that tells them something else.

[SallyM]

Systems of education and its discontents

[1000039233] First, on the new splashpage, Harvard publicizes how gov’t-funded scientific research benefits the general public. Headlines: “Regained mobility for stroke survivors,” “Lowering prescription drug costs,” “Keeping kids in school.” There’s barely a whisper about the humanities or social sciences here, but in my view, that’s OK–the point is to make the most compelling argument to the general public (not to represent the breadth of Harvard’s value). The FIRST link on the splashpage i…

[KeybillyJefe]

The goddamn Trump Administration

I’ll take some of that rage for you, no problem. I have more than enough to go around. I keep thinking I’m going to start running out at some point, but then RFKjr drops another quote like that and suddenly my rage meter is full again. This is one autistic person that would love to give him a five minute demo of how I can indeed wield a baseball bat. Well, not to give rfkj any credit to speak of, but I will admit that musk doesn’t actually have a job, pay taxes, play baseball, or write poetr…

[OWYAC]

That is a thing of beauty.

[SallyM]

Thinking about history

Stephen King is correct. I have not read the original documents of the Kennedy assassination, but I trust the historians who have… that’s exactly what depending on expertise means…

[mindysan33]

Thanks!

[Murgatroyd]

Transphobic events

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[SallyM]

Women, amirite?

Don’t want women engineers working on the damned things but we are supposed to be so thrilled that some billionaires and billionaires’ wives can squander US money on their self-actualization while we are told orphaned children don’t deserve their social security payouts or, even, a single free meal. Kind of sickening and forgive me if I don’t feel super empowered.

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

So, you want to write a letter? Nah, the paperclip as a symbol: The first mass outbreak of civil disobedience occurred in the autumn of 1940, when students of Oslo University began to wear paper clips on their lapels to demonstrate their resistance to the German occupiers and their Norwegian collaborators. A seemingly innocuous item, the paper clip was a symbol of solidarity and unity (“we are bound together”), implying resistance and similar symbols (red garments, Bobble h…

[MerelyGifted]

Random Silly Grins

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[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

It’s kind of like how all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are the increasingly fast-paced dissolution of our society under the pressure of looting by narcissistic oligarchs. Or something.

[SallyM]

The Law Doesn't Always Suck

Shall i throw in my standard parenting advice? The job of any parent is to make themselves unnecessary. Hopefully not unwanted, but unneeded. If you still feel the need to control your kids past probably middle school, something has gone very wrong. I absolutely agree with you. The boomers (spoken as a borderline boomer/Xer) need to let go.

[MerelyGifted]

Any discussion re: any type of encabulator deserves The Likes, but this is an exceptional post:

Random Silly Grins

And, as usual, there is no mention whatsoever that no type of encabulator would even be possible without the cavity toggle floggle. First developed as a theoretical concept by Ernest Rutherford in the 1920ies who thought it wouldn’t be possible to build with the technology available at the time and didn’t pursue the idea any further. But then Tommy Flowers succeeded in building a, admittedly somewhat crude, prototype as proof of concept in the 1930ies during his time at the Post Office Researc…

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The preceding post is also deserving of much love - look at all that research! Just look at it!

Random Silly Grins

Incidentally, for those who may not know, the encabulator has a long and storied history. In particular: Circa 1977: ["Turbo Encabulator" the Original] 1962: The original original is an article from 1944, published in Students’ Quarterly Journal. Somewhat shockingly, it’s paywalled: Quick, J. (1944). The turbo-encabulator in industry. Students’ Quarterly Journal, 15(58). doi:10.1049/sqj.1944.0033. [image]