> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Doesn't Nostr have that niche filled?

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

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The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.

Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com

This may come as a surprise to people, but access journalism has caused this mess in the first place.

Do the work. Screw the press creds. Be journalists.

Getting my Covid booster, “How are you?” “Living the dream - stabbing people.”

A DHS data-sharing platform used for sharing restricted intel among government agencies, law enforcement and fusion centers was misconfigured to allow access to "everyone" including tens of thousands of unauthorized government staff, contractors and foreign nationals. www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...

This is shameful. While I doubt I'll have an impact, I've written to my alma mater (#RPI) urging them to reconsider their vaccine-autism research contract, as are many others I know.

The outrage of a no bid contract on autism to an engineering school that doesn't even have a department of epidemiology or neuroscience is only exceeded by the choice of recipient, a data scientist who last published on autism in 2020 and thinks like Wakefield. 🧪 #episky 🧵
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That’s ridiculous! Some of us act like kids under 12 and need those stickers for our microwaves.

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

Walking to my car, I pass two men in button-downs and overhear an adamant voice: “I have seen people levitate. I have seen someone crawl up the wall.”

Banning trans people from owning guns is a really REALLY significant escalation and I think the scariest part about it that's not being discussed at all is that the plan is to declare that trans people are mentally ill

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Heartbreaking: Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point

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I don’t understand how this represents a problem with the Flipper Zero rather than a stringing indictment of the car security industry. www.404media.co/inside-the-u...

Amazing talk by Markus Gaasedelen on exploring hardware reverse engineering. So cool watching someone share this level of mastery and discovery. And an incredibly heartwarming homage to quend ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGlI...

That's not quite the case here - the DB wasn't hallucinated, it existed outside the LLM, the problem was he hooked the LLM up to the production DB so it could generate queries, and it promptly deleted everything. Still a terrible idea, but not the same as the 'LLM wrote a novel' roleplay.

check out my new piece, "Endoplanetary Ecologies"

video of slime mold created via analog glitch video microscopy, presented in a custom designed + 3D printed housing wrapped in gold leaf

I’m at @hope.net this year - if I know you and you’re here I’d love to meet up!

This looks fun to scrawl in fountain pen, and indecipherably miserable to read, goodness

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Computers should only be able to speak through the animatronic faces of bound creatures. If you want to ask ChatGPT a question? You must enter a Chuck E Cheese and commune with the powerful rat, like the Oracle at Delphi

Excited that my article 'Levels of Legibility: Roles and the Flow of State Information in French Morocco' is now out in Social Science History! The paper shows how French administrators' internal communications transformed environmental knowledge and practices in Morocco

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