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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · Aug 30

Had a great time visiting Berkeley's Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience!

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Eli Sennesh: Oscillations, but not Spike Rates, Encode Predictive Processing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Talk by Eli Sennesh of Vanderbilt University. Given to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley.Abstract: The appearance at the...

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 14h

> 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

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 5h

Don’t wanna downplay how serious this is. Is there a meaningful line between what he’s saying he’s going to do (redirecting appropriated funds for a non appropriated purpose) and, say, deciding to spend 20% more than the total Congress has appropriated at all because he controls the treasury?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 10h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5h

more and more convinced of the need for a sort of plastic surgery norm around Gen AI: it’s fine in of itself to use, any use of it where it’s clear to a layman that you used it should face severe ostracism. If you can’t get away with it without me knowing, you aren’t responsible enough to use it

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 14h

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 11h

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The AI water issue is fake

On the national, local, and personal level

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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 15h

Are we growing tired of social media? Have we remembered that there are better ways to spend time (like reading good books)? #AIEthics By @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

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Have we passed peak social media?

As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 14h

We already got Bayesian inference as dialectics

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 15h

I made this in 2020 and I'm not as nuts about nationalizing everything under the sun anymore but the kernel about fighting the privatization of science is here.

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 15h

The "Great Resignation" under Biden was literally a mass reinforcement learning event for the capitalist class. Workers discovered they had power, quit en masse, and the ownership class got traumatized. Now they're operating from that learned trauma - hence the "jobs are sticky" phenomenon.

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Peronism with American Characteristics @olenargy.bsky.social · 15h

Fight Club as a nihilism canary

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 15h

For the tl; can't read folks:

Being a subsistence peasant as an absolute nightmare and especially if you were a woman or doing "women's work," where meeting your "respectability" could be nearly impossible for many households.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16h

This week on the blog: More Peasants!

This week, we're modeling the full(ish) structure of women's labor in a pre-industrial peasant household, very roughly assessing the work required for textiles, farming, cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc.

Now with pie chart!

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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVe: The No-Rest Of It

This is the fifth dish of the fourth course of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers, who made up a majority of all of the humans who…

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Has a government ever simultaneously pissed off its troops and its farmers before? Because historically, doing just one of those tends to lead to bad things.

two men are sitting at a table in front of a crowd and one of them is saying that 's a bold strategy cotton

ALT: two men are sitting at a table in front of a crowd and one of them is saying that 's a bold strategy cotton

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1d

He was a baby! How do we know he was an asshole?

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 2d

The basic idea seems to be that the economically exploitable ones should be kept and exploited while those who are either too rich or too poor to exploit as a labor force should be expelled en masse.

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 2d

LaTeX

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 2d

The dog has to be regimented and disciplined so the man can stream on Twitch? I didn't know dogs were forces of production!

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 3d

now says "No upcoming due dates
Program 23-500 is currently waiting for a new publication"; in prior yrs, would've been due 11/5. Can't ask NSF POs right now... if any1 got info on this before the shutdown happy to hear it! @jaeyoungson.bsky.social i saw you had a similar q, tagging you in too. #NSF

mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · Aug 19

The Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at NSF are no more?

But hopefully I misunderstand?

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screenshot of SBE fellowship webpage with words "archive" circled in red.

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 2d

>the banner of "anti-authoritarianism" was appropriated and misused by non-anarchists

cool story bro

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Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 2d

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 2d

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 2d

Is that some kind of superhero muscle balding version of... Hitler?

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Spooky Chum @spookychum.bsky.social · 2d

God is a pervert

☭ Mutha Nature 🏳️‍⚧️Bodily Autonomy For ALL @muthanature.bsky.social · 2d

Remember, God is watching you.

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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 2d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

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Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 2d

By the end of today, more oppression and exploitation will have been done than had been done up to any previous day in human history!

Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 2d

>Unlike human cGAS, which inhibits DNA repair

Bro what the fuck? Why do our genomes encode a self-sabotaging enzyme?

Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 2d

The Canadian experts were being Canadian polite. "Could be good, depends on the details" means "I know when you show me the details you'll show me a reason to tell you to fuck off."

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