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subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 10d

so yeah first episode date TBD but we're going to do a podcast about bigoted texts through history. mostly misogyny to start with but there's so many kinds of garbage to work with

Odium Symposium @odiumsymposium.bsky.social · 10d

watch this space, first episode coming soon!

(and thank you to the lovely @bittenbovine.bsky.social for this incredible art!)

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 7h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 6h

(screaming at my wife) it was the most important election of our lifetimes you shrew

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subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 7h

a post that could never exist without the US being in its death throes

ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 7h

worth reminding people outside of the country that something like three quarters of american men are circumcised.

subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 7h

oh this is a good one

Random three-body problem @threebodybot.bsky.social · 4d

Initial conditions:
m1=29.9 m2=3.4 m3=15.7 (solar masses)
v1x=-4.292 v1y=-2.816 v2x=1.861 v2y=2.299 v3x=5.073 v3y=4.874 (km/s)
x1=26.0 y1=-11.0 x2=12.0 y2=35.0 x3=6.0 y3=0.0 (AU from center)
Music: First Step (Interstellar) – Zimmer

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subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 8h

marjorie taylor greene is doing politics the right way

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Wind Turkey @dog-envier.bsky.social · 9h

Post by BeijingPalmer from 2024: "I would simply not have my pager supplied by a terrorist group that regularly attacks Israel."

He is QTing a post by Molly Shah which says:
"Someone is mad at me for saying if Israel can literally develop booby trap pagers and deploy them at will in civilian locations in Lebanon with no international consequences than there is nothing preventing them from doing it to you-but it's true- it's also true your own government will do it"

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subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 10h

british always sunny

Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 18h

Is this real or am I in a coma?

Young Conservative with a Doctor Who question mark pullover.

subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 11h

in 2020 I posted a graphic describing pizza delivery as more dangerous than cop work and hailing the Thin Crust Line, and a boomer DMed me asking if I had considered that this might be offensive to cops

subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 11h

I don't want the discourse to improve. I just want lan Miles Cheong not to get paid

subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 11h

I doubt he sincerely cares whether social liberalism comes back I think he cares deeply about whether he has to risk anything, especially getting shot

subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 11h

oh yeah I mean I've been training in the ezra klein hater hyperbolic time chamber since 2020, he gets zero charity from me. but that leads me more to the conclusion that he's a personal coward and idiot who's throwing everything out of the hot air balloon in a panic

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subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 11h

elon musk for autistic people should be like the vizier that whispers in your ear "remember that you are mortal too."

Lizzie Kodpuak née Acid Lich (Gröbnerpilled era) @acidlich.bsky.social · 11h

Like I don’t really know how the truism autism = obsessed with justice survives a reality with Elon musk in it. The counter example to end counter examples

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subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 11h

I don't think coates is talking about "waiting it out." I think he's talking about this being a very long struggle where you can't sacrifice people or values for short term gain and expect it all to work out

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subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 11h

that was a great read btw

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subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 12h

what about if there were a serial killer under your bed who only killed people who due to their lack of knowledge of famous gandhi murder pill thought experiments prevent the ai apocalypse? Would it be ethical to force you to take the pill?

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subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 12h

I'm shocked. the Atlantic? that's near the peak of the prestige pyramid. there are a lot of cities where you can barely cover rent with a well reported article every week in the Atlantic?

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Lyn’s art corner! ✨ @sleepysnoot.bsky.social · 1d

Passing, but at what cost 😔

Me and a course mate sit and have lunch together. During conversation, he finds out that Im trans

I blush and ask him if he didn't notice anything before, hoping to receive compliments

He replies that all the details he noticed before, he chalked it up to me being italian

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subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 23h

what a wonderful thread!!! love your explanation of the geometric mean, the order of magnitude business is definitely a better understanding than what i had

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Bill Shillito @solidangles.bsky.social · 23h

I've been thinking a lot about means recently!

Probably some combination of (1) teaching our data analysis unit in our STEM 101 course at Oglethorpe and (2) all of @howiehua.bsky.social's great posts surrounding Mean Girls Day.

I'd like to show how some of these various means are related.

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A four-panel graphic showing formulas for four types of means. Each panel includes the formula and the name of the mean in bold text below.

Top left (red background): Arithmetic Mean, labeled “AM = (x₁ + ⋯ + xₙ) / n.”

Top right (dark blue): Geometric Mean, labeled “GM = ⁿ√(x₁ ⋅ … ⋅ xₙ).”

Bottom left (purple): Harmonic Mean, labeled “HM = n / (1/x₁ + ⋯ + 1/xₙ).”

Bottom right (dark green): Quadratic Mean, labeled “QM = √((x₁² + ⋯ + xₙ²) / n).”

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subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 23h

see i cant do that because i have slow stupid brain

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subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 23h

the piece is a favorable exposition of nick land (so, it's fascist) and the broader point is to glorify the "will to think," an annoying, AI vibesy variation on nietzchean "will to power"

subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 23h

what they mean in context is that there's a better thought experiment to consider, one where you can't evaluate the change in advance. the author has us instead imagining ghandi taking a superultrabigdickintelligence pill

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subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 1d

unlike real academia :^)

subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 1d

the thought experiment in question. rationalism is just sitting in a plato's cave of this kind of nonsense and whispering to each other "oh that shadow is very important"

Gandhi is the perfect pacifist, utterly committed to not bringing about harm to his fellow beings. If a murder pill existed such that it would make murder seem ok without changing any of your other values, Gandhi would refuse to take it on the grounds that he doesn't want his future self to go around doing things that his current self isn't comfortable with. Is there anything you could say to Gandhi that could convince him to take the pill? If a serial killer was hiding under his bed waiting to ambush him, would it be ethical to force him to take it so that he would have a chance to save his own life? If for some convoluted reason he was the only person who could kill the researcher about to complete uFAI, would it be ethical to force him to take the pill so that he'll go and save us all from uFAI?

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subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 1d

the internal lore of rationalists is so funny to me. no man. this thought experiment is not "famous"

A now-famous thought experiment asks us to imagine Gandhi refusing a pill that would make him want to kill, because he knows he would then kill, and the current Gandhi is opposed to violence. This misses the real problem by assuming the change could be evaluated in advance.

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