John Pallister
@synchromesh.com
Programmer, musician, parent, husband. Pleased to find himself on the Kapiti Coast in New Zealand.
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Simpering cowards one and all.
This is almost unbearable to watch.
This is almost unbearable to watch.
Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
September 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Simpering cowards one and all.
This is almost unbearable to watch.
This is almost unbearable to watch.
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It freaks me out when people use their phone case as their wallet. Like do you want to lose everything at once? Because that’s how you lose everything at once
January 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It freaks me out when people use their phone case as their wallet. Like do you want to lose everything at once? Because that’s how you lose everything at once
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Do you like stories about gay cyborgs and reality-warping mysteries in an art deco cyberpunk dystopia based on a never-ending World's Fair? Consider reading my comic, Dark Science! dresdencodak.com/2024/02/05/d...
Dark Science #143 - Diablo Training - Dresden Codak
Let it move you!
dresdencodak.com
February 5, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Do you like stories about gay cyborgs and reality-warping mysteries in an art deco cyberpunk dystopia based on a never-ending World's Fair? Consider reading my comic, Dark Science! dresdencodak.com/2024/02/05/d...
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This is either brilliant or sad.
January 8, 2024 at 5:04 PM
This is either brilliant or sad.
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20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital.
The law only ever serves capital.
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2024 at 4:34 PM
20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital.
The law only ever serves capital.
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Bertrand Russell’s letter to fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, 1962
December 23, 2023 at 6:27 PM
Bertrand Russell’s letter to fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, 1962
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You ever ponder how we read all kinds of articles about AI being used to prejudge criminals or detect wage theft or whatever, but never articles about it being used to forecast how much welfare a person needs to avoid criminality, or detect early signs of burnout to recommend work breaks?
December 24, 2023 at 12:29 AM
You ever ponder how we read all kinds of articles about AI being used to prejudge criminals or detect wage theft or whatever, but never articles about it being used to forecast how much welfare a person needs to avoid criminality, or detect early signs of burnout to recommend work breaks?
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Experimental feature for those comfortable with DNS, you can set your domain to be a CNAME of `redirect.bsky.app` and we'll redirect your domain to your bsky profile URL.
Disclaimer: this is an experimental feature and may be removed if we run into problems with it, but hopefully not!
Disclaimer: this is an experimental feature and may be removed if we run into problems with it, but hopefully not!
December 23, 2023 at 4:33 AM
Experimental feature for those comfortable with DNS, you can set your domain to be a CNAME of `redirect.bsky.app` and we'll redirect your domain to your bsky profile URL.
Disclaimer: this is an experimental feature and may be removed if we run into problems with it, but hopefully not!
Disclaimer: this is an experimental feature and may be removed if we run into problems with it, but hopefully not!
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I've invented a new cognitive bias called unmotivated reasoning and it's about accepting whatever logic ends the conversation the quickest
December 23, 2023 at 2:29 AM
I've invented a new cognitive bias called unmotivated reasoning and it's about accepting whatever logic ends the conversation the quickest
Prednisone, methotrexate, cyclosporin - what’s next?
December 21, 2023 at 11:25 PM
Prednisone, methotrexate, cyclosporin - what’s next?
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In a historic decision Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court barred Donald Trump from running in the state’s presidential primary after determining that he had engaged in insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.
Donald Trump is barred from Colorado’s 2024 primary ballot, the state Supreme Court rules
The ruling from the state’s highest court Tuesday marked the first time a court kept a presidential candidate off the ballot under a 1868 provision of the Constitution that prevents insurrectionists...
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2023 at 11:57 PM
In a historic decision Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court barred Donald Trump from running in the state’s presidential primary after determining that he had engaged in insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Heard someone refer to the “Cybertruck” as a “sport-futility vehicle,” and that one is gonna take.
December 16, 2023 at 9:00 PM
Heard someone refer to the “Cybertruck” as a “sport-futility vehicle,” and that one is gonna take.
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it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know
this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science
this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science
December 14, 2023 at 10:35 AM
it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know
this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science
this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science
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I’m sorry it’s just so fucking funny that they built an entire AI just to give them the answer they wanted to this question and they couldn’t even do it
December 9, 2023 at 2:42 AM
I’m sorry it’s just so fucking funny that they built an entire AI just to give them the answer they wanted to this question and they couldn’t even do it
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Dammit! Benjamin Zephaniah was an amazing writer and human being!
Benjamin Zephaniah, British poet and campaigner, dies aged 65
The dub poet and author of collections including Talking Turkeys has died of a brain tumour
theguardian.com
December 7, 2023 at 1:40 PM
Dammit! Benjamin Zephaniah was an amazing writer and human being!
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34 years since a male engineering student at the École Polytechnique in Montreal separated the men from the women in his class and shot the women. “You are feminists, I hate you.” 14 died. 14 more were injured.
Let us remember them.
#WomenInStem 🧪
www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...
Let us remember them.
#WomenInStem 🧪
www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...
www.cbc.ca
December 7, 2023 at 11:03 AM
34 years since a male engineering student at the École Polytechnique in Montreal separated the men from the women in his class and shot the women. “You are feminists, I hate you.” 14 died. 14 more were injured.
Let us remember them.
#WomenInStem 🧪
www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...
Let us remember them.
#WomenInStem 🧪
www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...
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"Non, je ne regex rien!" --Edit Piaf
December 7, 2023 at 12:37 AM
"Non, je ne regex rien!" --Edit Piaf
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Do not go gentle into that good night
December 1, 2023 at 6:36 PM
Do not go gentle into that good night
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apparently "nicotine is a potent anti-inflammatory and seems to help a variety of autoimmune disorders, especially neuro and GI" is a known thing in medical research ??
i put together a public doc sharing the resources & research i've found regarding nicotine's potential as a therapeutic for long covid/autoimmunity
Nicotine Research
The Nicotine Test: Patient-led experiments https://linktr.
paper.dropbox.com
December 6, 2023 at 8:43 PM
apparently "nicotine is a potent anti-inflammatory and seems to help a variety of autoimmune disorders, especially neuro and GI" is a known thing in medical research ??
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Society is now locked in an existential struggle with itself to decide what archetype will replace “consumer” the way “consumer” replaced “citizen” in the 1950s
December 6, 2023 at 12:53 AM
Society is now locked in an existential struggle with itself to decide what archetype will replace “consumer” the way “consumer” replaced “citizen” in the 1950s
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this is the most 2020s paragraph i have ever read
December 3, 2023 at 1:08 AM
this is the most 2020s paragraph i have ever read
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this is incredible stuff! case studies of severe long covid put in remission by monoclonal antibodies
more on the ace2 receptor, the cold coronavirus, and epstein barr (mono) and me/cfs
https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2023/11/29/monoclonal-antibodies-long-covid-chronic-fatigue-syndrome
more on the ace2 receptor, the cold coronavirus, and epstein barr (mono) and me/cfs
https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2023/11/29/monoclonal-antibodies-long-covid-chronic-fatigue-syndrome
Three Severely Ill Long COVID Patients - Three Rapid Recoveries: Monoclonal Antibodies, LC and ME/CF...
Three case reports indicate that monoclonal antibody therapy rapidly restored severely ill patients with long term cases of long COVID to health. Implications for chronic fatigue syndrome are explored...
www.healthrising.org
December 3, 2023 at 3:20 AM
this is incredible stuff! case studies of severe long covid put in remission by monoclonal antibodies
more on the ace2 receptor, the cold coronavirus, and epstein barr (mono) and me/cfs
https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2023/11/29/monoclonal-antibodies-long-covid-chronic-fatigue-syndrome
more on the ace2 receptor, the cold coronavirus, and epstein barr (mono) and me/cfs
https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2023/11/29/monoclonal-antibodies-long-covid-chronic-fatigue-syndrome