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And this is not a limitation of LLMs that can be solved by feeding them more data - as far as I can see, it is a permanent structural limitation of technologies of this kind
December 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
And this is not a limitation of LLMs that can be solved by feeding them more data - as far as I can see, it is a permanent structural limitation of technologies of this kind
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This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Oates: [extinguishes candles with a sword flick]
Oates: so curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates
Musk: datsa not true!
Musk: i sleepa in a racecar, do you?
Oates: so curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates
Musk: datsa not true!
Musk: i sleepa in a racecar, do you?
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Oates: [extinguishes candles with a sword flick]
Oates: so curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates
Musk: datsa not true!
Musk: i sleepa in a racecar, do you?
Oates: so curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates
Musk: datsa not true!
Musk: i sleepa in a racecar, do you?
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These guys really think we're stupid.
I will not support the Republican bill that’s on the Senate floor because it fails to do anything of substance to fix America’s healthcare crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
These guys really think we're stupid.
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If self-deprecation was a competitive sport, I probably wouldn't even get a medal.
May 12, 2023 at 4:46 PM
If self-deprecation was a competitive sport, I probably wouldn't even get a medal.
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Nightmare employee experience and speaking personally, nightmare customer experience too.
Fuck off Target. Fix your DEI policies, pay your employees more instead of regulating their emotions, then apologize for 10 years. Until then, eat boycott bitches!
Fuck off Target. Fix your DEI policies, pay your employees more instead of regulating their emotions, then apologize for 10 years. Until then, eat boycott bitches!
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Nightmare employee experience and speaking personally, nightmare customer experience too.
Fuck off Target. Fix your DEI policies, pay your employees more instead of regulating their emotions, then apologize for 10 years. Until then, eat boycott bitches!
Fuck off Target. Fix your DEI policies, pay your employees more instead of regulating their emotions, then apologize for 10 years. Until then, eat boycott bitches!
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Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
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There will be no AGI, there will be no colonization of mars and no robot helpers, not made by any of these people, because they don’t make anything, they manipulate stocks and build houses of cards with shell corporations
November 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
There will be no AGI, there will be no colonization of mars and no robot helpers, not made by any of these people, because they don’t make anything, they manipulate stocks and build houses of cards with shell corporations
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The Craft Sequence is everywhere for those with eyes to see, but it is especially in Delaware
November 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The Craft Sequence is everywhere for those with eyes to see, but it is especially in Delaware
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Extraordinary how many establishment Democrats really wish they didn't have a talented rising new star who connects to people by talking to them and understanding what their interests are, then speaking to those interests. Like a job where the new guy makes everyone look bad simply by doing the job.
November 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Extraordinary how many establishment Democrats really wish they didn't have a talented rising new star who connects to people by talking to them and understanding what their interests are, then speaking to those interests. Like a job where the new guy makes everyone look bad simply by doing the job.
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every science news article is like "chinese researchers invent cure for hurting your back getting out of bed" and every science policy news article is like "uncomfortable bed lobby successfully lobbies trump admin with $500 bribe"
November 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
every science news article is like "chinese researchers invent cure for hurting your back getting out of bed" and every science policy news article is like "uncomfortable bed lobby successfully lobbies trump admin with $500 bribe"
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can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.
Retailers Dealing With Increasing Levels of Theft and Violence
Report emphasizes importance of preventive measures, coordination with law enforcement
progressivegrocer.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.
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Much as with Trump, it's completely frustrating to watch otherwise intelligent people see the right engage in a well worn strategy that has yielded incredible levels of success and ask "why are they doing this? Are they stupid dum dums?"
October 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Much as with Trump, it's completely frustrating to watch otherwise intelligent people see the right engage in a well worn strategy that has yielded incredible levels of success and ask "why are they doing this? Are they stupid dum dums?"
Pet peeve: "centimillionaire" and "centibillionaire" to describe people with hundreds of millions/billions of dollars. SI prefix centi- means 1/100th, so a centimillionaire is someone with tens of thousands of dollars. The SI prefix with the desired meaning is hepto- as in heptomillionaire
October 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Pet peeve: "centimillionaire" and "centibillionaire" to describe people with hundreds of millions/billions of dollars. SI prefix centi- means 1/100th, so a centimillionaire is someone with tens of thousands of dollars. The SI prefix with the desired meaning is hepto- as in heptomillionaire
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I really do wish people would notice that the “trans women in sports will dominate and that’s unfair” brigade has literally no good examples.
If the best example you can find is that a trans swimmer tied for fifth, I’m pretty sure your point is just wrong.
If the best example you can find is that a trans swimmer tied for fifth, I’m pretty sure your point is just wrong.
October 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I really do wish people would notice that the “trans women in sports will dominate and that’s unfair” brigade has literally no good examples.
If the best example you can find is that a trans swimmer tied for fifth, I’m pretty sure your point is just wrong.
If the best example you can find is that a trans swimmer tied for fifth, I’m pretty sure your point is just wrong.
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Among the nested set of fallacies built into Pollingism (for that, indeed, is the most apt moniker) perhaps the most absurd is that what people think about Democrats is made out of what Democrats say, not what is relentlessly said about them.
i love how these people act as if working class voters haven't been trained to hate elizabeth warren via a right-wing propaganda campaign in its second decade and all they really dislike about her are her liberal views. (ignore the misogyny too!)
October 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Among the nested set of fallacies built into Pollingism (for that, indeed, is the most apt moniker) perhaps the most absurd is that what people think about Democrats is made out of what Democrats say, not what is relentlessly said about them.
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The reaction here shouldn't be "we have to bite the bullet and elect a Nazi", it should be "oh shit I got fooled by a Nazi off one good tv ad, I'll try to be more careful in the future about going all in on politicians I don't know a lot about"
October 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The reaction here shouldn't be "we have to bite the bullet and elect a Nazi", it should be "oh shit I got fooled by a Nazi off one good tv ad, I'll try to be more careful in the future about going all in on politicians I don't know a lot about"
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I encourage everyone to read about the Symbionese Liberation Army and ask themselves what would be different if this were some kind of extradimensional incursion frantically but incompletely covered up by the Men in Black
October 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I encourage everyone to read about the Symbionese Liberation Army and ask themselves what would be different if this were some kind of extradimensional incursion frantically but incompletely covered up by the Men in Black
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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
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I do think it's underdiscussed just how much climate denial today is performative white masculinity
a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.
Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.
Coal is a dead industry.
(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )
Coal is a dead industry.
(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )
October 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I do think it's underdiscussed just how much climate denial today is performative white masculinity
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Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.
October 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.
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the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
October 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
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The thing about police is that they don't seem to understand that literally everyone else hates their guts. No one is pretending you're heros anymore. It's well known what shitty little cowards every single one of you is
In response to California passing a law limiting law enforcement officers' ability to conceal their identities, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California contends that police are not subject to democratic control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
October 13, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The thing about police is that they don't seem to understand that literally everyone else hates their guts. No one is pretending you're heros anymore. It's well known what shitty little cowards every single one of you is