Philip Wheeler
@philipwheeler.bsky.social
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Organic Chemist. Beer Lover. Metal Aficionado.
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ouinne.bsky.social
The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.
Screenshot of David Simon interview 
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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teamcanadaforever.bsky.social
Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions.
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joemenn.bsky.social
I don't remember seeing any calls for violent retribution after a Minnesota state senator was assassinated, and it would have been nice not to see any today.
philipwheeler.bsky.social
AI-generated content is AI slop.

Signed,
A Lazy Luddite
bnacker.bsky.social
Starting to regret inventing the podcast
philipwheeler.bsky.social
Endorsed.
daveweigel.bsky.social
Now that everyone has beaten this up, maybe a more popular one.

If you are introducing someone at a conference, learn how to pronounce their name! Crazy how often people stumble over the guests they're introducing. It's disrespectful!
daveweigel.bsky.social
Thought from a week of conferences: If someone uses uptalk or says “like” and “you know” I can’t take them seriously. You can train yourself to speak more confidently and you owe it to the audience.
philipwheeler.bsky.social
I suspect you're not at the kind of conference I attend. If someone is speaking too confidently about their scientific research, I can't take them seriously. Expressing doubt about the validity of assumptions is the mark of a good scientist. But that's just like, my opinion, you know.
daveweigel.bsky.social
Thought from a week of conferences: If someone uses uptalk or says “like” and “you know” I can’t take them seriously. You can train yourself to speak more confidently and you owe it to the audience.
philipwheeler.bsky.social
I hate that you have misquoted Tim Cook in your post and made it look like he has half a spine.
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swin24.bsky.social
Stuart Stevens, currently to the left of most democratic leaders on the Hill
philipwheeler.bsky.social
This strikes a nerve. I hate EA with a passion.
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iid.bsky.social
It’s crazy that America just like. Destroyed science. Just looked at its golden goose and went “wow should we kill this? And not for the gold, but just because we fucking hate this thing”

And if you tell random people about it they go “no, that doesn’t seem true” and just refuse to believe you
philipwheeler.bsky.social
The water bottle thing seems so quaint now.
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
If Trump pardons convicted child rapist Gislane Maxwell, they will absolutely officially be the pedophile defender party.

The fact that this is even being considered is sickening.

She also has been moved to a nice min security prison, a club Fed, ALREADY
philipwheeler.bsky.social
I have adapted my behavior to copy-paste instead of clicking through. Pavlov was right. The negative reinforcement of seeing Edge open every time I clicked was sufficient.
philipwheeler.bsky.social
Milkshake's blog is legendary. Especially at the end
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tomjoscelyn.bsky.social
Trump deploying National Guardsmen in DC exposes one of his big lies about January 6th.

Kash Patel falsely claimed for years that the Democrats failed to take Trump up on his offer to deploy the Guard on Jan. 6.

But Trump could have deployed the DC Guard himself and didn’t. Now he does.
philipwheeler.bsky.social
Blog comment sections had their fair share of monkeys with typewriters thanks to anonymous posting. I feel like ChemTwitter at its peak was better.
philipwheeler.bsky.social
That's kind of the point of faith: believing because you choose to believe, not because evidence compels you to.
philipwheeler.bsky.social
As a scientist, I know full well there is much more to the world that what my senses perceive. Yet I do not see any need to invoke a divine creator to rationalize it.
philipwheeler.bsky.social
Tamal is the singular of tamales but just like pierogi, who orders only one?
darinself.com
The thing that is bugging me the most about the pierogi discourse is people saying "a pierogi"

Pierogi is plural folks
philipwheeler.bsky.social
Looks bloody delicious.