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Will @popher.bsky.social · 7h

No he didn't. The writers retconned most of wormhole physics as they needed to, and in the pilot when he walked backwards through it, it was fine.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 7h

First they disappeared brown men they claimed were bad. Then they disappeared their kids. Then they bombed fisherman thousands of miles away. Then they moved to prosecute, jail, and kill anyone who wasn't right wing.

It's happening, today.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 7h

The fact the Dems have to frame the shutdown debate around healthcare costs and not the fact the republic is entirely failing and becoming a fascist autocracy really speaks to the quality of the media and political literacy of the public.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 7h

It's plainly clear this Presidency has to be ended by Congress or by the States. He is beyond treasonous at this point.

Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 7h

Adam--wake up, it's worse.

Screen shot from CNN of Trump, Bondi, Noem, Patel and fifth person behind a table, with mics, in the State Dining Room of the White House. Tweet by "Really Anerican": "In a shocking moment, AG Pam Bondi suggests that the DOJ will execute American citizens they deem as Antifa, "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take this same approach with antifa." This attorney general is unhinged.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 7h

This man at the hotel bar thought that was the funniest thing

And then he tells me he's here with his wife for her birthday? Why are you talking to me sir. What's going on.

Then he tries to tell me the bartender looks like Andrew Garfield.
Dude. Who is paying you.

Will @popher.bsky.social · 7h

It was very tasty and it came with a little donut. Would recommend.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 8h

"who needs to learn"

Anyone who wants to be able to validate the code.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 9h

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

scienceforeveryone.science

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 8h

Oh I'll get one but I couldn't get it before dinner or else I wouldn't have eaten anything of substance today.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 9h

For reference though I grew up in rural Scotland and I live in eastern Washington, so some days the right gust of wind can be pretty exciting to me.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 9h

Guys.

Palm Springs is really gay.
I'm not sure if anyone else knows this. But like, really gay.

(In the best way)

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 9h

In which @sararah.bsky.social advised me to get a date shake

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 12h

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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Will @popher.bsky.social · 10h

The hotel has free wine and an adults only pool and it was empty when I sat down and now there are yappers.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

Good lord.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 12h

If computers robots or the internet had improved people's work life balance I'd believe it, but how can anyone believe these AI charlatans

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