Gabe Chase
@spicoli323.bsky.social
"Sed qui influet ipso influeres?"
#STEM bro by day, chaos/order agnostic #wizard by night, #humanism and liberal arts #education always.
Elder millennial cis bi White male; he/him
#AI; #PopCulture; #Science; broadly #Left/ #LGBT/#DEI-friendly politics
#STEM bro by day, chaos/order agnostic #wizard by night, #humanism and liberal arts #education always.
Elder millennial cis bi White male; he/him
#AI; #PopCulture; #Science; broadly #Left/ #LGBT/#DEI-friendly politics
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Gabe Chase
@spicoli323.bsky.social
· Jun 1
#AI #neuroscience #MachineLearning #ANNs
In terms of the #evolution of the #human brain, #language is a very recent cognitive acquistion.
Other #GreatApes seem to have most of the hallmarks of intelligence we have: a sense of #self, #tool use, even forms of #culture and #politics. (1/4)
In terms of the #evolution of the #human brain, #language is a very recent cognitive acquistion.
Other #GreatApes seem to have most of the hallmarks of intelligence we have: a sense of #self, #tool use, even forms of #culture and #politics. (1/4)
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NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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um, that’s Phish
December 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
um, that’s Phish
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sure, guys, that empty barn is real secure now just like you wanted
CBS News issues takedown orders for axed ‘60 Minutes’ story after it ‘mistakenly’ aired on Global app
CBS News issues takedown orders for axed ‘60 Minutes’ story after it ‘mistakenly’ aired on Global app
“On Monday, our Canadian broadcast partner, Global TV, mistakenly published on its app the “Inside CECOT” segment that CBS News decided to delay for a future broadcast,” said a CBS News representative in a statem
www.thestar.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
sure, guys, that empty barn is real secure now just like you wanted
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One of my very favourite songs from one of my favourite bands; this one goes out to all the #ICE agents out there doing their work throughout the holiday season.
youtu.be/LQ82BX0hGBM
One of my very favourite songs from one of my favourite bands; this one goes out to all the #ICE agents out there doing their work throughout the holiday season.
youtu.be/LQ82BX0hGBM
The Clash - Clampdown (Live at the Lewisham Odeon)
YouTube video by theclashVEVO
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December 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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One of my very favourite songs from one of my favourite bands; this one goes out to all the #ICE agents out there doing their work throughout the holiday season.
youtu.be/LQ82BX0hGBM
One of my very favourite songs from one of my favourite bands; this one goes out to all the #ICE agents out there doing their work throughout the holiday season.
youtu.be/LQ82BX0hGBM
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*Man, Jane Austen is 250 years old now
*For a writer, that's seriously old
*You'd think she'd need footnotes like Chaucer by now, but apparently not
*Jane might even be avant-garde, like: getting married, raising some kids in some nice house, that ladylike feat is dramatically next-to-impossible
*For a writer, that's seriously old
*You'd think she'd need footnotes like Chaucer by now, but apparently not
*Jane might even be avant-garde, like: getting married, raising some kids in some nice house, that ladylike feat is dramatically next-to-impossible
December 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
*Man, Jane Austen is 250 years old now
*For a writer, that's seriously old
*You'd think she'd need footnotes like Chaucer by now, but apparently not
*Jane might even be avant-garde, like: getting married, raising some kids in some nice house, that ladylike feat is dramatically next-to-impossible
*For a writer, that's seriously old
*You'd think she'd need footnotes like Chaucer by now, but apparently not
*Jane might even be avant-garde, like: getting married, raising some kids in some nice house, that ladylike feat is dramatically next-to-impossible
Andy Rooney was easy to make fun of, but if he had lived to see this I'm willing to bet his last closing monologue would have been to announce his immediate resignation with a furious speech against the MAGA regime, with pointed and detailed comparisons to 1930s 🇩🇪.
“Didy’ever spike a news story to appease a fascist, only to have it totally blow up in your face?”
December 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Andy Rooney was easy to make fun of, but if he had lived to see this I'm willing to bet his last closing monologue would have been to announce his immediate resignation with a furious speech against the MAGA regime, with pointed and detailed comparisons to 1930s 🇩🇪.
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I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.
December 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.
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Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
December 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
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This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
December 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
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TikTok is removing clips of the leaked 60 Minutes segment.
The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.
The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
TikTok is removing clips of the leaked 60 Minutes segment.
The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.
The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.
'“It was a 14-, 15-hour date,” said one Ottawa-based political operative with close ties to Trudeau, on the condition of anonymity. “I was like, Why is Justin going on lesbian dates with Katy Perry?”'
- #Slate
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- #Slate
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December 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
'“It was a 14-, 15-hour date,” said one Ottawa-based political operative with close ties to Trudeau, on the condition of anonymity. “I was like, Why is Justin going on lesbian dates with Katy Perry?”'
- #Slate
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- #Slate
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Wrote a quick script in python to in-redact the whole thing. Here’s the file. Any more we can recover?
December 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Wrote a quick script in python to in-redact the whole thing. Here’s the file. Any more we can recover?
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in time, saying "no, I never used ChatGPT and refused to do any blockchain-related campaigns" is gonna be a real boon in interviews
being in marketing its great seeing my competition light itself on fire in the most techbro way possible its amazing
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
in time, saying "no, I never used ChatGPT and refused to do any blockchain-related campaigns" is gonna be a real boon in interviews
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Have to say those photos of the surviving members of the Stone Roses as pall-bearers carrying Mani's coffin painted by John Squire to look like a Stone Roses record cover is some fittingly portentous symbolism to end 20-fucking-25 on.
December 23, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Have to say those photos of the surviving members of the Stone Roses as pall-bearers carrying Mani's coffin painted by John Squire to look like a Stone Roses record cover is some fittingly portentous symbolism to end 20-fucking-25 on.
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Welcome to A New Era, Samuel Levine!
December 23, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Welcome to A New Era, Samuel Levine!
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My best life advice for the spiritually inclined may be this: find the thing /you/ need to do, and define it as your spiritual calling. The god that wants that thing exists, and you’ll both be served well by the arrangement. If it doesn’t feel right, drop it. Be willing to redefine as you go.
December 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
My best life advice for the spiritually inclined may be this: find the thing /you/ need to do, and define it as your spiritual calling. The god that wants that thing exists, and you’ll both be served well by the arrangement. If it doesn’t feel right, drop it. Be willing to redefine as you go.
@penn-fp.bsky.social Just saw your new post and found it wonderfully timely as always. I just finished my great work of 2025: a 10+ page open letter denouncing MIT's president, a couple VPs, and one of their star professors to the National Academy of Sciences, Federal funding sources, (1/6)
December 23, 2025 at 2:12 AM
@penn-fp.bsky.social Just saw your new post and found it wonderfully timely as always. I just finished my great work of 2025: a 10+ page open letter denouncing MIT's president, a couple VPs, and one of their star professors to the National Academy of Sciences, Federal funding sources, (1/6)
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See also : "Who Got the Hootch" by "Sublime"
December 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
See also : "Who Got the Hootch" by "Sublime"
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Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight
"Witches knew that mysterious omens were around all the time. The world was always nearly drowning in mysterious omens. You just had to pick the one that was convenient."
"Witches knew that mysterious omens were around all the time. The world was always nearly drowning in mysterious omens. You just had to pick the one that was convenient."
Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies
December 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight
"Witches knew that mysterious omens were around all the time. The world was always nearly drowning in mysterious omens. You just had to pick the one that was convenient."
"Witches knew that mysterious omens were around all the time. The world was always nearly drowning in mysterious omens. You just had to pick the one that was convenient."
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I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.
December 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"Never give up. Never surrender."
The whole cast is note perfect but in particular Gwen should be remembered as part of the pantheon of great Sigourney Weaver sf roles, right up there along with Ripley and Dana Barrett.
And don't even get me started on Alan Rickman!
The whole cast is note perfect but in particular Gwen should be remembered as part of the pantheon of great Sigourney Weaver sf roles, right up there along with Ripley and Dana Barrett.
And don't even get me started on Alan Rickman!
Galaxy Quest, like Iron Giant , Fury Road and Tremors, is one of those rare movies without flaws. It's not just good, but miraculous.
Galaxy Quest - a perfect movie, just a wonderful love letter to actors, sci-fi, Star Trek in particular, and to fandom - really deserves a proper physical release with decent extras. Think Weaver's right that releasing a R-rated cut would be fun, too.
December 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"Never give up. Never surrender."
The whole cast is note perfect but in particular Gwen should be remembered as part of the pantheon of great Sigourney Weaver sf roles, right up there along with Ripley and Dana Barrett.
And don't even get me started on Alan Rickman!
The whole cast is note perfect but in particular Gwen should be remembered as part of the pantheon of great Sigourney Weaver sf roles, right up there along with Ripley and Dana Barrett.
And don't even get me started on Alan Rickman!
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i was one of the first people to compare the ai hucksterism to the radium craze, several years ago now
i think that's a good one. they put that shit in EVERYTHING.
and the way ai has broken the brains of so many otherwise smart people… in both shape and effect, it's very much like spiritualism
i think that's a good one. they put that shit in EVERYTHING.
and the way ai has broken the brains of so many otherwise smart people… in both shape and effect, it's very much like spiritualism
December 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
i was one of the first people to compare the ai hucksterism to the radium craze, several years ago now
i think that's a good one. they put that shit in EVERYTHING.
and the way ai has broken the brains of so many otherwise smart people… in both shape and effect, it's very much like spiritualism
i think that's a good one. they put that shit in EVERYTHING.
and the way ai has broken the brains of so many otherwise smart people… in both shape and effect, it's very much like spiritualism
Thinking about how #creationists refer to #EvolutionaryTheory as "Darwinism" as if to imply biologists worship #Darwin as a false prophet.
Of course this is bs because the modern theory is built on a 20th century synthesis of #MolecularGenetics and #DevelopmentalBiology, which support (1/4)
Of course this is bs because the modern theory is built on a 20th century synthesis of #MolecularGenetics and #DevelopmentalBiology, which support (1/4)
December 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Thinking about how #creationists refer to #EvolutionaryTheory as "Darwinism" as if to imply biologists worship #Darwin as a false prophet.
Of course this is bs because the modern theory is built on a 20th century synthesis of #MolecularGenetics and #DevelopmentalBiology, which support (1/4)
Of course this is bs because the modern theory is built on a 20th century synthesis of #MolecularGenetics and #DevelopmentalBiology, which support (1/4)