The question is always "what if a kid is wrongfully transitioned" and never "what if a trans kid is denied the ability to transition and endures years of excruciating dysphoria and has to have multiple surgeries later in life to fix the issues caused by going through the wrong puberty."
Omfg
I'm listening to a new audiobook and having trouble getting into it. But worse than that, I can't figure out if the issue is the writing, the translation, or the audiobook narrator. Recently listened to a book narrated by John Hopkins, who was *excellent*. This one, maybe not.
What's the best one?
I have no idea what Myst is. I will definitely watch.
America: [1776-?] Some great ideas marred by poor direction and unlikable characters. Greed, bigotry, and gratuitous violence. ★★☆☆☆
When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.
Tone doesn't communicate well via text, but I'm actually just confused. I have seen the clip a bunch of places, but didn't find it newsworthy then or now. I'm genuinely surprised someone would think it needs *more* attention. I tried to communicate why it feels so banal to me - guess it didn't work.
A 2021 survey found that about ~65% of Americans believe aliens exist. Only 52% of Americans believe in human-driven climate change (U Chicago 2025). Obama agreeing with 2/3 of the country isn't a revelation.
Um...are you talking about Obama saying aliens "are real, but I haven't seen them"? Basically agreeing with the Drake equation (proposed in 1961)? What's there to talk about? It's not news for a former president to have scientific views.
if I ran for parliament promising to leave all my decision-making to a magic 8ball it would be functionally equivalent to this, but the headline wouldn't be "magic 8ball runs for parliament"
I asked him why and he said, "I don't know. I'd have to ask someone from quantum field theory." So probably not very satisfying, but from your starting point re: relationship between dimensions, it's likely that if that could be, someone would have the math to support it.
From my partner (not in quantum field theory): the reason that the theory is they're "rolled up small" is because that is what is shown to be mathematically possible. What you're suggesting probably hasn't been suggested because it's probably not mathematically possible.
Picked my partner's brain; he thinks it's field-specific. There are way more astronomers on bsky because visual media engages more and can communicate more info in fewer chars, while quantum field theory, for example, has a small potential audience and is v challenging to communicate in this format.
I'd say post it. *Somebody* will see it.
Was it more prevalent on X, suggestion a migration issue, or is this a short form platform issue broadly? Most physicists I know want more nuance than 240 chars offers.
My partner is a physicist and I'm pretty sure it's because he has very large teams he's regularly talking to; there isn't such a desire to send thoughts "into the ether", as it were, if you can just text or email an expert. (He also doesn't use bsky much in general, which may be a bigger factor.)
A samosa is a cozinha
Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court.
Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business.
As well as everyone else who stepped up.
I'd go further and say: it shouldn't matter even if they were useful (still, they aren't).
If your society only functions because of a cabal of pedophiles, abusers, and sex traffickers operating with absolute impunity then it's not a society worth having.
To my knowledge, no ICE Enforcement and Removal officer has ever been shot by an immigrant.
Might be wrong but I don’t think so.
In agreement! Love the idea of what generative models can do.
Dislikes:
No safe guards & rails
Desire to replace all workers
Need for the systems to consume everything it touches
Corporate thought that it can replace human art
Etc. etc
It is pretty pervasive, but I have found some good people there. It's the most common tag, so we have to put our voices in the spaces to attract like-minded people. But I suspect AI promoters use the spaces differently from AI-haters.
"The fact that we charge tuition for the privilege of participating in these experiences could be mistaken for a scam: one in which no learning and very little effort are exchanged for grades and credits.
But, I assure you, this is not a scam. This is innovation."
"Citizenship is a privilege" is such a fundamentally racist statement that it's really hard to know where to go from there.
So Labour go to "Simply being allowed to be here is a privilege", just make sure you're getting the message.
80 years of international humanitarian law can go whistle.
Here’s a story about Nazis, antifascists, corrupt political movie-making and The Nobel Peace Prize, which has zero contemporary relevance.
megaphone.link/ARML4304032796
"Please sit down."
“With this decision, Governor Stitt has made Oklahoma less attractive to highly qualified educators & has weakened the institutions that provide the most accessible & affordable education to its residents—at real cost to students, communities, & the democratic & economic future of the state.”
Reading this while home with a URI. Would like some political will, please.
Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
