Tobias Wilson-Bates

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This series is SO GOOOOD OMG bsky.app/profile/phdh...

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Ugh, I love it so much. Having my dining room redone with a WM-inspired print.

Basic

Especially since the second half was pretty mid too

“The water would be supplied by Carvins Cove Reservoir, the primary drinking water source for Botetourt County and much of the Roanoke Valley” 👍

Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t Published: March 26, 2003

One of the best things I ever wrote came from the effect that the Leftovers had on me. And yes, Jon, I agree! 💚 variety.com/2017/tv/colu...

Beautifully crafted.

I can read a bunch of stuff on the computer and diagnose myself, but if a company does that and misdiagnoses me without a medical license they would be liable. This isn’t hard to understand, is there some kind of gas leak happening over there?

-Walter Benjamin

I refuse to believe that you are not hip & edgy

Also didn’t they sort of speed run the entire extended underlying plot of the show in the movie?

For reference.

As Twain says “there are lies, damn lies, and then there are aggregate statistical output summaries”

The native language of a google search summary

And if you're pitching to this (which you should!), you might also consider putting in a proposal for this seminar, which might be a useful place to get feedback on a draft in progress! bsky.app/profile/akta...

Thank you for your sacrifice 🫡

Chotiner: walk me through your thinking here

Victor Frankenstein: A new species would bless me as its creator and source. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs.

Chotiner: hmm. Could you give me some insights into your relationship w your mother?

Humans Sketched Oddly Precise Geometric Patterns Onto Ostrich Eggs 60,000 Years Ago Prehistoric humans had a surprisingly sophisticated understanding of geometric rules, as this study suggests.

Humans Sketched Oddly Precise Geometric Patterns Onto Ostrich Eggs 60,000 Years Ago gizmodo.com/humans-sketc...

Daylight Savings is actually totally anodyne. The reason it's so objectionable is because twice a year we get reminded that our social form would rather mess with our sleep than shift work hours so that we could have both the sleep and sunlight after working hours.

You should be able to message now. What kind of resources are you looking for?

Chotiner: walk me through your thinking here

Victor Frankenstein: A new species would bless me as its creator and source. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs.

Chotiner: hmm. Could you give me some insights into your relationship w your mother?

It might seem crazy to imagine changing the hours of the working day twice a year, but is that more crazy than changing EVERY HOUR FOR EVERYONE instead?

Daylight Savings is actually totally anodyne. The reason it's so objectionable is because twice a year we get reminded that our social form would rather mess with our sleep than shift work hours so that we could have both the sleep and sunlight after working hours.

these are the somethings we shore against our you know what I mean

this, plus it is not beautiful

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I spent a year inside the content moderation workforce in Nairobi and Manila — the human cost of making AI 'safe' is a class story nobody wants to tell - Silicon Canals The people who teach AI the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable content earn $230 a month in Nairobi and Manila. The companies whose products depend on that labor are worth trillions. This is the class story at the heart of AI safety that the industry would rather not tell.

The human cost of making AI 'safe' is a class story nobody wants to tell. These workers are suffering repetitive strain injuries to their souls. siliconcanals.com/sc-d-i-spent-a…

The closest even pre-X Twitter came to it was a sort of gallows humor about how we were all choosing to post in Hell