this absolutely psychotic war has got to end immediately, what the fuck do they think they’re doing
08.03.2026 15:43
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this absolutely psychotic war has got to end immediately, what the fuck do they think they’re doing
frightening
after talking to some people today… woof… fairly vicious antisemitism is… a lot more common now than it was before.
rolling my eyes and telling people to read theory (Helmholtz, Karl Friston)
Consciousness (probably) isn’t even required for regular intelligence lol. we constantly learn without awareness of what is being learned, see without awareness of what is being seen… intelligence (I think) is about predictive modeling of the world, and having it propel action
From Jahan Malek Khatun. They say that the Shirazi poets can’t properly be translated (I guess translating Hafez is like translating Shakespeare[?]) and I’m inclined to believe them, but I’ve nonetheless been enjoying Dick Davis’s attempt with Khatun. Real Le Ton beau de Marot hours
Wow, Piranesi, what a book!
An esteemed tradition dating back to Lynn Margulis herself
similar dynamic with bioelectricity stuff imo. it’s very woo friendly
Oh well. At least Nick Lane doesn’t have a Twitter account
omg someone else annoyed by Picard 😭 bro this guy studied under Doug Wallace. his labs work on cristae alignment is incredible. I was heartbroken when I found out he is a complete MAHA schmuck apparently now spamming LLM written twitter posts
This vibecoding thing with Claude and Colab is so fun. I don’t know shit about fuck about coding but the data visualization stuff you can do here is neat
incredible how many anticapitalists' anticapitalism consists of not even believing capitalism exists
This album is incredible… I don’t even usually fw bedroom pop but folks… it is good
Very interesting. A lot of GLPs work to lower blood glucose by stimulating insulin secretion and improving sensitivity right? Type II diabetes like doubles your risk of Alzheimer’s iirc. There’s old idea about Alzheimer’s as having a lot to do with brain insulin resistance and calcium signalling
“They’re trapped in this little confinement cell, a dark cell with no sunlight, with multiple people,” said Shaan Chatterjee, an attorney at New England Immigration Law. “They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation.”
(Free article) www.sunjournal.com/2026/02/07/i...
Sigh… I’m gonna have to read the Zurek book
Resolving the "measurement problem" in quantum mechanics would be a huge deal. Doing it without any exotic assumptions or additions to standard QM would be amazing. Now, I'm not reckless enough to say that is what has been achieved here, but...
www.quantamagazine.org/are-the-myst...
This site is weird and incorrect about AI in general for sociological reasons
"LLMs raise absolutely no philosophical questions whatsoever, because the issue of what intelligence consists of was settled a long before they existed" is an insane statement even if you cede the incorrect "it was a settled question" point to the other side.
When I was a young man I used to imagine that it would be cool and fun if the things I was interested in -- the nature of cognition & consciousness, defenses of ethics & democracy from a secular perspective -- became the subjects of broad public discourse. What the absolute fuck was I thinking.
A leading historian of decolonization, Fred Cooper, on the uses and pitfalls of the inflationary invocation of decolonization.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I parsed through some of the emails in the Epstein files, and it’s very clear that Epstein was a eugenicist weirdo. Something he very much had in common with the billionaire class à la Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Donald Trump. New for @motherjones.com.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The intersection between the microscale weirdness of anesthetics (why does spin seem to show up as relevant, why do complex I mutations seem to effect GA sensitivity more than others, why does xenon work at all) and the macroscale weirdness (brain waves) is sooooo interesting
We’ve reinvented the MMMF pre 08
wellllp
I really worry about the ability of the US state to further weaponize mass surveillance infrastructure
No other comment on this stupid ass game, however - that Bad Bunny halftime show was beautiful. I am basic but I love DtMF, that album is incredible, and the the song itself honestly makes me emotional when I listen to it
Remember. Your Ring camera is fascist.
my extremely offline and tuned out uncle watched that and immediately said “what the fuck? I’ll find Fido myself - these sick fucks want to watch us all”