I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
forcing AI developers to move past "generative AI is for replacing people" is good actually
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
our TI-89 calculators in high school ended up being at least 75% game boys.
two dogs and two cats all standing expectantly in the kitchen
ready for dinner
I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.
wishing I could still eat gluten. my people!
Hruska's Kolaches announced nearly a year ago that the bakery would move to a new location in Sugar House. The owners have set its opening for Tuesday.
Really interesting new research from Anthropic. Turns out that as models become smarter, their OOD goals actually become more incoherent, not less?
and every TV show had teen girls dating adult men, and celebrated when teen boys got in relationships with their teachers
if you watch TV from the late '90s and early 2000s it's everywhere
I have been reliably informed by members of this government that losing access to twitter is one of the worst things that can befall a human being so this may be the single harshest consequence they have imposed on one of their own
I still can’t get over my shock at seeing Signal listed as a channel when every post likely gets passed along to a hosted frontier model…
clawdbot is very clearly trying to be the Everything App and in doing so has created an ouroboros of AI code
the repository itself is madness, I just spent half a day looking at it
did you know there have been 2500 PRs in two months and they’re getting new ones at a rate of 5-10 per hour right now
This is the coolest fucking form of solidarity I have ever seen.
Bravo.
I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
A man told me yesterday that it was important to "take emotion out of the equation“ when analysing the situation in the US, at which point I told him very calmly that "a woman who disagrees with you is not necessarily emotional".
Ladies, it was a breakthrough.
I should have done this years ago.
I don’t _have_ a diet soda habit. I’m tired of having a running monologue in my head having to convert every headline in my head to some guess about what the article is actually about.
I hate that even doing the news “right” subjects you to some sort of recommender system-warped reality.
I sub’d to apple news so that I could read news from most institutions without difficulty, and now every article is titled something like “The government wants you to kick your diet soda habit.”
is there any way to get the news now, pay for it adequately, but not have to deal with weird clickbaity headlines?
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
MINNESOTA VERSION OF COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS
Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times
genuinely stunning image
mark carney gave a speech at davos about the end of "american hegemony" and disengaging from the "useful fiction" that "no longer works"
at davos?
.... davos???????????????????????
No Kings is projected on to a mountainside above the town’s lights
Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.
View of "No Kings" from the top of the mountain
Not a projection. 450 Torches. Carried up the mountain and place correctly by 10 residents.
The Insurrection Act in no way whatsoever suspends, closes, or bypasses the courts. It is not a suspension of habeas corpus. It is not martial law. It does not authorize rule by decree. It allows using troops for law enforcement but that's it. It's not an instant dictatorship switch.
