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Alex Merz πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

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"There are no answers; only choices." – S. Lem I choose one [o] or two-cell [8] organisms and dissonant music. Professor of Biochemistry @ UW-Seattle. Any coincidence of my opinions with my employer's is coincidental.

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tell us again why you voted to confirm this guy, @cantwell.senate.gov ?

06.03.2026 23:18 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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DOOCY: It sounds like the Russians are helping Iran target and attack Americans--


TRUMP: That's an easy problem compared to what we're doing here. What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time. We're talking about something else.

06.03.2026 22:58 πŸ‘ 537 πŸ” 169 πŸ’¬ 113 πŸ“Œ 96
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Tesla sued after Austin shooting suspect allegedly assaulted co-worker A 65-year-old woman says the automaker ignored warning signs before Ndiaga Diagne, the suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting, assaulted her. She sued Thursday.

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year

the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter

www.statesman.com/business/art...

06.03.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 3961 πŸ” 1464 πŸ’¬ 59 πŸ“Œ 110

The banality of evil.

06.03.2026 19:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.

– Siphonaptera, by Augustus De Morgan

06.03.2026 18:45 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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ICE's New Maryland Detention Center Would Need 209,000 Gallons of Water a Day. Nobody Knows Where It Will Come From. ICE has filed no permits, made no water request and disclosed no plan for sustaining 1,500 detainees in a building allocated 800 gallons a day.

ICE's New Maryland Detention Center Would Need 209,000 Gallons of Water a Day. Nobody Knows Where It Will Come From.
open.substack.com/pub/projects...

06.03.2026 17:19 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I am not pretending, or trying to pretend, any such thing.

If you are upset about LLM execs' dishonesty, you do your position no favors by being less than honest, yourself.

06.03.2026 17:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And it is a very different question than the ethics of the executives of these companies.

06.03.2026 17:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No idea what you're trying to do here. You said that LLMs can only copy things. That is plainly false.

06.03.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Those are, as you well know, two very different things.

06.03.2026 17:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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”The situation is tense” – How OrbΓ‘n has tried overcome Fidesz’s internal crisis - Direkt36 Fidesz underestimated opposition leader PΓ©ter Magyar so much that they realized too late that he posed a real threat to them. Direkt36 reveals how Viktor OrbΓ‘n launched his spring offensive against Magyar and how this caused tensions within the government.

πŸ‡­πŸ‡Ί EXCLUSIVE: An in-depth look at how Viktor OrbΓ‘n and Fidesz underestimated PΓ©ter Magyar until it was too late. Direkt36 reveals how OrbΓ‘n’s spring offensive against him backfiredβ€”fueling internal tensions and exposing cracks inside the government.

06.03.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's not a person but it can also do a lot more than copy things.

06.03.2026 17:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, this is bleak. It is also hilarious.
It is bleak.
It is hilarious.
It is bleakly hilarious.
It is hilariously bleak.

06.03.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I really, really hope you meant to do that.

06.03.2026 16:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That's just the mode they're in, I guess.

06.03.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Missed opportunity to put her in charge of the WH grounds and turn her into a garden Noem.

05.03.2026 19:18 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Reviewers are human and I am sure I've made errors, too. But it sure would be nice to have some sort of error correction mechanism that's more direct and precise than what we actually have.

06.03.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is about meningitis caused by Streptococcus, but unfortunately more relevant than ever now that the dangerous idiot grifters running DHS/CDC have rolled back recommendations for the meningococcal meningitis vaccine.

06.03.2026 15:55 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh they'll comply all right. It will just take a while.

06.03.2026 15:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Two different reviewers, for two different cited papers, cool.

06.03.2026 15:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Always a favorite: claiming I didn't show "preliminary" data when I cited our preprinted, in-press paper.

06.03.2026 15:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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a little girl in a red and purple dress is brushing her hair with a brush . ALT: a little girl in a red and purple dress is brushing her hair with a brush .

I knew how reading this summary statement was going to go. Mission accomplished!

06.03.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

06.03.2026 15:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Even the Stasi didn't wear masks, you low-grade Dollar Store fascist.

06.03.2026 15:41 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Put them in a jar with broken glass and piano wire, screw down the lid, shake

06.03.2026 15:38 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is what Francois Jacob had to do during the Nazi occupation of Paris. Draw your own conclusions.

06.03.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I finally got Zoom's "AI Companion" to tell me how to disable it.

There's no option in the phone or desktop app, you have to go to your account on the Zoom website.

06.03.2026 14:55 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Bay of Pig

06.03.2026 14:25 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

been saying the same

06.03.2026 14:22 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They clearly are not. Just as clearly, they are all-in on his war: 80% approval.

06.03.2026 06:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0