oh suddenly tech dickheads need the humanities
07.03.2026 23:59
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oh suddenly tech dickheads need the humanities
Can't even copy and paste to rearrange an article with getting prompted to use copilot to do it.
If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.
Alaska is the only American state in the top ten. And Texas is all way down at number 26.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
WA is the second largest sub national entity in the world. Only the Russian state of Yakutia is bigger.
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It's always Manul Monday somewhere...
Ben Rhodes @brhodes No legal basis and no debate in Congress about what could be a major war with no clear sense of what the objective is or what comes next.
Open Source Intel @Osint613 Non stop tankers on the move, absolutely nuts.
We donβt even get the respect of being lied into war anymore. Heβs just going to do it.
The quacks are in control
Looks to be glass made from uranium (vi) oxides
A bottle of bright yellow uranyl nitrate hexahydrate
A bottle of uranyl nitrate hexahydrate fluorescing green under ultraviolet light
Looks great under UV. Some photos of uranium salts I took in 2015:
Helium is scarce on earth (a by-product of oil extraction), and hydrogen is horribly flammable
r/analytics β’ IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
I personally do not take the hype seriously. I think the chance that AI will replace most white collar jobs is close enough to zero to ignore. I think erring in the other direction is a much bigger concern.
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
This infographic titled "The Women of the Periodic Table" highlights ten women and their contributions to element discovery. A central periodic table marks specific elements in green and orange, with lines connecting them to names and portraits. Featured scientists include Marie Curie (polonium, radium), Marguerite Perey (francium), and Clarice Phelps (tennessine). It traces history from early pioneers like Harriet Brooks to modern teams including Dawn Shaughnessy and Darleane Hoffman.
Today is the #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience π©βπ¬ This graphic highlights women of the periodic table, the elements they discovered, and the two elements named after women.
Plenty more graphics on women in chemistry here: www.compoundchem.com/category/wom...
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Happy #LibSpill Day for those who celebrate.
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Stay warm out there, it's Manul Monday!
I vaguely remember a presentation that showed the equivalent number of cigarettes smoked along with the radiation doses from various sources
This one?
I think I first heard the name around 2010, in the context of some scientists getting criticised for accepting research funding from him.
"A gaze as blank and pitiless as the sun" by sleepmakeswaves
"The soldiers didn't realise that they had lost a man" by Yegor Letov. Only five words in the original language, though (ΠΡΡΡΠ΄ Π½Π΅ Π·Π°ΠΌΠ΅ΡΠΈΠ» ΠΏΠΎΡΠ΅ΡΠΈ Π±ΠΎΠΉΡΠ°)
Swords to Rust-Hearts to Dust by ROME
On the platforms used by real estate agents for renters, documents are exposed and accessible without any form of login, according to research.
I was able to view applications and lease agreements among other docs exposed. Most of the platforms didn't respond. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The yanks meddling with our politics again in 2019.
I've worked on battery recycling. The cobalt content of that black paste from shredded batteries was ~100x that of raw ore (it's usually a by-product of nickel/copper extraction).
How come we've all had to sit through all these engineers talking about these chat bots as if they have sentience and feelings then when the humanities has had this shit worked out for like a century
In my first day as a metallurgy student in February 2007, the first lecture talked about the importance of the field, referencing how two entire ages were named for the metals people used.
This will end up as a textbook example of what happens when people are afraid to tell their boss that his idea is stupid.
