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@provisionalidea

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founder. orgs. tech. cybernetics. ex-biotech. ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ I have strong opinions; you will not agree with all of them. Thatโ€™s a good thing. ๐Ÿ“š I share what I learn.

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James Rosen-Birch โš–๏ธ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ
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WHAT PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOUR KILL COMPANIES? we set out to answer this question as part of our work a little while ago, did a few hundred interviews, and built out a network model -- which revealed seven interconnected loops! (h/t to @visakanv who convinced me to share results!)
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Iโ€™m sorry as someone who used to work in MRI that propaganda video alleging bags with guns were stored in the same room as an MRI machine makes me want to swear profusely you cannot. put metal. in the same room. as a giant. fucking. magnet.
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Israel is banning *water purification tablets* from entering Gaza
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Tamara Qiblawi ุชู…ุงุฑุง ู‚ุจู„ุงูˆูŠ
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New investigation: we explored Israel's ghost list of items that are being arbitrarily denied access to Gaza since October 7. These include: Anesthesia machines, oxygen cylinders, crutches, solar panels, ventilators and water purification tablets.
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Why has the Gaza war spun colleges into chaos? Because campuses have weakened as actual communities, where people mingle, interact and get to know and trust each other. My latest column:
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you can tell the NYPD had IDF training because they use the same ridiculous media tactics as Herzog
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๎จ€ Dr. Waitman W. Beorn (@waitmanwbeorn.com ๐ŸŸฆ)๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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Oh...oh dear. The NYPD has found...the @OUPAcademic Oxford Very Short Introduction series. I wonder if he thinks the Antisemitism is also a how-to book.
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Yo so you know how a bunch of scientists and theorists have been saying for years that tools are an extension of the human body? A new study was just published in the Journal of Neuroscience and Tools are *literally* interpreted by the brain as an extension of the human body.
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@DanielleFong you canโ€™t just switch them off. Supercooling the magnet after it has been quenched takes a lot of time and is very expensive.
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we are so back
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Dear VCs, I've paid attention to your responses to the murder of George Floyd, and the current wave of police brutality. I am not the only founder who has noticed. If I can't trust you to stand up for what is right when it's *this* clear, I can't trust you with my business.
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@DanielleFong lest we forget the original argument for invading the hospital was a secret underground Bond villain lair that does not exist
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@DanielleFong did you miss the part where theyโ€™re in the hospital right now and there is no lair
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the condescension at people refusing to serve in the IDF is the most internet-brained keyboard warrior discourse and I wish people would just support and encourage the behaviour instead.
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Reminder that even pieces published by +972 must be approved by the Israeli military censor, and must be read with the same critical eye. (quote from 2016)
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The Israeli military is using an AI targeting program called Lavender that tagged around 37,000 Gazans as suspected militants, has around a 10% error rate, and led to systematic targeting of suspects in their family homes, +972 Magazine reports:
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This is important because it means well-designed tools are *actually interpreted differently by the brain*. That feeling you get when a tool is intuitive? It hits different in your head.
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so Balajiโ€™s weird-ass ethnic cleansing post was him trying to get ahead of this news article got it
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Balaji - former partner at Andreessen-Horowitz and former CTO of Coinbase - describes the plan for SF as "tech Zionism." The goal, he suggests, is to seize territory and "ethnically cleanse" Blues (Democrats). SF Dems will be persecuted in other ways, too
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@DanielleFong most US intel on this conflict is just reheated Israeli intel also
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IDF has been operating overnight in the basement of Shifa hospital in Gaza, alongside eports of an imminent hostage release deal. So far, Israel has not shown clear evidence the hospitals are operating as Hamas command centers. It seems IDF is scrambling to find that evidence.
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@SevaUT to be fair, Europe has a long history of being both antisemitic and islamophobic at the same time. so theyโ€™re really just playing to their strengths.
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OpenAI's dev day is a clear sign the company (and core LLM product) is maturing rapidly, and the business has shifted focus to a suite of value-add services around their core product. This reinforces signals that development of the underlying technology has slowed substantially.
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i do not know with what data GPT-5 will be trained, but GPT-6 will be trained with sticks and stones
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so Alex Karp (CEO of Palantir) wrote a New York Times op-ed preaching AI doom and it really reads like Palantir is fucking terrified that LLMs will make the need for all their bespoke government and corporate consulting (most of which is around linking databases) obsolete
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If you're using a tool you're familiar with, and using the tool properly (i.e. not grabbing a fork by the prongs), your brain will only say "hey, you're using your hands" and not "hey, this is a tool" or "hey, this is an object"
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dafuq happened to tech
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I say in my piece that technologies of mass surveillance โ€” like drones โ€” made dehumanizing Palestinians easier by making incidental human contact impossible. But seeing drone footage that makes starving people look like insects is striking. Especially paired with propaganda.
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๐Ÿ”ด IDF released aerial footage showing how a Palestinian crowd in northern #Gaza attacked the trucks bringing humanitarian aid and as a result, dozens died from overcrowding, and trampling
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@_AlexHirsch exCUSE me
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@anothercohen this tweet is like an inkblot test. it says one thing: this piece of hasbara was dumb. yet my mentioned are filled with people like you who are trying to turn it into something entirely different from exactly what it says.
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@kane you do know ethnobotany is an entire field of science that has led to a substantial number of medical innovations, right? and that pharmaceutical companies are actively investing in studying and documenting ethnobotanical knowledge to discover new medicinal compounds?
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I have serious concerns about how OpenAI can ensure โ€œalignmentโ€ โ€” i.e. machines not mass killing humans โ€” when its leaders are so clearly in favour of other forms of mass human slaughter.
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Are you going to do anything about @talbroda repeatedly calling for the death of Palestinians? Tal canโ€™t handle even mild criticism, he blocked me for saying that his words are disturbing. His behavior is unacceptable & reflects poorly on @OpenAI . #OpenAIProGenocide #OpenAI
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@codegician they would all be pulled to the magnet at very fast velocities
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@bdebone2 itโ€™s called a cybertruck because it was never designed to exist outside the CAD software
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the kids arenโ€™t just alright, theyโ€™re ridiculously disciplined and well-organized
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in the pocket of Big Tenant
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reporter having a paragraph long meltdown about being sent to a groupโ€™s press contact
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In Toronto. - no sense of panic - COVID cases contained since January - citywide health monitoring plan in effect - buildings and shops putting out sanitizer and upping cleaning regimen - hospitals preparing extended screening sites - free telehealth line for everyone worried
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Apple's been quietly rolling out top-of-the-line chips specifically designed for neural network architectures in all their new devices in a manufacturing pipeline that takes years to roll out and you're telling me they failed to understand and execute on the LLM revolution?
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The failure of google and Apple to understand and execute on the LLM revolution reflects a broad incapacity among incumbents that is going to wreck the current order of things. The surreal part is that Microsoft understands it.
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Here is the paper, which I am very excited about, and which my cofounder had to hear me geek out about extensively this morning: And here is the press release:
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Team 'reads minds' to understand human tool use

Researchers have made an astonishing new discovery about how our brains control our hands. The team used MRI data to study which parts of the brain are used when we handle tools. The findings could...

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@AlexMEfron This is a lot of moral indignation for someone comfortable with attacking hospitals.
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@knownforms There's something awfully dark about how often heroism is conflated with martyrdom, and how, as a result of this fact, a conspicuously high proportion of heroes wind up dead.
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Profoundly disappointed in the tech community lately. A lot of folks have made it real clear they think some lives are worth more than others.
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I miss the tech bros. Could they be annoying? Sure. But their optimism, belief in progress, and understanding that science and technology are some of the most powerful forces for good in the world were all valid. And to see that replaced with doomer nihilism is infuriating.
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@AricToler between this and the Arabic calendar I think they just donโ€™t like dates
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@jjoque the โ€œwe were actually on the right side of historyโ€ retrospective
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Israel just killed four of a friendโ€™s family members who were sheltering in Rafah, including her grandmother โ€” who was older than the state of Israel itself. I am without words.
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when you obsess over video game tech trees you miss the beauty of what actual innovation maps look like:
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tech trees are fantasies of a deterministic universe, and unnecessarily focus people on what โ€œshouldโ€ happen instead of actually innovating many innovations have been forestalled because people wrongly assumed a โ€œnatural progressionโ€
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@kane my dude that $2B/year R&D expenditure is across 38 assets
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december 2020 tech bios be like Building something new ๐Ÿš€ | ex-PM @stripe @shopify | licensed financial advisor ๐Ÿ“ˆ | angel investor ๐Ÿ’ธ | Lovin' the hustle ๐Ÿ”ฅ
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Tell me your favourite tool and I will tell you what your politics are.
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@Ofirlin It was being powered by generators until yesterday. Youโ€™re not making the point you think you are. Whereโ€™s the Bond lair?
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@codegician to be clear youโ€™re justifying an attack on a hospital because they found a grab bag that could have been placed there yesterday?
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โ€œA sufficiently smart computer could just convince people to do things in the physical worldโ€ Youโ€™veโ€ฆnever worked with people, have you? Intelligence is not the limiting factor in getting people to do stuff.
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@MunamWasi This () and vestibulocochlear nerve tracing using dtMRI in preparation for acoustic neuroma/vestibular schwannoma surgeries. You?
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@birsic For example -- I did work to locate the root of the auditory nerve on the brainstem (IN HUMANS) to implant (FDA APPROVED) acoustic brainstem implants (microchip that talks to hearing aid) to restore hearing in people without auditory nerves...almost a decade ago.
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@laura_buhler Men? In tech? Good luck! Women are naturally better suited for STEM careers.
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@shaig I get youโ€™re upset about the sign but youโ€™re clearly harrassing these people
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@codegician because when youโ€™ve worked in a place like a hospital with very strict rules around these things seeing something like this is enraging I thought that would be self-evident take care
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Guardian confirms from multiple sources (most likely an American official leak at this point) that the Israeli Prime Ministerโ€™s office has refused offers for Hamas hostages to be released.
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It's shocking how little coverage this is getting: After the Oct. 7 attack, Hamas offered to free children, women & elderly hostages in exchange for 5 day ceasefire Israel said no and invaded Gaza instead Those hostages are now trapped under the bombs
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Consultants serve three purposes: 1) tell a mgmt team that actively ignores their employees what their team says they should do to solve a problem 2) take the blame for unpopular decisions mgmt wants to make (e.g. layoffs) 3) cross-pollinate ideas ๐Ÿ That last one kills.
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@AmiDar An inquest into the military, intelligence, political, and operational failures that led to the October 7 attack โ€” similar to the Agranat Commission โ€” should have also been launched immediately and transparently. Examining the attack rationally would have gone a long way.
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@codegician I just think itโ€™s dumb propaganda
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plus รงa change
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@martin_fff @LibyaLiberty letโ€™s just say there are more receipts than just his debate performance
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@hebagowayed it is incredible that this man has urged violent reprisals against, and suppression of speech and rights of, students in his care for months without consequence including defending chemical attacks against those students he contributed to inciting but "Boop" is his line.
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@S_Pedian @alexkaplan0 @sineatrix minor note, itโ€™s not a discovery per se itโ€™s a computer model evaluating whether the structure of LK99 *could* be a room-temperature superconductor, and a theoretical description of how it would work if it does, in fact, exhibit those qualities in real life still a big deal!
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@revhowardarson โ€œI support workers not by providing the customary supplementation that brings them up to a living wage, but rather by posturing publicly about how I donโ€™t tip for moral reasonsโ€
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@kane I am a neuroscientist and anthropologist by training who studied ethnobotany in school and led a publicly-traded biotech company. Iโ€™m not confusing anything.
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@roshanpateI โ€œWe donโ€™t need to fund this startup, we have that startup at home!โ€ > the startup at home (three Stanford grads in a trenchcoat)
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@arnondeg Arnon, there are fewer Jews in Israel than in the United States. Not the Diaspora writ large, the United States alone. Most Jews are not Israeli. For all the worries of a โ€œdemographic crisisโ€, youโ€™d think youโ€™d know the basics.
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@JesseBrown โ€œWe are powerless to change what is happening in the Middle Eastโ€ sounds like an outright dismissal and repuduation of all the people protesting, educating, pressuring their representatives, and sending aid.
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@funziona_cosi holocaust denial gets blocked. no tolerance for neonazis here.
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big โ€œwhy didnโ€™t he choose to be born in a different country, HUH?โ€ energy
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We talk a lot about "technical debt", and not enough about "operations debt". Much as any startup accrues bugs and spaghetti code in the rush to an MVP, startups accrue inconsistencies and spaghetti operations in the rush to product-market fit.
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this is one of the weirdest statements on the eve of an emergency dismissal of a CEO Iโ€™ve ever seen.
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Sam Altman is a hero of mine. He built a company from nothing to $90 Billion in value, and changed our collective world forever. I can't wait to see what he does next. I, and billions of people, will benefit from his future work- it's going to be simply incredible. Thank you
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@growing_daniel the fantasy: feared warrior the reality: banging out receipts in clay
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@lexbyanyname i had to pick up an MRI recently-ish, they often only give them on CDs
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why does this look like a guide for summoning business demons
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@gbrl_dick why does every clip from one of his recent rallies sound like the opening standup routine from Seinfeld
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@davidgross_man Sophia Goodfriend had a great piece on these Fauda-inspired Israeli escape rooms in Jewish Currents a couple years back.
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The Gamified Occupation

A Fauda -themed escape room in Tel Aviv gives customers a taste of military rule.

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itโ€™s kinda depressing how many tech people donโ€™t realize BlackRock is a tech company their core product (Aladdin) is a literal financial operating system (it is an open secret that the reason fintechs struggle to disrupt finance is because every bank is already a fintech)
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yep. that ex-Intercept journalist did great work. and all the receipts are available to download.
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Well, well, well. That felt coordinated. Turns out it was.
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@ireallyhateyou itโ€™s not even an exaggeration; thereโ€™s a study in PLOS One
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re: neuralink do people..not know clinical brain-computer interfaces have been around for twenty years
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I am so profoundly disappointed in large swaths of the tech community these days.
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The Israeli state narrative is increasingly paranoid and unhinged. The UN refugee agency is the enemy. Every major humanitarian and human rights organization is evil. Every Jew critical of Israel isnโ€™t a โ€œreal Jewโ€. Every country in the world secretly hates The Jews. Insane.
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The US Marine Corps *just* decided the Confederate flag is bad. โ€œThe Confederate flag has been co-opted by violent extremist and racist groups whose divisive beliefs have no place in our Corps.โ€ Co-opted? THEY FOUGHT A WAR FOR THE RIGHT TO KEEP SLAVES.
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Confederate battle flag banned -- Marine Corps declares it a 'threat to our core values'

The United States Marine Corps banned the public display of the Confederate battle flag on Friday."Depictions of the Confederate battle flag are unauthorized in public and work spaces aboard an...

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Congress failed to pass anti-lynching legislation 200 times. It was finally unanimously passed in the Senate in 2019, and the House in Feb by 410-4, who renamed it after Emmett Till. This change sent it back to the Senate. Rand Paul is now stalling it.
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Rand Paul stalls bill that would make lynching a federal hate crime

Republican argued anti-lynching legislation drafted too broadly after House renamed bill previously approved by Senate

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@anothercohen people seem to expect me to have more of a narrative of what is happening than what has actually been released as of right now. It's strange.
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she is explicit the goal is to end all humanitarian aid and strip Palestinians of refugee status by going after the institution that manages both the goal is to remove any mechanisms that recognizes their rights to the land, and thus permanently force Palestinian expulsion
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Reminder that many of these folks genuinely do believe children are valid targets
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The internet continues to degrade. Quality material is evaporating at an ever-accelerating clip, as the field is flooded with low-quality SEO and AI content. We are a world away from the digital utopianism of the 90s.
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Ali Alkhatib
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i think i was preparing myself for 2024 being full of AI-generated bullshit, but i wasn't adequately preparing myself for so many journalists being laid off, and also all the archives of their past work getting utterly wiped out. the sudden dearth of real content is a real blow.
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@greatBigDot
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@d_feldman did it set AI research back decades, given the massive data, processing, and memory limitations of the time preventing application? Weโ€™re literally applying 1980s OR math today that just became technologically possible to run.
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@rivatez often in science we know *that* something works long before we know *how* it works, particularly in extremely complex spaces like neurobiology not knowing the cause of depression does not invalidate that treatments work, nor does it invalidate that depression is experienced
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organizational reliability: aircraft carrier edition.
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@focusfronting Amos, Quebec (pop 12,000), but no Quebec City. Incredible, osti.
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my most curmudgeonly current opinion is that people who think a machine learning algorithm trained on internet language is on the verge of doing hard intellectual work have no idea what hard intellectual work is actually like
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@pterofactyl @ACTINOSProject one faction of the establishment (the Ben Gvir/Smotrich type) thinks eradicating the population by famine, disease, and dehydration solves โ€œthe Palestinian problemโ€ another faction (the Yoav Gallant type) believes a sufficiently bad humanitarian disaster will result in surrender
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@MoFromYYZ Congratulations, you invented Vancouver!
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@AtmanRising I put "John Mastodon, CEO of Mastodon." into DALL-E 2 and this is what he looks like.
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@codegician power ran out yesterday on the eve of the attack.
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As we reconsider the types of monuments we put in our public spaces, I want to share a few of my favourites โ€” called Spomeniks, built in Yugoslavia to memorialize the fight against fascism in Europe. (Growing up in Montreal and Toronto, Iโ€™m a big fan of brutalist modernism.)
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@hypervisible "Nah, dude, your shit experience is a deliberate design decision. It's actually quite difficult to design an experience this bad while also destabilizing pluralistic, consensus-driven democratic norms; it took some serious effort."
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@OmanReagan I shared one a while back. Hopefully did them some justice.
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As we reconsider the types of monuments we put in our public spaces, I want to share a few of my favourites โ€” called Spomeniks, built in Yugoslavia to memorialize the fight against fascism in Europe. (Growing up in Montreal and Toronto, Iโ€™m a big fan of brutalist modernism.)
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I finally did it, guys I found The Worldโ€™s Worst Diagram
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Sankey diagrams were originally called cosmographs. Willard C Brinton, who wrote the first dataviz text (in 1919!) even developed a technique for making them: Arranging a thousand strips of paper, pinning them proportional to flow, photographing it, and using the photonegative.
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@SwiftOnSecurity I saw that in truck form today
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