drskyskull.bsky.social
Professor of optics, blogger of physics, history, & pulp fiction. Generally tries to keep things light-hearted, in spite of *waves hands at everything* (he/him)
blog: https://skullsinthestars.com/
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It is in a sense the Platonic ideal of ethical capitalism which is why the right-wing hates it so much.
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I suspect every GenX kid has "six to eight weeks" burned into their brain as permanent trauma
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Adding to my indie music thread, here's Maya Lakhani's Fall for Me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNE3...
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"Workers have a say in what happens? Do you even realize that those workers can't afford to buy a yacht???"
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Honestly I think the kitties understand things better than we do. I don't think he thought you abandoned him.
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"You've tried the bot, now try what's not."
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but wait until i tell you that the AI can play chess
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I still think a company like this could succeed if they just called it "artisanal intelligence."
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To put it another way: dictators shrink a country until it is small enough to rule instead of growing a country that they would be proud to serve.
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Dictators are fine with destroying institutional knowledge because they would rather rule over a petty fiefdom than serve a powerful country
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Dude might want to look up Ernst Röhm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R...
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One of the most fundamental and foundational revelations in physics was the recognition of the relativity of motion and of course that's the thing that flat earthers throw out immediately. Like, if you throw that out, literally nothing else in physics makes sense. And we already know it makes sense.
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I get the humor in using billionaire's own chatbots to disprove their claims, but these bots are already being manipulated by their controllers to say whatever they want them to say.