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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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This is generally a must-listen podcast anyway, but this episode hit really hard. While none of my close friends and family who are teachers worked in the US during the pandemic, the statements that teachers' lives were the trade off to reopen schools still felt so true and validating.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

One of the funniest things I've seen I must say

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

The story of LGBT rights is a story of advances followed by setbacks followed by media with no skin in the game saying, "It's because you were too loud/asked for too much/moved too fast/got too big for your britches/didn't make your case." That never changes--but happily it's never the last word.

submitted 18 hours ago • 56 comments

As I always say: being chronically ill means being stuck with an administrative job you didn’t apply for, that no one trained you to do, that you don’t have time for, that no one pays you to do, and during a time in your life where you’re…too disabled to work Make it make sense.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Important context to the Supreme Court ruling is that Tennessee only has one gender clinic for kids and it performs 5 top surgeries per year. This entire "debate" is about a phenomenon — large numbers of kids being rushed into hormones and surgeries — that doesn't exist. apnews.com/article/heal...

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

grateful to once again be having a conversation about the bullying tactics of trans activists

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

The article frames Skrmetti as a poor strategic gamble by activists. In reality, Tennessee passed a categorical ban applicable solely to transgender adolescents which was framed in sex-based terms. The choices were (a) challenge it or (b) concede defeat in advance and abandon trans teens nationwide.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

submitted 1 day ago • 83 comments

counterpoint

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Too many people fail to understand the role poverty plays in chronic illness. Money can’t buy health or happiness, but a lack of money can make your health worse & life harder. Universal healthcare & basic income would do more to create a healthier society than all the “wellness” in the world.

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

Anti-cancel culture is worse than cancel culture and always has been for the exact same reason that the excesses of democracy are always less bad than the excesses of monarchy/feudalism/totalitarianism.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Wow, NYTimes be like, “Andrew Cuomo is our problematic fave." The editorial board willfully misunderstands something I figured out in early adulthood: that sexual harassment tells you everything about someone’s relationship with power, and on its own, ought to be enough to disqualify from office.

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

BlueSky you can't get my hopes up like that

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Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

submitted 5 days ago • 183 comments

How many more examples before people understand that transphobia is violence

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Whatever your personal beliefs on Assisted Dying, we should all be able to agree on 2 fundamentals: No means no. If a patient doesn’t want it, end of discussion. It should never be offered in lieu of care or social supports. If it is, it’s not compassion. It’s eugenics 🧵

submitted 8 days ago • 67 comments

The revolution is full of 60-year-old women who love their trans kids.

submitted 6 days ago • 396 comments

What's funny about posts like this is that we have lots of data showing cars are responsible for like 98% of pedestrian deaths. So let's not "both sides" this, okay?

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

“You’re already sick, what are you afraid of?” This question is used to get disabled people to take unnecessary risks. We’re afraid of losing our baseline. It means everything to us. We are afraid of losing what small amount of function we have left. No one protects your baseline like you will.

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

The same way a lot of people didn't realize how big the QAnon problem was until those fuckers literally stormed the capital, I fear we're a year or two away from a shocking discovery of just how many "seemingly normal" people have lost their minds "talking" with ChatGPT.

submitted 14 days ago • 33 comments

anybody who proposes separate sports leagues and competitions for trans women has either 1) not thought about this for longer than two seconds, 2) a bad actor

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

Talk to people irl, even smart people, and you'll quickly find that the vast majority do not know that AI makes things up, or plagiarizes, or destroys the environment. Knowing the things about AI we take as given here is like knowing internet memes; people who aren't Very Online tend to have no clue

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

there is no one who thinks trans women should be banned from sports and supports all other trans rights. it’s just a foot in the door for them to get at the wholesale banning of trans people from public life. it’s been ten years of this. no one is buying your shit anymore.

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

This refusal to engage with the substance of what people are saying and whether it's actually true in favor of meta-arguments about free speech, bias, "outsider" status, etc has totally corroded mainstream political analysis into uselessness (at best). If anything it's making people less informed

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

if you purchase anything "Harry Potter" you are funding this. I for one plan on unsubscribing from HBO/Max as soon her damned reboot is set for release...

submitted 22 days ago • 9 comments

idk y'all I think we need to destroy any political system where minority rights are seen as a polling issue you can concede strategically

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.

submitted 36 days ago • 74 comments

Instead of REST, we should call it JAVERT: JSON Asynchronous VErb-based Representational Transfer And then REST (REpresentational State Transfer) can once again unambiguously have its original meaning (which requires HATEOAS) #webdev

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

For everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.

submitted 39 days ago • 323 comments

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 41 days ago • 629 comments

It's like you can't align with a world historical bigot who decided to invest her entire life in torturing the most vulnerable people in her country without someone noticing. We must be so careful.

submitted 45 days ago • 6 comments