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I think the fetishization of “information” and the promise of limitless and instantaneous access to it go a long way towards explaining how people can regard themselves as near-experts without having the slightest idea how anything actually works or the slightest interest in taking time to find out

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This promises to be fun.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This looks really interesting. I miss doing GIS programming.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Confirmed.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING NEWS... literally.

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OptumRX is a UHC subsidiary; it made about $5b in profit for its parent last year.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

These people are just wrong about literally everything.

submitted 4 days ago • 293 comments

Just finished the audio book of @karenhao.bsky.social 's Empire of AI. Wonderful narration. Wonderful, maddening book with the kind of focused, honest reporting that is so rare these days in tech. I can't imagine the amount of courage it took to write it. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Just completed a task in 10mins that I’ve been putting off for 3 months

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I knew it!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

“Turns out you actually need to do the job in front of you as well as think about the glorious future where AI solves everything” Could someone, I don’t know, pop this under a few politicians’ noses and force them to read it through a few times?

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

The latest Covid variant (razor blade throat) seems to have increased transmissibility resulting in more people ending up in hospital. Most healthcare systems haven’t adopted clean air standards or mandatory respirator use. Hospital acquired COVID has a 10% fatality rate My guide to avoiding it

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

Just about every Republican/Trumpist complaint about public transportation is a poorly disguised version of “there are too many black people.”

submitted 9 days ago • 125 comments

They’re going after flu vaccines now, because you knew they would.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

this is the funniest political compass i think ive ever seen lmao

submitted 10 days ago • 107 comments

Yay pytest!

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The 2nd most out there thing about the Hindi word(s) for tie is that it translates to "throat underwear" The most out there bit is what happens when as a English speaker you find out the Hindi word for throat

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

If in order for a system to survive it needs to destroy the very life blood of that system, the system is fundamentally flawed.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Power is its imperative. Power is only broken by greater power. Power will destroy itself rather than relinquish power. (The trap of the game)

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I just trash picked this book and it is amazing

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

This is an amazing article abt an amazing breakthrough use of an old and discredited drug and about how one company was able to raise the price without limit because it was the only treatment for a fatal disease and they cld basically raise it to as high a price as they wanted.

submitted 15 days ago • 45 comments

OK this is a use of AI slip that I hadn’t anticipated. Could voter fraud be far behind?

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I got blown. -Horn

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DW Griffith directed BIRTH OF A NATION (1915), a virulently racist film (and neither his first nor his last one of those) that saw racist violence follow wherever it was screened. So, naturally, there are film bros and gals who think we should "ignore the racism" and keep it in the canon. Thread

submitted 15 days ago • 31 comments