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elisennesh.bsky.social
Abolish the value function!
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submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

for anyone who doesn't believe in nominative determinism: there is an analytic philosopher named "a prior"

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

"Meanwhile, emotions ran high as a growing crowd of neighbors gathered to watch. Some people started shouting at ICE agents as they attempted to leave, surrounding and hitting their vehicles. Agents used flashbangs at one point to try to disperse the crowd." www.kron4.com/news/nationa...

submitted 4 hours ago • 16 comments

Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com: Cuts to NIH funding will impact the economy and employment nationwide. We visualize these losses and advocate for a theory-driven approach to communicating local, self-relevant impact. w/ @joshuasweitz.bsky.social + SCIMaP team: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Damm using Warhammer 40k as a metaphor that makes sense is something

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

generative AI is an extremely old term. Like autoencoders can go there. Please for the love of god everyone just say chatbots and image generation

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

it's interest rates

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

A radically evil Puritan death-cult of a church. No fun until you've killed Satan and solved the Problem of Evil!

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

submitted 1 day ago • 1260 comments

People don't really get how hard it was to hire for ICE/CBP positions by mid-trump v1. When you politicize federal departments, it makes the hiring process incredibly challenging, especially when you need relatively high skilled and often bilingual personnel.

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

i really think that these sites being the way people increasingly form their perceptions of how sexual selection works has catastrophic implications for gender relations going forward

submitted 5 hours ago • 26 comments

My take on Elon Musk and his plan to leave government. www.economist.com/united-state... With a mini scoop at the end - the workers going back into the United States Institute of Peace offices found a whole bunch of weed apparently thrown away by the DOGE staffers who had been hanging out there

submitted 7 hours ago • 61 comments

typically speaking a moral claim like 'everything is on the table' means that only violence, and nothing else, on the table.

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments