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You: Oh my god the house is on fire! Me (wise, has read books): And you're surprised? Houses have been on fire before [as the flames consume us both] Furthermore,

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I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

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american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

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I think about this headline all of the time.

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various people been saying this for a while but it cannot be overstated how much using ai art on your podcast/blog/slides/etc visually associates you with fascism newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

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"poynting vector"?? they all do that. That's a vector

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cackles in Julia and Rust

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new d20 season hypeeeeee @dropout.tv

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The Department of Homeland Security can now spy on you based solely on your “gender identity or sexual orientation.” I’m watching every fucking libertarian or “small c conservative” to judge how full of shit they are news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

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New op-ed out today! "We believe this rush to comply is a sign that universities are willing to become an institutional wing of the new segregationists." This op-ed was written with fierce love for our communities. That's who we serve. We will not be erased. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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hey @xuanalogue.bsky.social weren't you into reversible computing at some point? vine.dev/docs/feature...

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Just talked to a friend who works for the DoE and had 2 papers censored for violating an EO. One because it uses “toxicity” (about chemical leakage into drinking wells) & the other for “diversity” (as in “microbial diversity”). We are at Soviet-level stupidity censorship.

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Latin Americanists agree with this assessment. This is Mexico under Salinas and the looting that made Carlos Slim the richest human in the world for a time. See Argentina's privatization under Menem or the oligarchy looting Chile under Pinochet.

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smallest hill to die on but never gonna tire of poking fun at us physicists by insisting our homework assignments don’t need that many digits g = 10m/s^2 buddy you ain’t even considering friction, let those decimals go buddy

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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one of the really fundamental unspoken US ideas for a long time was that men above a certain social level should never face consequences. this bought us Trump 2 in two ways, both in the failure to punish him and in the rage about MeToo breaking this rule

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

@jbytecode.bsky.social this page always updates to the corresponding day :) tintin.dlazaro.ca

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

totally not the point but I really don’t see how a country can be called democratic if it allowed* racial and gender minorities less than 60 years ago. like, how is that supposed to count. *: in many ways the us still doesn’t!

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Reminder: Black history offers many examples of fighting authoritarianism, so one doesn't always have to look to Europe. Nazi lawyers looked to Jim Crow for inspiration for their racist laws. Read as much about struggles against Jim Crow as you do about other examples of resisting authoritarianism

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I say I'm self-taught, but that by no means implies I did not learn from others, did not have mentors (informal, but impactful), and magically osmosed my skills from the aether. It takes a village; mine was just decentralized. Good mentorship changes lives. BE the mentor you wish you had. 💚

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modern sanitation. staving off death since the 1860s.

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Not that anyone cares but a bunch of senior doj officials resigning over a corrupt instruction to drop a case was what triggered the Nixon impeachment, and in the Trump era it's just the 2pm scandal of a random Thursday and every day now has ~3 such scandals that would have ended any prior admin

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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

submitted 19 days ago • 402 comments

I think one of the reasons that I like Rust, and why I've been so reluctant to really use LLMs at all comes from a core tenet in building safety critical systems: When it really matters, it is better for a tool to say "I don't know", give up, and to make it clear it is doing so, than to guess wrong

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When cities clear homeless encampments, workers often take people’s belongings — including important documents, survival gear and irreplaceable mementos. Over and over, people across the U.S. told ProPublica they were devastated by such losses: https://propub.li/3WScD3g

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lmao this is the most thinly veiled “rust makes me feel old and itrelevant” take I’ve read all year, but it’s only February antirez.com/news/145

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Gotta say, the mainstream media is simply not doing the minimum amount of work to communicate that a bunch of Nazis implicated in child pornography have all of our banking information and can turn off social security whenever they want.

submitted 22 days ago • 52 comments

What's happening in America is that, in the most literal sense, internet trolls have taken over the government.

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my soul hurts www.mohammedmhawish.com/p/snapshots-...

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