@sbridger
Tired history prof, #histsci writer of sorts, font of regrets. Author of Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research (https://www.amazon.com/Scientists-War-Ethics-Weapons-Research/dp/0674736826) Was @bridgebot at the other place.
Picture of massive record collection with pile of books and random guy blocking the view
BLUE POWER is out a month from today! Preorder using discount code BLUE20 www.basicbooks.com/titles/stuar...
Oh no, these videos might ruin the reputation of the guys who stole our social security numbers
Amazing strategy: start a war with Iran, watch oil prices explode, then announce new offshore drilling that won’t produce a drop for months. Brilliant. Nothing says “we’re in control” like announcing oil that doesn’t exist yet.
#MissionAccomplished 😏
Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman. The text in the Tweet says: SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”
The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.
It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.
RFK Jr is trying to get 14 peptides licensed without data on safety or efficacy. His favorite is BPC-157.
"Only three small human studies of BPC-157 exist, the largest of which is a telephone survey of 16 people who received an injection of the drug for knee pain"
www.economist.com/science-and-...
If FIFA had an award for ending antisemitism the ADL would definitely get it.
NEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations.
But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.
By @hannahallam.bsky.social
Screenshot of article which reads: I particularly call on people with the (limited) protections of tenure. We have seen a world where the people with the most power do nothing while people in the most precarious positions put their literal bodies on the line. A corollary in our past is that Harry Keyishian—the lead plaintiff in the SCOTUS case that bears his name and eventually enshrined faculty’s right to academic freedom—was a contingent lecturer at the University at Buffalo who had not yet completed his dissertation when he challenged the state of New York’s loyalty oath. His co-plaintiffs included other lecturers, untenured professors and a staff member. It may seem obvious, but I’ll be explicit: Faculty with tenure should summon the same level of courage as an all-but-dissertation lecturer or untenured assistant professor to fight against attacks on academic freedom.
The people who push back on silence-as-protection moves are usually the people with the least job security, which remains wild to me. Maybe we should use tenure to do something good?
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
“fuck AI. fuck it to death.”
as if i couldn’t love Hudson Williams more.
So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity
WTF. Anthropic stole my book and now Grammarly has stolen my identity (and inserted a fictitious middle initial).
This has got to be some kind of defamation or something. You can’t just steal people’s IP and then pretend they’re saying something they never said.
love miniatures, hate AI
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
For Mahmoud Khalll, this past year has been marked by profound hardship-and by profound courage. A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife Noor when he was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, and then held in an ICE facility for months. In that time, he was forced to miss the birth of his first child. All of this for exercising his First Amendment rights in protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine. And yet, even in the face of that cruelty, there has also been beauty. New Yorkers raising their voices in solidarity. A city refusing to look away. Mahmoud won his freedom, and a father was finally reunited with his child. Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together. Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City.
In a dining room, five people eat, chat and smile around a table of food.
Iftar, Day 19
Disclosure: I've been a participant over the years in these Jewish People Policy Institute polls. Today I asked them to remove me from their "respondent panel" unless they commit to no longer misrepresenting their findings as being representative of Jewish Americans overall.
Obama negotiated an effective nuclear deal with Iran that Trump abrogated during his first term. Every piece of U.S. news coverage should make that clear.
A handful of Republicans in Congress & Supreme Court can end this nightmare any time they choose, and history will remember them as saviors of the republic, no matter what terrible things they did to US in last 10 years: insane we cannot find a few volunteers for this plum deal!
Lowering the brow to add Real Genius, Clueless, and Wayne's World
Longstanding ethical and theological debates over war, the appropriate use of violence, and various approaches to justice notwithstanding:
That's not how human rights work.
Our tax dollars were being used to save children and now they are being used to murder them
As someone who has survived multiple jaw bone infections and needed several endodontic treatments for tooth infections, let me tell you that this man died in one of the most painful ways possible
They tortured him. An untreated tooth infection is torture.
kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it
Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein. The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude” www.science.org/content/arti...
This is a distressing story about Trump’s attempts to impede Thomas Massie’s efforts to release the Epstein files. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
the guy with the fuckin crusader tattoos is doing “war for israel”
yuh huh
