Mon Mothra

Wonderful Days, c.1970 by Masahisa Fukase

I know it's a silly jokey joke, but people REALLY need to stop anthropomorphizing their boyfriends. "My boyfriend told me" your boyfriend didn't "tell" you anything. "My boyfriend thinks..." your boyfriend can't actually think or feel; just output a convincing simulation of it based on probability 🙄

Amazon mechanical Turk about 15 years ago, and it still exists and is frequently used

It brings me some solace to know that whatever's happening down here, there are still some absolutely incredible human-made and human-driven robots wandering around Mars, looking at cool rocks and dirt and sending us pictures just because we're curious about planets and our own origins in the cosmos

Just so we’re clear, even ordering it is a war crime, whether or not it actually happens

Everyone involved is so bad at their jobs and should resign in disgrace

Having lived through the Iraq war a Whitehouse being so bad at propaganda that they have to resort to this kind of embarrassing extraconstitutional threat is really something

The continuing adventures of Nurgles favorite son

I really don’t love replacing all of public health with “bro do you even lift?”

I think simultaneously everyone in tech knows this and also it’s not going to be as bad as people claim, especially when the only reference point are big companies that notoriously overhired and were doublefucked by ZIRP and the instant research credit both ending.

2006 slop.

No one cares if you were in the Army or Marines.

You need to be able to use complete sentences, not be a crypto shill, not sign on to the latest "tax break" mania gripping the party, you should despise liars and cheats, and you shouldn't care about attending the right cocktail parties.

I don’t want psychopaths - there’s no D Party that has its own Hannity or Hegseth or Lutnick types - but I’m really tired of Ds who can’t shake a crippling sense of nostalgia for a time that either no longer exists or never existed at all.

This is why AOC excels. She’s not petty, but she’s a hater.

There are lots of people we can put in jail in a couple years but kushner seems like one of the easier ones. You know there are big boy federal money crimes going on here

Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money

We probably would be calling it that if the Cold War hadn’t happened

This isn’t “all tech” or even most of it. I’ve been working in tech for almost 15 years and never actually worked with anyone who’s into this stuff, but they are very influential particularly in the VC scene

Our cargo bike replaced probably 90% of our car trips

Modern cargo bikes don't replace bicycles, they replace cars. If you haven't ridden since childhood, the capability will shock you.

Groceries are the perfect gateway errand for daily mobility. The bikes are ready. We just need the infrastructure.

If you don’t know what I mean when I say parts of the Silicon Valley tech scene are a cult this is a helpful thread

I remain very annoyed at the "actually everything is a war crime and every US government official is a war criminal" crowd because now that we have the actual pro-war crimes administration it's very hard to get people to understand that this is actually quite a bit different

In addition to Senators Van Hollen, Kelly, Gillibrand, Booker, and Kim, this legislation is cosponsored in the Senate by Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Angus King (I-Maine), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.). This legislation has been endorsed by a broad range of organizations: AFL-CIO, American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Americans for Tax Fairness, Community Change Action, Demos, Get Out the Vote PAC, Indivisible, Institute for Policy Studies, MoveOn, National Education Association (NEA), NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, Oxfam US, Patriotic Millionaires, People’s Action, Public Citizen, Social Security Works, Strong Economy for All Coalition, SURJ, Take on Wall Street, and United for a Fair Economy.

Exceptionally blackpilling list of endorsers and consponsors on Booker et al's tax cut bill www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-r...

I played a lot of diplomacy and this is super easy. Armies in Oman and UAE support fleet in gulf of Oman attacking fleet in Persian gulf, army in Qatar attacks fleet in Persian gulf. Persian gulf fleet has nowhere to retreat and disbands after the turn. Why has nobody tried this yet?

The Harriet Tubman $20 bill, which we were supposed to get, is something I think about a lot.

Museum specimen box holding two complete and one fragmented specimen of the uncoiled, chambered internal conch of Spirula (collected by R. Mitchell)

Hand holding a specimen of the uncoiled, chambered internal conch of Spirula at an angle, highlighting the perfectly hemispherical septa and the small opening for the siphuncle running along the inner margin.

Seeing that video of Spirula the first time was amazing ... nobody imagined it oriented that way in life. It has these beautiful little internal chambered conchs like a nautilus, but entirely within the bottom part of the mantle!

So, it's basically balancing upright on the floaty end.

The first in situ sighting of the Ram’s Horn Squid (Spirula spirula) was collected during our 2020-2021 time in Australian waters, led by Dr. Robin Beaman of James Cook University. www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/12...

of medical 1,39. With the recent success of generative LLMs and their domain-specific fine-tuned variants, we also evaluate MedAlpaca 7B, a medical domain fine-tuned LLaMA 7B model4°. We build our prediction models using both Clinical-Longformer and MedAlpaca 7B to compare their performance as contextual encoders for our task. We

I think a lot of folks are reading “LLM” and think ChatGPT and not a local model running their HPC cluster, which is what it actually is.

its actually crazy that simply saying “New York City does not need to be the only place in the world that legally mandates two person train operation” results in literal death threats

People can get way too wrapped up in the perceived utility of science, and it's important to remember that's a dangerous instinct. It's a very narrow view and good science thrives only under free inquiry.

Ripping ass so bad it shuts down the DMV airspace

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.