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Mojoe , 21 hours ago to random

“I cannot emphasize this enough. You either need to be on the absolute cutting-edge and producing novel research, or you should be doing exactly what you were doing five years ago with minor concessions to incorporating LLMs. Anything in the middle ground does not make any sense unless you actually work in the rare field where your industry is being totally disrupted right now.”

futurebird , 11 days ago to random

Don’t start the thing “as soon as the other thing is over” just start the thing now— the other thing may well never end.

futurebird , 1 month ago (edited 30 days ago) to random

Best movement of “The Planets” by Holst?

pluralistic , 1 month ago to random

Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people and moving it from collective ownership, "rescuing" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who will care for it properly, thanks to "rational self-interest":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/analytical-democratic-theory/#epistocratic-delusions

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futurebird , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

There are ants in Minecraft! That was enough to get me to find my password and download the game. This is part of "Alex's Mod" which is often paired with "#Minecraft Create" which is a popular new mod that adds trains and machines and many fun things.

I might start a create/alex's mod server this summer. Would anyone want to play some low energy vidja games? I promise I'm NOT just starting a server so I can find a way to make the ants take over the world. (Sincere! I'm a very chill player!)

flexghost , 2 months ago to random

I can’t believe I’m agreeing with Chuck Todd

Credit where credit is due

NBC hired the former RNC chair and Big Lie supporting scumbag Ronna McDaniel, now they need to face the music.

Roundtable news show with some of the worst both sides journalists including Chuck Todd and Kristen welker

ElleGray , 3 months ago to random

As of right this second I need to start a band with two other people so we can use this as the greatest album cover ever

tzimmer_history , 3 months ago to random

Exactly! All this “let the people decide” talk is remarkably backwards. The people decided in November 2020: Trump lost, and attempted an auto-coup in response. That is the sole reason why the insurrection clause came into play at all: January 6 was the anti-democratic part. 1/

GottaLaff , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

1/… As expected

And it was UNANIMOUS

#BREAKING Supreme Court rules Trump cannot be kicked off Colorado ballot #SCOTUS #14thAmendment #legal https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-trump-cannot-kicked-colorado-ballot-rcna132291

futurebird , 3 months ago to random

I love Ian Banks' books because he frequently takes the time to imagine a utopia, not as an allegory for why utopias are impossible (and in the extreme sense they are, we all get that, it's not interesting) but rather as an exercise in seeing how close one could get to a society with real freedom and few contradictions.

I think it's a good exercise. OK fine so how would a world without hunger or unwanted suffering work?

He took on the topic of gender in this spirit and it's glorious.

futurebird , 4 months ago to random

When reading of Fermi paradox, that outstanding question "why do we seem to be alone in the universe?" I've encountered many observations about the uniqueness of Earth.

"Were it not for Earth's protective magnetic field life would be impossible."

"Were it not for Earth's unusually large moon..."

etc.

The answer to the paradox these answers claim is that Earth is much more unique than it appears and life far more fragile.

It's all very plausible.

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