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dnavinci

@dnavinci@genomic.social

Considerably more Curious than Callow.
Scientist, adventurer, father
Still missing my adopted homeland in Finland
hän/häntä

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futurebird , to random
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In Oklahoma they are passing a law to mandate a Bible be in every classroom.

I don't have as much of an issue with this as I do with hanging the (Protestant Evangelical) ten commandments on the wall. The Bible, like many other religious texts is an important book...

Just one little question:

Which Bible?

Ya'll say "The Bible" like you have a Pope and there is only one. That's not true. So... which one?

If you don't know then maybe you are not qualified to make such mandates.

dnavinci ,
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@futurebird
I was likewise wondering which 10 commandments they wanted, Exodus or Deuteronomy. Also I counted 17 last time. Which ones should we omit.

futurebird , to random
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The time genie will bring back one (1) extinct animal from any time in all of earth's history. The animal will be integrated into an ecosystem seamlessly with no major negative consequences. You get to pick the creature.

Do you feel obligated to pick something like a sauropod just so people can experience the awe?

Do you bring back something more recent to correct the crimes of mankind?

Or are you selfish and you ask for hell ants so you can finally see how their mandibles work?

dnavinci ,
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@futurebird
Considering the "it will be automatically integrated into its ecosystem", clause I choose Jaekelopterus, the Giant Sea Scorpions.
As a runner up, I choose the once-dominant-form-of-life, Orthoceras!

futurebird , to random
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Camponotus mirabilis are in the same genus as ordinary carpenter ants found in most temperate countries. As bamboo specialists, their queens faced curious evolutionary pressures. The widths of the stems are fixed. Their heads cannot be wider than 2.6mm. But, the queens must be large enough to lay many eggs.

The result is the miraculous elongated head. The smaller workers look like ordinary carpenter ants, the majors have square head, the queens... are remarkable.

https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Taxonomic-List-of-Ant-Genera/Camponotus/i-x5wCfTf/A

dnavinci ,
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@futurebird
This is eerily close to my "molecular biology of gender" lecture for laypeople who are misusing 3 sentences about chromosomes from 7th grade
@alexwild

lednaBM , to random
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Hello darkness, my old friend....

dnavinci ,
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@bigheadtales
I was about 14, growing up on a farm, when I realized that most men - talking shit when they drank - couldn't kill a chicken, much less a human.
@skepticsbookoflists @mintyfresh @lednaBM

dnavinci ,
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@bhasic
For sure we let the hens grow old laying eggs.
Eggs turn into chicks and chicks grow up into hens and roosters.
Roosters don't lay eggs. Roosters turn tasty and aggressive at about the same age, so if you're a 14 year old with a stick it starts to feel like a (more) fair fight, even if it's all over in one swift move.

I'm always worried when I tell folks about farm life they're gonna think it's cruel to kill a chicken...

@bigheadtales @skepticsbookoflists @mintyfresh @lednaBM

dnavinci ,
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@BenAveling
I think I can clear this up.
Overshoot is real.
Overconsumption is real.
Overpopulation is NOT real... Yet.

It's not a population problem, but an efficiency problem

Also most of those "articlea" arent a scientific articles but are meant to look like one. Scientific American is real though.

@504DR @lednaBM @nonehitwonder @starlily @Goldfigure @bhasic @bigheadtales @mintyfresh

futurebird , to random
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I had the eusocial cat dream again. Perhaps it is better described as a reoccurring nightmare! Basically everyone had these cat colonies— but the cats were super intelligent— on the colony level and manipulating global politics.

What’s your reoccurring dream?

dnavinci ,
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@futurebird
There's an evil trilobite who lives under the far corner of the pond near where I was born. Ill be out for a walk and then video-game-boss-aerial-pan/zoom intro to it under the mud. It has glowing red eyes.
30 years of that dream...

Nonilex , to random
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Conservative attacks on could threaten
are sowing that falsely characterizes IUDs, , even as “” — something used to cause .
in ≥17 states have blocked largely Democratic-led attempts to pass assuring the right to birth control since 2022.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/05/birth-control-access-abortion-ban/

dnavinci ,
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@Nonilex
Or if you're yelling at the crazies you can borrow this zinger:

"why does God kill 70% of babies? Because 70% of fertilized embryos naturally fail to implant, and die. It's the exact same thing IUDs and plan B do.
God is good and I model my life after his word, but no abortion service or pill has anywhere near the body count that He does."

futurebird , to random
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It was always exciting and important when as a child I’d pepper some adult with questions and (at last) they would say “you know what? I don’t know. Let’s ask this other person or let’s look it up!”

LLMs are like the kind of adult who just makes up some plausible BS rather than say “I don’t know” those kinds of adults didn’t really think my questions mattered they didn’t think I’d remember or notice they’d lied to me. I always noticed. I think these systems trigger me because of it LMAO.

dnavinci ,
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@futurebird
I think this is part of why you haven't heard these systems directly connected to e.g. Siri.
Written word gives you some chance to perform media literacy and critical thought. Tin pot pastors know that spoken word happens quickly and frequently shortcuts critical thought, and relies on a personal reputation and earlier dialogue to build agreement.
I havent tried it myself, but my guess is that people quickly identify spoken LLMs as having sociopathic tendencies and learn to distrust

dnavinci ,
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@futurebird
I think this is part of why you haven't heard these systems directly connected to e.g. Siri.
Written word gives you some chance to perform media literacy and critical thought. Tin pot pastors know that spoken word happens quickly and frequently shortcuts critical thought, and relies on a personal reputation and earlier dialogue to build agreement.
I havent tried it myself, but my guess is that people quickly identify spoken LLMs as having sociopathic tendencies and learn to distrust

GottaLaff , to random
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Huh. Imagine that.

👀
IRS Audit of Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million

The tax agency concluded in its long-running investigation that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on his failed Chicago tower. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-audit-chicago-hotel-taxes

dnavinci ,
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@Npars01
Boycott Tripplite if you don't already
@GottaLaff @Woodswalked

parismarx , to random
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Meta lost $3.85 billion on the metaverse in the first quarter of 2024 alone. You know, that thing we all laughed about a couple years ago and next to no one actually uses.

It’s burned $45 billion on the metaverse since the end of 2020.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/metas-reality-labs-posts-3point85-billion-loss-in-first-quarter.html

#tech #meta #metaverse #vr

dnavinci ,
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@parismarx
The problem with shorting tech stocks is that even when you can see them making deadly, insanely bad decisions they still have a fuckton more money and dumbass investors that can float them for a decade or two before any stock-financial consequences occur

FuchsiaShock , to random
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Capitalism must be ended

dnavinci ,
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@futurebird
I dug around briefly on this and it looked like it wasn't quite real yet.
Still looking for VC and only planning a couple of locations around the various boroughs.
Soft-launching with only a couple posts around NY is asking for a company like this to get vandalized to death
@FuchsiaShock

dnavinci ,
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@futurebird
Which... Making VC bait that goes viral is kind of like a messed up provocative art project
@FuchsiaShock

futurebird , to random
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Another all too barren spring in NYC. There should be so many insects, so many ants, so many tiny creatures filling the parks, hitting the windshields of cars.

Remember when bugs used to hit the windshields of cars because the air was so full of life?

I guess most people think this is 'improvement' but they are wrong. There is a campaign to put the American bumblebee on the endangered species list!

We are living in an eerie lifeless netherworld and I don't know why more can't see it!

dnavinci ,
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@futurebird
And outside the city:
Diversify feed stocks.
Accept moderate crop/quality losses.
Rotate and de-monoculture.
Ban nicotinamide classes of pesticides.
Let some clover into your lawn.
Tax/ban/fine golf courses that run-off into waterways.
@AbraxasOwner173rd

TheVulgarTongue Bot , to histodons group
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MOB; or MAB. A wench, or harlot.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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@histodons

dnavinci ,
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@skippy442
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Mab
@TheVulgarTongue @histodons

randahl , (edited ) to random
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While the US military aid has flatlined, and Olaf Scholz will not send Taurus missiles, Russia has just dropped one of the first ODAB-1500 thermobaric bombs.

Thermobaric weapons spread a cloud of flammable liquid and then ignites the cloud, creating a deadly blast followed by a lethal vacuum which rupture the lungs on humans.

Does anyone think Putin is worried about this being an escalation?

Stop talking. Give Ukraine every thinkable weapon, so they can defeat the evil before it spreads.

dnavinci ,
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@randahl

@Woodswalked

rms , to random
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/21/pig-kidney-transplant-patient-medical-milestone

A genetically modified pig's kidney has been transplanted into a human who suffered from kidney failure.

dnavinci ,
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@rms
It's a great feat to be sure. Also I understand why they started with kidneys.
I didn't think about inactivating porcine endogenous retroviruses, but it makes sense that they exist and would be a bigger problem for a patient who is heavily immunosuppressed with e.g. tacrolimus for transplant.

Despite all that understanding, I'm still somehow underwhelmed that it's a kidney

futurebird , to random
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...

Clearly not thinking through all of the implications of "that America"

bruh. why would YOU be able to vote if women couldn't? THINK.

dnavinci ,
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@futurebird
I used to lead an BSA troop in West Philly.
At the height of the troop we got a grant to hike the famous sprawling ranch in NM.
We were poorly prepared for the Rockies. All day, every day all-women Venture troops would pass us up and downhill.
At the fire one evening the boys were talking about the girls with modest teenage disrespect.
I interjected, "fine, but they're out here with you, doing everything you do. Just seems unfair they can't earn the same awards"

poligraf , to palestine group
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« … we're not waiting on the Israelis anymore… this is a moment for American leadership … »

« … Biden said at the beginning "don't make the mistakes we did in Iraq"… so that was quite a coded message… here they're saying "right, we've had enough, we've waited long enough, we're going to sort out this aid issue" … »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMNbSW9sOqM

#Palestine #ceasefire #FreePalestine @palestine

🕊️ 🇵🇸 🍉 🙏🏻 ✌️ ☮️ 🇺🇸

dnavinci ,
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@Miro_Collas
Ibiwisi
@poligraf @palestine

dnavinci ,
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@Miro_Collas
Ibiwisi
@poligraf @palestine

dnavinci ,
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@poligraf
Ah, you must be a white man from a high GDP nation.
I know this because you invited starving folks to a self-improvement session.
@Miro_Collas @palestine

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