Hey, remember in 1783 how Philadelphia built a triumphal arch to celebrate the end of the Revolution and then God used the celebratory fireworks to burn it down and kill people and injure its designer, who came to regard it as punishment for his hubris? Anyway.

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I say again, any "pause/pacing/contemplative silence where AI CEOs think about what they've done and promise to be very good boys from now on" that doesn't result in ACTUAL enforcement mechanisms to hold them Several-Hundred-Billion-Dollars accountable any time their product fucks up is nigh useless

and the inverse: when they talk about immortality they only mean immortality for them

Semi regular reminder that when (white) men declare the end of humanity they usually mean the end of their dominance.

Reposting this would be very helpful. We're having a tough month at Skype a Scientist between much of my energy being devoted to Academy of Natural Sciences stuff. I need help!!

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌
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Even if this weren’t a completely transparent pretext because he things “NATIONAL SECURITY” is a set of magic words that let him do anything, no competent military advisor would suggest storing all of your munitions in a giant target standing on its own in the middle of a traffic circle.

I graduated med school in 2014. I was taught-and saw-how hard melanoma was to treat, like a death sentence

Since then, new treatments have made it possible for people w/ the most advanced melanoma, like Jimmy Carter, to live to 100!

We are killing ourselves by letting them destroy American science

For those who want to follow along (& I have to say, at this point, I have no idea how many days this will take), I want to give a "deep dive" into how historians of medicine (#histmed) who work on the pre-modern/pre-print era actually go about researching a question. Today, I just discovered this:

the week of the MI senate primary, a group of river tubers on the Muskegon went missing for three days after they got in the water not realizing the river only flows in one direction and doesn’t just take you back to your car.

They’re more representative of voters than anyone on here.

At some point it starts to feel like debate club deciding in 2003 that yes climate change is bad while out there the petrol company just logged a 1500% quarterly profit

about 50% of Bluesky is the 5% of people who are about 3000% more engaged with politics than the average person having daily slapfights over the future behaviour of ppl who decide who theyre going to vote for depending on the last colour they saw and won't remember who they chose 5 min later

Light of Memory, ink painting on yupo, features a pyramidal neuron layered over a hand-written quote about the shaky nature of memory artologica.etsy.com/listing/4528... #sciart
Analog! With cursive writing, even.

Goooood morning!

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THESE are the real "existential risks" of "AI":

People almost Dying because other people trust bullshit engines because said people have been sold a bill of goods as to how "powerful" "AI" is instead of understanding that its bullshit comes from the same place as its seemingly factual outputs.

White porcupine #leucism

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