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If this is what happens to a scientific field as a whole when LLMs dominate the workflows of researchers, I can only imagine that the outlook is even worse for any individual researcher who is soldiering on without using them. 😞

It’s just so beautiful

Chōu Ōta, Vaccination, 1934

And here is the same Alex Jones bullshit appearing in Rolling Stone. Unbelievably embarrassing to publish this.

just became aware of William Howard Taft’s 1908 campaign poster

Six congressmen bought between $83,000 to $245,000 in SpaceX stock just before its IPO: -Jared Moskowitz -Gil Cisneros -Dan Meuser -John McGuire -William Timmons -John James Five serve on committees whose work impacts SpaceX's business. We must ban members of Congress from trading stock.

If not a bailout then certainly a well-timed announcement

Yes

The Covid Amnesia Project and the Plot to Erase 2020It’s up to those of us who experienced the pandemic in the real-world to make sure that what actually happened in 2020 isn’t deliberately erased by sheltered disinformation agents who experiencedsciencebasedmedicine.org

Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare booksIf you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.www.news.com.au

man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing

Time to post the Cosmic Cliffs in Carina Nebula from #JWST again, just because.

Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.

Among the worst ideas floating around is that "the free market" will naturally achieve desirable results for society. No, it won't, not even in theory, much less in practice. Markets don't optimize "good for society" unless you make them.

One of the most depressing things about this past decade, and the competition is stiff, is how drastically it has lowered my estimation of my fellow citizens.

the u.s. is bullying other countries into withdrawing from the i.c.c.

I don't know what the path to good governance is when people don't want to see their interests served, but only inflict punishment on people they don't like. Seems grim.

While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.

imagine losing your only child in a war that was completely optional and then they delete her from the war dead to reset the clock on 90 days “hostilities” to ignore Congress

Nobody ever explained to me what a passkey is or how they work. Websites just started asking me for passkeys like it's something we talked about.

Nicolas de Staël (1914 – 1955) Le Saladier, 1954