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christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
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For the next few months, every single decision about Government spending priorities, in the form of "Rather than spending x on y, the government would rather spend x on z metres of road" where one million dollars is 7.22 metres of road.
Michael PlankThe bargain price of $138 million per km. Or one postdoc per metre.
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The “losing control” narrative creates the loss of control. Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to it, as a way of diffusing responsibility, but the self-perpetuated intelligence myth has them convinced they have no choice.
Anna Mills"They don't realize the debate inside the companies is if AI will be advancing itself past our control in two years or four." www.pacingthefrontier.com
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"Someone, somewhere, has taken the decision to defund astrophysics research in the UK, but no-one seems quite sure who that was, or why." The latest on the impact of the catastrophic funding cuts to UK astrophysics, by me, in @natastron.nature.com 👩🔬🧪🔭 ✒️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This is probably silly, but every now and then I stop and look at things like viaducts, shopping carts, chickens eating corn, or cats rolling there and back in sunlight and think how incredibly unlikely all of this is in the grand scheme of things. We could've been a barren ball of rock.
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I misread that as "Warhammer Fantasy Love Chat" and now I know the next area that GW needs to expand into: the Warhammer line of romance novels. Warhammer 40,000: when he's got a body count like you wouldn't believe but you know you can fix him
Zoe Tunnell ➡️ FlameCon E-09I've got a Warhammer Fantasy Lore Chat video about the average life in each of the factions on with one of the Black Library novel writers as a guest and the writer went "oh yeah, Orcs are a metaphor for the American dream. One boss gets to win and thrive and be in charge and 99% of orcs DO NOT"
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To be clear- this is catastrophic for radio astronomy, not just in the UK. If you shut down a facility like this not only do we use access to the facility, dozens (hundreds?) of jobs are gone and with it expertise that never comes back. Please write to your MP if you’re in the UK! 🔭🧪🎢
Chris LintottShort-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
