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Dr. Katharine Dickson

Microbiome science by training; climate policy by calling. Professional anti-methanogen crusader. I 分かる some 日本語. Opinions my own. She/her. 🇺🇸. ☸️ (Jōdo Shinshū). Owner of @cowburpsbot.bsky.social Portfolio: https://tinyurl.com/katharinedickson

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⟳ Репост от Dr. Katharine Dickson

Yesterday I was at the Allen institute (which has a Claude for science partnership) and talking to quite a few experts about AI and every one of them has expressed the same level of complicated excitement and awareness of how much it can do IN their area of expertise

Peter Tennant

Peter's Law of Chatbot Accuracy*: "everything you read that's produced by an LLM is absolutely true, except for the rare output about which you happen have expert knowledge". *Remixed from Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy, where the exact same rules apply!

⟳ Репост от Dr. Katharine Dickson

Only 23% of Iowa voters support efforts to weaken state animal welfare laws, according to a new poll. In the nation's top pork-producing state, voters oppose the proposal by nearly a 2-to-1 margin. www.thenewlede.org/2026/07/iowa...

Most Iowa voters oppose bid to override state animal welfare laws, poll showsVoters in the key US farm state of Iowa overwhelmingly reject efforts to weaken state animal welfare laws, according to a new poll gauging sentiment on a key nationwide farm policy debate.www.thenewlede.org
⟳ Репост от Dr. Katharine Dickson

“A database of more than 38,000 scholarships maintained by the National Scholarship Providers Association shows the number of grants with women-specific eligibility criteria has declined 19% since 2023,” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Schools Are Cutting Women’s Scholarships Even When They Don’t Have ToRPI, Middlebury College and Duke University are among those that have ended or altered programs aimed at supporting female students.www.bloomberg.com
⟳ Репост от Dr. Katharine Dickson

This review is like being Chotiner’d: “Unlike some of Nolan’s other films, The Odysseyis not boring, thanks to the source material, which is impossible to mess up entirely.” First paragraph, I’m dying www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated ManAs they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...www.lrb.co.uk

Please stop using those of us who are non-rural, college educated women as sock puppets for what is very clearly YOUR bigotry, Scott. Source: williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications...

Scott Witte

Tom, suburban, college educated women are scared of “boys in girls sports”. Not arguing it, but that’s what polling shows. Same with runaway DEI and open borders. Again, not gonna argue, that’s just what reality is. If Dems stick to those things, independents and mod Rs are lost, again.

⟳ Репост от Dr. Katharine Dickson

Elon Musk will continue to insist that DOGE "didn't kill anyone" because he doesn't think that most people's lives have any meaning, especially if they are not rich and white. newrepublic.com/article/2135...

The Real Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed “Zero” KidsIn his explosive interview with The Economist, the SpaceX billionaire inadvertently revealed something darker about his true vision for the future—and about his affinities with global fascism.newrepublic.com

It’s the “I am incapable of/apathetic to modeling the interiority of other people” doctrine and it has the same huge and exploitable blind spots of being easily blindsided and manipulated that any entity who fails to model others’ interiority has

dorian

there is a doctrine of product development out of silicon valley that goes something like "i think this thing would be cool to have for myself, i'm sure other people *must* also want it too, so i'll make it and they will fund its development and also it will obviously be a blockbuster"

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