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I don't know anything, but I can look it up.

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SFRuminations, to scifi
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Artist Chris Yates (1948-) was born on this day. List of covers: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?108096

L, 1973; R, 1973

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jhavok,
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@SFRuminations DG Compton...there's a name I haven't seen for about 40 years...The Unsleeping Eye was a knockout.

jhavok,
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@SFRuminations I may have read Synthajoy, but I don't think I've read any others. I recall that I wasn't as impressed with the other Compton I read.

In middle school gave up my allowance for a membership in the Science Fiction Book Club, a new current book every month. It was a deal...

gbhnews, to random
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📚 also also

what are you reading?

jhavok,
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@gbhnews Been burning through some Iain Banks. Last two (Use of Weapons and Excession) were shaggy dog stories, though, so I'm getting a bit less enthusiastic.

TexasObserver, (edited ) to Health
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“We must have this national conversation. How are we going to deal with long ?”

Featured post: Medical experts and those suffering from this challenging condition are demanding better—more research and healthier air to breathe. https://www.texasobserver.org/long-covid-texas-clearing-the-air/

(Edit: adjusted word choice based on reader feedback 🤠)

jhavok,
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@TexasObserver Texas Observer has done some good reporting around COVID. They broke the story of unqualified coroners misclassifying COVID deaths.

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Kyle Griffin:

The DCCC raised $45.4 million in the first quarter of 2024. It's the DCCC's best quarter of the 2024 election cycle.

To compare, the NRCC raised just $12 million.

The DCCC has $71.1 million on hand. The NRCC has $45.2 million on hand.

jhavok,
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@GottaLaff Possible explanation: https://mastodon.social/@JoshuaHolland/112283507866144342

GottaLaff, to Idaho
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🤬US Supreme Court lets enforce ban on transgender care for minors

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-lets-idaho-enforce-ban-transgender-care-minors-2024-04-15/

jhavok,
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@GottaLaff This is what losing Roe v Wade allows. People called Roe v Wade weak, but it established a right of medical privacy and control over your own body. That is gone.

GottaLaff, to random
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Corals are turning white and dying after months of record heat, with US experts saying all oceans are affected -BBC

jhavok,
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@GottaLaff Dr. Ruth Gates (RIP) of was working on collecting heat-shock resistant corals. I don't know how far along that project has gotren, but it is a chance to save reefs in a world with a warmer ocean.

grimalkina, to random
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Had brunch with a scientist friend who's an expert in one of the more exciting emerging areas of applied biology. She said:

"People are like why are you so tired. People don't understand that our brains are on FIRE for at least eight hours a day. This is biology's heyday and yet the worst time to be a scientist because we're expected to know a million new things a day and discarded if we don't. All the tools none of the humanity."

I felt the software developers I work with can relate

jhavok,
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@grimalkina It was a lot easier to be a Renaissance person when the sum total of knowledge was much smaller.

Saltssaltgirl, (edited ) to EyeHealth
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If your significant other has worn the same pair of glasses for a year. How long would it take you to notice a new pair?

jhavok,
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@Saltssaltgirl I would notice them instantly. No, you can't ask her.

I went all winter without shaving and developed quite a beard. Early in spring I shaved it off. Several days later she asked "did you do something with your hair???"

jhavok,
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@Saltssaltgirl I'm lucky, my wife will usually talk about getting a haircut for a few days before she gets one, so it doesnt sneak up on me.

tzimmer_history, to random
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Weekend reading: I wrote about the disingenuous and dangerous folly of anti-anti-Trump conservatism.

How “respectable” conservatives normalize Trump, rage against a caricature of “the Left,” and accommodate rightwing extremism.

A thread, based on this week’s piece:

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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/anti-anti-trump-conservatives-are

jhavok,
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@tzimmer_history If I recall,correctly they were only against Trump because they didn't regard him as a viable candidate. But no one ever went broke underestimating the American public.

realTuckFrumper, to random
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'The best people': Trump drowned in mockery after his lawyers subpoena the wrong person https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mocked-subpoena-wrong-person/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

jhavok,
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@realTuckFrumper Four Seasons all over again

mondoweiss, to Palestine
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The problem isn’t just with Benjamin Netanyahu. It is with Zionist settler colonialism.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/no-senator-schumer-netanyahu-isnt-the-problem/


@palestine @israel

jhavok,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel Netanyahu is leveraging the existing ethnic nationalism to provide cover for his criminal behavior. Get rid of the criminal and the ethnic nationalism will still be there.

ben, to climate
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This hadn't really been on my radar: "Just one type of next generation geothermal — called superhot rock energy, where deep drilling reaches temperatures 400 degrees Celsius (752 degrees Fahrenheit) or hotter — is abundant enough to theoretically fulfill the world’s power requirements." https://grist.org/energy/the-us-aims-to-crack-the-code-on-scaling-up-geothermal-energy-production/?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon

jhavok,
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@ben Every single bit of technology to do this is available off the shelf. It wouldn't surprise me if existing boreholes for fracking could be used for this.

Some_Emo_Chick, to comics
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jhavok,
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@Some_Emo_Chick Context: https://www.salon.com/2024/04/05/marjorie-taylor-greene-thinks-earthquake-and-eclipse-are-a-warning-from-god/

eff, to random
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Police used DNA and probability software to invent a likely face for a subject and then put that fake face through face recognition software. This is policing done by pure chance and it's beyond dangerous. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/cops-running-dna-manufactured-faces-through-face-recognition-tornado-bad-ideas

jhavok,
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@eff Just heard a bit on a true-crime podcast about catching a perpetrator with a bite match. Horrible that this long-discredited method still is being used.

GottaLaff, to random
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Thermal energy storage was new to me. 👇🏼

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/thermal-storage-explainer-1.7163743

jhavok,
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@GottaLaff @joeinwynnewood Thank you for what you have done.

mvario, to random
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JK Rowling's most hateful rant yet: Trans people are criminals who don't need legal protections - LGBTQ Nation

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/04/jk-rowlings-most-hateful-rant-yet-trans-people-are-criminals-who-dont-need-legal-protections/

> According to the Harry Potter author, many trans people are violent criminals and would-be axe murderers.

jhavok,
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@mvario I'm really glad that I found the Potter books to be trash writing, just a string of hack tropes strung together in a predictable way. Rowling has confirmed my ability to judge people.

DrALJONES, to random
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    jhavok,
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    @DrALJONES Hasbarites have been attacking AL Jazeera since the assault on Gaza began.

    GottaLaff, to random
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    Celebrity chef Jose Andres told that an Israeli attack that killed seven of his food aid workers in had targeted them 'systematically, car by car' —Reuters

    jhavok,
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    @GottaLaff they hit the cars dead center in the logos. That doesn't happen by accident.

    potus, to random

    I am outraged and heartbroken by the deaths of seven humanitarian workers from World Central Kitchen, including one American, in Gaza yesterday.

    Incidents like yesterday’s simply should not happen.

    Here is my full statement.

    jhavok,
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    @potus Please divert the arms you are sending to Israel, the arms that they used for those murders, to Ukraine, where they can be used to protect civilization instead of destroy it. Empty words will not rein in Israel's aggression.

    GeePawHill, to random
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    One of the key facts here keeps getting sidestepped by a mixture of scam marketing and common language usage out there.

    LLMs don't sometimes make shit up, they always make shit up.

    That's what an LLM is: a piece of software that makes up plausible sounding shit.

    What's impressive about this is the extent of improvement in the plausibility.

    What's horrifying about it is the extent to which so many people don't care to distinguish between plausibility and correctness.

    jhavok,
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    @simon @GeePawHill I'm skeptical that an LLM can find meaning.

    jhavok,
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    @simon @GeePawHill boolean keyword search. An LLM is irrelevant to that task.

    jhavok,
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    @simon @GeePawHill Boolean keyword search. Did you ever write a research paper? How did you find the information you needed from Medline or Ebsco?

    jhavok,
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    @simon @GeePawHill Will your LLM-enabled search deliver the citation, or will it tell you a date? If I was doing a boolean for that, I'd start looking for date formated strings on pages with the suspect's name.

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