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tarheel

@tarheel@mstdn.io

https://herereadthisarticle.wordpress.com a.k.a. https://herereadthis.blog/@herereadthis.blog

Trying to pay attention and get through life with more joy than sadness.

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mcc, to random
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Sorry, you want me to what

tarheel,
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@mcc You clicked it anyway, didn't you?

tarheel, to random
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So... I re-watched Nimona last night and was (re-) struck by just how pointed it is without really bashing you over the head. That whole "I'm going to destroy half the city to 'protect our way of life'" thing just reminds me so much of how racism works (we'll hurt ourselves, but we'll hurt them more), and, honestly, that whole "you can't let a commoner become a knight; it's against our whole way of life" just reeks of it, imo.

Good flick, recommended, if you haven't seen it yet.

BigAngBlack, to random
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Buddy...

AOC v MTG

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/17/aoc-v-mtg-house-hearing-chaos

Next to him, Raskin buried his face in his hands.

Comer imposed a five-minute recess. When the hearing resumed, Lauren Boebert – the Colorado extremist and theatrical exhibitionist who usually battles for attention with MTG – was of all people the one to offer an apology “to the American people”.

“When things get as heated as they have,” Boebert said, “unfortunately, it’s an embarrassment on our body as a whole.”

tarheel,
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@BigAngBlack

<cackle/>

AOC forgot not to wrestle with pigs, I guess.

nyrath, to random
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Derek Lowe's "Things I Will Not Work With", a series about insanely dangerous chemical compounds.

In this episode, The Higher States of Bromine.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/higher-states-bromine

tarheel,
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@nyrath I remember when I first read that. I couldn't prevent myself from bursting out with laughter at several points.

simon, to random
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Here's a brilliant neologism: "slop", for text generated entirely by LLMs and published, unwanted, on the Internet

> Watching in real time as "slop" becomes a term of art. the way that "spam" became the term for unwanted emails, "slop" is going in the dictionary as the term for unwanted AI generated content

Source: https://twitter.com/deepfates/status/1787472784106639418

tarheel,
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@simon

In the fyoochah, all spam will be AI-generated, so there'll be no need to have separate terms to distinguish.

GottaLaff, to Arizona
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BOOM!

“Democrats in the Legislature made a final push Wednesday to repeal the state’s long-dormant ban on nearly all , which a court said can be enforced...Senate had the 16 votes it needed to advance the bill.

14 Dems in Senate were joined by two GOP votes in favor of repealing the bill, which narrowly cleared the Arizona House last week and is expected to be signed by Dem Gov. Katie Hobbs”
https://apnews.com/article/24578e546b69ca087e01034bcaf4aa01

tarheel,
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@GottaLaff @mckra1g

Mind-blowing that it took multiple attempts and only passed narrowly. Which women actually vote for these Republicans?

researchbuzz, to random
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@StillIRise1963 This is another one please check your blood pressure before you read

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2024-04-24/mckinsey-faces-us-criminal-probe-over-opioids-work-sources-say

tarheel,
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@researchbuzz @StillIRise1963

McKinsey is garbage. Welchian mgmt horseshit.

Good thing I'm at the bottom my first double martini.

nyrath, to random
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Article about extraterrestrial settlement
By @ZachWeinersmith

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/21/space-isnt-the-final-frontier/

tarheel,
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@nyrath @ZachWeinersmith

Dammit. I WANT MY IMAGE OF A LONE HUMAN WITH A ROBOT MULE AND A LASER LONG RIFLE ON A BUTTE OVERLOOKING A VAST EXPANSE OF UNCOLONIZED LAND AND SILHOUETTED AGAINST A PURPLE SUNSET!

tarheel,
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@nyrath @ZachWeinersmith

😆

tarheel,
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@nyrath @ZachWeinersmith

I should just paste my rant into an AI art-generating doo-hicky.

tarheel,
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@nyrath @ZachWeinersmith

Suddenly I see why everybody's so pissed about this.

https://www.midjourney.com/jobs/bb5a8d69-5e2c-401a-98bc-7c75287abc75

tarheel,
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@nyrath @ZachWeinersmith

Yeah, I can see it's ripping off Western covers and smooshing in Star Wars stuff (and adding Mandalorian armor, which I don't want) and it can't keep itself from adding antennas (which.... who is our lone explorer talking to?) and making the laser rifle be firing.

So, it's amazing in its detail, but it's not the detail I want.

If I were to commission a piece, I might show the artist this stuff and say what I liked and what I disliked and ask for it in the style...

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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"The Why Files" is a youTube channel that regularly has videos with over a million views. They started as a kind of paranormal/fringe science channel that was mostly harmless, and that often debunked conspiracies.

But, they've moved beyond that in to material such as suppressed patents for cars that run on water. And treating climate change like it's a unresolved question. This has made their audience grow.

The things is they aren't just spitting lies. 1/

tarheel,
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@llewelly @futurebird

It's not just YouTube. Any system that rewards reads/watches/listens will wind up here.

It's industrial-scale confirmation bias.

We're negotiating a new social contract/understanding, as we always have been: populism vs. accuracy. The only thing that's new is the digital/social media aspect (well, and the speed of change).

40 years ago, it was The National Enquirer vs. U.S. News & World Report (in print).

tarheel, to random
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gCaptain continues to be on top of this thing.

https://gcaptain.com/tag/baltimore-bridge-collapse/

mekkaokereke, to random
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Writing a thread on onboarding here, because I don't want to write it in the other place.

Context:
Good engineer onboarding is DEI. Teams that have great onboarding, tend to be more diverse and inclusive. Teams that have poor onboarding, tend to be more homogeneous and less diverse.

That's because poor onboarding makes life harder for junior employees and remote employees. Underrepresented groups benefit disproportionately from remote work options. Junior employees are a more diverse group.

tarheel,
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@jrconlin @mekkaokereke

Apologies for a billion notifications -- something about my keyboard went nuts.

Re the "get reading!"... is there a navigation path through the voluminous (right?) docs? A prioritized reading list or something?

flexghost, to random
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"Get over yourself

“Those are the two choices. It's kind of like, one is old and effective and compassionate, has a heart, and really cares about people. And one is old and has been charged with 91 felonies.

"I don't understand why this is even a hard choice."

She’s right.

Video of Hilary Clinton on that awful guys show

tarheel,
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@flexghost

She'd have been such a great President.

I salute you, tireless warrior, for all your replies on this thread.

Wen, to random
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Whoever attached their bike (probably pricy given the look of the wheels) really should have paid attention to the frame 😳

tarheel,
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@Wen @KatM

Alternatively, don't buy an expensive bike.

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    tarheel,
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    @rooster

    I wonder how much ammo this will give folks all around the world who've probably been saying for years "We should reinforce the piers on that bridge that goes across the mouth of the harbor" and "We should inspect outgoing ships a little more stringently."

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/27/us/key-bridge-barriers-examples.html

    nyrath, to random
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    From Dr. Philip Metzger. The culmination of 27 years’ work.

    How to design a rocket to land on the Lunar surface WITHOUT the damn engine exhaust excavating a big hole and causing a ship-destroying crash.

    Erosion rate of lunar soil under a landing rocket, part 1: identifying the rate-limiting physics

    Erosion rate of lunar soil under a landing rocket, part 2: benchmarking and predictions

    https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18583

    https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18584

    tarheel,
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    @nyrath @tkinias

    Hmm. What happens when blazing hot exhaust nozzles meet water?

    tarheel,
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    @isaackuo @nyrath @tkinias

    Hmm, so, designing a craft with engines up high but a center of gravity not too high (at least, not while floating in water (or liquid methane??)) sounds like a fun challenge.

    Suddenly, we get marine design issues in a "space" ship.

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    And there it is…the first novel-length installment appearance of the BOMB-PUMPED X-RAY LASER!

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    @sudnadja @nyrath @FredKiesche

    I wouldn't have known, either, if my dad hadn't been a huge Hornblower fan.

    tarheel,
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    @nyrath @sudnadja @FredKiesche

    My sentiments exactly. Imagine all the gorgeous skyscrapers and they don't even have to be streamlined!

    Skyscrapers with gun platforms jutting out.

    tarheel,
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    @KarlSchroeder @isaackuo @cstross @sudnadja @nyrath @FredKiesche

    I think Stuhlinger (or somebody) proposed this for a Mars mission, except tripartite, not bipartite.

    tarheel,
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    @nyrath @KarlSchroeder @isaackuo @cstross @sudnadja @FredKiesche

    He described it to me in person (he was a good friend of my grandfather, Wilhelm Angele, so we spent some time together when I was a kid). Maybe I misunderstood or his proposal never saw the light of day.

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    @nyrath @KarlSchroeder @isaackuo @cstross @sudnadja @FredKiesche

    Could a been a coffee-machine proposal. 🙂

    I think he also had a plan for crews in each of the nodes to visit each other, like three houses close together being on good terms with each other. Kind of an emotional/social health aspect.

    No idea what the mechanics of that would have been. Elevator on the cables?

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