occupation genocide

It’s wild how different this response is to the US’ response to COVID and other infectious diseases in humans

Got a source for the Guardian no longer using AGI? Given a ‘desperately trying to convince people that AI is cool’ title like this, discontinued use seems highly unlikely

Wow, thank you so much for sharing this. What a major blow to the Guardian’s credibility

This is the same bogus and weaponizable logic that legitimate criticism of Israel’s genocide = ‘antisemitism’ is. If you want to call legitimate criticism of the illegal and unethical actions of this POTUS administration ‘hate for America’, the notion that deportations (of US-born people) are going to ramp up shortly just became very real for me

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Have you considered immigrating to occupied Palestine then? Useful reminder, since you seem confused: anti-genocide ≠ anti-semitism

You’re not allowed to say that without prefacing it with “scientists suspect” or something similar /s

Thanks for the tip! With the adware roll-out, I switched to LibreWolf. A pre 128 version of FireFox is my backup for sites that (are designed so they) don’t work with a more privacy-respecting browser.

Since no one has corrected me about which version the adware rollout started at, I interpret this move from Mozilla as a way to coerce/trick users into upgrading to a less privacy-respecting browser. I don’t want to crap on Mozilla too much, because they clearer are a lesser evil in the browser industry, but this is another move that erodes my trust in them. It’s too bad they’re moving away from their privacy- and user-respecting roots, as they were so great for so long!

Was version 128 the one that includes adware going forward, or was that 129?

“Draft bill attached,” wrote a lobbyist representing two influential fossil fuel trade groups to the lead counsel for the West Virginia state energy committee in January 2020.

Thanks for spreading the word about this. I wasn’t aware. What an unfortunate development. I’ve never encountered mandatory FR in Canada, thank goodness

Bless the EU

For me, the being a mother of three and that being mentioned just has descriptive value. It doesn’t affect my judgement of her. It just helps me place who did this in the context of society and this anecdote, for whatever that matters - haters/bigots come in all shapes and sizes of course

Thank you for that! I love Tobias and Michael in scenes together. I think I might do an AD rewatch, of the first 3 seasons anyway

There’s got to be a better way of saying that. I love Tobias, and Michael, and Arrested Development

The NYT has lost all credibility to report anything on this conflict that is not Israeli government propaganda

This is what supporting genocide looks like. (If you’re in the US, I think you still have to vote for Biden in November)

This certainly mirrors what I’ve seen on the ground. In the last 10 years, predatory publishers and publication mills went from known issues to the new normal. And yet despite how easy it is to publish, interest in reproducibility seems at an all-time low. It’s jarring, and I’m kind of making a career change out of research as a result, because what I do as a lowly assistant is essentially engineering results and marketing as opposed to anything having to do with discovery or science. I interpret it as capitalism’s going to capitalism.

This has resulted in a 47% growth between 2016 and 2022 in the global number of published papers (Hanson, et.al. 2023). Moreover, we should expect a further spurt of growth following the widespread advent of large language models in late 2022. During the 2016-2022 period there was little net increase in the number of PhD students globally or in the funding of science, both indicators of science activity. Increased paper productivity implies either that scientists became suddenly much more creative over the period, or had spent more time writing, and therefore reviewing papers: an increase in paper productivity but a decrease in scientific productivity.

Great advice, thank you!! What you said applies to me quite a bit