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shout out to people who keep going even though they're in pain all the time
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It's the annual Ask a Manager salary survey! Every year, vastly fewer men fill this out than women. Men, please share your salary info (anonymously) so we have concrete salary comparisons to inform pay negotiations and fight the pay gap
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I said in 2024 that one of the reasons Harris lost was that the narrative of Trump as a dire threat to the future, while completely accurate, sounded no more alarmist than the similar claims of the reverse from Trump and his team.
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How does a low-information voter discern between, "He's a Nazi who'll destroy us all" and "She's a commie who'll destroy us all"? Both sound equally histrionic on the face of it.
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ethically hollow and isn't actually technically proficient despite broad press mythologies painting him as a supergenius engineer
where have I heard that before
where have I heard that before
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Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption:
"The highest quality video of the moon was just released…
so beautiful
* Artemis II"
It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.
"The highest quality video of the moon was just released…
so beautiful
* Artemis II"
It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.
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Do not rely on the A.I.-generated alt text in Facebook or Instagram. The result is vague and useless, like "may be an image of food and text," and "may be an image of outdoors." These do nothing to give users the context and content of an image.
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why shouldn't poor people have delicious food? name me one good reason food for poor people should be bland or unappetizing.
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SUFFERING IS NOT ACTUALLY NOBLE WE DON'T HAVE TO OFFER IT UP FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS THAT WAS A LIE
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Zero. The amount of risk is zero.
We are generations away from creating autonomous, sentient machines. We will likely never have the ability to do so, given how little we understand about the nature of consciousness and the limitations of our technology.
Why is a science magazine indulging this?
We are generations away from creating autonomous, sentient machines. We will likely never have the ability to do so, given how little we understand about the nature of consciousness and the limitations of our technology.
Why is a science magazine indulging this?
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For those who don't know this story, which I first shared six years ago today....
This one time I got my days wrong at work and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine.
🧵
This one time I got my days wrong at work and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine.
🧵
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The reason to push back against blaming the technology when someone gets breached doing something stupid isn't to defend the poor innocent technology, it's to stop people from thinking the problem can be solved by just picking a better technology and not changing any of their own behavior
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The vast majority of Americans are birthright citizens. Unless you naturalized or were born abroad to an American parent, you are a citizen because of the 14th Amendment. There is nothing constitutionally distinct about Americans born here to non-Americans. We are all literally equal citizens.
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If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using with no explanation.
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An often undiscussed issue that comes along with defunding and undervaluing arts education, particularly for musicians: copyright.
I was in a very, very good choir in high school, from a very well developed music program that had begun to languish under No Child Left Behind. 🧵
I was in a very, very good choir in high school, from a very well developed music program that had begun to languish under No Child Left Behind. 🧵
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The loss of 22 episode seasons means we're losing out on the time honored tradition of "episode in which recurring character is suddenly turned evil via MacGuffin and now the actor gets to have fun"
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The replies do not suggest an understanding of how integrated Amazon’s cloud services are into the basic framework of daily life worldwide. This is not about drones and delivery, y’all.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/aws-amazon-web-services-outage-fragility-cloud-services/
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/aws-amazon-web-services-outage-fragility-cloud-services/
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It all just seemed too stupid to comment on but... they literally think they're giving instructions to an intelligent entity, don't they. I can't wrap my head around the idea of a whole industry worshipping the LLM like it's a 2001 alien space monolith when we *know* how the damn things work.
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If you think you know "Machinehead" and "Glycerine," prepare to be surprised by these Tiny Desk arrangements of beloved alt-rock hits. n.pr/41a83PN
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60 years on, there are some people who still think Star Trek is about space ships. But it was always about:
- The strength of diversity
- The high price of bigotry
- The importance of justice
- The inexcusable failure of war
Want life to be like Star Trek? Work on those things, not warp drive.
- The strength of diversity
- The high price of bigotry
- The importance of justice
- The inexcusable failure of war
Want life to be like Star Trek? Work on those things, not warp drive.
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the process is part of the work. it’s not supposed to be easy. the effort creates good work. i can’t believe this needs to be explained to people who call themselves journalists.
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This needs to be internalized way more by society.
It's not fucking sportsball people. If you need an analogy, if you promise to do shit bc it's part of your job and then fail to do so, is your employer just cool about it? Also how long do you expect to stay employed?
It's not fucking sportsball people. If you need an analogy, if you promise to do shit bc it's part of your job and then fail to do so, is your employer just cool about it? Also how long do you expect to stay employed?
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“States can’t ban conversion therapy but they can ban trans healthcare. They can’t regulate ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ but they can ban abortion. The plain text of the Constitution just happens to align with the GOP political platform. Do not dare suggest we’re doing politics.”
—The Supreme Court
—The Supreme Court
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over and over again, outright paid anti-trans activists are quoted in the Times as "concerned parents" or "concerned doctors". these are people who are paid to advocate against trans rights, and they are constantly white-washed by NYT news reporters.
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