I highly suggest you go down a rabbit hole of cross-species breeding in the wild. Even before this ant discovery, we already knew that it’s super weird and blurry around the edges. Nature scoffs at our attempts to neatly categorize things.
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I highly suggest you go down a rabbit hole of cross-species breeding in the wild. Even before this ant discovery, we already knew that it’s super weird and blurry around the edges. Nature scoffs at our attempts to neatly categorize things.
It’s probably just the result of self-serving opportunism, but it’s something.
Is this one of the “you can, but you’ll wish you hadn’t” types?
Oh no
I cannot express how painfully distracting that little piece of shit in the left margin moving with my cursor location was. I don't have an equivalent beyond that one fucking coworker that keeps popping his head over the cube wall to chat while you're trying to have a coherent thought.
Okay, you know what, that looks really comfy
… why does he have a flying squirrel onesie? No judgement, it’s just… an uncommon thing for a person to own
This timeline is some fucking matrix-glitch bullshit
I’m so fucking annoyed that James O’Keefe appears to be, for the first time in his miserable existence, involved in something that doesn’t suck shit
What the fuck ??
Terry Pratchett continued the concept further by not even giving dwarves gender, unless they maybe felt like it.
Sadly no, USA and Great Britain are in some kind of cultural arms race to see who can produce the world’s biggest asshole.
That guy is really fucked up.
This keeps getting weirder
I can’t remember if this is the Fox host who doesn’t wash his hands after taking a shit, or if that’s a different guy
Hahaha you did this to yourself
A lot of video-game publishers spend hundreds of millions of dollars chasing after "realistic graphics" and "massive open-worlds" when what players really want is just a shitload of weird little guys
lol, yeah, for a second I was confused because Patlabor came out when *I* was a kid
Yep. I’ve got one in my extended family. She’s retired now, thankfully, but I can’t even comprehend how many lives she probably ruined.
Nurses either become diehard socialists or the worst person you've ever met and there is no in-between.
Thank you for acknowledging nurses who come from cop families; they’re some of the most sadistic evil fucks to ever walk the earth.
This is so strange that I’m having a difficult time getting my head around everything that’s going on
They do waddle around like they’ve got a full diaper, don’t they?
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Your router can smell your fear
This is all giving me sub-prime mortgage credit default swap vibes
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This is actually a pretty good article with an appropriate tone.
Because LLMs don’t ‘say’ or ‘mean’ anything. They generate statistically plausible answer-shaped sentences in response to question-shaped sentences. Text devoid of intent, entirely divorced from meaning.
to the people who caught this in the discover tab: yes, I agree, the rest of Trump's appointees are also bad. the threat posed by RFK to the public health is unique among them. that is why the post specifies RFK. In addition, this is becoming so clear that there might be a window for progress
Same with people who say we should just let anti-vaxxers die of disease. Their children do not deserve to also die, neither do the elderly people and immunocompromised people they infect and kill.
It’s a pretty clear Dunning-Kruger curve in every application people trying throwing it at.
Sudden switch to remote work I think definitely revealed a lot of middle management that was incompetent or didn't do anything which is one of the reasons there was such a heavy push to deride and end the practice bsky.app/profile/sara...
A human brain can hallucinate. An LLM cannot, because it doesn't have a brain. It presents a simulacrum of what a good answer looks like. As Rachel points out, it doesn't "know". The worst mistake we've made is to allow anthropomorphizing language to become the default for talking about "AI."
it had taken Philbur many years to master the ancient art of “not destroying vases” (theme ‘training’)
Everything Senator Warnock said in this clip is correct. Right now RFK Jr. is more dangerous than Trump himself, which is an incredibly high bar to clear.
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Oh no
Huh. That’s cool. Let’s see how ignorant I am…
The entire global economy is currently so over-leveraged on "AI" that if we don't find a credible use case for it, and fast, we're likely to tumble into an economic meltdown of 2008 proportions, so please, your corporate overlords beg you, use "AI" to write that fucking email
I kind of laugh at the idea of a "reliable narrator". Have you met people?!
What the fuck?
Its okay guys the white men who stand to be trillionaires would never overhype the technology because that would be unethical
I’m not sure it’ll be possible to ever decontaminate it. Pre-AI large databases are going to be valuable in a similar way to pre-atomic bomb steel is today.
…. I can’t think of anything that even comes close. I’ve seen work processes (waterfall -> Agile, for example), but that’s not tech, and it’s not even close to the weird FOMO inspired desperation of “AI”.
Well… crap.
Please don’t go into FAFO mode with the legal system. It is a cruel, uncaring beast that will steamroll hubris and ignorance.
Annoyingly, these stupid fucks love taking as many innocent bystanders with them as possible, whether that’s with bullets, pollution, or easily preventable diseases.
So many people are going to die in miserable agony. This fucking sucks.
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This sentence gave me the same feeling I get if I contemplate the heat death of the universe for too long
Fucking telomeres, man. Fucking telomeres.
Seven people who are insulated from reality and protected from any consequences being wrong? Nah, it's the children who are wrong.
Hahaha fuck
it is incredibly easy to believe that seven super-wealthy tech CEOs are delusional
The thing you gotta understand is everyone on this planet, including you, has completely lost their mind
I don’t know what the fuck this is but it’s giving me the weirdest set of conflicting emotions
Lololololol
Yeah, fuck that shit
‘Nobody had these diseases and allergies back then’ - yeah, because they just fuckin died from them
Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.
That’s so close to the bullseye that I think it counts
It’s all just team-sports bullshit.
I remember feeling like I’d already seen Star Wars for much of my life, but then I realized in college that I had not—I’d been operating on assumptions because of how frequently it was referenced in popular culture. I kinda feel like Frankenstein is like that but for people who don’t read.
It’s nice seeing the cultural touch points that the United States and Britain still have in common
Oh for fuck’s sake
They get to adopt AI, be forward-thinking, even though it sucks, and then they can devalue labor by cutting the pay rate for the humans. So even when AI doesn’t work — it still works for their purposes. Which is to pay people less and keep more money.
Part of the magic trick of AI was always going to be corporations using it as a lever — a threat. You take the AI clean up job because it’s better than no job, even though it requires the same or more work. And if you don’t want that well they’ll find someone else or just use more AI to “fix it.”
It is, hands down, the most lethal virus humankind has ever encountered, and it’s not even close. Ebola and Marburg have higher survival rates with fewer long term disabilities. The only survivor we really know of who made a reasonable recovery still had to learn how to walk again.
The survival rate is so vanishingly low that it is still effectively 100% fatal once it becomes symptomatic. It kills something like 50,000+ people per year. In *ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY* there have been only a handful of very recent survivors.
Seriously, this is fucked
Fucking hell.
Normally I would say “don’t watch those videos”, but now I think we kind of need some of these stupid assholes to watch those videos.
The Milwaukee protocol is starting to be abandoned. Other than a handful of extremely rare outliers, all it does is prolong suffering. academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
This is not hyperbole. It’s one of the worst deaths possible.
Of course not.
… okay then. Not surprising, but also, what the fuck
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Hahaha what the fuck
I really resent having to be in one of those “things will have to get much worse before they get better” phases of history regarding vaccines.
God damnit
I refuse to participate in your fetish for being yelled at by internet strangers
Yeah that just, like, doesn’t exist here. In the northeast the rails were all destroyed by major floods in the fifties and then never rebuilt since the interstate highways were all being built.
That’s good! Main thing is to keep the squirrel warm right now. I’m not as familiar with wildlife rehab in Canada, but keep at it and I’m sure you’ll be able to find someone who can help!
It is impossible to express to anyone from Europe or Asia how sprawling North America is, and how crappy our transportation infrastructure is. The nearest train station for me is 45 minutes away by car, and I’m in a fairly built up region.
1. I think it's difficult for people not in the US to appreciate how absolutely non-useful/condescending "use a train" is as advice. Where I live, the nearest passenger train station is 90 miles away, in Cincinnati. However, there is a bus from Dayton to that train station, a mere 43 miles from me.
I don’t know what state you’re in, but a local vet may have contact info for local rehabbers as well.
Oh yikes, never thought about it quite like that.
If he’s that overloaded with fleas, mom may be gone. That’s also a common reason why they venture out of the nest at that young of an age. There’s a good chance there may be more of them. I’d reach out to a wildlife rehabber. Check your state environmental protection site for contact info.
The other 10% involves fire and electricity, which should be grouped together for fairly obvious reasons.
Dude what the hell
Feel like 90% of home ownership is about figuring ways to make sure water leaves your house as it should and making sure water doesn’t get in to your house when it shouldn’t.
Yeah this is completely accurate.
There are so many weird-ass and unnecessary details in this
lol what is happening
lol wow, what a fucking piece of shit
Probably not any more than usual, but we can hope
Jesus Christ, lol