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Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today STANFORD, CA—Calling it a “pretty slow one” as far as natural selection and genetic drift were concerned, biologists from Stanford University confirmed Tuesday that not much evolution happened today. ...

Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today

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“We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter,” said Altman, laying out an intensely dystopian future as just another business development. “One of the most important things in the future is that we make intelligence, to borrow an old phrase from the energy industry that didn’t quite work, ‘Too cheap to meter.’” When I first heard what Altman had said, I was shocked and bewildered. How does someone even conceive of metering (and monetizing) intelligence if they’re not a tech billionaire with an intense antipathy toward humanity? It was clearly not something that would ever be achieved in practice. But it did hint at a much deeper issue with these AI tools, what they’re doing to our cognitive capacities, and the broader ideology underpinning the industry’s effort to force AI into every facet of our lives.

Altman made this declaration at an infrastructure summit hosted by BlackRock. It’s the latest in a long line of outrageous statements he’s made to try to justify the rollout of generative AI and the massive cost to power it.

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NSF LTER program “archived”.

LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”.

This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings.

My heart is breaking.

Sandhill cranes leap into the air to argue, against a backdrop of prairie and snowcapped Colorado mountains.

A sandhill crane comes in for a landing and looks really awkward while doing so. Other cranes look on.

Another awkward sandhill crane landing over a big flock of landed cranes against a snowy Colorado mountain.

Cranes argue loudly while standing in a dry field against a big mountain on a plane in Colorado.

More photos from the Monte Vista crane festival. Cranes are just big goofy guys

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

No animal alive today is ‘primitive’ – why are so many still labeled that way? All species alive today, from chimpanzees to bacteria, are cousins that each have equally long lineages, rather than ancestors or descendants of one another.

The idea that humans sit atop an evolutionary hierarchy dates back to 1866, when a scientist drew the first tree of life with "Man" at the top. This inaccurate view still shapes how we think of the animal world, despite decades of genomic evidence proving evolution has no hierarchy.

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a werewolf in front of a house wearing a ‘BE MINE’ heart and holding a sign that reads ‘THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE’ above a photo of bad bunny

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

As a botanist, this isn’t funny. Plants are sessile and only do this when they’re in extreme distress

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Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

That halftime show is what people mean when they say "joy is an act of resistance."

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

In case you missed the moment.

Art is powerful

out indefinitely mononucleosis

super bowl champion

it's the AI PRFB now 🙃

like I opened up a new doc and just stared blankly for a minute trying to remember how to load a package

horrifying moment: haven't coded in Julia in long enough I'm starting to think in R 🫠

try not to cry at your friend's defense challenge: failed

so proud of @laymonstera.bsky.social!!! she's an incredibly accomplished scientist (so many grants! published dissertation chapters already!) but she's also an incredible friend :)

Catherine O’Hara in Beetlejuice. Close up, wearing black and white with black headband.

Catherine O’Hara in Home Alone. Wearing cream swearer and colourful scarf; decorating Christmas tree.

Catherine O’Hara as Moira Rose in Schitt’s Creek. Wearing black and white with large sunglasses while people behind velvet ropes clap.

Catherine O’Hara in The Last of Us. Sitting in diner with book in hand as Pedro Pascal’s character interrupts her.

R.I.P. Catherine O’Hara. Absolute icon.🥺🥀

Heartwarming: Miserable Man Frustrated In Ultimately Insignificant Way | Defector Every day, up and down the culture, unjust things are happening. Terrible things happen to good people, while some of the most vile people this country has ever produced blithely escape any accountabi...

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Oh, you know, just a metro daily newspaper running a service journalism roundup of munitions the government has used against its own people

We are all drowning in a pool of systemic propaganda so I understand why the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti feel esp shocking and I think it is important to do the internal work of asking yourself, if this applies to you, why the deaths of immigrants/Black folks don't shock in the same way

Mood in minneapolis right now

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MINNESOTA NICE MEANS PROSECUTE ICE