🧵I think a major misunderstanding about science is that people think it's about "facts". It isn't. Scientists might have thought that once, and many still do. But the core of scientific methodology is to find predictive MODELS. And famously, "all models are wrong, but some are useful". 1/N
This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow.
Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do?
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This 1943 U.S. Army film warned about fascism in America
Brianna Ghey was the target of brutal bullying and assault that cumulated in her violent murder because she was trans. Any 'solution' to her death that isn't focused on the culture of transphobia that made a group of children think her life was worth less is a distraction from this fact.
Photo of a press pass that has been sliced through diagonally.
For the past eight years I have worked as a stringer for Reuters news agency. My photos covering stories in the prairie provinces have been published by the New York Times, Al Jazeera, and other media outlets across North America, Asia, Europe, and elsewhere. At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more. When Israel murdered Anas Al-Sharif, together with the entire Al-Jazeera crew in Gaza City on August 10, Reuters chose to publish Israel's entirely baseless claim that Al-Sharif was a Hamas operative - one of countless lies that media outlets like Reuters have dutifully repeated and dignified. Reuters' willingness to perpetuate Israel's propaganda has not spared their own reporters from Israel's genocide. Five more journalists, including Reuters cameraman Hossam Al-Masri, were among 20 people killed this morning in another attack on Nasser hospital. It was what's known as a "double tap" strike, in which Israel bombs a civilian target like a school or hospital; waits for medics, rescue teams, and journalists to arrive; and then strikes again.
Western media is directly culpable for creating the conditions in which this can happen. As Jeremy Scahill from Drop Site News put it, "every major outlet - from the New York Times to the Washington Post, from AP to Reuters - has served as a conveyor belt for Israeli propaganda, sanitizing war crimes and dehumanizing victims, abandoning their colleagues and their alleged commitment to true and ethical reporting." By repeating Israel's genocidal fabrications without determining if they have any credibility - willfully abandoning the most basic responsibility of journalism - Western media outlets have made possible the killing of more journalists in two years on one tiny strip of land than in WWI, WWIl, and the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine combined, to say nothing of starving an entire population, shredding its children, and burning people alive. The fact that Anas Al-Sharif's work won a Pulitzer Prize for Reuters did not compel them to come to his defence when Israeli occupation forces placed him on a "hit list" of journalists accused of being Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants.
It did not compel them to come to his defence when he appealed to international media for protection after an Israeli military spokesperson posted a video making clear their intention to assassinate him following a report he did on the growing famine. It did not compel them to report on his death honestly when he was hunted and killed weeks later. I have valued the work that I brought to Reuters over the past eight years, but at this point I can't conceive of wearing this press pass with anything but deep shame and grief. I don't know what it means to begin to honour the courage and sacrifice of journalists in Gaza - the bravest and best to ever live - but going forward I will direct whatever contributions I have to offer with that front of mind.
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Page 1 : A digital comic page featuring colorful, anthropomorphic animals. Panel 1: A husky (Mason) and beagle (Kip) are dancing in a black void. Panel 2 : A close-up of both character's shoes as they are dancing Mason : "Tell me," Panel 3 : Both characters strike a pose, holding each other by the arm. Mason : "How long have you felt this way, Kip?"
Page 2 : A digital comic page featuring colorful, anthropomorphic animals. This page features a close-up of Mason, surrounded by scenes of Kip and Mason being close together, Kip covering Mason with a blanket while they're asleep, and smiling at them. Mason : "You've always started at me with those doting eyes Hung on tight to me with affection I'd never even considered someone could love me like this. I... I want to like you back."
Page 3 : A digital comic page featuring colorful, anthropomorphic animals. Mirroring the previous one, this page features a close-up of Kip, drawn without eyes, surrounded by scenes of Mason showing affection towards Kip, hugging them, offering them cake, and watching their tail wag. Mason : "I've flirted with you, held you, pampered you I did exactly what I'm supposed to, but I still don't feel that same fire inside I've done everything right, haven't I?"
Page 4 : A digital comic page featuring colorful, anthropomorphic animals. Panel 1 : A sequence of different poses as Kip and Mason are dancing. Mason : "It comes so naturally to you." Panel 2 : Two silhouettes are shown against a rainy cityscape. One of them is on their knees, the other one is holding an umbrella. Mason : "Even when we first met, you had that same spark in your eyes. Panel 3 : The silhouette with an umbrella walks closer to the other one. Mason : "Am I..." Panel 4 : The silhouette with an umbrella holds it towards the one on the ground. The edges of the panel start to turn into clouds of smoke. Mason : "Doing something wrong?" (This text bubble is partially obscured by another one, from an unknown speaker, shouting "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVEN'T-")
Puppy Love - pages 1-7
HA! Laureato!
Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
i would like to start one day without something completely fucking insane.
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
Quello che sta accadendo alla comunità transgender è terribile. Ed è ciò che passa più sottovoce. Ed è doppiamente terribile
Thoughts & Prayers per il professore che ha accettato di farmi da relatore
Cloudy sunset, the silhouette of a distant hill contrasting against the orange sky. The bottom of the picture is a series of hills, barely illuminated in the late winter evening, covered in trees and mediterranean bush. The top 2/3rds are instead a shot of the sky. The clouds on the right side are the highest, and so are lit by the setting sun from below, becoming a beautiful display of orange, pink and purple. On the left side the clouds were much closer to the ground, and were not touched by direct sunlight, leaving them with a grey/blue appearance, sort of like the sea on a windy and cloudy day, with the white foam breaking up the darker water beneath.
A little break, as a treat!
I’m not sure if it fits the the “upbeat, poppy” categories, but i’d suggest “The march of the Varangian Guard”, by Turisas
Riusciranno a dire che è colpa di Biden se i programmi federali sono stati cancellati, e quasi certamente una percentuale non indifferente di repubblicani se la berrà senza battere ciglio. Come qualsiasi altra frottola del “Re.”
Forced detransition for the trans people who signed up to serve their country.
Modern day Alan Turing, we should thank them for their service
That’s curious, i’ve never seen something like that… glad it fixed itself though!
I can! There are 2 of them, roughly 5 mins apart
That’s a neat trick! Hope she didn’t mind and still enjoyed the cake! Happy bday to her!
Popular or not Dems cannot bend on the need for trans people to be treated with basic humanity and respect. If we give up that because the right made trans people unpopular, we give up everything. They’ll dice us group by group like a salami. We die on this hill or we die alone in a ditch
Freedom of religion for me, but not for thee!
La Heritage Foundation ha scommesso sul cavallo giusto, a quanto pare
DO NOT SLEEP ON THIS: they are using #DEI the way #Nazis used ‘un-German.’ When the right says DEI what they mean is ‘the other’ and that’s how they target immigrants, women, people of color, Jews, #LGBTQ, ♿️, and anyone who supports or protects the vulnerable and marginalized. WE ARE AT WAR already
USAID matters. I've often disagreed with their strategy and choices, but their work saves more lives than any philanthropy can. It's a rounding error in the federal budget, and one of the best things we do as a country. To see it destroyed overnight by one unelected man is an unmitigated horror.
Screenshot from the nyt article “Thousands of US Government web pages have been taken down since Friday” The text reads as follows: “Many of the missing pages appeared related to a Trump administration directive - with a deadline of 5 p.m. Friday - to terminate any programs that promote "gender ideology," and to withdraw documents and any other media that may do so. In many cases, the removed pages mentioned words like "inclusion" or "transgender." It is not clear why other pages were removed; how many of the pages will be permanently removed; and how many may be restored with revisions.”
Stiamo messi male. Chissà che danni riusciranno a fare in quattro anni, se già adesso stanno facendo di tutto per tagliare fuori dalla società qualsiasi riferimento al genere che non sia conforme alla loro linea di pensiero.
One of the first things Hitler did was destroy and burn trans research at the Institute of Sexology.
Trump has spent the past couple weeks systematically attempting to erase any trans related information that he has power over.
Just for context, you know.
Manual labour, in its purest form 🙂↕️
Chiamarla mancanza di tatto mi sa di eufemismo.
Addossare la colpa di qualsiasi disgrazia al gruppo sociale scelto come capro espiatorio è una scelta discriminatoria e deliberata, non un’analisi della situazione in un momento inopportuno.
