21 Hours in Pakistan: How Vance Tried and Failed to End a War He Opposed

THREAD. This single headline in the NYT contains two outrageous claims reported as fact: 1) Vance "tried" to end the war; and 2) he "opposed" it. Neither is supported, but the thing to understand is: why is lying about the *intention* of powerful people so key to propaganda?

A lot of people misunderstand the nature of this relationship. You can totally ask your elected officials to find a solution, even if you don’t have the solution, yourself. That’s why we elected them. You can even vote them out if they don’t solve it. That’s how this is supposed to work.

Sort of astonished how many voters runner cover for their own electeds to not even try to do their job.

Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.

There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

Evaluation of the Voice and Communication Situation Questionnaire Developed With and for Transgender and Gender-Diverse People Presumed Female at Birth Purpose: The Voice and Communication Situation Questionnaire developed with and for transgender and gender-diverse People Presumed Female At Birt...

Researchers psychometrically evaluate and finalize the VCSQPFAB (Voice and Communication Situation Questionnaire developed with and for transgender and gender-diverse People Presumed Female At Birth) for use as a patient-reported outcome measure.

https://on.asha.org/48hqmpo

Synesthetes claim sensory experiences, such as seeing color when reading or hearing a (black) number. 
But how genuine are these reports and sensations? We introduce a rather direct measure of synesthetic perception: Synesthetes’ pupils respond to evoked color as if it was real color #vision! 👁️🎨🧪

Microsoft Logo w/ the Four Humors written on individual blocks of the window. Orange is Sanguine Green is Melancholic Blue is Phlegmatic Yellow is Choleric

What is it? Looks cool

Trying to get ahead of that Joyce Carol Oates dunk

“Shrek’s unconditional love for his wife is ruining Western culture”

A controversial story about accepting people’s differences, coming out of your shell, and falling in love with people’s hearts instead of their looks—aimed at children!

ok which is bouba and which is kiki

6 month old golden retriever sitting in a chair in the kitchen

You get up for one second.

Thank you for the vote of confidence

What if I have no desire to agree with you? I don’t agree to disagree. I disagree to agree.

One side of the tablet containing letters in a Paleo-Hispanic alphabet.

Archaeologists have discovered a stone tablet at a Tartessian site in southwestern Spain that depicts battle scenes in the center and a partial alphabet in a Paleo-Hispanic script along the edges (21 signs total).

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

I don’t hate spiders, but an exurb is probably my limit

ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”

He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care

This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person

They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota

In a few short months, I will go from being a PhD student to a PhD candidate. Roughly 2 years after that, I’ll finally be promoted to PhD nominee. 3 more years and I will, at last, attain the coveted title of Provisional PhD Applicant. Then I just need to complete my time as a Senior PhD understudy.

Comic. Confusion matrix showing renditions of different combinations, colored yellow, tan, or gray. [Air: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G] [Lead: gamma rays G, neutrons T, alpha particles G, light G, Sound Y, heat Y, swords G, toxic dust T, radio G, sharks G] [Water: gamma rays T, neutrons G, alpha particles G, light T, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks Y] [Vacuum: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound G, heat T, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G] [Oven mitts: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound T, heat G, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks Y] [Armor: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound Y, heat Y, swords G, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks T] [Biohazard suit: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust G, radio Y, sharks Y] [Faraday cage: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks Y] [Shark cage: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G]

Shielding Chart

xkcd.com/3158/

He should be better at it by now

"why has trust in experts been eroded?" idk maybe it has something to do with how misinformation has a multi-million dollar marketing budget and an infectious disease researcher has a $0 one.

Seems like it’d be easier to fake tweets though

I’ll do my best to be open-minded; I think LLMs/AI tools are powerful with the potential to be very useful, but I’m constantly fighting the urge to be negatively polarized against it due to overly credulous pieces comparing it to animal cognition, which read mostly like marketing to me…

I might have a more charitable takeaway if I read the whole thing.

If you gotta stretch that far to make your comparison work, might be time to rework your comparison

“when a prediction is wrong, the connection between neurons is adjusted”

Can’t speak to the whole piece, but without context, this sentence alone seems to be conflating different types and mechanisms of predictive processing, Bayesian brain stuff, error correction, and Hebbian learning.

Some philosophers argue that math is a feature of our physical world, but I was always taught it’s the thought that counts.