A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.
Very on brand for them that they couldn’t manage a moderately long sentence without a typo.
Also, "woke" in the now-common white supremacist appropriated vernacular just means "I'm a bigoted and/or complacent piece of shit, and every reminder of the vastness of human diversity—up to and including simple basic acts of human decency—confront me with my moral failing, causing me to lash out."
People hate this shit so much. Nobody's having fun. Even the AI people are getting tired of this. They're losing and they know it. Even with the ever-growing revenues of OpenAI and Anthropic, things feel weird and bad. Anthropic's services are also randomly broken or rate limited to hell. Cool!
I ventured into the city after the election was called & it was amazing to see all the young people – most of them not old enough to remember living under anything other than Orbán – out in the streets celebrating, everyone feeling we suddenly exist in a freer country.
I drove to be here for this.
So last week I drove some 1250km from Switzerland where I live to Hungary where I used to live so my wife and I can vote in the Hungarian parliamentary elections. Could've been done in Bern but I wanted to be here in the coming days too. Worth every minute behind the wheel.
Tonight in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square, a sea of young Hungarians—who’ve only ever known Orbán’s corrupt, suffocating regime—are packed together, singing, chanting, and daring to dream of freedom again.
Their hope is raw, their courage is real. The heart of Europe is beating in Budapest tonight. 🇭🇺❤️🇪🇺
Oh fun, I’m currently vacationing in Gran Canaria, so I’m actually in this picture! If you squint you can see me sleeping in my hotel in one of those dots off the coast of Africa.
A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
More context on this #Artemis II image:
* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right
* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
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It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...
Spending this week in Hungary for a family event, and you bet I have movie tickets for this!
I know this is about Orbán but Lázár ain’t looking that great either. He’s same age as I am but easily looks ten years older than me. (Okay, that’s mainly because I have fabulous skin care, but still.)
the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done
"AI" skills are basically just documentation and it says something about how documentation only gets resources and respect if it is framed as "technology". Which has gender bias all over it.
TIL: Before Hans Asperger or Leo Kanner, a Jewish-Ukrainian psychiatrist named Grunya Sukhareva defined autism in 1925. Both men did not cite her work. She also had documented how it affected women and girls, where the men did not.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunya_...
transphobia is comorbid with being a fucking cunt in every other aspect of your life
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
If you think about it basically all cats are on UBI cause they used to have the job of rodent control and now they just hang out.
Sure they can still do that job when required it's just not as common anymore.
Don't tell us we can't have a universal basic income, free health care, free college, and no people living on the streets when we apparently have money for war and militarized police.
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.
I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.
Sahar Delijani said it best:
I, for one, want a space opera where everyone listens to Cuban son. Every ship’s bridge and the center of every space station can in instant turn into a salsa dance hall.
for some reason the left (goldman sachs) refuses to take AI seriously
I imagine my late father – a blue collar factory worker – would’ve just suggested “technocrat” tongue-in-cheek, although he still begrudgingly respected people with technical university degrees. He reserved his deepest disdain for economists.
Disclaimer: above reasoning is a result of mulling this over in the shower FWIW.
You can’t and it’s okay. It best overlaps with “engineer” IMO but that translation is bland as it doesn’t capture any of the nuance of the historic sociological context. And since that’s likely unique to Hungary and not at all present in societies that shape the English language… it gets lost.
This creep's entire line of thought here is eugenicist trash. People are PEOPLE. You don't measure their value by energy consumption. They have inherent value as HUMAN BEINGS. A fucking LLM has no inherent human value. You cannot compare them.
Evidence from a natural experiment in India that provided UBI to all farmers suggests that the binding constraint on investment may be uninsured risk. Rather than more credit, what farmers need is credible downside protection that makes them willing to use existing credit for productive investment.
