“Are the arts important?” Humanity practiced them long before they had use for science and will practice them long after math is gone. Is the dawn important? Is dusk?

Wildlife advocate, primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91 Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died on Wednesday at the age of 91, the institute she founded said.

Tonight I learned that one of my heroes has died. I loved her and colleagues' "adventures" as a child and grew up to admire her scientific work for so many reasons. RIP Jane Goodall.

Jane Goodall, wildlife advocate and primate expert, dies at 91 - www.reuters.com/business/env...

Gender-Based skill specialization is lazy, and for ants.

I am no insect, nor do I value sloth.

#genderroles #gender

"If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books, you're afraid of thinking." ~Andrea Junker

How your research can survive a US federal grant termination Researchers in the United States are filing appeals, seeking court remedies, turning to philanthropy and starting GoFundMe campaigns.

@virginiagewin.bsky.social writes about terminated federal grants, including one on which I was PI

"The funding had been helping a multi-institutional team working with community advocates and citizen scientists to analyse air quality around the Salton Sea,

I should have known! How could i be so blind?

Diagrams of what?

Good. That would have been a nightmare.

Is this good or bad? Should we stick to only what we want? Is there an ethical way to organize such things? Is an ethical version socially possible? Is this a consequence of being a commodified consumer, or does this enable the commodification of the consumer? I have so many questions now.

We have new standards of literacy. We require an institution and the tools to handle such a thing.

Explain this to me like im an idiot, cause i am

Nah that's just David Deutsch's, Constructor Theory. And honestly, that realization mixed with this comment, is the best full bodied laugh ive had in a long time.

Regardless, interactions with AI in this way, require specific intention from the user. The user must make sure to not be deceitful and will need to include all context for their situations. It is helpful as a sound board, but risks become an insular personal ideonomic silo.

I am debating the idea of putting certain AI interactionability, as a Mental Tool a la Professor Judy Fan.

Its pattern recognition assisted introspection with a likelihood of psychological error

I do think that getting to the bottom of what they cannot be trusted with would be an important milestone for me. I want to see more ethics. I want to see Infohazard studies conducted. But im all in, mostly because i feel i don't have a choice.

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
#BookSky #Books

Sounds like schismogenesis

I made a thing:
nmk.wtf/simulations/...

Soooo, NOT peer reviewed then.

"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

As i was reading this, it reminded me of the argument for heaven is, "well the worst if you believe is you go to heaven and the worst if you dont believe is eternal damnation." This is not the way.

Not sure if Orthography is the proper description here. I am thinking of like a structure of entity generating the idea content.

I think of it like... we have brain, ai has the black box. Each has its own "Representational Orthography" so to speak. They are generating and manipulating ideas, and that much follow the same laws i think. But their individual orthography interacts with those rules slightly different. I think.

So they are affected by the same Ideonomics but humans and ai's systems function differently due to similar rules.

ICE agents shouldn't have intimidated and interfered with congressional business. They are allowed to do what they came to do. ICE escalated because they are thugs.

The transmission of science to science journalism is broken.