after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
Recently took a ~500mi road trip in our 5 year old Nissan Leaf and it was far easier than expected.
I estimated it was about 35-50% the price of driving our hybrid SUV for the same distance.
It did take some planning to find chargers along the route in advance but wasn't that much extra work.
I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe.
www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/
Why isn’t Elizabeth Warren the Senate Minority Leader?
Fuck him. He'd rather fund the bombing of school children and the gassing and poisoning of a city of millions than find a god damn spine.
Measles is the anti-vaccine.
Worst possible place for a measles outbreak. This is very very bad.
This just drives home the truth that these were *not* improperly trained agents, but instead long-time well-trained actors emboldened by the Federal government's inability to execute the law or enforce justice.
Screenshot of YouTube with the video Brennan Lee Mulligan Asks Hank Anything from Complexly on the top and A Tale of Two CD Players from Technology connections on the bottom. Both video thumbnails have people with similarly shocked silly facial expressions.
@hankgreen.bsky.social @techconnectify.bsky.social
YouTube has a vibe today
Right on 👊🏽❄️☃️ #Cbus #Columbus #Ohio @ohio50501.bsky.social @colsunderground.bsky.social #MeltICE @50501movement.bsky.social @50501activists.bsky.social @indivcentraloh.bsky.social @cbusmike.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social
14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
Rewatching Battlestar and JFC it was prescient. Armed, masked thugs ripping mothers from babies, grabbing innocent people with no warrant. A self-important buffoon as President. Fascists stripped of humanity. On and on.
I don't, I started modelling it, but when my daughter wanted to play with the pieces, I pivoted to something dual-purpose.
Pinball model of development and reprogramming. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Conrad Hal Waddington was born OTD in 1905.
His “epigenetic landscape” is a diagrammatic representation of the constraints influencing embryonic development.
On his 50th birthday, his colleagues gave him a pinball machine on the model of the epigenetic landscape.
🧪 🦫🦋 🌱🐋 #HistSTM #philsci #evobio
I loved reading Waddington's essays. I think he presented such a nuanced and easy to understand metaphor for gene regulation.
I made a model of his landscape to demonstrate how it could be used in an education setting. It doubles as a marble toy for my daughter.
www.printables.com/model/671135...
The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself
This is pretty amazing. 🤩
Respect to those who got here first.
I'd love to find an accurate 3d printed or laser cut skeleton model. I don't think the demand for more accurate models is going to be high enough for mass produced products, but that won't stop the maker nerds!
The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.
As if I needed another reason to dislike Dawkins.
Don't forget Thai, and whatever New Zealand's got to offer. Club D ftw!
"That relaxed attitude about bodily autonomy comes as something of a surprise, given the state’s six-week abortion ban, but this is America, where you can do anything with your body unless there’s a uterus in it."
Simplifying a workflow to the detriment of ad revenue never works. Unless you are a monopoly in charge of who gets ad revue, then I guess you can get by.
As soon as they shipped the feature, their search page metrics tanked. They had some hard questions from management about where the ad revenue from that search page would get made up. They wound up killing the feature and forcing users to go back to the old workflow. Nobody was happy about it.
I worked for a big tech company that had a search feature. They developed a new feature that would autosuggest the top few results as you typed, and it was wildly successful. Being able to jump to the thing you're searching for, and skip a separate search results page was exactly what users wanted.
