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On his way to steal yo girl

(Provided yo girl is a tan-morph female White-throated Sparrow, since each sex of this species has two morphs that mate disassortatively and function like genders with associated behavioral differences.)

4 days ago 1797 152 36 7

AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)

6 days ago 2955 919 49 112

Now, you might say, "What about all the knowledge we'd lose if we push all the abusive geniuses out of academia?!"

But I'd counter and say, "Well, what about the knowledge we've already lost from the budding scholars whose careers they've derailed with their abuse?"

1 week ago 1556 364 30 16

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

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The other thing is that in a gig economy there is no degree that promises a good career anymore, not because you should have studied computer science or social media management instead of history or Russian literature, but because there are no careers

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Traditional: "The mammalian cortex is composed of 17 billion neurons and we're not even sure of how many types there are"

Revised: "The mammalian cortex is five neurons and they're all roomates"

1 week ago 64 12 2 1
And they were roommates vine (60fps)
And they were roommates vine (60fps) YouTube video by Vine 60fps

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And they were ROOMMATES 🕶️

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This is such a kind message. I don't know if they'll read it or understand but I appreciate that you approached it like this since it seems most likely to make an impression on someone

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joe, cogging in place: "Showing Marie Kondo my apartment, which is filled with swords. "This kicks ass," she says. "Don't throw anything out""

joe, cogging in place: "Showing Marie Kondo my apartment, which is filled with swords. "This kicks ass," she says. "Don't throw anything out""

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If an AI future is what I'm getting left behind from, then Christ, just leave me behind.
A girl can only pivot so much, hoss, and I hung up my pivotin' boots some time ago. I don't make videos even though that was supposedly the future of writing ten years ago — I mean, I guess I do, but they're little banjo practice videos for my friends, not expressions of a desperate careerist impulse. I use social media with the attention-crazed dopesickness of an addict, not the care and forethought of a professional, as any cursory read of my posts will confirm. I'm a writer by trade — a creative, as you might say — and here you are, running a business you don't even understand into the ground, deskilling my trade and expecting a thank you when you explain how you're doing it. If I don't devalue myself the way you continually devalue me, you warn, I'll be left behind. Okay, says I! Quit making it my problem and go! The dust you leave me in will settle, and in the meantime, I will keep doing my work in much the way I've done it since I first became literate.

If an AI future is what I'm getting left behind from, then Christ, just leave me behind. A girl can only pivot so much, hoss, and I hung up my pivotin' boots some time ago. I don't make videos even though that was supposedly the future of writing ten years ago — I mean, I guess I do, but they're little banjo practice videos for my friends, not expressions of a desperate careerist impulse. I use social media with the attention-crazed dopesickness of an addict, not the care and forethought of a professional, as any cursory read of my posts will confirm. I'm a writer by trade — a creative, as you might say — and here you are, running a business you don't even understand into the ground, deskilling my trade and expecting a thank you when you explain how you're doing it. If I don't devalue myself the way you continually devalue me, you warn, I'll be left behind. Okay, says I! Quit making it my problem and go! The dust you leave me in will settle, and in the meantime, I will keep doing my work in much the way I've done it since I first became literate.

‘if you don’t learn to use AI, you’ll get left behind!’ 🍆✊
www.patreon.com/posts/155290...

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A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

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His ancestor

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You Oughta Lounge Often

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Yvonne Baur—photographer, former HPPA frontline superstar at our Hawai'i Volcanoes NP stores, & now full-time volcano student, just reposted this so we snatched it ASAP! What an amazing shot, Yvonne!
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Life and Death 🌋🌿
"The 61g flow had some really cool photo opportunities."

#HVNP #HPPA #Kilauea

3 weeks ago 18 4 1 2
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Aesop: I TOLD YOU

4 weeks ago 6871 2177 84 156
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Notes from Beethoven’s genome Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.

If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇

8 months ago 205 96 7 11

Tuomas I believe you are taking my previous reply as though it was meant seriously. Regardless, the premise of the argument in the original piece is deeply faulty.

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Even if this were the mechanism, which there is no evidence for, the proposed solution would therefore have the effect of making 99% of people less sexy, a form of austerity we can scarcely afford

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The real risk of eugenics is that *every* person becomes potentially less than, sick, not on the basis of functioning or human dignity but on the basis of their molecular corruption

This movement has advanced to the point that someone can suggest 99% of humans need gene therapy with a straight face

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Toss it. Who are you going to believe, this company or your lying genome

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I get that variants can become more represented due to chance or bottlenecks rather than selection, I'm simply saying let's find out??

And I know the contexts we (by which I mean rich westerners, the only humans) live in are dramatically different from our past, but will they stay that way? Lol

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One gene raises Alzheimer's risk dramatically. Could we fix it? 99% of people carry a high-risk Alzheimer's gene. Gene therapy could correct it.

The utter inability of this piece to ask "but why does almost everyone carry gene variants increasing Alzheimer's risk? Is it possible those variants have been HEAVILY selected for? What if genes don't have only one job?"

No let's do eugenics instead for money

www.livescience.com/health/alzhe...

4 weeks ago 88 15 8 3

a billionaire must never make a decision because the billionaire can never be held accountable

1 month ago 1098 291 5 2

But the group DM

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Some kind of purple plastic crafting device for texturising paper called distressing tool

Some kind of purple plastic crafting device for texturising paper called distressing tool

Saw your boyfriend in Hobbycraft

1 month ago 3333 678 24 10

Hey! That’s our Bsky friend and colleague @srheilbronner.bsky.social talking about the brain.

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why are men

1 month ago 402 66 24 5

This is the messiest mess in quite some time. All for a panel at a meeting that hasn't happened yet!!

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