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@michael_nielsen @doctorow not quite the same but this reminded me of this vgr note from a couple days ago
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Bluesky @steverrobbins.com Katılım Haziran 2007
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In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded 70GBs of articles from JSTOR. He faced $1 million fine and 35 years in jail. He took his life in 2013.
Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models without any punishment.
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@TheUnquote @JonathanTurley Read the opinion?! So much easier to rely on the OP who clearly read it, thought deeply about it, and neatly summarized it so we don't need to read it.
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@JonathanTurley Read the opinion. The parents were not kept in the dark, they just objected to the school respecting the student's wishes.
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The 1st Circuit just held that parents have no right to know about their 11-year-old changing gender in school. ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/file… This "unwritten policy" was viewed as overriding parental rights. The decision is defended as a reflection of our "pluralistic society"...
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@peterrhague Musk didn't do this. Don't choke too hard on his dick.
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Many people need to believe Elon is very smart to preserve their ego & views on society. It's more palatable to believe that you were tricked by a super genius than to admit you've been culturally conditioned to be overly deferential to wealth & other lazy signifiers of intellect
Nate Silver@NateSilver538
He's an exceptionally smart and accomplished guy. The much better take is that high IQs serve as a force multiplier for both positive and negative traits.
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@_everythingism @PrettyBadLefty We can’t. I went to MIT and know lots of geniuses. He doesn’t talk like a smart person. e.g., he doesn’t accidentally say advanced things that assume PhD level knowledge and then have to re-explain it in simpler terms. He doesn’t make esoteric observations, etc.
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@PrettyBadLefty Here's a question for anyone who thinks Elon Musk is a genius (or at least very smart)...
Musk has given a LOT of talks and speeches over the course of his career. Where can we hear him saying something that shows he's really smart?
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@dutyfreechamp @chrisstanchak @NateSilver538 Most engineers I know think he knows nothing about engineering. I’ve heard that from software, excavation, and automotive engineers. Many of his rocket engineering claims are absurd, tho apparently some rocket scientists who work for him say he is very smart.
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@chrisstanchak @NateSilver538 In what areas? Like if it’s engineering, maybe?? But not anything more general. The stuff he writes, retweets, comments on, etc. conveys an extremely low to low-mid level understanding and intellect.
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He's an exceptionally smart and accomplished guy. The much better take is that high IQs serve as a force multiplier for both positive and negative traits.
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@dieworkwear Oh, my sweet summer child. Markets will solve the health problems. Markets will solve all the problems. Markets will give us mixed use housing, strong healthy communities, dignity, and education. And by definition, if the market doesn’t give it, it must not be good.
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@TaylorLorenz @Jef_The_Leftist Do you have a link to that? High quality information is getting harder and harder to find. The fundamental base rate fallacy still holds—it’s just a mathematical principle of how to use stats. But I’d like to see trends in breakthrough % among vaxxed, boosted, and unboosted.
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Death Panel I think it was did a good debunk of this idea actually and showed that breakthrough deaths are becoming more common w more recent variants than the OG one and that base rate fallacy doesn't apply/explain that gap. Vax are not even matched to the current variant anymore sadly
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This is the kind of shit you say when you clearly haven't been paying attention to the dynamics around Covid. Vaccines are not panaceas nor do they give you invincible armor against death or viral induced conditions. Viral evolution surpasses our immune system capabilities.
Gayest Tone@gayest_tone
Wokely: “actually the vaccine is useless and you’re still going to die”
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@vasantbhatt14 “We took a chance on this part because of policy” Leopard, meet face. Did you not notice that Trump ran on racism in 2016 and again in 2024. He’s been sued
for it over and over. YOU VOTED FOR AN EXPLICIT POLICY OF RACISM AGAINST BROWN PEOPLE. Own it and do better
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@DarkStoic Holy moly! You must give great hugs. Not so great for you, I guess, but no one’s ever broken bones hugging me
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@SteverRobbins Hahah nooo
All I know is it was fine, I gave someone a bear hug, and then it was broken 😭
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@dieworkwear Where can we ask you such questions? I’m a rather unusual case in my desires to make a cultural statement but I’d rather not send my question publicly on Twitter.
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I say this not because I can answer everyone's questions, as much as I would like to. I say this because I hope it helps you make progress. Focus less on questions like "Where can I buy quality clothes?" Focus more on "What is my aesthetic?"
dieworkwear.com/2022/08/26/how…
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Could maybe sub Miami for Vegas or New Orleans, it's close.
Chicago isn't in the running.
Seattle, Houston, Austin, and San Diego *ought* to be in the running but aren't.
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NYC, LA, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New Orleans
𝔏𝔢𝔫𝔞 🎀@clusterbitch_
What are America’s five most iconic cities? I think it’s probably NYC, LA, Chicago, San Francisco and another one. Miami maybe? Atlanta?
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This Christmas the real Scrooges are corporations that raked in record profits this year but still deny workers a living wage and benefits.
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Donald Trump has perfected the art of telling a fake story about America. The only way to counter that is to tell the real story of America.
youtube.com/watch?v=vvCtwD…
YouTube
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