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I actually have no idea how this whole thing works by the way thanks straight up feel like a boomer posting my Google searches to Facebook message status

and fyi, older women i.e. previous generations and waves of feminism need the empathy, support and solidarity from younger feminists just as much as you crave validation from them. and you benefit from practicing solidarity and empathy within this revolutionary movement.

it's about the greater environment, the dangers of the patriarchy. if you want to play the old game of "the left eating itself" go ahead, see how that works out for you. feminism isn't a product you are entitled to claim as defective and then demand a refund from your elders.

"i wanted older liberal feminists to like me, so i made myself more vulnerable to the rape culture they were all surviving and narrating the directions on how to escape and survive it" that's crazy bro. i got on seeking arrangement so i could move away from a libfem roommate

@jameygannon @NathanG you don't need an app for that, you can set up mac os x native screenshot app to save to clipboard

@NathanG woah

setting up a new computer for the first time in like 5 years and wanna do it right what are your must-do things when you get a new Mac? shortcuts, folders, automations, utility apps etc….pls give me your nerdy tips

this week i've been a unavailable bitch to most of my network due to a deadline related to my goal of restoring the bodies and spirits of those impacted by war. but i had time to make two new friends. who were impacted by war.

@maebichka oh hell yes

y'all, I enjoyed Agi hosting Kasia Urbaniak's Bad Girl Protocol so much that I asked if I could run another one with her! women—if you are stuck, blocked, suppressed, lacking vitality, missing a little unhinged energy in your life...dm us to join! Friday, 1:30pm EST/7:30pm CEST

@ColonelBusthard @jakebrodes what's his linkedin

@jakebrodes A few years back I applied for a dev job for a sex toy company. I met a dude who was doing the same and he got me on a community full of furries building the cumbots of tomorrow, today. Brother they were both the medicis and da vincis of that world he got the job, I didn't

One of my favorite posts on here was like “try to go band for band with a furry you can’t I promise you you can’t”. And I didn’t understand it at the time. But the more I learn about the culture the more it makes sense.

@bratton @deanwball after a few computationally aided gladiator fights it would be great to make a game sequel "a very chinese time in my life" and see how they all adapt to an environment in which their ideologies are illegible and irrelevant

@bratton @deanwball swag are there any more personas on both right and left you have noticed? these would make excellent character profiles for an RPG i could plug them into something like parag mitals emergentic.ai to watch them bonk heads in a more controlled manner

My theory about why so many on the left remain in denial about AI is that their worldview rests on a load-bearing notion of “the tech industry” as being composed of vapid morons whose accomplishments will always be superficial, never “real,” always based on some grand theft. With social media and search, the theft was manipulation of people’s minds. With Amazon it was worker exploitation. With Apple, it was a mix of these. In the left retelling of the story, no value whatsoever was created from these technologies. All a trick. With AI the “grand theft” in the telling of the left is the use of copyright-protected data in pre-training. This one is a particularly dangerous mindworm for them, since they identify with the “artists and writers” from whom they imagine this training data was “stolen.” This is why things like “mode collapse” from synthetic data, stochastic parrotry, “it can only mimic things it has seen on the web” and similar are so core to the argument for the left: it supports the notion of “tech bro” thieves—who lest we forget, and they never will let us, have no “liberal arts” training!—continuing their unbroken string of robberies. Of course the “grand theft” notion is an old motif on the left, relating as it does to a zero-sum mindset about economics, business, and growth that is. more traditionally associated with the left, though the lines have always been blurry, since the zero-sum mindset is above all else a *human* fallacy and thus a useful tactic in mass politics of all valences. The lines have become especially blurry lately, as has been widely observed. Anyway, the notion that AI *is* a genuinely world-changing technology, that it can “go beyond” its “stolen” training data, breaks this load-bearing conception of the tech industry as vapid and superficial and, more importantly, of the people within it as blood-sucking thieves.

@DaveWTheBanned @ABmrJutt I feel u bro. Women aren't allowed to complain either. Those who complain don't make it in the industry, just like men who complain. Tell them your doctor forbade it. Just fuckin lie. Sensitive peener disease. Make it jokes but then actually doctor-tier serious so they lay off.

@ABmrJutt The amount of times a male tradesman grab my genitals as a man I for more than anytime they grabbed a woman. Men aren't allowed to complain.

Women don't enter trades like men do because the working conditions almost guarantee a lifetime of sexual harassment and sexism, not because they're too weak to learn carpentry.

@Rage_Crayon @lexbyanyname The choice of the term "addiction" over one like "habit-forming" has legal repercussions. That means this pedantry is not tangential. The high cost of those legal repercussions factors into executive decisions re: social platform product design, our privatized infrastructure.

@lexbyanyname All of the people in these replies are getting way too caught up on the tangential question of whether or not social media addiction is real and not focusing on the fact the government “solution” is deanonymization, mass censorship, and surveillance.

i constantly want to disagree with Taylor on this issue—and her posts are very easy to dunk on when screenshot out of context—but i think in reality she just knows more about this than almost all of us. this is a journalist In Her Lane who has been sounding the alarm for years.

@brvhgrammer @faithy3n @floridamodern1 @lexbyanyname @TaylorLorenz thank you for standing on business

@faithy3n @floridamodern1 @lexbyanyname @TaylorLorenz If you are having a chat with your friends, sure. If you're trying to talk about this subject specifically with other people and want to be taken seriously, no.

@aref_vc @nxthompson @jasminewsun @obsdmd gorgeous, do u have a blog post on the setup

@nxthompson @jasminewsun same, using it as a coach/editor inside @obsdmd

This is a cool example of how you can use AI to help your writing—without relying on it for any actual writing. From @jasminewsun theatlantic.com/technology/202…

i-ready is going to be responsible for school shootings, i am sure of it. and nobody will hold the decision makers to keep this garbage in schools accountable. but i can see it from miles away. this is already costing student time, but i am confident it will also cost lives.

I genuinely think this might be the most important story I’ve read this year and I need to talk about it a guy in australia just designed a custom mRNA cancer vaccine for his dying dog using chatGPT and alphafold, he has 0 background in biology and it worked, the tumor shrunk by half, the genomics researchers are absolutely stunned & I genuinely think this story is way bigger than people realize here’s what he actually did, he paid 3000 bucks to get the tumor DNA sequenced, fed the data to chatGPT to identify mutations of interest then used alphafold to predictt the 3D structure of the mutated proteins & find therapeutic targets, then he designed a custom mRNA vaccine targeting the specific neoantigens of his dog’s tumor, all of this from his laptop & the genomics professor who received the sequencing request initially thought it was a joke few months later this same professor is looking at the results saying if we can do this for a dog why are we we rolling this out to all humanswith cancer and this is where I need you to understand what alphafold actually represents because I’m convinced most people have heard the name without grasping what’s hapening underneath: for decades figuring out the 3D structure of a single protein required months sometimes years of X-ray crystallography /cryoelectron microscopy, entire labs dedicated to one molecule, alphafold2 solved this by predicting the structure of virtually every known protein thats ovr 200 million structures which earned it the Nobel prize in chemistry in 2024 but here’s the thing, alphafold 3 released in 2024 went even further where alphafold 2 predicted the structure of an isolated protein alphafold 3 predicts interactions between proteins DNA RNA small molecules & ligands in a unified system basically it models how a drug molecule will bind to a protein target with 50% better accuracy than the best existing tools & it does it in hours instead of years and thats exactly what this guy exploited for his dog, he used alphafold to see the 3D shape of of the mutated tumor proteins & figure out how an mRNA vaccine could teach the immune system to recognize & destroy them specifically and look what fascinates me personally is what this signals for whats coming next isomorphic Labs the deepmind subsidiary dedicated to drug discovery already signed multibillion dollar partnerships with Eli Lilly & Novartis and the first drugs entirely designed by AI through alphafold3 are expected to enter human clinical trials by end of 2026 we’re talking oncology & immunology candidates that were designed through rational design meaning the AI literally drew the molecule to fit perfectly onto the target instead of screening millions of random compounds like we’ve been doing for 50y by the way the movement is accelerating way faster than people think, deepmind open sourced alphafold 3 in late 2024 the scientific community immediately built on top of it, models like OpenFold3 backed by amazon & Novo Nordisk, startups like recursion developing specialized versions… I’m telling you we’re entering the era of the autonomous lab where AI designs a molecule robots synthesize it & high-throughput platforms test it with 0 human intervention I believe the next frontier is temporal modeling, today alphafold predicts the static shape of a molecule tomorrow we’ll predict how it moves & vibrates over time inside a living cell & after that come patient digital twins simulations that predict how your specific genetic variations will affect your response to a given drug, truly personalized medicine at the atomic level traditionally it takes 15 years & roughly billion dollars to bring a drug from discovery to market, AI is compressing that cycle at a pace that should terrify every incumbent & what this australian guy just proved is that the entire pipeline tumor sequencing target identification structure prediction custom vaccine design can be executed by 1 person with a laptop for a few thousand $$