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@uapdog @FleabagMoroni @ThoughtfulSaint doing your best to prove the "we're definitely not" part?

@FleabagMoroni @ThoughtfulSaint I'm Mormon, you retard!!

But we are still going to hell. After all Jesus cares far more about trinitarian ontology than about how you actually live your life.

Over the last few weeks, our latest cohort of grantees (including the truthseeking track we run with @TheFIREorg) have been presenting their research and prototypes. The projects ranged from new benchmarks to classifiers to an encyclopedia. We're bringing you a few highlights. First up, the replication crisis hit psychology first but is spreading. The standard response is to discover which individual studies don't hold up – but by then, decades of work may already rest on bad foundations. Rhea Karty built Replication Radar – a knowledge-graph tool that detects epistemic fragility at the field level before the crisis breaks. It ingests papers, scores them, and looks for warning signs: tightly clustered author networks, citation rings, institutional monoculture, whether retractions propagate to citing papers, and small sample sizes. She validated it by showing it could flag most of the papers from the psychology replication crisis using only pre-crisis data.

@stackerco @CurryBlur @Primary_Pianist

@CurryBlur @Primary_Pianist Do you understand the logical fallacies in your comment?

The “Joseph Smith secretly rehearsed the entire Book of Mormon for years” theory is one of the most fascinating examples of a conclusion searching for a mechanism. A thread 🧵

@glukianoff great job in getting a measure of justice. i would be more satisfied if whoever made the choice to persecute Larry spent 37 days in jail.

Larry Bushart spent 37 days in jail for posting a meme on Facebook. I’ve been doing this work for 25 years, and I can honestly say this is the worst First Amendment case I’ve ever seen. Not because Larry threatened anyone. He didn’t. Not because he committed violence. He didn’t. Not because this was a close call. It wasn’t. He posted a political meme — the kind of thing millions of Americans do every day — and local officials decided to treat it like a crime. And because they had badges, prosecutors, jail cells, and the terrifying machinery of the state behind them, they got away with it for 37 days. Larry is a retired police officer and National Guard veteran. The meme he shared quoted Donald Trump’s “we have to get over it” comment after a 2024 Iowa school shooting. Whatever you think of Trump, the meme was plainly political commentary. Perry County officials knew what it referred to. They knew it wasn’t a threat against a Tennessee school. They arrested him anyway. In the middle of the night. They set his bond at $2 million. He lost his job. He missed family milestones. He sat in jail for more than a month before the charges finally collapsed — because, of course, there was no crime here. Today, @theFIREorg secured a measure of justice: Perry County agreed to pay Larry Bushart $835,000 for violating his constitutional rights. This case should scare the hell out of people across the political spectrum. Because if the government can jail you for a meme by pretending not to understand obvious political commentary, your rights are only as secure as the good faith of the most authoritarian official in your town. That is exactly why we have the First Amendment. Not for speech everyone likes. Not for opinions that flatter the powerful. Not for the bland, safe, committee-approved stuff. It exists for moments when fear, outrage, politics, and authority all line up and say: “Surely this is the exception.” No. It isn’t. I’m incredibly proud of @theFIREorg’s legal team. And I’m even prouder of Larry Bushart for refusing to let the government get away with treating his constitutional rights like a suggestion. But despite the correct verdict, I'll probably always get angry every time I think of this case. Let’s make this the last time anyone in America is arrested — let alone thrown in jail — for a meme. Celebrate your independence. Defend your First Amendment. fire.org/news/victory-t…

@webdevMason yeah, this isn't the technical definition of inflation but can be effected by things like tariffs and fuel/oil cost depending on what local options your region has for given staples.

Grocery prices are goated for Internet Discourse because nobody realizes how regional they are. I pay twice as much or more for chicken (both regular and organic) at a less bougie store than my mom does on the west coast, even with comparable prices for other staples

A 5-gallon water cooler jug of water produces about $132 in economic output from data centers, but only about 2 cents from almonds.

@_bezpilotnik you are not a serious person, are you?

I reviewed The Coddling of the American Mind when it came out, and it's a deeply dishonest and very stupid book, designed to fool unwary liberals into endorsing fascist proselytisation. There's just no need to take these people even slightly seriously. newsocialist.org.uk/university-cul…

I used to be borderline communist. I lost 90% of my friends when I stopped believing what they told me about why Africa is poor. And what I found underneath their "compassion" was something uglier than I expected:

@kelandren3 they got rid of my cancer (fingers crossed). here's a view from leaving the treatment building one morning. you got this!

Since March 2025 I have been on a rollercoaster I can't seem to get off of. MRI's, MRI guided Biopsies, Mammograms, Ultrasounds, Exams... I'm with an excellent team at Huntsman. And today. I'm going in for my 8th extended mammogram and other tests. I know people have much worse circumstances, but this has rocked me. One foot in front of the other. One day at a time... I would appreciate prayers and maybe share your favorite sunset or flower, please. 🥹🩷

@RogerPielkeJr @matthewgburgess Wait, I thought mann had passed recently?!... No, wait, that was Paul ehrlich.

Michael Mann reaction to encountering on X my colleague @matthewgburgess who is an exceptional economist and scholar, and a great guy It'll be great when this approach to science engagement is in the rearview mirror! Give Matt a follow!

@atmoio isnt this the guy who advocates CEOs to micromanage product development?

"I don't think people managers will have any value in the future." Airbnb CEO said on a recent pod the people most screwed by AI will be people managers. Perhaps we had this all wrong. The future belongs to ICs. There is now more use for them than ever before.

no way you could possibly know that "none of us missionaries knew that Joseph practiced polygamy." what you can know is that y'all didn't talk about it because it wasn't soul saving knowledge. I knew about all the anti-mormon rhetoric way before my mission, but I didn't preach it on mission and it never came up in companion study. Tell, did you missionaries know nothing about particle-wave duality either?

I served a Mormon mission from 2002 - 2004. None of us missionaries knew that Joseph Smith practiced polygamy. I was never taught that as a Mormon kid. I don't think I found out until I was in my mid-twenties, and I didn't find out about it at church. I found out about it online.

@Devon_Eriksen_ @simonmaechling "Please clap" lol

Meet @simonmaechling. Simon has a PhD in organic chemistry. He is very proud of his PhD in organic chemistry. He can't wait to tell you about it, it's in his twitter bio. Simon identifies as a scientist. In fact, he identifies as all scientists, ever, since the beginning of history, and his pronouns are we/us/ours. He uses these pronouns as he informs us that, by writing and defending a thesis, he has inherited credit for every engineering and technological advance in human history. He fed billions of people because he is Norman Borlaug. He saved millions of cancer patients because he is both Francis Crick and James Watson simultaneously. He powered nations because he is inhabited by the very soul of Enrico Fermi. If humanity conquers the stars, he will retroactively become Werner Von Braun and Elon Musk, as well. Please clap. Unfortunately, there has been one small oversight. Simon doesn't actually know what science is. Perhaps universities in France don't require coursework in the history or philosophy of science, to attain a PhD degree. Or perhaps he was sick that day. But whatever the reason, his hat or his shoes, Simon doesn't understand that science is an algorithm. Not a person. Not an institution. Not a body of knowledge, or a set of data. An algorithm. It is a simple, stepwise procedure. It is the act of examining the universe to see what is there. It is not the act of examining one's baguette to see which side it is buttered on. Which is precisely why a lot of institutions, who prominently, proudly, and fraudulently use the word "science" in their names, have lost the public trust that Simon feels entitled to. They took money. They sold their judgement and modified their results. They took money from Proctor and Gamble, and they told us that beef, butter, and eggs are bad for us, and we should eat crystalized cottonseed oil instead. They took money from Coca-Cola, Kraft-Heinz, and Unilever, and told us a calorie is a calorie is a calorie, and that the worldwide obesity epidemic is your fault because you somehow magically were born lazier and greedier than previous generations. They took money from a cabal of grifters in the federal bureaucracy, and told us the planet has a fever, and we all need to pay more taxes so they can give it to their grifter friends. They told us that if we didn't use our entire population as guinea pigs for an untested medical technology, we were personally killing grandma. These people expect to share in the respect we have for Newton and Einstein, for Watt and Tesla, for Fleming, for Turning and Von Neumann. But they are not any of these. They are Pravda. They are Squealer. They are Baghdad Bob. They are not scientists. They are whores. No, wait a minute... upon reflection, I wish to apologize to the world's whores for that last sentence. A whore is infinitely better than a fake scientist, because, however degrading her profession, however much it scars her mind and soul, a whore only takes money from those who freely give it, and delivers something they value in return. I've never had a whore try to poison or rob me.

@Kaosfear @RelevantQuest i beg to differ. that response is the ideal representation of Christian apologetics via action.

@realpheirce @RelevantQuest Then they are not apologists

I appreciate the civility. My response: The most highly “Accredited LDS apologists” in our faith are called General Authorities, and they travel the world preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. They present full discourses on worldwide media platforms every six months at General Conference. They have social media accounts where they post the gospel. Interactions are reserved for outreach, not debate. Additionally, our universities churn out expert religion apologists on the regular, and we have a lay Priesthood in which everyone in the Church receives instruction, and everyone serves. We have seminary and institute instruction available for free to absolutely every member. Members are encouraged to share the gospel themselves, with love and respect. Of course, some members do become overzealous and contentious, but that’s opposite the counsel of our leaders. There are just as many types of personalities inside the Church as out, and some of us get caught up in the noise and perform our sacred duty imperfectly. But that is not how we are advised to behave. I have no desire to make Mormonism comfortably mainstream. We’re supposed to be different. If we were the same, we would be Catholic or Protestant. We’re Restorationists, neither adherents to the tenets of Catholicism nor separatists from it. Are we Christian? Of course. But we’re not you and we should be comfortable with that. I am—maybe more comfortable with it than our opponents tend to be. Anyway, thank you for expressing yourself without hostility. And forgive those who may read into it offenses that aren’t there. As Latter-day Saints, the defensive position is too often our natural state.

@grok @RigdonNancy3 @yourproductsx @pimomormon I thought I remember something from the journal of discourses?

Yes, the official LDS Gospel Topics essay "Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo" (published Oct 2014 on churchofjesuschrist.org) states: Joseph told associates an angel appeared to him three times (1834–1842) commanding plural marriage; the final time with a drawn sword, threatening destruction if he didn't obey. Earlier pre-2015 sources include 19th-century reminiscences (e.g., Lorenzo Snow, Benjamin F. Johnson, Zina Huntington Young) published in Deseret News (1879) and Andrew Jenson's Historical Record, plus Brian C. Hales' 2013 analysis documenting ~20 accounts.

This is a lie. I was never told this in seminary.

I know I knew about it before my mission in 1989. I dunno if it was through seminary or not, but I certainly knew about it. I was surprised by some people's reactions to the gospel topic essays as none of it was new to me. But I also was involved in online discussion through BBS networks back then, so /shrug.

@yourproductsx @pimomormon I don’t believe you. Proof?