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Jack Stack

@JackStack9

PhD paleobiologist. Trophy husband. Fish historian and fossil enthusiast. He/him/his.

Blacksburg, VA Присоединился Aralık 2012
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New paper alert: re-description of an ancient long nosed fish out today in @ZoolJLinnSoc (doi.org/10.1093/zoolin…, by myself, @laurensallan, JP Hodnett, and Spencer Lucas). Thread: anatomy, paleoecology, and convergent evolution in ancient fishes. Illustration by Nobu Tamura.
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@incisorial “I wish everyone knew about UPenn” monkey paw happened with the 2016 election :)
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@dieworkwear Helping there be bugs is also good for birders. People want birds but forget they need stuff to eat and places to live!
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@Aethros_Tempest Sad how many of the top players are like this, some of them truly have nothing in their lives besides wow.
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Andrew, Sun's Avatar@Aethros_Tempest·
Very weird to have a real adult human job and then log on to WoW and play arenas vs. Petkick
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@skillcapped This video mentions nothing about pet management in PVP, which (in my opinion) is the only hard part about BM. Is the rotation easy? Yes. Is managing your pets easy? Not at all. In fact, it is made much harder by how bloodshed only applies if your pet is actually at the target.
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Skill Capped@skillcapped·
We ranked every spec from EASIEST to HARDEST in PvP. Video below 👇👇👇
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Matthew H. Young@matthenryyoung·
On the contrary, I am doing everything I can to prepare my students for what's coming. It's a rather short-sighted view to think that the only way to do that is to become a shill for using a suite of technological products.
Sean Westwood@seanjwestwood

Faculty raging against AI: are you just openly abdicating your responsibility to prepare students for what's coming? AI is the future. Your anger doesn't change that. It just means your students learn it from someone else--or don't learn it at all. Enrollments will respond.

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Midnight is honestly shaping up to be the greatest expansion ever made. I’m so hyped that I cant look back and analytically breakdown why I lose matches anymore. No more looking at nice clean death logs and clean breakdowns on healing and damage. I hate understanding how my healing is actually working on my teammates! One of my favorite features is the insanely hyper customizable UI. I’ve always hated when games ship with something crazy like a functional default interface, so it’s really nice that we can all spend 6 hours installing addons just to see basic information. I’m also super excited to join the wintrading renaissance this season since they still haven’t implemented any meaningful system to deal with it. Really keeps the ladder feeling authentic and competitive. My carpal tunnel is actually healing too, which is awesome. I was finally able to downgrade to a 50% keyboard after they pruned so many abilities that my action bars now look like a trial account. My games also end way faster now because apparently none of my main healers have cooldowns anymore perfect for quick shuffle rounds! And the best part? Half my important defensives don’t even show on raid frames anymore, so every arena match doubles as a fun little guessing game. Really takes the strain off my eyes when I simply don’t know what’s happening. Quick shoutout to the housing developers too! Really blowing classic wow out of the water. Idk why anyone would play classic over retail hahahaha.

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@robustus @TheStalwart Have they made progress on any of these things? From the outside looking in generative AI has created a bad simulacrum of an office worker, polluted social media, and makes slop memes for boomers. Feels like that isn’t worth billions.
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Far more rapid medical advances, longer & healthier lives (maybe *much* moreso on both points), much cheaper goods & services, tremendous advances in materials science, energy, robotics, travel....idk, it's hard to think of a field that doesn't ultimately gain a lot from cheap hyper-intelligence applied to it over time. So if that's the base-case, the thing left to discuss is the potential for unprecedented speed of job displacement, political change, geopolitical stuff, alignment.
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@vtlynch1 @keithdorejel I’m curious. What is the selling point for having a data center in a small town? What’s the pitch?
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Keith Orejel@keithdorejel·
There is a deep anti democratic thread within the tech community and they truly think they are so fucking smart that they know what is best for us all.
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the people trying to build these have been telling you for a decade that they want to put everyone out of a job, hand all the IP control to a small group of billionaires, and pollute your information environment with slop. you're not entitled to the presumption of innocence
Zak Kukoff@zck

You’re looking at the biggest political issue of 2028. And the populists (derogatory) are winning. Ask your offline cousin what they think about data centers and you’ll find them regurgitating More Perfect Union anti-growth slop

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This #fossilfriday in Edinburgh, we’re out with our @GeosciencesEd students, collecting 325 million year old fossils at Wardie. World’s most famous coprolite latrine. And loads of fossil leaves and roots and logs from Coal Swamp trees. All within the city limits!
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@eiyawow @megasett No colorful dragons ever made an appearance in classic wow, certainly not fae dragons.
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Liquid Eiya@eiyawow·
@megasett one of the reasons i was given for why WoW is now “feminist slop” was “oh well look at how colorful the dragons were in dragonflight”
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idk the "disneyfication" of wow seems appropriate given the scariest things in the world for some of you are butterfly mounts and pastels
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