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Christine Moctezuma
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Trans Rights are Human Rights
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If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.

The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
June 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.
May 10, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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February 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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November 7, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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pencils down
August 7, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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All Systems Red is a book club pick for New Scientist, and there's an essay by me to go with it: www.newscientist.com/article/2432...
Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want
The author of All Systems Red, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, on why her novella takes on the thorny topic of what a machine intelligence might do, if it could make its own choices
www.newscientist.com
May 24, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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This is the reminder that sit-ins, protests, and many of the marches and gatherings of the Civil Rights Movement were illegal because segregation was the law.

Good fucking trouble.
May 2, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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Nightshade is out, folks!

This is from Ben Zhao and team at Chicago U, the same people who created Glaze. It's is a new way of defending your work from datascraping.

tl;dr it poisons data well. Let's gooo

Link to V1.0:
nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html
January 19, 2024 at 1:25 PM