@jimjimmins.bsky.social
The Unkle Adams of mathematics. He/him. Member of the free disassociation of consoomers. N95 enjoyer.
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Lets replace search with "AI" then! Totally logical if you ask me. Even more worth it when you know they're exponentially overtaking the airline industry in their carbon footprint.
Study: www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
Study: www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
March 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Lets replace search with "AI" then! Totally logical if you ask me. Even more worth it when you know they're exponentially overtaking the airline industry in their carbon footprint.
Study: www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
Study: www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
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Arctic update for Mar. 1, 2025: Arctic sea-ice extent set a record daily low every day in February and is poised to set an all-time record low maximum this month.
March 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Arctic update for Mar. 1, 2025: Arctic sea-ice extent set a record daily low every day in February and is poised to set an all-time record low maximum this month.
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The problem with the ‘you voted for the leopards eating your face party’ is that the other party keeps saying they want to work with the leopards eating your face party.
February 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The problem with the ‘you voted for the leopards eating your face party’ is that the other party keeps saying they want to work with the leopards eating your face party.
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To spell it out, the reason I hate democrats so much and criticize them more than I do republicans is because they take up all the space for opposition to republicans and use that space to give republicans whatever the fuck they want.
February 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
To spell it out, the reason I hate democrats so much and criticize them more than I do republicans is because they take up all the space for opposition to republicans and use that space to give republicans whatever the fuck they want.
Best part of any job is when there's something not worth doing but pretending it's worth doing is worth doing
February 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Best part of any job is when there's something not worth doing but pretending it's worth doing is worth doing
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everyone wants an answer so good that it gives them permission to stop learning
January 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
everyone wants an answer so good that it gives them permission to stop learning
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Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
February 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
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CO₂ and sulphur dioxide emissions have been decoupled.
CO₂ has a very long atmospheric lifetime, accumulates, and causes global warming.
While atmospheric sulphur is very short lived (it rains out) and causes regional and global cooling by dimming the sun
CO₂ has a very long atmospheric lifetime, accumulates, and causes global warming.
While atmospheric sulphur is very short lived (it rains out) and causes regional and global cooling by dimming the sun
January 29, 2025 at 9:38 AM
CO₂ and sulphur dioxide emissions have been decoupled.
CO₂ has a very long atmospheric lifetime, accumulates, and causes global warming.
While atmospheric sulphur is very short lived (it rains out) and causes regional and global cooling by dimming the sun
CO₂ has a very long atmospheric lifetime, accumulates, and causes global warming.
While atmospheric sulphur is very short lived (it rains out) and causes regional and global cooling by dimming the sun
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No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
January 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
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i hate to be a monocausal guy but i really think this discussion of masculinity, trade school, the gendering of education etc is beating around the bush. male democrats have seen no sizable drop in their desire to attend college. female republicans have. it’s about politics.
January 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
i hate to be a monocausal guy but i really think this discussion of masculinity, trade school, the gendering of education etc is beating around the bush. male democrats have seen no sizable drop in their desire to attend college. female republicans have. it’s about politics.
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it kicks ass that we've fully moved on from a model of internet success based on organically developing an audience who rewards you for creating interesting or entertaining work to everyone desperately trying to cheat their way into an audience so they can then scam them with various schemes
December 29, 2024 at 10:43 PM
it kicks ass that we've fully moved on from a model of internet success based on organically developing an audience who rewards you for creating interesting or entertaining work to everyone desperately trying to cheat their way into an audience so they can then scam them with various schemes
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Butler’s response is *exactly* correct. To accept the premise that ‘woke’ is something outside of a right wing moral panic is to be a dupe.
December 15, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Butler’s response is *exactly* correct. To accept the premise that ‘woke’ is something outside of a right wing moral panic is to be a dupe.
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Really good writing and analysis here imo, in a blog that is incredibly rich in Phrases That Do Not Appear In The Bible. defector.com/the-hawk-tua...
The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture | Defector
I can’t ease you into this one, so: Haliey Welch, colloquially known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” launched a bespoke cryptocurrency token called HAWK last Wednesday, the same day she told Fortune it was “...
defector.com
December 10, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Really good writing and analysis here imo, in a blog that is incredibly rich in Phrases That Do Not Appear In The Bible. defector.com/the-hawk-tua...
The reality of the covid-cautious is that we are entirely beholden to the actions of the larger population as they let disease spread, whereas our actions at avoiding illness individually often seem futile or unrewarding.
December 2, 2024 at 7:35 AM
The reality of the covid-cautious is that we are entirely beholden to the actions of the larger population as they let disease spread, whereas our actions at avoiding illness individually often seem futile or unrewarding.
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🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠
With thanx to a Colleague on the other App.
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
With thanx to a Colleague on the other App.
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Persistence of spike protein at the skull-meninges-brain axis may contribute to the neurological sequelae of COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2 infection can lead to long-lasting neurological sequelae, but underlying
mechanisms are unclear. Rong et al. report that SARS-CoV-2 spike protein persists
in the skull-meninges-brain axis, ...
www.cell.com
November 29, 2024 at 9:37 PM
🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠
With thanx to a Colleague on the other App.
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
With thanx to a Colleague on the other App.
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
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Genuinely think anyone can “git gud” at any creative craft they are interested in. If we wanted to actually “democratize” art we would invest in housing, healthcare, food and education as human rights. All GenAI does is make people even more financially precarious and less able to pursue a passion
I think a bit of the "AI is democratizing art" argument is trying to avoid the ugly truth that to get good at anything you have to do a lot of it. I grew up "knowing" I was a good writer, but I really wasn't until about 700k words, and it took reading hours of scripts to really have a voice
November 28, 2024 at 1:04 AM
Genuinely think anyone can “git gud” at any creative craft they are interested in. If we wanted to actually “democratize” art we would invest in housing, healthcare, food and education as human rights. All GenAI does is make people even more financially precarious and less able to pursue a passion
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Zero covid was a good idea, and still is
November 19, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Zero covid was a good idea, and still is
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the system preceding race and gender integrated education and DEI was not even facially "meritocratic" - elite higher ed served as finishing schools for rich failsons, half of admissions criteria were invented to keep out Jews. the naked cronyism is the America they wanted to return to "greatness"
Meet Trump’s new Secretary of Education nominee Linda McMahon
November 20, 2024 at 12:42 PM
the system preceding race and gender integrated education and DEI was not even facially "meritocratic" - elite higher ed served as finishing schools for rich failsons, half of admissions criteria were invented to keep out Jews. the naked cronyism is the America they wanted to return to "greatness"
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The US just vetoed *another* UN Security Council resolution. It demanded "an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire" & "immediate and unconditional release of all hostages."
14 voted in favor.
1—the US—opposed.
This is the 4th UNSC ceasefire resolution US has vetoed.
14 voted in favor.
1—the US—opposed.
This is the 4th UNSC ceasefire resolution US has vetoed.
November 20, 2024 at 4:15 PM
The US just vetoed *another* UN Security Council resolution. It demanded "an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire" & "immediate and unconditional release of all hostages."
14 voted in favor.
1—the US—opposed.
This is the 4th UNSC ceasefire resolution US has vetoed.
14 voted in favor.
1—the US—opposed.
This is the 4th UNSC ceasefire resolution US has vetoed.
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Oh.
Wow.
Wow.
The thing about the Kobayashi Maru
“The thing about the Kobayashi Maru,” said Jim, “is you have to remember it’s a simulation.”
medium.com
November 17, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Oh.
Wow.
Wow.
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block Brianna Wu if you want but i actually think it’s important for the ecosystem that we get more morons on here
November 15, 2024 at 11:33 PM
block Brianna Wu if you want but i actually think it’s important for the ecosystem that we get more morons on here