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Fred Scharmen

@sevensixfive.bsky.social

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 14h

I remember back in the early days of twitter my friend @kiostark.bsky.social identified a whole genre of post as “my coffee issues” and we need to bring that back, frankly.

Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 21h

This is a political problem, not a technical problem

Reposted by Steven French, Seth Masket, Daxton R. Stewart , and 1 more Steven French, Seth Masket, Daxton R. Stewart, Fred

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 21h

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore.
It happens a lot 'round here.

Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 1d

It’s all so performative. Like that’s not a decision you make in your own mind and keep to yourself. You work backwards from the public statement and construct ideology from there

Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 1d

Frankenstein

Garfield and Friends Screens @garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 1d

Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 1d

By the midterms this will be every single national candidate though

FreeLinkophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 1d

I am not voting for anyone who uses genAI political ads. Period.

Reposted by Fred

FreeLinkophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 1d

I am not voting for anyone who uses genAI political ads. Period.

Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 2d

Weekend goals but I have to work

Garfield and Friends Screens @garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 2d

Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 2d

I go out alone all the time. Sit at the bar to eat and drink with a book and usually end up talking with others. It’s fun.

Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 2d

Not really but I’ll make it

Reposted by Fred

Boris A @borisanthony.net · 2d

Been slowly reading David Harvey's "A Companion to Marx's 'Grundrisse'."
"Grundriss" is German for "floorplan" or "blueprint" or "architecture."
The original is notoriously difficult (Marx laying out and stress-testing all the theory & concepts of capital), and this companion is no easy read either…

Reposted by Fred

David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 3d

WOW!
An incredible discovery. The first ever image of a baby exoplanet embedded in the dust rings from which planets are forming around a star. Confirms the developing view of planet formation that we’ve never before seen in action.
🧪🔭
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 3d

Seven months.

Reposted by Jesse H. Kroll, Martin Paul Eve, Fred

Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 3d

In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

Reposted by Philip N. Cohen, Shawn Graham, Silvia Secchi , and 5 more Philip N. Cohen, Shawn Graham, Silvia Secchi, Zen Faulkes, Patrick Präg, Fred, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Southern Africa

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

100!!!

Ohio State to hire 100 new faculty with AI expertise

The Ohio State University has announced a major Artificial Intelligence (AI) Faculty Hiring Initiative that will add 100 new tenure-track faculty with expertise in AI over the next five years. The ini...

news.osu.edu

Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 3d

"Where I'm from we don't even call it 'weird music,' it's just 'music' to me"

Reposted by Marc Lynch, Loretta Lees, Christian Odendahl , and 7 more Marc Lynch, Loretta Lees, Christian Odendahl, Axel Bruns, Steve Peers, Kelly Smith, Tom Griffin, David Murakami Wood, Jack Stilgoe, Fred

Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled

Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

ig.ft.com

Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 5d

"May your computer's fan run constantly"

Reposted by Fred

Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 5d

Whoa, “When Prophecy Fails” debunked? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

ABSTRACT
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased. But When Prophecy Fails (1956), the now-canonical account of the event, claimed the opposite: that the group doubled down on its beliefs and began recruiting-evidence, the authors argued, of a new psychological mechanism, cognitive dissonance. Drawing on newly unsealed archival material, this article demonstrates that the book's central claims are false, and that the authors knew they were false. The documents reveal that the group actively proselytized well before the prophecy failed and quickly abandoned their beliefs afterward. They also expose serious ethical violations by the researchers, including fabricated psychic messages, covert manipulation, and interference in a child welfare investigation. One coauthor, Henry Ricken, posed as a spiritual authority and later admitted he had "precipitated" the climactic events of the study.

Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 5d

Same

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 6d

Other zoomers gotta get into R.E.M.

Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 6d

I know.

Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 6d

So evil. Especially for a university environment

Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 6d

Google: don’t be evil

Also Google: adds a Google Meet link by default to calendar events confusing everyone and tricking them into using their products more

Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 7d

Oh it is nighttime nighttime out there at 5:30pm, huh? Nice.

Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 7d

Ah I'm sorry to hear that!

Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 7d

I really love going for runs on weekday mornings and I hope that I'm able to do it for a long time into the future.

Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 7d

A car did that? A car? Was it a Waymo? Or was there a person driving who did that while driving a car?

Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 8d

It’s the opening sentence of a Lovecystory

Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 9d

Happy Happy!

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