Somn
@somnwrites.bsky.social
Somn. Oldwol. Frequently exhausted. Sporadically active. You may ask me of the ancient texts for I was (possibly) there when they were written, but I'mma be real with you - I don't remember shit. She/her.
If you've seen me elsewhere, no you didn't.
If you've seen me elsewhere, no you didn't.
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Happy bisexual visibility day! 💙💜🩷
September 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Happy bisexual visibility day! 💙💜🩷
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the rapture is in beta testing right now so you’ll need an invite code from someone who’s already there
September 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
the rapture is in beta testing right now so you’ll need an invite code from someone who’s already there
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This sort of modelling is obviously quite uncertain, but overwhelmingly it shows that vaccines have a massive saving in economic terms.
The COVID-19 vaccines may have been the best investment that humanity ever made!
The COVID-19 vaccines may have been the best investment that humanity ever made!
Wow!
Covid vaccine development and delivery cost $79.4 billion, but the health and economic benefits of vaccination were valued between $4.83 trillion–$37.8 trillion.
A return on investment of $59.8–$475 per dollar invested!!
This is why vaccine equity matters!
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Covid vaccine development and delivery cost $79.4 billion, but the health and economic benefits of vaccination were valued between $4.83 trillion–$37.8 trillion.
A return on investment of $59.8–$475 per dollar invested!!
This is why vaccine equity matters!
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
The global return-on-investment of COVID-19 vaccines in the first year of the vaccination programme
COVID-19 vaccines played a critical role in reducing global health burden during the COVID-19 pandemic, but their rapid development required extraordinary effort. This study aims to evaluate their glo...
www.medrxiv.org
September 8, 2025 at 4:19 AM
This sort of modelling is obviously quite uncertain, but overwhelmingly it shows that vaccines have a massive saving in economic terms.
The COVID-19 vaccines may have been the best investment that humanity ever made!
The COVID-19 vaccines may have been the best investment that humanity ever made!
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Historians: this is a worrying development. Historians use the Hansard to analyze what was said in parliamentary discussions. If the Hansard is subject to editing out things that are politically unacceptable at the time, we (and future historians) have a problem.
Parliament and Hansard have removed “We are all Palestine Action” from my speech on Wednesday 2 July 2025 — despite me saying it.
This is a blatant attempt to censor me and rewrite the record.
This is not how a democracy behaves.
We will not be silenced.
This is a blatant attempt to censor me and rewrite the record.
This is not how a democracy behaves.
We will not be silenced.
July 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Historians: this is a worrying development. Historians use the Hansard to analyze what was said in parliamentary discussions. If the Hansard is subject to editing out things that are politically unacceptable at the time, we (and future historians) have a problem.
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I'm an "A.i." abolitionist.
No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything.
Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine.
But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires?
No.
No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything.
Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine.
But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires?
No.
July 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I'm an "A.i." abolitionist.
No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything.
Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine.
But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires?
No.
No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything.
Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine.
But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires?
No.
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This is just going to be the first of many, many stories you are going to read about big tech companies faking "AI for climate" claims. The sheer volume of AI-climate-washing going on right now is huge, and it's very likely most of the claims are fabricated or exaggerated
archive.is/8sYNv
archive.is/8sYNv
July 9, 2025 at 5:27 AM
This is just going to be the first of many, many stories you are going to read about big tech companies faking "AI for climate" claims. The sheer volume of AI-climate-washing going on right now is huge, and it's very likely most of the claims are fabricated or exaggerated
archive.is/8sYNv
archive.is/8sYNv
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This is an astonishingly bad idea. Generative AI, as implemented by the companies that you're "partnering" with, is built off of stealing work from human creators. There is a pressing need for computational literacy, but it won't come from embracing the products & companies that are causing harm.
July 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM
This is an astonishingly bad idea. Generative AI, as implemented by the companies that you're "partnering" with, is built off of stealing work from human creators. There is a pressing need for computational literacy, but it won't come from embracing the products & companies that are causing harm.
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This is a laundry list of rhetorical strategies to defend the adoption of a given technology for the purposes of advancing an ideology & economic regime: inevitability, unquestioning praise of “innovation,” buy-in from concerned stakeholders, assurances that partnership is not capitulation. 1/n
Today we launched the National Academy for AI Instruction with UFT, Microsoft, OpenAI & Anthropic to offer free, high-quality AI training to educators. Some of you have expressed legitimate reservations about AI and tech companies. I want to speak to you directly. 🧵
July 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
This is a laundry list of rhetorical strategies to defend the adoption of a given technology for the purposes of advancing an ideology & economic regime: inevitability, unquestioning praise of “innovation,” buy-in from concerned stakeholders, assurances that partnership is not capitulation. 1/n
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Even the NYT knows this is a bad idea.
Partnering with these companies to ruin an entire generation of children is shameful.
Partnering with these companies to ruin an entire generation of children is shameful.
July 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Even the NYT knows this is a bad idea.
Partnering with these companies to ruin an entire generation of children is shameful.
Partnering with these companies to ruin an entire generation of children is shameful.
Going back to school in your 30s/40s to complete the degree you weren't able to finish when you were younger really is pretty great. Choosing philosophy is...a choice, but not a regrettable one.
And adding a concurrent degree in Physics to the mix? Delightful.
And insane.
Why have I done this.
And adding a concurrent degree in Physics to the mix? Delightful.
And insane.
Why have I done this.
June 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Going back to school in your 30s/40s to complete the degree you weren't able to finish when you were younger really is pretty great. Choosing philosophy is...a choice, but not a regrettable one.
And adding a concurrent degree in Physics to the mix? Delightful.
And insane.
Why have I done this.
And adding a concurrent degree in Physics to the mix? Delightful.
And insane.
Why have I done this.
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I miss stumbling upon random personal sites (especially fansites) on Geocities, Angelfire, etc.
Back when the internet was, if maybe not good, at least much less bad.
Back when the internet was, if maybe not good, at least much less bad.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
January 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I miss stumbling upon random personal sites (especially fansites) on Geocities, Angelfire, etc.
Back when the internet was, if maybe not good, at least much less bad.
Back when the internet was, if maybe not good, at least much less bad.
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I can respect the modern comedy rule of never punching down, but how else am I supposed to fight Satan, who famously lives below me in Hell?
January 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I can respect the modern comedy rule of never punching down, but how else am I supposed to fight Satan, who famously lives below me in Hell?
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No one loves SHINee like the SHINee members love each other.
January 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
No one loves SHINee like the SHINee members love each other.
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What is the charge? Writing a post? An innocent online post?
January 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
What is the charge? Writing a post? An innocent online post?
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My one overly sincere post for the holidays/end-of-year is that I truly wish people who enjoy yelling at strangers on the internet would stop, for like two seconds, to ponder the litany of potentially very sad or difficult things the person they're yelling at may endured that day, or week, or year.
December 23, 2024 at 8:07 PM
My one overly sincere post for the holidays/end-of-year is that I truly wish people who enjoy yelling at strangers on the internet would stop, for like two seconds, to ponder the litany of potentially very sad or difficult things the person they're yelling at may endured that day, or week, or year.
*crawling out of the trenches, bloody and broken* We got 'em. The Taemin tickets. We got them.
My computer crashed almost immediately after for unknown reasons (this is 100% true) and the husband has only now fixed it, but we fucking got them.
My computer crashed almost immediately after for unknown reasons (this is 100% true) and the husband has only now fixed it, but we fucking got them.
December 15, 2024 at 11:04 AM
*crawling out of the trenches, bloody and broken* We got 'em. The Taemin tickets. We got them.
My computer crashed almost immediately after for unknown reasons (this is 100% true) and the husband has only now fixed it, but we fucking got them.
My computer crashed almost immediately after for unknown reasons (this is 100% true) and the husband has only now fixed it, but we fucking got them.
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BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they “can never be undone.”
Spain to enshrine gay marriage and abortion rights into its constitution so 'they cannot be undone in the future' - Olive Press News Spain
PRIME Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain's constitution so they 'can never be undone'. The left-wing PSOE
www.theolivepress.es
December 6, 2024 at 9:46 PM
BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they “can never be undone.”
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So, there's a kind of overly sensational article floating around covering 2 research papers— one from OpenAI & one from Apollo Research— claiming to prove that the Opus-3, ChatGPT-o1, and GPT-4o models can engage in "deception."
The article itself makes claims about the models trying to "escape,"…
The article itself makes claims about the models trying to "escape,"…
December 7, 2024 at 5:54 AM
So, there's a kind of overly sensational article floating around covering 2 research papers— one from OpenAI & one from Apollo Research— claiming to prove that the Opus-3, ChatGPT-o1, and GPT-4o models can engage in "deception."
The article itself makes claims about the models trying to "escape,"…
The article itself makes claims about the models trying to "escape,"…
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when religious people call your gay friends heathens it’s like no that’s not right. they’re actually he/thems
November 29, 2024 at 9:07 PM
when religious people call your gay friends heathens it’s like no that’s not right. they’re actually he/thems
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There’s a stunning variety of third-person singular (3sg) pronouns (meaning 'she / he / it' or singular 'they') across Chinese languages and dialects. Here are a few of them:
Mandarin: tā
Cantonese: keoi5
Taiwan Hokkien and Shanghainese: i
Southern Wu: gi, ji
#langsky 🀄️📚
1/
Mandarin: tā
Cantonese: keoi5
Taiwan Hokkien and Shanghainese: i
Southern Wu: gi, ji
#langsky 🀄️📚
1/
December 1, 2024 at 5:06 AM
There’s a stunning variety of third-person singular (3sg) pronouns (meaning 'she / he / it' or singular 'they') across Chinese languages and dialects. Here are a few of them:
Mandarin: tā
Cantonese: keoi5
Taiwan Hokkien and Shanghainese: i
Southern Wu: gi, ji
#langsky 🀄️📚
1/
Mandarin: tā
Cantonese: keoi5
Taiwan Hokkien and Shanghainese: i
Southern Wu: gi, ji
#langsky 🀄️📚
1/
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If you wanted to panic, the time was the night he was re-elected. Now it's time to take a deep breath and do things like express your views to your member of Congress, and start planning for 2026.
There will be no panic in this dojo.
There will be no panic in this dojo.
NOW can we panic?
December 1, 2024 at 2:57 AM
If you wanted to panic, the time was the night he was re-elected. Now it's time to take a deep breath and do things like express your views to your member of Congress, and start planning for 2026.
There will be no panic in this dojo.
There will be no panic in this dojo.