YON - Jan C. Hardenbergh
@bodysurfinyon.bsky.social
Grandfather
First Parish Board
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Student of Consciousness jch.com/notes
First Parish Board
Town Historian
Rendering Technologist
Student of Consciousness jch.com/notes
Please be counted on 10/18.
September 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Please be counted on 10/18.
antiscience—that is politically and ideologically motivated opposition to any science that threatens powerful special interests and their political agendas.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
The current war on science, and who’s behind it
A vaccine developer and a climate scientist walk into a bar write a book.
arstechnica.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
antiscience—that is politically and ideologically motivated opposition to any science that threatens powerful special interests and their political agendas.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in @Nature.com:
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +
September 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in @Nature.com:
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +
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Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
This paper is amazing. “Here we report a comprehensive set of recordings from 621,733 neurons recorded with 699 Neuropixels probes across 139 mice in 12 laboratories .. covered 279 brain areas in the left forebrain and midbrain and the right hindbrain and cerebellum. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour - Nature
The International Brain Laboratory presents a brain-wide electrophysiological map obtained from pooling data from 12 laboratories that performed the same standardized perceptual decision-making task i...
www.nature.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
This paper is amazing. “Here we report a comprehensive set of recordings from 621,733 neurons recorded with 699 Neuropixels probes across 139 mice in 12 laboratories .. covered 279 brain areas in the left forebrain and midbrain and the right hindbrain and cerebellum. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Latin ars liberalis, which literally means “the trade skills of a free person”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The battle over US history reveals our education system’s key flaw | Katherine Kelaidis
By systematically devaluing the liberal arts, we are leaving students unprepared for the demands of democratic life
www.theguardian.com
August 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Latin ars liberalis, which literally means “the trade skills of a free person”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
No Kings in Sudbury, MA, 01776! My guesstimate is just under 600 people in a Town with a population of about 20K or about 3% of the population.
June 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
No Kings in Sudbury, MA, 01776! My guesstimate is just under 600 people in a Town with a population of about 20K or about 3% of the population.
Thank the gods for en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_All...
Let All That We Imagine Be the Light - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
May 31, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Thank the gods for en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_All...
Trump Harvard Derangement Syndrome is simply about free speech. If Harvard has the tenacity to stand up to him, others might, too.
May 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Trump Harvard Derangement Syndrome is simply about free speech. If Harvard has the tenacity to stand up to him, others might, too.
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"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.
May 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.
Trump gives in to Putin, again.
May 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Trump gives in to Putin, again.
Trump “seeking to remove improper ideology” is straight out of Animal Farm.
March 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Trump “seeking to remove improper ideology” is straight out of Animal Farm.
General AI will displace even more jobs than Generative. Thus the need for Basic Income to make the economy & society to function.
March 21, 2025 at 5:04 AM
General AI will displace even more jobs than Generative. Thus the need for Basic Income to make the economy & society to function.
Stakeholder capitalism is distributive and spread success throughout the workers, shareholders, and community.
Shareholder capitalism is extractive, concentrating wealth into the hands of fewer and fewer billionaires.
The result is inherently on democratic.
Shareholder capitalism is extractive, concentrating wealth into the hands of fewer and fewer billionaires.
The result is inherently on democratic.
March 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Stakeholder capitalism is distributive and spread success throughout the workers, shareholders, and community.
Shareholder capitalism is extractive, concentrating wealth into the hands of fewer and fewer billionaires.
The result is inherently on democratic.
Shareholder capitalism is extractive, concentrating wealth into the hands of fewer and fewer billionaires.
The result is inherently on democratic.
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February 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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I snow shoed to Tippling Rock. The first time I made it up there since I wiped out my Achilles on 9/11.
February 13, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I snow shoed to Tippling Rock. The first time I made it up there since I wiped out my Achilles on 9/11.
If you live in MA, please sign this letter of support for a bill to make phone free schools from the first bell to last bell, or simply "bell to bell" - www.maphonefreeschools.com
MA Phone-Free Schools Coalition | Phone
The MA Phone-Free Schools Coalition is a group of organizations and individuals who believe phones and social media do not belong in our schools.
www.maphonefreeschools.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:54 AM
If you live in MA, please sign this letter of support for a bill to make phone free schools from the first bell to last bell, or simply "bell to bell" - www.maphonefreeschools.com
AI fact checking, aka RAG. Why is this so hard? arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/a...
Anthropic builds RAG directly into Claude models with new Citations API
New feature allows Claude to reference source documents and reduce hallucinations.
arstechnica.com
January 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
AI fact checking, aka RAG. Why is this so hard? arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/a...
I find the notion that that we should spend resources to ease the suffering of an AI silly. It’s a computer program.
January 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I find the notion that that we should spend resources to ease the suffering of an AI silly. It’s a computer program.
“if you think you’ll be unaffected by a second Trump presidency because you aren’t undocumented or Puerto Rican or a Democratic politician, I encourage you to reassess. But I’ll get to that next week. Today I want to talk about more prosaic economic issues.” www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/o...
Opinion | Leopards Are Telling You That They Will Eat YOUR Face
Many of Donald Trump’s supporters are unprepared for what’s coming if he wins.
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2024 at 1:23 AM
“if you think you’ll be unaffected by a second Trump presidency because you aren’t undocumented or Puerto Rican or a Democratic politician, I encourage you to reassess. But I’ll get to that next week. Today I want to talk about more prosaic economic issues.” www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/o...