jastreich.bsky.social
@jastreich.bsky.social
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March 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Right, there is clear intent and consideration buying votes. Elon should be arrested for this.
March 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The petition money /might/ (probably not) skirt law because the consideration is for signing a petition. This event, however, he's directly tying to vote status -- which if I remember the Starbuck issue -- is a clear violation of election laws. Does that mean, he might have just cooked his goose?
March 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The men shaved against their will, stripped of their belongings, not given any creature comforts, and force into the overcrowded cages without a trial. This reminds me other images I've seen somewhere.
March 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Generative AI depends on ethical training and use case. Voice assistants for home control is awesome. Generated marketing ads suck. Deep fakes are a definite threat. It is easy to demonize AI, and some of it is evil; but, to dismiss the whole field is shortsighted. 2/2
March 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Depends on use. An AI agent that flags medical scans for potential missed issues, that are re-reviewed by experts is awesome. AI screening resumes will have all the biases the training data had, and so much worse that a "mediocrity machine." 1/2
March 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
You mean autocorrect, not spellcheck. Spellcheck you choose the word you meant to type. Auto carrot, on otter Hans Solo, nuns since crazy ice storm salt snow melt.
March 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The other OECD nations also have much more public insurance at play. Medicare spends at or below 3% on administrative costs. Private insurance spends between 15% and 17% on administration costs on average. DOGE wouldn't make healthcare costs lower, it'd make them higher.
December 5, 2024 at 10:32 PM
NdGT makes $150,000 to $200,000 per speaking engagement on top of his $450K annual salary from Hayden Planetarium.
December 3, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Well, I'm glad you feel inspired to try to create something. However you host it, with your stated goals, however, you'll run into a critical mass that will eventually require large amounts of resources and eventually funding. I'd recommend starting small, and growing overtime.
December 3, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Except, they are already doing it and getting paid.

Libraries
Planetariums
Museums
Academic Journals
DOI
Wikipedia
Khan Academy (www.khanacademy.org)
LibGen
Star Talk
SciShow
Crash Course
UWM's Science Bag (uwm.edu/science-bag/)
Texas A&M's Physics (linktr.ee/tamuphysastr)
MIT Opencourseware
December 3, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Basically, you're talking about a scientific Wikipedia. Which would also need other needed resources. We're talking petabytes of storage, servers, firewalls, back up systems, system administration costs. Legal council. And it's constantly out of date.
December 3, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Because people need to eat. The task of collecting all the worlds scientific "indisputable facts" and organizing it into a resource is a never ending task that would have to become the life's work of a number of people to be done. Those people need to be able to live. 1/2
December 3, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Then you wouldn't be looking for a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe resource that contained "all the facts". The best science commutators can do is keep publishing what we know now in various places and ways. Like Hank and John do with SciShow and Crash Course, or what Wikipedia endeavors to be.
December 3, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Take Newtonian Physics. It works for calculating the forces of most objects. It's used to design buildings, cars, bridges, etc. But it's "wrong," it breaks down when things get close to the speed of light. Each finding fills in more of the picture where the last person left off.
December 3, 2024 at 5:18 PM
There aren't indisputable facts. Science is a process. What we know today is likely going to revised tomorrow. We should always act on the information that is currently the consensus of experts, but part of having a scientific/critcal mind is testing your assumptions. 1/2
December 3, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Understanding what knowledge is legitimate is what scientists spend their whole lives doing. Our most up-to-date information we have are published peer reviewed studies. Biology and chemistry are both Physics. They are taught separately because the humans understand information better categorized.
December 3, 2024 at 5:07 PM