jonny "saunders"
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One of the main things neuroscientists do not like to deal with is degeneracy and the irreversibility of the activity -> function relationship, because that would force them to acknowledge that most analysis methods like decoding and functional connectivity are meaningless.
So functional cell types certainly exist in the spatial system. There is no doubt about this. However, this paper shows that you cannot know that you have found them by just decoding space, or even by showing spatial selectivity! This is a very important thing to tell the field.
November 29, 2025 at 1:03 AM
One of the main things neuroscientists do not like to deal with is degeneracy and the irreversibility of the activity -> function relationship, because that would force them to acknowledge that most analysis methods like decoding and functional connectivity are meaningless.
this whole interview, can you imagine having to filter everything you say through four layers of "i am already a literal god, but it is not ready yet for you to see that, so imminently everyone should prepare for me becoming a god, but next year."
I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
November 19, 2025 at 10:56 AM
this whole interview, can you imagine having to filter everything you say through four layers of "i am already a literal god, but it is not ready yet for you to see that, so imminently everyone should prepare for me becoming a god, but next year."
still thinking about that neural basis of speech talk from Eddie Chang on Sunday. Have loved their work for years, that might have been the best talk I have ever seen. I don't really say this that much lately, but truly inspiring work.
#SfN2025
#SfN2025
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 AM
still thinking about that neural basis of speech talk from Eddie Chang on Sunday. Have loved their work for years, that might have been the best talk I have ever seen. I don't really say this that much lately, but truly inspiring work.
#SfN2025
#SfN2025
A robust ecosystem of many ways of having all the money stolen from my wallet will likely prove to be the most stable and productive ecosystem of ways to have all the money stolen from my wallet, rather than "one size fits all" solutions like "not being robbed"
An excellent piece on the scholarly publishing ecosystem, by Rick Anderson.
As is the case in biological ecosystems, a publishing ecosystem that has high levels of diversity with lots of niches will likely prove to be the most stable AND productive, rather than “one-size-fits-all” solutions.
As is the case in biological ecosystems, a publishing ecosystem that has high levels of diversity with lots of niches will likely prove to be the most stable AND productive, rather than “one-size-fits-all” solutions.
In Defense of Pluralism and Diversity: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Scholarly Communication (Part 2 of 2) scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/18/a...
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
A robust ecosystem of many ways of having all the money stolen from my wallet will likely prove to be the most stable and productive ecosystem of ways to have all the money stolen from my wallet, rather than "one size fits all" solutions like "not being robbed"
In defense of things staying mostly the same and making no distinctions about anything being better or worse than anything else, a manifesto
In Defense of Pluralism and Diversity: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Scholarly Communication (Part 2 of 2) scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/18/a...
In Defense of Pluralism and Diversity: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Scholarly Communication (Part 2 of 2) - The Scholarly Kitchen
An invitation to embrace pluralism and diversity in scholarly communication models -- rather than attempting to impose a single solution.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
In defense of things staying mostly the same and making no distinctions about anything being better or worse than anything else, a manifesto
A disembodied radio story narrates how the fascists are trying to kill information at #SfN2025, a welcome centering of what's happening all around us, and if that matters to you you can find us and talk about taking direct action to preserve threatened information way off in the ZZ section tomorrow
November 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
A disembodied radio story narrates how the fascists are trying to kill information at #SfN2025, a welcome centering of what's happening all around us, and if that matters to you you can find us and talk about taking direct action to preserve threatened information way off in the ZZ section tomorrow
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We're presenting Miniscope Zero, the first fully-wireless Miniscope, at #SfN25! Wireless power + data enable long-term neural recordings from multiple freely behaving animals. @MiniscopeTeam
Poster: Nov. 17, 1–5 pm, ZZ7
Info: tinyurl.com/mhdfb67u
Full video: youtu.be/mIt15LA-rZI?...
Poster: Nov. 17, 1–5 pm, ZZ7
Info: tinyurl.com/mhdfb67u
Full video: youtu.be/mIt15LA-rZI?...
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
We're presenting Miniscope Zero, the first fully-wireless Miniscope, at #SfN25! Wireless power + data enable long-term neural recordings from multiple freely behaving animals. @MiniscopeTeam
Poster: Nov. 17, 1–5 pm, ZZ7
Info: tinyurl.com/mhdfb67u
Full video: youtu.be/mIt15LA-rZI?...
Poster: Nov. 17, 1–5 pm, ZZ7
Info: tinyurl.com/mhdfb67u
Full video: youtu.be/mIt15LA-rZI?...
Watching this literal magic tech take shape has been one of my favorite parts of being in this group - a plausible path to real actual naturalistic life-scale experiments.
#SfN2025
#SfN2025
We're presenting Miniscope Zero, the first fully-wireless Miniscope, at #SfN25! Wireless power + data enable long-term neural recordings from multiple freely behaving animals. @MiniscopeTeam
Poster: Nov. 17, 1–5 pm, ZZ7
Info: tinyurl.com/mhdfb67u
Full video: youtu.be/mIt15LA-rZI?...
Poster: Nov. 17, 1–5 pm, ZZ7
Info: tinyurl.com/mhdfb67u
Full video: youtu.be/mIt15LA-rZI?...
November 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Watching this literal magic tech take shape has been one of my favorite parts of being in this group - a plausible path to real actual naturalistic life-scale experiments.
#SfN2025
#SfN2025
Hello #SfN2025, I'm here presenting sciop.net, archiving at-risk information and bootstrapping a hybrid federated/p2p archive, rebuilding NWB and integrating acquisition and analysis with lightweight pipelines.
I'll be at ZZ14 in the Monday afternoon session :)
aharoni-lab.com/sfn2025/sciop
I'll be at ZZ14 in the Monday afternoon session :)
aharoni-lab.com/sfn2025/sciop
SciOp - Public Information Preservation
Preserving Public Information
sciop.net
November 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Hello #SfN2025, I'm here presenting sciop.net, archiving at-risk information and bootstrapping a hybrid federated/p2p archive, rebuilding NWB and integrating acquisition and analysis with lightweight pipelines.
I'll be at ZZ14 in the Monday afternoon session :)
aharoni-lab.com/sfn2025/sciop
I'll be at ZZ14 in the Monday afternoon session :)
aharoni-lab.com/sfn2025/sciop
you know that our information systems are an utter failure, a primary barrier to liberation, the primary instrument of social control when it takes 5 years to communicate the idea that "the virus that killed everyone is an aerosol" to 0.1% of people.
🚨 ANSWERED: Can COVID-19 Be Prevented?
A compilation of over 40 studies on how to best prevent COVID-19, from respirators to vaccines to other interventions.
👇 READ, SUBSCRIBE, SHARE WIDELY: www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-c...
A compilation of over 40 studies on how to best prevent COVID-19, from respirators to vaccines to other interventions.
👇 READ, SUBSCRIBE, SHARE WIDELY: www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-c...
ANSWERED: Can COVID-19 Be Prevented?
A Collection of Peer-Reviewed Scientific Research (40+ Studies)
www.panaccindex.info
November 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
you know that our information systems are an utter failure, a primary barrier to liberation, the primary instrument of social control when it takes 5 years to communicate the idea that "the virus that killed everyone is an aerosol" to 0.1% of people.
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We joke but the constant turmoil is frying my brain . Insomnia beating my ass
November 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM
We joke but the constant turmoil is frying my brain . Insomnia beating my ass
Reposted by jonny "saunders"
Altman has been quite clear about his strategy.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Altman has been quite clear about his strategy.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
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A timeline of events involving the shooting of news TikToker Richard L.A. and the subsequent lockdown and student walkouts at Santee High School.
The full story: lataco.com/ice-shots-sa...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Izzy Ramirez, and Memo Torres
The full story: lataco.com/ice-shots-sa...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Izzy Ramirez, and Memo Torres
October 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
A timeline of events involving the shooting of news TikToker Richard L.A. and the subsequent lockdown and student walkouts at Santee High School.
The full story: lataco.com/ice-shots-sa...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Izzy Ramirez, and Memo Torres
The full story: lataco.com/ice-shots-sa...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Izzy Ramirez, and Memo Torres
There are upsides to having the unit of social media be a community with shared stakes in its moderation and upkeep, rather than the unit being a single account on one big global soup. People notice when a big swell of bot accounts happens next door, but not when they come from the void.
October 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
There are upsides to having the unit of social media be a community with shared stakes in its moderation and upkeep, rather than the unit being a single account on one big global soup. People notice when a big swell of bot accounts happens next door, but not when they come from the void.
One step closer to replacing all my teeth with two big long teeth that I can clap together and say "action!"
Research groups around the world are working to find ways to implant or grow real biological teeth in a human jaw. https://cnn.it/4hqFSDp
October 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
One step closer to replacing all my teeth with two big long teeth that I can clap together and say "action!"
Getting so rich you forget what a lamp is
"The company, which won a $1.25 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the U.S. Air Force in May, says its future constellation will deliver light on demand after sunset and before sunrise to paying customers on Earth"
whyyyy
www.space.com/space-explor...
whyyyy
www.space.com/space-explor...
Company's plan to launch 4,000 space mirrors alarms scientists
Reflect Orbital says their light-on-demand idea has generated significant interest from commercial and government customers.
www.space.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Getting so rich you forget what a lamp is
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According to the criminal complaint, the man accused of setting the flames used ChatGPT while calling 911 to ask if you’re at fault if you set a fire with your lit cigarette.
October 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
According to the criminal complaint, the man accused of setting the flames used ChatGPT while calling 911 to ask if you’re at fault if you set a fire with your lit cigarette.
This was the plan. Enclose information access into the oracle prompt, flood the rest of the internet with shit, own the only remaining means of accessing information.
jon-e.net/surveillance...
jon-e.net/surveillance...
![The most obvious power grab from pushing KG-LLMs in place of search is illustrated neatly by a handful of Google researchers in a figure from their “Rethinking Search” paper [184]:
Recreation of Figure 1 from "Rethinking Search: Making Domain Experts out of Dilettantes" from Metzler et al in 2021. Two panels with block diagrams: On left (Retrieve-then-rank), a Query goes to a retrieval service, which bidirectionally connects to an "Index." The index then connects to a "Rank" stage, and finally to "Results." "Retrieve" also connects to "Rank" because some queries can be satisfied by the search engine directly, like eg. Google's factboxes. Everything but the "Index" is enclosed in a box labeled "Search Engine" and Index is within a box labeled "The Internet". On right (Unified retrieve-and-rank), the same diagram with the Index omitted and in its place three question marks indicating the entire internet has been removed from the model. Instead the query goes directly to a "Model" which gives "Results."
That gigantic sucking sound is KG-LLM powered search enclosing the act of accessing information entirely within the search platform. It gives echoes of AMP, Apple News, and Facebook Instant Articles [212, 213], where platforms preferentially serve their own versions of pages (that also happen to contain their own telemetry embedded) combined with the strategy of moving ever more web content into the search results page through eg. factboxes and answer boxes91.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t5atl3zfywjjcsutabwimnk4/bafkreiciskllbvy47oebrdwl7popzge6xxd7br727wwkqmkpsli7u5qedi@jpeg)
October 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This was the plan. Enclose information access into the oracle prompt, flood the rest of the internet with shit, own the only remaining means of accessing information.
jon-e.net/surveillance...
jon-e.net/surveillance...
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
Reposted by jonny "saunders"
Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got
- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
October 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got
- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
Reposted by jonny "saunders"
very interesting what is not allowed these days. in this case, basic archiving of real videos
www.404media.co/apple-banned...
www.404media.co/apple-banned...
Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
www.404media.co
October 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
very interesting what is not allowed these days. in this case, basic archiving of real videos
www.404media.co/apple-banned...
www.404media.co/apple-banned...
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ICE has been arresting asylum-seekers in San Francisco for months now—targeting immigration court & sending people to far-flung detention centers.
It's a constant stream of news. Readers often tune out.
So here's a timeline recapping the most significant events so far.
It's a constant stream of news. Readers often tune out.
So here's a timeline recapping the most significant events so far.
September 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
ICE has been arresting asylum-seekers in San Francisco for months now—targeting immigration court & sending people to far-flung detention centers.
It's a constant stream of news. Readers often tune out.
So here's a timeline recapping the most significant events so far.
It's a constant stream of news. Readers often tune out.
So here's a timeline recapping the most significant events so far.
Appreciate the framing of caution, but having seen vibe coded analysis routines the publication pressures that create them, this is candy flavored poison. The cited paper demonstrates the value of human labor in the training set, and required expert intervention in simply loading 8/12 datasets
With LLMs, researchers can develop software entirely through natural language conversations. This shift is transforming how research gets done, offering new opportunities and new challenges, writes Benjamin Dichter.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
Should neuroscientists ‘vibe code’?
Researchers are developing software entirely through natural language conversations with advanced large language models. The trend is transforming how research gets done—but it also presents new…
www.thetransmitter.org
September 23, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Appreciate the framing of caution, but having seen vibe coded analysis routines the publication pressures that create them, this is candy flavored poison. The cited paper demonstrates the value of human labor in the training set, and required expert intervention in simply loading 8/12 datasets
What's up we co-run a fork of mastodon and the rules governing moderation include explicit consideration of power, context, and position. It says neuro in the domain name but there are as many artists and dropouts as scientists atp.
neuromatch.social
neuromatch.social
neurospace.live
We are a cooperatively-governed instance. Please read our About page for further details.
neuromatch.social
September 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
What's up we co-run a fork of mastodon and the rules governing moderation include explicit consideration of power, context, and position. It says neuro in the domain name but there are as many artists and dropouts as scientists atp.
neuromatch.social
neuromatch.social
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