Luca Ongaro
@lucaongaro.bsky.social
Engineer, open-source software contributor, science enthusiast.
Best CLI typo of today: `git stash poop`
February 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Best CLI typo of today: `git stash poop`
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Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
January 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
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Removing any doubt that protecting free speech was ever the point.
However: there never should have been any such doubt. Free speech is an important (if nuanced) value, but it's too easy to let it be hijacked by bad actors. It's wrong to abandon it, and it's wrong to let it be misappropriated.
However: there never should have been any such doubt. Free speech is an important (if nuanced) value, but it's too easy to let it be hijacked by bad actors. It's wrong to abandon it, and it's wrong to let it be misappropriated.
New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill"
www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes
Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.
www.404media.co
January 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Removing any doubt that protecting free speech was ever the point.
However: there never should have been any such doubt. Free speech is an important (if nuanced) value, but it's too easy to let it be hijacked by bad actors. It's wrong to abandon it, and it's wrong to let it be misappropriated.
However: there never should have been any such doubt. Free speech is an important (if nuanced) value, but it's too easy to let it be hijacked by bad actors. It's wrong to abandon it, and it's wrong to let it be misappropriated.
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Cecilia Sala è stata liberata: in questo momento si trova su un volo per l'Italia
ilpost.link/oY12edEEIQ
ilpost.link/oY12edEEIQ
È stata liberata Cecilia Sala - Il Post
In questo momento si trova su un volo per l'Italia
ilpost.link
January 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Cecilia Sala è stata liberata: in questo momento si trova su un volo per l'Italia
ilpost.link/oY12edEEIQ
ilpost.link/oY12edEEIQ
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It’s a remarkable arc for a company to go in 25 years from revolutionizing search by using PageRank to prioritize results from influential and trusted sites, to grabbing any old random bullshit from other scammers and offering that up as a search result.
January 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It’s a remarkable arc for a company to go in 25 years from revolutionizing search by using PageRank to prioritize results from influential and trusted sites, to grabbing any old random bullshit from other scammers and offering that up as a search result.
My dishwasher: “Are you still pressing physical buttons on your dishwasher?!? Wake up dude! It’s way easier to pull out your phone, open the app, wait for it to load, navigate to your dishwasher, close the ads, then press a representation of the same button on a touchscreen!”
December 22, 2024 at 5:11 PM
My dishwasher: “Are you still pressing physical buttons on your dishwasher?!? Wake up dude! It’s way easier to pull out your phone, open the app, wait for it to load, navigate to your dishwasher, close the ads, then press a representation of the same button on a touchscreen!”
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December 4, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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AI folks have now discovered “thinking”
July 29, 2024 at 9:43 PM
AI folks have now discovered “thinking”
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The people who complain about class warfare won the war - the richest 400 Americans now pay the same effective tax rate as the poorest half of America. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
May 3, 2024 at 11:25 PM
The people who complain about class warfare won the war - the richest 400 Americans now pay the same effective tax rate as the poorest half of America. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination gizmodo.com/google-searc...
Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination
Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.
gizmodo.com
May 25, 2024 at 6:39 AM
Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination gizmodo.com/google-searc...
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Just absurd. Like a committee of mosquitoes charged with keeping us safe from insect bites.
The US’s new AI Safety board. There are other names, but mostly tech CEOs.
The US’s new AI Safety board. There are other names, but mostly tech CEOs.
May 26, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Just absurd. Like a committee of mosquitoes charged with keeping us safe from insect bites.
The US’s new AI Safety board. There are other names, but mostly tech CEOs.
The US’s new AI Safety board. There are other names, but mostly tech CEOs.
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From LinkedIn; it’s what we’ve all been thinking. No strategy, just a panic to be first to market. For a product category next-to-no end user even wants!
May 25, 2024 at 10:18 PM
From LinkedIn; it’s what we’ve all been thinking. No strategy, just a panic to be first to market. For a product category next-to-no end user even wants!
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The Google AI isn’t hallucinating about glue in pizza, it’s just over indexing an 11 year old Reddit post by a dude named fucksmith.
May 23, 2024 at 4:15 AM
The Google AI isn’t hallucinating about glue in pizza, it’s just over indexing an 11 year old Reddit post by a dude named fucksmith.
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Wikipedia is legitimately a wonder of the modern world. Its accuracy is incredible considering it is effectively self policed, and is one of the reminders that the human race can, sometimes, have and keep nice things. (1/2)
We joke about Wikipedia in the science world, but in all seriousness, it is an ABSOLUTE WONDER of the internet and an incredible free place to answer so many questions and start research into deeper subjects. We’re incredibly lucky to have it and the folks who do that work are amazing.
Regular reminder that Musk is really dumb.
May 12, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Wikipedia is legitimately a wonder of the modern world. Its accuracy is incredible considering it is effectively self policed, and is one of the reminders that the human race can, sometimes, have and keep nice things. (1/2)
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According to the logic of transphobes I believe this means we need to immediately outlaw children
April 22, 2024 at 2:40 PM
According to the logic of transphobes I believe this means we need to immediately outlaw children
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Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (Darwin) College Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the Spectator libido section.
April 18, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (Darwin) College Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the Spectator libido section.
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We accidentally hit three specific cars spread out along 2.4 kilometers of road
“Unintentional” in the sense of “on purpose, deliberately, with clear intent.”
April 3, 2024 at 12:37 AM
We accidentally hit three specific cars spread out along 2.4 kilometers of road
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"When associations are found, they suggest not that social-media use predicts or causes depression, but that young people who already have mental-health problems use such platforms more often or in different ways from their healthy peers."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes. The evidence is equ...
www.nature.com
March 30, 2024 at 2:41 PM
"When associations are found, they suggest not that social-media use predicts or causes depression, but that young people who already have mental-health problems use such platforms more often or in different ways from their healthy peers."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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I wish I could post video over here, because this new animation of Betelgeuse is just spectacular. There is a seething cauldron of red-hot gas in the shoulder of Orion.
(Blade Runner almost got it right.)
Video & info at link:
www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/1094283/hl20... 🧪
(Blade Runner almost got it right.)
Video & info at link:
www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/1094283/hl20... 🧪
March 14, 2024 at 3:15 AM
I wish I could post video over here, because this new animation of Betelgeuse is just spectacular. There is a seething cauldron of red-hot gas in the shoulder of Orion.
(Blade Runner almost got it right.)
Video & info at link:
www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/1094283/hl20... 🧪
(Blade Runner almost got it right.)
Video & info at link:
www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/1094283/hl20... 🧪
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‘the free market will protect air travel’ is an incredible take while 737s are popping like zits in the name of maximizing shareholder returns
March 12, 2024 at 12:12 PM
‘the free market will protect air travel’ is an incredible take while 737s are popping like zits in the name of maximizing shareholder returns
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"There were certainly things we could’ve done to test it and actually fire it. They would’ve been very time-consuming and very costly,” Mike Hansen, the company’s head of navigation systems, told Reuters in an interview on Saturday.
What a goddamned waste.
What a goddamned waste.
the odysseus moon lander's mission will be cut short. it landed sideways because the company operating it skipped, on purpose, an expensive preflight check on the pad
Moon lander Odysseus mission to be cut short after sideways touchdown
Engineers on Earth expect to lose radio contact with the private U.S. moon lander Odysseus on Tuesday, effectively cutting short the mission five days after its sideways touchdown, the company behind the spacecraft, Intuitive Machines , said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
February 27, 2024 at 3:32 AM
"There were certainly things we could’ve done to test it and actually fire it. They would’ve been very time-consuming and very costly,” Mike Hansen, the company’s head of navigation systems, told Reuters in an interview on Saturday.
What a goddamned waste.
What a goddamned waste.
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the first image is my post about Flaco the owl. the second is about 8 replies deep in the same thread.
February 24, 2024 at 6:52 PM
the first image is my post about Flaco the owl. the second is about 8 replies deep in the same thread.
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Great news for physics and astronomy: Europe gives the go-ahead for LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission. We’re headed for a deluge of gravitational wave data that will reveal a lot about how gravity works.
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
January 25, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Great news for physics and astronomy: Europe gives the go-ahead for LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission. We’re headed for a deluge of gravitational wave data that will reveal a lot about how gravity works.
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...