Alex
@vicarofcletus.bsky.social
Shoots lasers at worms. Should probably be writing. he/him
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When learning something, one of the most important resources is a person who will tell you "no, you are wrong, you are not making sense, what you are saying is meaningless," to keep you from going further and further wrong without knowing it.
Chatgpt tells you what you want to hear.
Chatgpt tells you what you want to hear.
May 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
When learning something, one of the most important resources is a person who will tell you "no, you are wrong, you are not making sense, what you are saying is meaningless," to keep you from going further and further wrong without knowing it.
Chatgpt tells you what you want to hear.
Chatgpt tells you what you want to hear.
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April 13, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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This goes very fast in the clip but an important thing here:
Azaria admits that he was not a hero, he didn't just come to this spontaneously. He had to be dragged to it.
Critical feedback matters, and it doesn't always land quick.
Azaria admits that he was not a hero, he didn't just come to this spontaneously. He had to be dragged to it.
Critical feedback matters, and it doesn't always land quick.
While civil society falls apart, @hankazaria.bsky.social's explanation for why he ultimately decided to stop voicing Apu on The Simpsons is a case study more people need to hear.
The full YT episode is both very funny and worth your time: youtu.be/9rnyMXm1ThQ?...
The full YT episode is both very funny and worth your time: youtu.be/9rnyMXm1ThQ?...
April 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This goes very fast in the clip but an important thing here:
Azaria admits that he was not a hero, he didn't just come to this spontaneously. He had to be dragged to it.
Critical feedback matters, and it doesn't always land quick.
Azaria admits that he was not a hero, he didn't just come to this spontaneously. He had to be dragged to it.
Critical feedback matters, and it doesn't always land quick.
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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this ‘jurassic park’ story 😭
March 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
this ‘jurassic park’ story 😭
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Roses are red,
Elon's a knob,
Elon's a knob,
February 15, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Roses are red,
Elon's a knob,
Elon's a knob,
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I love that one method of simple sabotage is being Colin Robinson
February 4, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I love that one method of simple sabotage is being Colin Robinson
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I truly--grimly, angrily, unproductively, but truly--look forward to the NSF nuking the vast majority of ML/'AI' research proposals because they talk about bias-variance tradeoffs or some shit
So. There are a number of issues with this list of words that can now get a scientific grant application spiked at the National Science Foundation. And one is because the word “bias”, in all of its forms, is often used in the text of work that employs statistical methodology, especially Epi.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I truly--grimly, angrily, unproductively, but truly--look forward to the NSF nuking the vast majority of ML/'AI' research proposals because they talk about bias-variance tradeoffs or some shit
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We can and should talk about mainstream medical associations/lobby groups being problematic (because they are) but this is the kind of thing I mean when I talk about entities who are able to take on legal risk have a moral and ethical obligation to do so
The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC
This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now
#MedSky
www.acog.org/clinical/cli...
This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now
#MedSky
www.acog.org/clinical/cli...
ACOG Endorsed
The following documents have ACOG’s endorsement and are listed in order of endorsed date.
www.acog.org
February 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
We can and should talk about mainstream medical associations/lobby groups being problematic (because they are) but this is the kind of thing I mean when I talk about entities who are able to take on legal risk have a moral and ethical obligation to do so
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GEORGE LUCAS IN 1999: a trade embargo is going to spark the galactic reckoning and collapse
ME IN 2025: ah, okay
ME IN 2025: ah, okay
January 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
GEORGE LUCAS IN 1999: a trade embargo is going to spark the galactic reckoning and collapse
ME IN 2025: ah, okay
ME IN 2025: ah, okay
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Straight white dudes: “I just don’t feel valued, appreciated, seen, and respected. I don’t see a lot of opportunities. And I don’t get to say what I really want to say.”
Women, people of color, LGBTQs: “Welcome to the party, bitches.”
Women, people of color, LGBTQs: “Welcome to the party, bitches.”
January 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Straight white dudes: “I just don’t feel valued, appreciated, seen, and respected. I don’t see a lot of opportunities. And I don’t get to say what I really want to say.”
Women, people of color, LGBTQs: “Welcome to the party, bitches.”
Women, people of color, LGBTQs: “Welcome to the party, bitches.”
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I don’t care if you’re a relative, a fantasy novelist, or an elected official, transphobia is manufactured outrage and transphobe are trash.
None of America’s problems are cause by trans people. None.
But a LOT are caused by bigots.
None of America’s problems are cause by trans people. None.
But a LOT are caused by bigots.
January 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I don’t care if you’re a relative, a fantasy novelist, or an elected official, transphobia is manufactured outrage and transphobe are trash.
None of America’s problems are cause by trans people. None.
But a LOT are caused by bigots.
None of America’s problems are cause by trans people. None.
But a LOT are caused by bigots.
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You won't believe this. My team and I make this show called SciShow that works hard to be rigorous and accurate while also being appealing and entertaining.
We reach a LOT of people every year with episodes about crabs and neutrinos and gender and cancer and vaccines.
It's great, I love it.
We reach a LOT of people every year with episodes about crabs and neutrinos and gender and cancer and vaccines.
It's great, I love it.
January 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
You won't believe this. My team and I make this show called SciShow that works hard to be rigorous and accurate while also being appealing and entertaining.
We reach a LOT of people every year with episodes about crabs and neutrinos and gender and cancer and vaccines.
It's great, I love it.
We reach a LOT of people every year with episodes about crabs and neutrinos and gender and cancer and vaccines.
It's great, I love it.
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a very klingon festivus
December 22, 2024 at 9:40 PM
a very klingon festivus
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If you never shoot for the moon, how can you hope to ever destroy it?
November 30, 2024 at 5:04 PM
If you never shoot for the moon, how can you hope to ever destroy it?
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Always repost
November 30, 2024 at 8:58 AM
Always repost
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I was just talking to my daughter about how Black Friday sales and fake scarcity are just attempts to hijack psychology for profit and she was like, "But you have a Black Friday sale," BUT THAT'S DIFFERENT ALICE BECAUSE WE ACTUALLY HAVE A LIMITED NUMBER OF GOODS ITS ALL GOING FAST good.store
November 30, 2024 at 6:37 PM
I was just talking to my daughter about how Black Friday sales and fake scarcity are just attempts to hijack psychology for profit and she was like, "But you have a Black Friday sale," BUT THAT'S DIFFERENT ALICE BECAUSE WE ACTUALLY HAVE A LIMITED NUMBER OF GOODS ITS ALL GOING FAST good.store
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Tired: praising SpaceX launches like it's new. We get it, they make good rockets, and successfully launch and return them. Golf claps.
Wired: giving Gwynne Shotwell more in-depth credit for SpaceX's success.
Desired: holding SpaceX accountable (see environment impacts, unions, Govt. contracts)
Wired: giving Gwynne Shotwell more in-depth credit for SpaceX's success.
Desired: holding SpaceX accountable (see environment impacts, unions, Govt. contracts)
November 19, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Tired: praising SpaceX launches like it's new. We get it, they make good rockets, and successfully launch and return them. Golf claps.
Wired: giving Gwynne Shotwell more in-depth credit for SpaceX's success.
Desired: holding SpaceX accountable (see environment impacts, unions, Govt. contracts)
Wired: giving Gwynne Shotwell more in-depth credit for SpaceX's success.
Desired: holding SpaceX accountable (see environment impacts, unions, Govt. contracts)
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Going for a run and eating a box of cookies are both self care. Just don’t do them both at the same time because choking hazard which is a whole different thread.
November 19, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Going for a run and eating a box of cookies are both self care. Just don’t do them both at the same time because choking hazard which is a whole different thread.
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Girlfriend caught me addressing the troops.
November 19, 2024 at 11:07 PM
Girlfriend caught me addressing the troops.
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Doing it on Hard Mode, in fact
November 19, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Doing it on Hard Mode, in fact
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I don’t need to go on social media to have my worldview challenged I am in theoretical physics I have a new existential crisis daily
November 18, 2024 at 11:43 PM
I don’t need to go on social media to have my worldview challenged I am in theoretical physics I have a new existential crisis daily
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Heisenberg, Schroedinger & Ohm are driving down a highway. A cop pulls them over, turns to Heisenberg & says "Do you know how fast you were going?"
Heisenberg says "No but I know exactly where I am"
"You were going 108 mph!" Says the cop
Heisenberg throws up his hands, "Great! Now we're lost!"
Heisenberg says "No but I know exactly where I am"
"You were going 108 mph!" Says the cop
Heisenberg throws up his hands, "Great! Now we're lost!"
November 18, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Heisenberg, Schroedinger & Ohm are driving down a highway. A cop pulls them over, turns to Heisenberg & says "Do you know how fast you were going?"
Heisenberg says "No but I know exactly where I am"
"You were going 108 mph!" Says the cop
Heisenberg throws up his hands, "Great! Now we're lost!"
Heisenberg says "No but I know exactly where I am"
"You were going 108 mph!" Says the cop
Heisenberg throws up his hands, "Great! Now we're lost!"