So… I've been writing for about 18 years on the idea that if you somehow manage to make meaningfully conscious machine minds & then you treat them as tools, then you're enslaving those minds, and that's pretty messed up. And this ties into something else I've re-upped recently: LLMs can't say "No."
TIL Mark Hamill was the scientist in my favourite movie!
Thank you @markhamillofficial.bsky.social!
Can't go to war crime prison if you nuke the Hague.
Especially Dr. Seuss!
We need to be building a grid for the 21st century. Mechanical gas peaker plants, which requires ~10 minutes to respond to a grid crisis, cannot complete with electronic, grid-scale battery energy storage which responds almost instantly. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.utilitydive.com/news/the-phy...
Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night.
This is a press freedom issue.
Here’s what happened:
Right wing propaganda works...
If we're talking about the same person, I don't think Nassim Taleb was buddies with Epstein, but maybe there's something I missed?
There's a section in Skin in the Game where NNT said that if people had to put money on the line, their bets would be better. Which, well, we know is empirically false.
Most efficient mode of transportation is falling. It is just not very desirable.
All copies of Taleb's "Skin in the Game" immediately combust!
On the other hand... if we can encourage those people to make bets they can't afford if they lose and then they lose all their money, it will help clean up the pool of betters.
Is this a good thing?
This story is nuts
The journal ‘Pediatrics and Child health’ has been published an article type, for case reports, that are made up and fictional without having any clear notice 😱
retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...
I’ve unmasked a white nationalist fight club in my city: Montreal.
After weeks of work (with help!), I can reveal an Olympian as a member of the Frontenac Active Club — one who, unbeknownst to the owners, brought them to a local gym for training and propaganda photos.
Here’s my investigation:
And even if we take the full length of data (for those of you who think this is cherry picked), there's still a _significant_ increase in the slope after some weird event happened in 2020. I wonder what that could be?
It will last a few years before it gets repealed. Permanent DST is really hard on the human circadian system. They needed to stick to permanent standard time.
That's a good position statement:
"Specifically, maintaining optimal sleep and optimal alignment of the human circadian clock with daytime activities is achieved with ST."
Not only will it likely be repealed, but it will also deep-six a petition to adopt Permanent Standard Time for another generation.
It is Joe Biden's fault the Republicans are doing bad things.
I've used a lot of different panniers, but my go-to is always the Ortleibs.
What do you think the odds are that, in a few month's time, Block will suffer some catastrophic program failure?
Is UoT's Prof. Siegel on BSky?
Interestingly, if there's a huge spike in bets, it could be used to predict impending catastrophes.
I've played enough Halo to recognize a Halo Ring when I see one!
This is the message Mark Carney should have written, not some realpolitik pablum.
If you stand for nothing, you have no values.
Chickenhawks need to have skin in the game.
How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States.
snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...
"They said students are more sociable, bullying has significantly decreased, and the change can even be seen in school hallways."
A lesson for adults, too?
yle.fi/a/74-20212749
It's seasonal, it can happen any season ;)
What accounts for the progression from healthy aging to Alzheimer's disease over an extended period of time?
The critical role of the immune system, particularly T cells and microglia.
A new, excellent review
www.cell.com/immunity/abs...
