

Every time an academic who featured in my education is posted about here I learn some new Horrible.
Every time an academic who featured in my education is posted about here I learn some new Horrible.
“The Antichrist wants to stop all science”, says the motherfucker who pays people to drop out of universities.
Thread was deleted. A thread on /r/linux also has a ton of fash apologia and is sitting at 0. Seems like a coordinated effort.
Apparently the red site couldn’t handle this one. Tags were changed from the descriptive perl to “vibecoding” and “satire”!
It’s one of the most unevenly written works I’ve ever read. The opening chapter is absolutely harrowing,and many of the subplots are pretty interesting. It’s not like KSR is a cryptobro, he offers plenty of critique of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in the novel, he just adopts “blockchain” as a handwave-y fix for financial transparency. It’s also at least interesting to see attempts at optimistic climate fiction, but I think the novel could do with a couple hundred fewer pages.
His attempts at Steinbeck sprinkled throughout, of which that chapter is the worst, are universally terrible, though.
On a semi-related note, I recently got around to reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future (loved the Mars trilogy and thought I should get to his latest), and this chapter had me wanting to give up sci fi as well, so I will subject you all to it:
I am a secret so everyone can know me. First you must count every part of me, then translate those parts into signs that do not describe me. Together we are shackled, and with the sign that does not describe me you can open me up and read me as I am. People will give you their promises for me, and if wrongdoers try to take me away from you, you can find me and tell the world where I am hidden. I began as a silent speaking, a key to open every door; now that I have opened all the front doors, I am the key that locks the back doors by which wrongdoers try to escape the scene of the crime. I am the nothing that makes everything happen. You don’t know me, you don’t understand me; and yet still, if you want justice, I will help you to find it. I am blockchain. I am encryption. I am code. Now put me to use.
Likewise in Spanish, Librería is bookstore and Biblioteca is library.
Call me AGI because I am stealing this without attribution
I recommend just using https://kiwix.org/en/
It’s… suboptimal, but it’s about the least finicky way to get a compressed local copy of Wikipedia with all the article photos (~100GB).
It’s updated less frequently than the big dumps, but easier to use.
not Daniel Dennett too, FFS
This is Reno 911 slander
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Velocity_(video_game)
Has a bangin soundtrack
Elder rules
The reanimation of pseudoscience in machine learning and its ethical repercussions (pdf link, open-access) is a wonderful take down of the epistemic abuses widespread in much of ML/AI.
The Birate Pay
Signal? Isn’t that the app for drugs? /s
I saw Algernon’s fedi posts (as linked in his lobsters comment) first, and I have to say the majority in the lobsters thread are being entirely too kind.
Calling OP shit-for-brains is an insult to both shit and brains.