Nathaniel Harari @natharari@qoto.org
- Website:
- https://neurolog.dev
Let's see: I've lived in 9 US states (Mass, NY, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland, California, Arizona, Vermont) and England, Belgium, France, Israel, and Japan.
I used to be a news photographer in Washington DC during the Clinton years. I've worked for Congressional Quarterly, UPI, Scripps Howard News Service.
Now I live again in Paris.
Joined Jan 2023
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Today, learn how dormant bacteria come back to life.
https://astrobiology.com/2023/04/how-dormant-bacteria-come-back-to-life.html
Scientists revive 48,500 year old virus in a lab
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-revive-48500-year-old-virus-setting-world-record-180981208/
#STEM #science #education #lifesciences #biology #microbiology #academic #academics #lifelonglearning
@jwz Still unsure.
@jwz I'm guessing that's a screenshot from Alien?
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Just realized that ChatGPT's style of utterly confident yet completely unsourced and unbelievable answers have been coming from computers in movies basically forever, and maybe this explains the whole thing:
@ramin_hal9001 I completely agree.
And if we look at all of the states in which all of this bullshit is happening - the rewriting of history, the huge religious zeal which involves guns, the re-writing of voting laws to make it even harder for minorities to vote, the way they are gerrymandering districts to exclude as many minority votes as possible - it's almost all the previous slave states from the south where this is happening.
This isn't a new civil war, it's the same one being fought again.
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They really never learned a single god damned thing about history ever.
You actually could make the argument that Thomas Jefferson was "anti-slavery" in the same way that a manager or a landlord can be anti-capitalist -- opposed to the idea in the abstract but living in violation of your own principles out of comfort/convenience because the law permits you to.
As I understand it, Jefferson apparently is on the record during the constitutional convention saying he thought slavery should be abolished and argued to keep the prohibition in the original constitutional document when it was striken by pro-slavery delegates. But because they couldn't come to a consensus and Jefferson (and the other abolitionists) thought ratifying the new constitution was more important, they kicked the question of slavery down the road.
Jefferson did own slaves, one of whom he treated as a wife after his first wife died -- they slept in the same bed together every night until Jefferson died, they had 4 kids together. He agreed to grant freedom to his two sons in his will. But was this long-term relationship with his slave consensual? Almost certainly not.
But this level of nuance is far beyond the capacity of the average American citizen, as we can see in this interview, and a very different story than what racist shitstains like DeSantis want to indoctrinate children to believe.
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When you post on Twitter(1) or Bluesky(2) you grant them a broad perpetual license to use, modify, and sublicense your content. You effectively make them co-owners of your content. They can mine it and monetize it. They can even sell it. When you post on Mastodon(3) most instances take no license at all. That's right, they tell you what they are doing with your content—storing posts and delivering them—but no license.
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#twittermigration #TermsOf Service #Privacy Policy #ContentLicense
Quanta Magazine: The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI’s Black Boxes
https://www.quantamagazine.org/cynthia-rudin-builds-ai-that-humans-can-understand-20230427/
From BoingBoing: MAGA couple tries to explain why slave-owners were anti-slavery (video)
https://boingboing.net/2023/04/27/maga-couple-tries-to-explain-why-slave-owners-were-anti-slavery-video.html
I just cannot, for the life of me, understand how somebody can become this fucking stupid.
These people are worse than worthless. If they died today, the world would be a better place.
The Public Domain Review: Punctuation Personified (1824)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/punctuation-personified
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One #billionaire owner, twice the #hate #Twitter hate speech surged with #Musk study says
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-04-27/hate-speech-twitter-surged-since-elon-musk-takeover
#oligarchs #fascists
@daphlawless @micahflee Thank you! I didn’t know any of this. I’m about to get some shut-eye for the night but I’ll definitely read it more in depth tomorrow. I appreciate it very much. 👍
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@natharari @micahflee it's bad because Dorsey and Musk are in cahoots. Also, they don't ban Nazis https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1651685098515755010?t=CSGzKdHPMTOusgCIqjqLFA&s=19
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Which one would you use if you want a highly stable desktop device with snapshot capabilities, and why?
Please RT in the #Linux bubble for more reach, I need to make this decision soon and got actually no idea. But having stuff like lsblk, gnome-system-monitor etc. showing it properly would be a bonus. #btrfs #zfs #filesystem #tech #techsupport #sysadmin
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@micahflee I'm seeing a lot of posts saying how bad it is. But I haven't seen any specific critique of what makes blue sky bad. Just wondering if someone can enlighten me on the topic? Genuinely curious as I've only started hearing about it since about two days ago.
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🇰🇷🇺🇦South Korean President announces assistance to Ukraine (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3701760-korean-president-announces-assistance-to-ukraine.html #Ukraine #SouthKorea #NATO #Press #News
#Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
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⚠️🇺🇦Putin signs decree allowing deportation of Ukrainians from temporarily occupied territories (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3701762-putin-signs-decree-allowing-deportation-of-ukrainians-from-temporarily-occupied-territories.html #Ukraine #NATO #Press #News
#Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
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Somehow all the women who credibly accuse Trump of sexual assault are "not his type." https://www.thebulwark.com/after-years-of-waiting-e-jean-carroll-testifies-on-trump-and-trauma/
- Website:
- https://neurolog.dev
Let's see: I've lived in 9 US states (Mass, NY, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland, California, Arizona, Vermont) and England, Belgium, France, Israel, and Japan.
I used to be a news photographer in Washington DC during the Clinton years. I've worked for Congressional Quarterly, UPI, Scripps Howard News Service.
Now I live again in Paris.
Joined Jan 2023
