B.J. Bloom

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Data science for the public good. Optimizing my science fiction reading list. Mostly R, R Shiny, and SQL, with a little bit of bad python sprinkled in.

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Kid has decided his Lego town needs a college, so he started with a graduate student lab, where everything is on fire and people are crying.

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Declaring people to be vermin, enemies of the state, or un-human is the sort of language people adopt before they pursue a genocide.

“We will hold investigations to identify the neo-cultural Marxists in seats of power all across Washington,” Posobiec said. “We don’t negotiate with un-humans. Because that’s the stakes of this battle: humanity versus un-humanity.” inthesetimes.com/article/nati...

Onward, Christian Soldiers—To War!inthesetimes.com At this year’s National Conservatism Conference, a right-wing army prepares to rise.

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It was a common euphemism for Jews who marched with MLK and others

The official 2024 GOP platform makes a reference to "Christian-hating Communists" who the Republicans will keep from entering the country. Back in the early days of the America First movement, "Christian-hating Communists" would have just been a longer way of saying "Jews."

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Any Democrat in these states who doesn’t lean on this hard shouldn’t be in office. It’s a gift.

The opting out is especially wild Like, Republican governors are being actively presented with money to feed kids and affirmatively saying 'I would like children to starve actually' (Also, if I'm a Dem campaigner, I'm making some ads and placing some op eds about this immediately)

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The thing that's obvious to everyone and that nobody can actually write in the press is that the American (and yes, I'm sure elsewhere too) right wing is led by bad people and the object is to make more people extremely bad in basically every respect. It's anti-society

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Imagine being the cto of openai and saying out loud that producing low quality content means you shouldn't have a job and thinking that for some reason doesn't apply to your job working at the giant machine that produces vast amounts of overwhelmingly very low quality content company

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati: “Some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place if the content that comes out of it is not very high quality.”

Roundup: OpenAI says some artistic jobs shouldn’t existdisconnect.blog Read to the end for a good overview of failing social media platforms

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the planet is on fire and people can’t afford air conditioning, surely this is the time to come up with a technology nobody asked for and nobody wants then dedicate all the electricity to maintaining it

New AI data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals. Read The Big Take ⬇️

AI Is Wreaking Havoc on Global Power Systemswww.bloomberg.com New artificial intelligence data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals.

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The central joke in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a race of dipshits building a planet-sized computer to answer the question of "life, the universe, and everything" and then a million years later it says the answer is 42, and somehow that has taken on a William Gibson level of prescience

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please sign my petition to post the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition on the wall of every Louisiana classroom

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Spiritual, by Charles White, 1941, 📸 by Frank Hurley

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Oh, you're experiencing a structural problem? Have you ever considered trying different personal choices instead?

The first rule of avoiding scam calls is to never answer unknown numbers, and even some known ones. Curious? Bored? Worried it’s an emergency? Wait the extra minute it takes for the call to go to voice mail, then decide if it’s legitimate.

Sick of scams? Stop answering your phone.www.washingtonpost.com Phone scams are still hugely popular — and they depend entirely on people curious enough to answer.

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sam alito in tuxedo gets recorded incognito

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they came for Dolly. we ride at dawn.

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It’s June 4, 2024, and today is the 50th anniversary of one of the most important days in Cleveland history. TEN CENT BEER NIGHT. If you don’t know about Ten Cent Beer Night, please please please read this. This is my first thread. It will be long, but it will absolutely 100% be worth it.

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loading the washing machine and thinking "WET THE DRYS", loading the dryer an hour later and thinking "DRY THE WETS"

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HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Reminder that now, as our voices are being silenced, it is more important than ever to read and share queer and especially trans stories. Here's a thread of trans authors, many of them indie, sharing their writings. Please consider supporting AND READING as many as you can.

On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

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first it was the whole eight glasses of water thing and now I’m apparently way behind on my daily felonies

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My contribution to the discourse

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this has to be the least compelling pitch of all time

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here’s an advance copy of the ethics code

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it's adopting an ethics code as the justices face criticism over undisclosed travel and gifts.

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@NBCNews: Social media has been buzzing with examples of Google’s new, “experimental” AI tool going awry. A Google spokesperson said the company believes users are deliberately attempting to trip up the technology with uncommon questions. https://t.co/Wj9iuKzzHk

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People really don't understand that if the ACA/Obamacare goes away, insurance companies are going to immediately decide that having COVID, ever, was a pre-existing condition for a massive list of chronic conditions and deny everything.

It used to be, if you got diagnosed with something, then lost your insurance, you couldn't be insured again. "Pre-existing conditions." I'm glad folks don't remember. I'm glad this is ancient history. But there's a *reason* it was a big deal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-exi...

Pre-existing condition - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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Kind of incredible how easy it is to identify what he means by each of these

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I have extremely grim news for you.

I hate to reference Idiocracy at this point but it does feel like we've reached the "watering crops with Gatorade" threshold

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It's amazing we went from “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” to "Let our dumb as shit wrong answer machines help you fail your homework and learn nothing for the zero effort" in just fifty years.

I regret to tell the NBA TV producers that mic’ing up the players literally adds nothing to the broadcast. Though I guess at least it’s not doing active harm unlike the constant in-game promotion of sports gambling.

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One of the toughest problems Microsoft has to solve is that Windows has to serve two very different types of users: business users who don't want this at all, and home users who don't want this at all.

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I didn’t know half this stuff

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[hospital] SURGEON: [lowers mask] I'm sorry, we were unable to separate the art from the artist ME: are they S: yes, they’re still an asshole