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hey boss if this AI is gonna speed up my work so much can I get a six hour day for eight hours pay? feels like that'd really help a lotta peopl -- boss? you still there? boss?

maybe my gender is like zelda im a princess most of the time but I turn into sheik to help out boys. I haven't played oot

My painting WINTER SUNRISE

One of 20 full length painting videos in The Landscape Painting Studio. Learn to paint stunning landscapes using my easy to follow techniques.

i have 9 days before my religion final is due what if i completely pivoted and wrote a paper on ai companionship from a religious studies perspective

People like romance because romance requires craft like every other form of writing

A picture of a frog on a leaf with the SICB and Skype a Scientist logos on the bottom right with the following words on top: "Call for Artists!" Learn about the latest animal research adn create art inspired by the science at the SICB meeting in Portland, OR. Deadline to apply: dec 12, Project dates Jan 3-7, Stipend $1000"

ARTISTS!
I need your help!

In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.

Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

need a shirt that says “i ❤️ affect theory”

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Is the universe conscious? Philip Pullman thinks so… It’s fun to entertain the possibility of panpsychism – that all the physical things around you have some level of experience. But that doesn’t mean it’s how reality works

Is matter conscious? app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/144378...

Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms: A Decolonized Model of Humanitarian Aid As war rages in Sudan, where the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in a brutal conflict since April 2023, a remarkable grassroots movement…

Y’all, a friend of mine helped create the Free Sudan Gazette and I highly recommend checking it out

freesudangazette.com/2025/10/21/s...

Eliezer Yudkowsky's Long History of Bad Ideas Two days ago, Truthdig published my review of Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares’ book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Please read and share it, if you have the time.

In case you missed it, here's my most recent newsletter article -- on Eliezer Yudkowsky's very long history of defending incredibly dumb ideas. Why anyone takes this guy seriously will forever be mysterious to me. www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/eliezer-yu...

A young white woman dressed in fashions from the late 1870s walks through a forest. She is dressed in black boots, a black dress, and a black hat. The leaves of a chestnut tree are yellow. She is smiling a bit flirtatiously at the viewer.

Gallery sign for painting. I'm only including the English information and using Canadian English spelling. James Tissot Nantes 1836--Buillon, France, 1902 October 1877 Oil on canvas Gift of Lord Strathcona and family, inv. 1927.410 Mrs. Newton was twenty-two years old, the mother of two illegitimate children when James Tissot met her; she was also a beautiful divorcee. Theirs would have been a perfect happiness had tuberculosis not claimed the life of the painter's graceful and notorious muse, leaving him inconsolable. One of the largest works by this artist, October exemplifies the social behaviour and fleeting fashion of its time. Elegantly corseted, Mrs. Newton turns towards the viewer, a touch flirtatiously, showing a well-turned ankle in the rustle of lace petticoats, her boot treading a carpet of autumn leaves. Dressed in black in this season of decline, she shines with the glow of her last fire. Signs of Japonisme here are the verticality inspired by kakemono scrolls and the tumultuous background of chestnut trees, through whose leaves and branches can just be made out a small group of deer.

One of my favorite pieces of art in the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. It's so appropriately autumnal and the colors of the chestnut leaves are so beautiful.

i vaguely remember a similar set of questions from a survey that i did a few years back from College Pulse, so perhaps these statistics might be from there?

The Libby app is one of the miracles of modern tech tbh

My painting SEDONA TRAIL

A First Look at Labor’s AI Values: An analysis of recent statements about technology by unions and other worker organizations A first look at labor’s vision of what the future of AI and digital technologies should look like.

A First Look at Labor’s AI Values: An analysis of recent statements about technology by unions and other worker organizations

laborcenter.berkeley.edu/a-first-look...

How Do Restrictions on High-Skilled Immigration Affect Offshoring? Evidence from the H-1B Program Britta Glennon WORKING PAPER 27538 DOI 10.3386/w27538 ISSUE DATE July 2020 REVISION DATE February 2023 Highly-skilled workers are not only a crucial and relatively scarce inputs into firms' productive and innovative processes, but are also a critical resource determining competitive advantage. An increasingly high proportion of these workers in the US were born abroad and permitted to work on skilled worker visas. How do multinational firms respond when artificial constraints, namely policies restricting skilled immigration, are placed on their ability to hire scarce human capital? This paper combines visa microdata and comprehensive data on US multinational firm activity to demonstrate that firms respond to restrictions on H-1B immigration by increasing foreign affiliate employment at the intensive and extensive margins, particularly in China, India, and Canada. The most impacted jobs were R&D-intensive ones, but there is some evidence that non-R&D employment was also affected. The paper highlights a means by which firms can circumvent constraining policies and mitigate country-level risk, but it also suggests that, for the average MNC, this means is imperfect; for every visa rejection, they hire 0.4 employees abroad. The most globalized MNCs are the most likely to respond to these restrictions by offshoring, highlighting that firm capabilities—in the form of prior internationalization-shape the decision and ability to offshore in response to skilled immigration restrictions; indeed, these firms hire 0.9 employees abroad for every visa rejection. More broadly, the paper provides evidence of a push factor for internationalizing knowledge activity: artificial constraints on resources result in firms circumventing restrictive policies in ways that may not be anticipated by policy makers.

Restricting visas doesn’t lead to hiring non-immigrants—it leads to hiring foreigners. For every H-1B visa rejection, multinationals add ~0.4–0.9 foreign employees, especially in R&D hubs like India, China, and Canada.

via @florianederer.bsky.social

Trump loves ICE. Its Workforce Has Never Been So Miserable. A “mission impossible” deportation campaign has left many employees burned out and morally conflicted.

NEW: I spoke to a dozen current and formers about low morale at ICE amid the Trump admin's relentless push for more and more arrests. Officers and agents aren't complaining or looking for sympathy but they're facing public anger & political pressure from above www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreesen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI Tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen in a private group chat attacked colleges for promoting diversity, saying they had discriminated against “native born kids.”

Universities, whatever their faults, are one of America's most successful products. A massive exporter, they generate innovation and middle class jobs in places where people like Marc Andreessen never visit.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Jeffrey Epstein, Trumpcare, And The Influencer Problem What if the people Democrats want to reach aren't terribly interested in policy per se?

Let's examine the tension between a) the Democratic Party’s desire to contest elections on safe ground like health policy and b) the new consensus that reaching marginal voters requires engaging the online influencers and pop-culture figures those voters admire. www.offmessage.net/p/jeffrey-ep...

‘Virtue Signaling’ Isn’t the Problem. Not Believing One Another Is. (Published 2017)

www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/m...

My painting NORTHERN ENGLAND

it only took three oxford terms but i now know what ontological means without looking it up

Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article) Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

A really effective visualization of the scope of medical research grants that have been cancelled by the Trump administration from @irenatfh.bsky.social et al.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner.

Colorful clouds of gas and dust crowd the image. Deep red and orange clouds surround the image's edges, with some violet in the upper left portion. Near the left middle, a region of teal and yellow shines.

A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright.

A colorful, glowing nebula that reaches beyond the top and bottom of the image. This translucent cloud of gas holds wispy and thin filaments with hard edges in some places, and puffy and opaque in others. Blue, red, and yellow colors mix together, showing light emitted by different types of atoms in the hot gas. Scattered across the colorful nebula are bright and point-like foreground and background stars. The background is black.

the universe wishes you a very happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈🌌

Cover of Histories of Science: Natural Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, which features poppy in three stages of flowering (Johanna Helena Harolt) alongside an eighteenth-century illustration of vials from Two Glass Containers for Scientific Experiments with Liquids (1666).

Thrilled to share that *Histories of Science* is finally out in the world! Dave and I are so grateful to @uvapress.bsky.social and have been honored to work with such brilliant contributors @tobiasmenely.bsky.social @aaronrhanlon.com @qu1x0tical.bsky.social

4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel

4 artists & 3 scientists created a series of posters to communicate some of the science issues most important to us.

These posters are made to be shared!

We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online.

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