Dr. Stephanie

I wanted to be a marine biologist since I was five years old. I paid my way to getting a PhD in it (neuroscience of marine animals) by fixing computers.

It turns out when you’re a biologist who also understands computers, they call it bioinformatics. No boats, though, which is really a fucker.

My partner and his dad are both loud sneezers. Imagine someone screaming “achoo!” and that’s them. They *swear* it’s not a bit.

And he didn’t need to be on Breed’s Hill. He volunteered - and not just volunteered, threatened to resign his commission as a major general and serve as a private because he wanted to be where the fighting was thickest.

The British knew what he looked like, and he *knew* they’d be aiming for him.

Some of these they’re SO underselling.

Take Dr. Joseph Warren. He was one of the foremost writers and orators - and spymasters! - of the early Revolution. He sent Paul Revere. He ran the Boston Committee of Safety. He was *loathed* by the Brits. His writings are still moving 250 years later.

Yeah, I heard the same - it’s close but not quite. There’s a set of markers you can follow (ask me how I know), and the first one in MA is in Alford, ~15 minutes south of the pike itself.

I’m watching other people post about watching the American Revolutionary War documentary, and whoooooo damn do I always forget how much more of this history I know just because I’m from Massachusetts. That’s not bragging - it’s not a big state, there’s just only so many places for field trips.

An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart Aidan Toner-Rodgers shot to academic fame in a field hungry for new insights and revelatory research. But a computer scientist thought something seemed off.

“What has stunned his former colleagues and mentors is the sheer breadth of his apparent deception. He didn’t just tweak a few variables. It appears he invented the entire study… the paper was cited in congressional testimony. Weeks later, the science journal Nature highlighted it.”

since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.

I agree with you - I find this patronizing.

EXACTLY.

The “smart features” that malwarebytes and others pointed to *were* turned on - they were opt out, not opt in, which already contradicts part of this correction. We only have google’s word for it that they’re not using that data for more than ad targeting. (We know they’ve done that for years.)

I’m seeing a lot of people now saying “haha, I knew this story was bullshit”, to which I say:

1) if you did, why don’t you say so then?

and 2) it wouldn’t be the first time google had opted everyone in to new AI “features” with no warning, so how exactly did you know they hadn’t this time?

I would go to that - and then, given some of the people here, I’d have to stay very stationary! 🤣

I will always be impressed by the people who decide to wear platform boots to cons. *Confused*, but impressed.

I think the worst general category of little thing to find on your floor is "little thing that looks like it's part of something"

Crossing my fingers!

And of course also, because this timeline is so deeply broken that nothing makes sense anymore.

Just… just do it. Seriously.

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If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?

And rightfully so.

So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?

...this is EXACTLY why I never got into CrossFit. Pushing myself: yes. That shit: absolutely the fuck not.

“Feel confident in your fitness abilities” and “work out until you puke” are fundamentally incompatible states.

I *love* cardio and I have to say… almost vomiting when you’re doing a workout is NOT normal or a thing someone should be recommending to others, jesus fuck.

Every time we come for PAX, there’s a parade. The internet in fact insists there is no parade in Philly today, but the drums, the drums on the street….

Kalaya was absolutely DELICIOUS, thank you for the rec!

…that’s a pretty great brand, though.

I knew a guy who pretended to *much* better musical taste than he had, so he’d stealthily swipe mixtapes other people made and reuse them. The results were… mixed.

I’m so sorry.

Fantastic!

….those certainly are some words.