The Baron

The Baron

@barongreen-back.bsky.social

Beer is healthier than soda. Whimsy. Science (fiction). Tech. H+. Miskatonic University Alumni. Proficiens.

44 Followers 58 Following 4 Posts Joined Nov 2024
2 months ago

the first good poem written by AI

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The discovery of aeonophiles expands our definition of life | Aeon Essays The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life

The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life. An Essay by @karenlloyd.bsky.social

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2 months ago

My article on aeonophiles (ultra-long lived organisms) came out in Aeon Magazine today!

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3 months ago
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Explore the vast road network that made the Roman Empire possible | Aeon Videos Travel the roads of the Roman Empire – a bold project mapping 300,000 km of a vast, ancient network is brought to life

This animation brings the ancient Roman road network to life, traversing disparate regions of the empire at its peak to show how these roads supported the agriculture and commerce that made such a sprawling polity possible

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3 months ago
Reddit post that contains a tweet: We are on the verge of curing all diseases and solving energy, yet public trust is at an allTime low. Is this the Great Filter?

Tweet by Simon Maechling: The collapse of trust in science is going to go down in history as one of the most sad, bizarre and destructive social contagions of modern times. We cured diseases, fed billions, and powered nations - and people ran toward conspiracies instead.

Reddit post: If society is losing trust in basic science right now, how are we supposed to navigate the transition to AGI? It feels like the biggest bottleneck to the Singularity might not be in tech, but whether people will actually accept it.

AI will somehow 'solve energy' and is 'on the verge of curing all diseases' but the bottleneck is that people 'wont accept the singularity.'

It feels very like "I am worried about the rapture because my favorite teacher is not a born again christian."

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3 months ago
Cover of Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall

This book has been so soothing. I have probably learned more about the foreign policies that shape the world just in the first three chapters than I have in at least the last 15 years of news media. πŸ™ƒ It's helped clarify a lot of the absolutely batshit nonsense of the current timeline. COMFORT READ

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1 year ago
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internet people lie about fluoride YouTube video by Angela Collier

Great day to learn about the fluoride mechanism so you can explain it to your friends.

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5 months ago

if you dont stop calling us nazis we will have the secret police disappear you to a slave labor camp

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1 year ago

I've seen a few "actually, a lot of dems are really good at the internet, they just aren't getting attention" please give me non-AOC, non-Bernie examples so that I can educate myself.

I will say though, being good at the internet MEANS GETTING ATTENTION.

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1 year ago
A pair of headlines that read

Artificial intelligence
OpenAl says it has evidence China's DeepSeek used its model to train competitor

Nvidia shares resume fall despite gains in
European chip stocks

So you’re saying … πŸ’ƒ copying other people’s work… πŸ‘― without permission β€¦πŸ•Ί is bad? πŸ‘―β€β™‚οΈ

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1 year ago

Smile. Your enemies hate it.

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Kemi Badenoch, leader of the UK
Conservatives who has Nigerian heritage, posted a speech on Twitter where she said immigration was too high and the UK needed to increase the rate of deportation. Racists are in the responses saying β€œstart with yourself”.

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1 year ago

Prof Njoya lining up to be Omtatah's Ndii was not in my 2024 predictions. Year of bullshit finishing strong LMAO.

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1 year ago

πŸ˜‚

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1 year ago

Whispering in their ear, "I understand it now" when it slips out the first time.

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1 year ago

He's about to bite.

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1 year ago
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late night snake doodlin'

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1 year ago

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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1 year ago

Life tip: Nobody is stopping you from putting a dot on the top of your USB cables

It takes 1 second and saves you trying both sides and somehow only plugging it in right when you look at it

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1 year ago

Elden Ring is about having a beautiful dream that you're Welsh. Bloodborne is about waking up in England.

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1 year ago
Fanart of Frieren, in her art nouveau inspired outfit from the ED. It's a torso-up shot and she's gently holding some Blue Moon Weed flowers just below her chest. She's wearing a crown of them too. Her expression is neutral as she looks off into the distance. The style of the piece is inspired by art nouveau, but cel-shaded with black.

Frieren

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a green frog with a red mouth is looking at the camera ALT: a green frog with a red mouth is looking at the camera

Now, to bring that nonsense here.

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