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What a day to say that, also

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Paedarchy. Pedoarchy? Nonce occupied government in any case

God I love those weird heist nerds so much

This is god's honest truth and also the three young heist nerds have the best and sweetest friendships and it may be the best television show ever made

Post by three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat I love how Leverage went Here's the cat burglar. She wears comfy clothes and has zero social skills. She has sex appeal but only if you're into a very specific type of woman, and crucially she has zero idea she has it. She probably doesn't know what an innuendo is. Here's the hacker. He's a Black nerd, and also the most moral character of the bunch. He's a nerd but also not socially awkward; in fact, he's the second best at grifting, right after the person who's been doing it for decades. Here's the muscle. In his heart of hearts, he is a chef. He is tough and manly but he uses that to look out for the working class and children and everyone else the system leaves behind. He's feared by politicians and he reminds his friend to tip the delivery person. Here's the femme fatale. She's over forty years old, and she's the one seducing the mark. She's the heart of the team. Her calling is to be a director. She loves attending her own funeral. Here's the mastermind. He's the only one who doesn't start out as a career criminal. He manipulates his own crew, kills two people after promising them he won't, and takes deals behind their back. He was in seminary school. Also, here's their nemesis. He's Mark Sheppard.

Man, Leverage was something else.

powerful academics getting to retire after being linked to a child sex trafficer is not "accountability" or "facing consequences" or "a reckoning" or "justice" it's just them retiring. These institutions continue to beclown themselves. Divest.

educational content creators

In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.” “Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added.

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.

So there is a tendency to overstate the risk partly because of a reasonable emotional reaction to real, substantive policy failures, and partly because we're just bad at having intuition about numbers and the rates of LC feel like a big deal, but numbers <10% don't _sound_ like a big deal.

It's also a problem that people don't understand that in epidemiological terms, 5 - 8% of the population getting an illness that is debilitating about 10% of the time (I think debilitating LC is ~ 0.1 - 1% overall) is _huge_. And it really is shameful how little policy there is to try to prevent it.

I think there's a combination of confirmation bias and a serious numeracy problem here. Most people probably know 1 - 2 people who have LC, but to people for whom it is salient, that _feels_ like a lot of people, and therefore "20-30%" feels right to them.

I save at least $500/year on OTC meds

This previous post seems relevant again.

The time to prevent the thing from happening is *early*, as it is gaining steam. These things always start small, with efforts to weaken the norms against discrimination, with casual, unreflective slurs. They start with wedge policies (not gays, just gay adoption! not trans, just sports!).

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

A somewhat janky digital rendering of the 60s version of the USS Enterprise rendered in greenish grays with orange highlights on the front of the nacelles and the deflector dish. There is a burst of whooshing rays behind it but the background is the default natural paper color I’ve been using and not space black. Reddish-orange text around the ship set in a Star Trek TOS font reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Yoon Suk Yeol: South Korea's ex-president jailed for life over martial law attempt Yoon Suk Yeol's December 2024 martial law bid fundamentally damaged South Korea's democracy, a judge told the court.

Prince Andrew arrested over Epstein ties on the same day South Korea’s ex-president was jailed for life for attempting a coup.

Lord, I have seen what you’ve done for others 🙏🙏
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Sorry, what are you trying to say here? Who is mad at the literal existence of machine translation (as opposed to the creepy and non-consensual replacing of a person's voice with a machine's voice that nobody asked for)?

As a fellow gardener who lives in a 6-unit apartment low-rise let me just say, you don't know what you're talking about.

like literally nobody is mad that computer translation exists. Is that what you think people are mad about?

"translating" is what translation tech does. What other use would it have?

Again, people are not upset that the technology exists. We are specifically upset with how Meta is using it. That is literally the thing we are mad about.

how can it be both a good use of the tech _and_ done poorly? Do you mean it is a good technology being used poorly?

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Turning it on by default, and making it difficult to disable, sends a real message about who Meta thinks its tools are for.

It also demonstrates a real tone-deafness on Meta's part to the fact that monolingualism is actually, globally, pretty uncommon, and most multilingual people will prefer to interact with content in its original language when they can.

Closed captioning, auto-translated captions, and even auto-dubbing _can be_ perfectly reasonable accessibility tools. I do not object to their existence or use.

If Meta had merely made the option available and not mimicked the creator's voice I doubt very much you would see this kind of anger.

If you use an AI that mimics my voice, and make it available to the public, then yes.