Andrew Lopez

“What’s your barber name?” is crazy 😂

I don't know. Plausible. My claim isn't about all derogatory terms for AI, but about terms that we have good reason to think are modified from slurs for people. Like wireback.

not sure I see reason for taking that as decisive. I don't think it would excuse an unobservant person if they began using a term for AI created by adding a prefix to the n-word. Or, at least, not their continued use of the term after it was pointed out to them because they "don't mean it that way"

I think the claim is charitably that these terms are modeled after existing slurs, that there's something objectionable about taking the slur "wetback" and modifying it to "wireback". It doesn't make you an "anti-computer racist", but why are you modeling your language off anti-Mexican slurs.

the fact that there's an energy source responsible for life on earth that will just keep stably emitting tons of energy for another five billion years and that the most powerful country in the world has an administration that wants to wholly reject harnessing it is crazy

The mimoids are ai hallucinations of real babies

A beautifully restored toilet cistern.

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics, making them even more beautiful than before. Here’s a fine example in our favourite local Japanese restaurant.

"AMPA receptor (AMPAR)"

Mildly confused about this, people keep noting that no one clapped, but why would we expect military top leadership to clap. I believe I've seen clips of meetings like this before (nowhere near this scale) and they never clap. Especially since they were called to attention right after.

YouTube video by mushroom im latina so i just want to have fun

youtu.be/e5BLqK_xgGk?...

Re: the former, dudes are #1

Running????? This is the time to squat heavier

CHOTINER: And when was that?
MY CAT: I mean at least 14 hours ago
CHOTINER: Well hold on. You're telling me you haven't been fed at all today but if I look in your bowl here I see a-
MY CAT: An untouched serving, I know, but if you'd let me finish-
CHOTINER: Yeah, of course.

Normally not nosey like this, but someone had ChatGPT open on their phone screen on the bus and I looked long enough to see their query:

"when is [our university's] Thanksgiving break?"

There is a webpage dedicated to displaying every important date on our academic calendar, come on

Have often seen people reference this but has anyone looked into whether this is specific to American Gen Z or the anglosphere?

I haven't read the brief, but while the alchemists didn't figure out a way to do this, it is actually possible since we figured out atoms are not indivisible and can undergo radioactive decay or be smashed together in accelerators to change their atomic number, so what's that do to this argument

something about being in the rightwing conspiracy hellhole makes you talk like sephiroth

And now it means you got a few bucks to buy your buddy Andrew a beer

the Will Smith track “Wild Wild West” just came on the radio and:

1) it was weird that for several years whenever Will made a tentpole movie he also rapped about it in partial character

2) we should make more actors do this

re: Francione, you can find posts by him 1) insisting that hormones naturally make "biological males" more aggressive so of course trans women are a danger to cis women; and 2) complaining that pitbulls are maligned as naturally more aggressive and violent when really its abuse & socialization

That is nonsense.

It's not the same moon. Everyone who has ever been wary of things in the sky knows that it's never the same two nights in a row. We have good reason to believe that there are likely indefinitely many moons killing people.

Poutine, nanaimo bars, butter tarts,fish and brewis, the whole tim hortons menu... Canada's got it all

Also, the question was about political science. I don't know how many effective altruists there are in polisci, but the mention of critical theory is lol given how marginal political theorists are in north american polisci departments

one funny thing about the 'universities are hostile to debate' thing is, if you try to effect the sort of political debate that is banal in a university setting, in more or less any other social setting, people will react like you are being an antisocial weirdo

"and advocates" ah but yea white supremacist shootings are not of broader concern, just isolated weirdos

Could be both? It fits a common feature of both fascism and conspiracism: never have the stakes been so high and we face imminent destruction at the hands of evil forces, but also our enemy's weakness and moral depravity is why we are on the brink of inevitable victory

Oh ok. We don't know each other so was unsure if you were seriously calling me gullible or a liar. You're welcome to think what you want, I've also seen and read plenty of Kirk to believe an anecdote about him. Since you seem invested in this on bsky: I think his murder was bad.

? Is this a bit?

RE: Charlie Kirk "doing politics right" and fostering "free debate and discussion", I was told that last time he was on my campus someone asked him to share a time that all this debate and discussion led to him changing his mind, and he got mad