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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

TECH Elon Musk's Neuralink filed as 'disadvantaged business' before being valued at $9 billion PUBLISHED THU, JUL 17 2025 7:58 PM EDT

There’s the interview with him. @otsumamiboy.bsky.social

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I told you we’d be back

Ardem Patapoutian's story is not just the American dream, it is the dream of American science. He arrived in Los Angeles in 1986 at age 18 after fleeing war-torn Lebanon. He spent a year writing for an Armenian newspaper and delivering Domino's at night to become eligible for the University of California, where he earned his undergraduate degree and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience. He started a lab at Scripps Research in San Diego with a grant from the National Institutes of Health, discovered the way humans sense touch, and in 2021 won the Nobel Prize. But with the Trump administration slashing spending on science, Dr. Patapoutian's federal grant to develop new approaches to treating pain has been frozen. In late February, he posted on Bluesky that such cuts would damage biomedical research and prompt an exodus of talent from the United States. Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to "any city, any university I want," he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.

What are we doing?

Some deep homology between model collapse in AI systems trained on synthetic data and the effects on public discourse of feeding MAGA shitposting back into the actual communicative practices of this administration.

This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.

Frederick Douglass in my head recently.
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Me at 5: I can't wait for Santa to get me a new lego set!
Me at 15: Santa isn't real
Me at 25: Santa isn't real, but we can collectively make him real through our actions
Me at 35: The ways in which Santa is real are myriad and disturbing. The Wild Hunt rides again, wearing the mask of a Saint

is elon trying to win a streisand effect award?

Can novelty scores on papers shift the power dynamics in scientific publishing? By providing measures of novelty, DeSci Publish hopes to shift the bargaining power between journals and authors.

@nature.com published insights into DeSci Labs!
@dalmeet.bsky.social's article highlights DeSci Publish and our algorithm that assigns a novelty score to manuscripts, predicting impact based on the unique keyword and citation combinations of a paper.
🔍 Curious?
#ScienceInnovation #OpenAccess

Psychopaths are afraid of AI because they believe that the AI will be psychopathic too. They say that artificial super intelligence (ASI) will treat us as ants. So what? I care about ants, why wouldn't a clever AI do that too, if it was really general intelligence and not some narrow psychopath? #AI

Radiohead lied to us. Computer not OK. Computer not OK at all.

Autism Speaks has officially closed down in Canada,this is monumental but small victory for autistic people worldwide,this should be a celebration for all autistic people and a reminder that only we as a community can liberate ourselves!

Autistic Workers of the World, Unmask and Unite!

free stupid idea to a good home: "Abrahamic Roboprophecy" as a power metal band name

soon

LINGUINE IGNOTA BASED.

1-4: APOCALYPTIC GIRL AUTISM
5: goofy boy autism :3

I’m so good at being jewish you guys :3

things we are now doing on twitter:
1.) introducing the French to ethel cain and lingua ignota

It's December, which means the goat effigy must be burned to ward off the endless darkness.

>tfw you accidentally adeptus mechanicus yourself irl and you don't even play warhammer 😔

Laws are these cool things that we use to punish the poor and absolutely never use to hold the rich accountable.

Perfect system. 10/10 no notes.

"they won't stop at trans people" - ok even if they did stop at trans people they still need their ass beat, right?

I just finished PYRAMIDHEAD

[thinking about how to slowly break in my new followers to accept radical climate politics]

do you guys like going outside

White flag with a black silhouette of a Cow's head above the silhouettes of the 4 misshapen Cow Tools. Bold text across the bottom reads "COME AND TAKE IT"

you can pry them from my cold dead hoofs

@autisticbooks.bsky.social I’m autistic & recently published A Reflective Question to Ponder: 1200+ Questions on Autism to Foster Dialogue - an exploration of autism through the power of inquiry. It has over 1,200 questions to spark conversations and deepen understanding of autism & neurodiversity.