Dr. Lizzly Atoms

I assume this unlocked new lore in the side chat.

Having a very normal Sunday telling the group chat I hate holidays. Just the most tedious shit these days.

By whom? My ortho surgeon, after reviewing my MRI, literally asked unprompted if my ankle ever hurt during major weather system shifts because there's a huge sack of fluid around the joint. I've had sinus headaches my entire life.

And OFC there's some mention of AI. 🤦‍♀️

Opening a sandwich shop but the sandwiches are arms control treaties.
SALT: Salami Avocado Lettuce Tomato
NPT: Nutella Peanut-butter Tahini
CTBT: Chicken Tomato Bacon Tzatziki
ABM: Arugula Beef Mustard
TPNW: Turkey Provolone Nectarine Watercress

I quickly asked her if she wanted to go somewhere else and she anxiously nodded yes and we ate at ICBM (Infinite Chips, Burritos, and Margaritas).

Maybe I've always been in bunk imaging clinics but I've never seen a metal detector at an MRI. But it *would* be really sensible!

In fairness, it was the only time that could accommodate people in Mountain and Eastern. I'm the only person on Pacific, so I'm mostly hurting myself.

Scheduled a meeting for 7:30. I have become what I hate.

Love it when major scicomm figures do an ableism to do a takedown of AI true believers.

G'night y'all.

I don't know if I can move on, honestly. They absolutely knew what they were doing I refuse to believe otherwise.

People conflate "doing a basic humanity" for self-interest with leadership. He's absolutely a snake effectively bullied into reasonable policy (usually decent because of the CA electorate) or else bought. I don't think the rest of the country gets that sensible Californians basically *tolerate* him.

Counterpoint: shut the absolute fuck up

tbf, I mentioned was having a lot of neck/jaw tension and asked her if I seemed stressed and that was her response. Don't ask questions if you don't want the answer.

What's it mean when your dentist says "there's a deep, obvious and profound sadness about you" and "just sitting here makes me want to cry" while you're waiting for the anesthetic to numb half your face?

Haha, got me there!

It's seriously unfortunate because there is a *there* for ML that doesn't involve burning down the Amazon/draining the Great Lakes/infringing on copyright. A tool in a very fundamental sense. Not a chatbot, not an "assistant," not the singularity. We cannot have nice things (algorithms, apparently).

No, Grok cannot do science. Grok cannot "discover" anything in any way that's not equivalent to "sentence that's never been said." You can string together nonsense and have it be unique and look close enough to the subject material. It's missing explainability which is like, the whole deal.

Hot on the heels of my arms control take from yesterday: The conflation of machine learning/machine vision with *~AI~* is the worst thing to happen to computer science (and probably more. TBD).

Gen AI still can't make images without typos or letters that look like the dipshit version of runes oh my god.

Instead of a performance review what if you just tell me everything I’m doing well and reassure me that you’re not mad at me?

As a field not like, the controlling of arms. Arguably, violating treaties is the worst thing in that case.

Midweek Takes: The conflation of nonproliferation with disarmament has been the worst thing to happen to arms control

Shades of Vietnam protests during Apollo 11. Like, yeah, hard to justify!

100%. There's some argument to be made for small moon missions but we cooked our space program where it's a nearly impractical lift to do shit we could do in 60s. I'm at the point where I think we should intentionally deorbit the ISS because I don't trust SX to not kill astronauts.

Tbf, I think we shouldn't be prioritizing crewed missions to Mars, AT ALL. I feel very strongly about this for *reasons* and it's Wednesday so I don't feel like elaborating.

You see, what happens when you let creepy think tanks with zero SME write your policy, things go... not well.

P2025 doesn't have a single well-formed thought. It was written by people who are 1) disgusting and horrible and 2) lack critical thinking skills to consider secondary or later effects

Mars isn't happening in our, or the next generation's, lifetimes.

Incredible.

To my new followers who are interested in nuclear stuff or just like my general whatever else: I'm typically not going to reiterate whatever the very legitimate fresh hell of the day amply covered elsewhere on bsky. This doesn't mean I'm ambivalent; it means it's not what I'm posting here (usually)

Last repost: I gasped.

Tbh, I get the feeling big blue chip tech is cooked. It's easy to just brush this kind of stuff as dork video game nonsense but MSFT is a canary in a coal mine.

xbox used to have the two best driving series on the planet (forza motorsport and project gotham) and now theyve got neither.

suicidal company.