Dylan MacKay

There are 3000 Canadians currently in Cuba and we cant be bothered to do something to help Cubans.

"At least 1,357 medical devices using AI are now authorized by the FDA..." the recall rates are almost double the bon-AI devices. Thanks, I hate it

Exactly

Has he like maybe considered making the world better rather than worse, that typically feels amazing and is super rewarding

Oh man, bet there would be some beauty outdoor rinks with a nuclear winter

Pete Hoekstra is destroyed.

Notice the framing of sex trafficking victims as “consensual sex workers” and the simultaneous framing of consensual sex workers as “sex trafficking victims”

I think her career strategy is dependent on professionally missing the point

New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart

1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks

2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

Has anyone stopped to consider that much of the research out of business schools is just total bullshit?

More and more lately to the point where I have day dreamed about Universities without business schools...

For sure, and I am not saying people should have to consume caffeine, and many self select away from it, but I don't think it should be pushed as a big thing to cut from your life, less alcohol and less facism are both bigger things for people to focus on and a coffee might help them in that...

I truly believe dogs hate, and oppose being used to advance, fascist surveillance technology

Nope, this is where I draw the line, coffee loving scientists have been developing the argument for coffee (with caffeine9 as a healthy choice for far too long for me to let this puritanical self loathing fad slide

The origins of the term "grandfather clause" is bad enough, this would be a disgusting one, but I'd move to not allow it, sign or retire is an option too...

It seems the sky is very blue in Brazil and I wonder if it has to do with the supreme court blocking Xitter in Brazil August to October 2024. If only Canada would do something similar.

Exactly, I wouldn't have a problem sighing a contract that says, NO RELATIONSHIPS WITH STUDENTS OR STAFF OR YOU GET FIRED, and anyone who wouldn't sign shouldn't be hired anyway

Can you take him with you by challenging him to a Seppuku competition, it helps increase the gut microbiome diversity, have him go first even...

God forbid anyone speak Spanish in ::checks notes:: “San Francisco, California”

Dear scientists, please stop using AI to slop together images, especially infographics, they suck and there are so many great talented people you can get to make real authentic ones, or do it yourself, the authenticity is much better than the speed, plus the GenAI is simply theft from real creatives

A screenshot of the bluesky star map, with @dylanmackayphd circled in pink. The account is in a cluster called Nephrology Healthcare, which is close to clusters Italian Progressive Intellectuals, and Plant Scientists and Biologists, farther off it Canadian Progressive Media & Politics, all dwarfed by the giant Brazilian Young Adults on Bluesky

I mean we all seem to be just satellites of the Brazilian Young Adults on Bluesky and I am okay with that

Wait there are two of them?

The government takes all its cues from private sector. We've been indoctrinated to believe government is inherently inefficient, but all of its worst qualities are from douchebag CEOs with MBAs.

The Atlantic wrote a piece saying the Epstein Files are not a big conspiracy but then there's a photo of the owner with Maxwell

Hahaha OK that's pretty good.

Exactly the unions could end it and it bothers me that they don't

If you're focusing only on the people in the Epstein files, you're missing the bigger picture.

As someone who knows a little about nutrition and diet I am begging people not to listen to anything RFK Jr says, about anything

Can an EMP still disable these things and also how do I make an EMP?

Oh of course the non-fraternization needs to include graduate and professional students, the power imbalance is so so big. Way larger than undergraduate. The power that grad supervisors have often includes the fact that they control if the student stays in the country