Cool tech but I question it’s usefulness. They focus on clinical in their language but anybody who’s on telemetry orders needs waveforms not beats per minute. I care if they’re suddenly in afib, not that they’re a little tachy after getting up to go to the bathroom.

When beekeepers take out honey to sell, or, increasingly, when there isn’t enough pollen available, they give the insects supplementary food.

But that food is made up of protein flour, sugar and water, and has always lacked the nutrients bees require. It is like humans eating a diet without carbohydrates, amino acids, or other vital nutrients.

This is such dystopia stuff. We’ve solved the fact that we were killing the bees by stealing their honey and replacing it with sugar water(while trucking them from the south to their California Central valley almond crop monocultures and hoping they’ll survive on that sugar water) with this “super food” that actually contains proteins required for life. I understand I’m not supposed to be a downer on uplifting news but this so very much does not uplift me.

Still not one cause though. Maybe a proximate cause but the bees have less forage due to monoculture and climate change screwing with plant cycles. This results in malnutrition and increased susceptibility to viruses. The anti mite drugs allowed them to limp along while feeding them sugar water till they got to orchards but obviously that’s not going to cut it. Competitive pollinator services racing to the bottom unsustainably leading to a mass die off as soon as more stress is introduced is the systemic issue at play here

Early Proto Indo European genders were if things had agency/was animate/acted on the world or not. Was pretty much him and it. A car would be a him because it moves around. Same with a river or a weapon. A rock would be an it. A rolling boulder though becomes outside context, since now he’s an animate rock that has enough agency to kill you. You get enough of these inconsistencies and the language just loses the original plot and you just have to memorize it points to Germanic and romance languages

Pre print journalism fucking bugs me because the journalists themselves can’t actually judge if anything is worth discussing so they just look for click bait shit.

This methodology to discover what interventions do in human environments seems particularly deranged to me though:

We address this question using a novel method – generative social simulation – that embeds Large Language Models within Agent-Based Models to create socially rich synthetic platforms.

LLM agents trained on social media dysfunction recreate it unfailingly. No shit. I understand they gave them personas to adopt as prompts, but prompts cannot and do not override training data. As we’ve seen multiple times over and over. LLMs fundamentally cannot maintain an identity from a prompt. They are context engines.

Particularly concerning sf the silo claims. LLMs riffing on a theme over extended interactions because the tokens keep coming up that way is expected behavior. LLMs are fundamentally incurious and even more prone to locking into one line of text than humans as the longer conversation reinforces it.

Determining the functionality of what the authors describe as a novel approach might be more warranted than making conclusions on it.

Tell y’what man, you talk’n bout ol’ meanin’ ah life, man, go read tha’ ol hitchiker’s guide, man, y’know talkin’ bout ol, 42, man.

Yeah man, I tell you what, man. That dang ol’ Internet, man. You just go on there and point and click. Talk about W-W-dot-W-com. An’ lotsa nekkid chicks on there, man. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. It’s real easy, man.

He usually started with it but he used it a lot.

The article further states that grok’s primary utility is replacing reddit’s tip of my penis. What a watershed day for society.

Sure, if you want to call a hydrocarbon like methane “carbon” I guess. Why not.

*Staph.

Yeah, all we got is man made tragedy of the commons disasters where the data centers deplete not only the water for humans, but the water for the data centers. Poof, no more data.

Why the hell are they trying to build data centers in the fucking Sonoran Desert anyway.

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.

And there’s the problem. It wasn’t so much they refused to acknowledge the city existed. The company refused to acknowledge they had to provide support staff beyond seeing a ticket and closing the ticket.

Like if it’s stolen then that depends on drive encryption and boot permissions. I only say this because you didn’t even specify if it was gifted or loaned. Corporate laptops often have all kinds of things going on with them and giving one set of instructions it’s generally inappropriate.

Because I hotlinked to something that doesn’t even say it’s an image file instead of uploading.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/c/c0/Marcus.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20050301210424

If I sanitized it by removing that revision latest stuff it might’ve been fine but voyager likely didn’t know what to do with that link

Mr Dorn also has this 12 year role:

Make sure his co-chair is her ex husband too.

In the culture usually if the computer tries to fuck someone they will get an unpleasant nickname.

Oh I don’t dispute that but my stupidity doesn’t tend to be crying about censorship over the fact that you can’t dismember bodies after they’re already dead. Company decides it wants to adapt to a particular market and people act like their personal vision of a world where you can dismember all the corpses you want was attacked.

Gamers really are fucking dumb