David Pfau
So far I have not found the science, but the numbers keep on circling me.
Views my own, unfortunately.
- Irish universities are under-funded, recent salary increases were not funded putting more pressure on budgets, there is widespread precarity of employment, research infrastructure is creaking, rarely funding for equipment repair & maintenance, and PhD scholarship stipends are inadequate etc etc
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- My take on "Abundance" is that every time I hear the authors speaking about the book, it sounds like a dispatch from an alternative universe where Obama's fourth electoral victory was his narrowest yet, so the big national concern is how to make technocracy successful and more politically appealing.
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- Genuinely has anyone *ever* been owned so badly as a man who converts to a new religion as an adult and sorta makes it his whole thing only to see the literal head of that religion rebuke his entire deal and then they choose the NEXT head of the religion specifically because he doesn't like you
- honestly never thought we’d see a pope from the U.S. because our country was seen as too powerful already—guess we really are an empire in decline
- "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic" describes, seriously and literally, the crypto voting block. And it was right
- I got the best teaching evals of my career for a large course last semester— along with three teaching awards— after rebuilding my intro class around in-class handwritten essays. I simply do not believe that this is unsolvable or that students don't care about actually learning to do their work.
- In only two years, ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project. James D. Walsh writes for @intelligencer.com: nymag.com/intelligence....
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- I'm reluctantly in favour of these experiments. I hope we never need to resort to geoengineering, but if, as seems a distinct possibility, we end up with a choice between geoengineering and catastrophe, then I'd rather we knew as much as possible about geoengineering before going ahead.
- Real-world geoengineering experiments revealed by UK agency @aria-research.bsky.social - Trials will test ways to block sunlight and slow the climate crisis, which is threatening to trigger catastrophic tipping points #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Also, I would say that we are undertaking geoengineering on a massive scale already by emitting so much CO2 into the atmosphere.
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- The short answer is: a lot of otherwise smart people convinced themselves that screaming right wing reactionary politics was required in the short term to keep the scum in their place, and are now realising that they have *yet again* empowered a bunch of mean as fuck, very nasty right wing cranks.
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- David is disrupting everone's neurips grind by putting out amazing works, such a dirty trick!
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- We should have a made a world where giving a child a tablet was as wholesome and enriching as giving them Encarta 95 or a stack of DK books. I still don't entirely understand why we failed.
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- I really thought this was SNL
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- Posting anything in here makes me feel like Ray Liotta in Goodfellas. No matter how innocuous my comment, there's always a Joe Pesci waiting in the wings with a hostile "what did you mean by that?"
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- We talk a lot about social media radicalizing the population but it's been far more efficient at radicalizing public figures.
- humans are not designed for the amount of feedback being a public figure on social media provides. Whether it's praise or criticism, receiving an avalanche of nonstop attention is profoundly corrosive to your brain.
