jack
Mostly complaining about politics and structural biology.
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- regarding AI models and resource consumption, if they actually consumed an unsustainable amount of resources (electrical, water, physical, etc) you wouldn't see a free "summarize this with AI" button on every fucking website. The fact that they're so cheap to run is part of the problem
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- Remember in the very early part of Covid when people on twitter where panicking about Trump “outflanking democrats from the left” and ushering in eco fascism and then that just didn’t happen at all? I think there’s a lot of wishful thinking about the dude from all sides even today
- Reposted by jackhalf life 2 was genius for coming up a terrifying concept that speaks to everyone: "what if aliens showed up and put your shitty boss in charge of the entire earth"
- Reposted by jackI believe as grown adults we do in fact have a ethical and moral responsibility to not offload our negative emotions on other people in totally counterproductive ways during extremely dangerous times
- Reposted by jackYesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
- Reposted by jackI get that people have to sell books. And I get that DNC Vice-Chair elections matter. But if a Democratic President accepted a $400 million gift from the Qatari royal family, coverage would be breathless, non-stop and wall-to-wall -- no room for any other story.
- Reposted by jacktens of billions of robots for which they don't even have a working, functional proof of concept, sure, why not. apple has manufactured around 2.4B iphones since 2007, in case you're wondering just how dishonest and ridiculous this claim is.
- MUSK, in Riyadh: "My prediction, actually, for humanoid robots is that ultimately they will be tens of billions. I think everyone will want to have their personal robot. You can think of it like, as though you had your own personal C-3POor R2-D2. But even better. @cnbc.com $TSLA
- Reposted by jackThere is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid.
- Reposted by jacki'm sort of shocked by how common this has become in tech — products with no good consumer or business use cases, marketed to no one in particular, with shocking price tags, primarily designed for the entertainment of their chief executive, all in publicly traded companies
- Reposted by jackai is, at its foundation, Alan Turing's passion project. he got really into the idea because he was daydreaming about bringing back his dead high school boyfriend. he named the computer he built in his house after him
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- Excited for the new Acela trainset to be “single Tesla Y’s going 65
- Apple has been quietly fantastic on accessibility for many years and I’m glad they’re still at it. The first time I went to an NFB convention I didn’t know this and was surprised that all the blind people had iPhones.
- WSJ: Apple "is taking early steps to enable people to control their iPhones with neural signals captured by a new generation of brain implants." @wsj.com $AAPL www.wsj.com/tech/apple-b...
- Reposted by jackI will block any arms sale to a nation that is doing direct personal business with Trump. We should have a full Senate debate and vote. UAE's investment in Trump crypto and Qatar's gifting of a plane is nuclear grade graft. An unacceptable corruption of our foreign policy.
- Reposted by jack"impeachment or losing an election is the only way public officials can be disciplined for literal crimes" is not how literally any political system has ever conducted itself
- Reposted by jackhello bluesky hivemind! i've heard some, uh, *troubling* details from an FAA source but since i don't traditionally report on this agency, i am in need of additional sources to speak with. if this is you or somebody you know...can you help a reporter out (@cwarzel.92 on signal). many thanks.
- Reposted by jackSeeing some of those videos of ICE guys in full soldier of fortune getups with rifles and balaclavas being filmed by 40 year old women in Yoga pants telling them to go fuck themselves and get the fuck out of their city really shows once again that libmoms are America’s most fearless defenders
- Reposted by jackIf a Mafia guy shows up and says “nice place, shame if something happened to it” and then gets a bag of money every week that is t corruption because the mafia guy is simply expressing his admiration for how nice the place is
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- More than a little bit curious about how that could work
- Reposted by jackThis, too, is America.
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- Reposted by jackIt’s amazing how this 25-year-old system was working fine *right* up to the point where DOGE started fucking with it, and then it suddenly broke. They’re like arsonists who set fires so just they can rush in and save people
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- This is half the couples in middle TN
- Reposted by jacknathan fielder (narrating): i wanted to understand plane crashes, but needed a way to do so without putting real lives in danger. so i spent the last year training to be a navy pilot, working my way into the military until i was flying f/a-18 fighter jets on the uss truman
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- Successfully 3D printed a top7 (the first protein entirely designed by humans). It’s too delicate to use as a prop, going to need to model in at least a few of the hydrogen bonds in the beta sheet
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- This is ridiculous and awful and destructive and also I believe in the ability of professors to cram absolutely any field into one of those categories when writing grants
- NSF to ONLY fund research in five areas: artificial intelligence, quantum information science, biotechnology, nuclear energy, and translational science. Can this be happening? www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by jacksome researchers at uc riverside wrote a paper estimating water use, including indirect use from power generation. they counted hydroelectic water use as "used" water. their worst case assumes Washington State where power is mostly hydroelectric, other pessimistic things. they gave quotes to WAPO
- Reposted by jackfinally a source for all the frankly bizarre claims around LLM water "use" literally nothing about LLM-related compute uses more water than any other compute activity, focus on Actually Objectionable bits around LLMs like degraded infosphere
- Reposted by jacklike, they want everyone to have the impression that they're rounding up MS-13 members and TdA members or whatever, but their inability to behave like serious professionals completely undermines that message. that's not evidence of strategy, it's evidence of total incompetence
- Reposted by jackalso, they're almost exclusively going after soft and sympathetic targets now, and while some people think that's deliberate, i don't, i think they can't find / are afraid of hard targets, and it's chipping away at their support *even with trump voters*
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- Reposted by jack"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
- Reposted by jackUPDATE: Per MSNBC, Rümeysa Öztürk has been released. bsky.app/profile/kyle...
- NEW: Judge Sessions' latest order in the Öztürk case suggests a disturbing conclusion that she was not released immediately after the judge's previous order to do so this afternoon. h/t @johnhawkinson.bsky.social
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- Reposted by jack**** Judge Sessions GRANTS BAIL/RELEASE to Rümeysa Öztürk: "The court finds that [Rümeysa Öztürk's] continued detention cannot stand."
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- She’s in jail for writing an oped Marco Rubio didn’t like
- Reposted by jackFederal agents' seemingly universal adoption of neck gaiters worn just below the eyes like they're robbing the railroad is emblematic of this time in the US
- Reposted by jacki think this shit is an affront to this country and its traditions
- Reposted by jack“Chicago pope” already feels like a 30 Rock bit that only happened in one episode but has nonetheless rattled around in your head for 15 years
- Reposted by jack“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration
- Reposted by jackThere is no substantive case that can be made—none—that this is just or that this is moral. Or that this is good for the United States.
She came here as a toddler, and would have been eligible for DACA if the program was not ended. Now she is in ICE detention because she took a right turn on a red light. Her father is in the same detention center, arrested for a traffic violation two weeks prior. newschannel9.com/news/local/f...
- Reposted by jackAt which point she will have spent nearly two months behind bars for the crime of writing an op-ed.
- BREAKING: Second Circuit panel, one day after arguments, unanimously rejects government's arguments and orders that Rumeysa Ozturk be transferred to Vermont no later than May 14. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...
- Reposted by jackEither we’re going to survive because we get multiparty democracy institutional reforms or because a new pro-democracy center-right party replaces the GOP. Either way, that requires enough <Republicans> to choose it. Democrats cannot do it alone. That is what Biden, for all his faults, understands.
- I gotta say if you come within like 10 feet of a cow the point of pasteurization immediately becomes clear
- “When it comes to .. raw milk, I want to be free to form a relationship with a local farmer, look him in the eyes, pet his cow, and then decide if I feel safe to drink the milk from his farm.” — Casey Means, Trump’s latest surgeon-general nominee. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- Politics Bluesky is fun because things like “making effective change requires working with a coalition that includes people you don’t agree with on all points” is a controversial idea that gets you yelled at
- Reposted by jackI cannot begin to explain how unusual it is for an agency head to reject the administration's budget request wholesale in public. This usually gets you fired. Honestly makes me wonder if the skinny budget is just straight bullshit.
- Reposted by jackDrug discovery is *hard* and AI is not a silver bullet… #chemsky endpts.com/ai-biotech-r...
- Reposted by jackThere is a reason why they aren’t saying “Boys will just have to settle for fewer Tonka trucks.”
