Update on this paper from last year on AI in scientific discovery. MIT put out a press release: "no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data...[or] veracity of the research." "The author is no longer at MIT."

all she said is she didn’t want children to starve and the american press is accusing Ms Rachel of being hamas. america has no journalism, it has propaganda outlets

https://t.co/6y6Inlwbz8

It’s is never too late to start wearing a mask again. Cuts to public health, social services and escalating fascism mean it’s more important than ever to protect your own health and the health of your community. It’s a simple, powerful and effective way to resist!

Reminder that wellness grifters like Trump’s new Surgeon General Casey Means spread misinformation about vaccines and health because it is extremely profitable for them to do so.

You can read more here. And note: all the royalties are donated to charity. So if you like the snippet, get a copy for someone in your life who needs to understand the role liberals are playing in rising authoritarianism.

I’ve got tears in my eyes from laughing, but honestly? This is the single most popular personality type now. We have a culture for and by people who go out of their way to antagonize as many people as humanly possible and then cry about how they don’t deserve to be yelled at

Rigged top heavy economy

More and more the mass education and literacy we enjoyed from roughly 1870 to 2010 seems like a happy dream. I fear millennials will be the last generation where it was expected that everyone could read and write. Education gave the working classes too much power. It had to go.

The saddest line in that essay: “Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees … who are essentially illiterate.” You don’t want to see how dire a future where most people are illiterate could get. We have seen the world broken in our lifetimes.

Hot take: People get to decide if they want to tell you that they're in pain. You don't get to insist they disclose.

“oh you think you’re smarter than everyone” flawed premise. that accusation incorrectly presupposes that the general public prioritizes intellectual reasoning above social conformity, when in reality there are lots of people smarter than i am who make worse decisions to fit in.

You know how they say the 3rd generation to inherit wealth squanders it? That is what we are doing with public health right now. People living with all the benefits of it are dismantling it because they think it's just natural to not have constant disease and death... about to

We are lab rats for think tanks and the people who fund them as long as our local media refuses to write a long piece informing the public about the paid propagandists running wild through San Francisco the last few years ⬇️

I find it very sinister that chatgpt is being pushed on students like a modern Mephistopheles. The service may be free but you'll pay in diminished focus, the erosion of cognition, the loss of abilities we once took for granted. For the sake of your brain, say no.

The “are you here illegally?” is the part you aren’t doing

This is a game where Gandhi can use nuclear weapons

my current pedagogical experiment is: any paper clearly written by a human person receives a B or higher

Expecting marginalized peoples to disregard their own emotions to calmly educate you is the epitome of entitlement.

Hard to convey how evil this is. One of the key indicators of a psychologically healthy person is an ability to admit mistakes and change course. Now we have a machine that validates our every impulse. We are about to see unprecedented levels of psychosis.