The idea Black people are constantly lurking, ready to exercise some superpower to end your career with “unfair" claims of racism is key feature of our current societies stance in allowing racism.

Aaftermath.siteOct 2, 2024 10:28pm

Streamer who lives in fear of saying N-word because it could end his career has actually said N-word multiple times, still has a career aftermath.site/twitch-rayas...

I say this with love and as a professor of art history: the report on this study is junk. It’s not measuring a response to “real art” vs “reprints”; it’s measuring “seeing art in a museum” vs “seeing it on googles while in an MRI machine.” www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Real art in museums stimulates brain much more than reprints, study finds

Scientists in Netherlands using eye-tracking and MRI scans found ‘enormous difference’ between genuine works and posters

Like: women with androgynous haircuts? Wanted to fuck them, didn’t want to be them. I was never really happy with those haircuts on myself. Self-serious moleskine notebook guys? Wanted to be them, didn’t want to fuck them. Self-explanatory.

I feel like one of the blessings of age is that I have gotten so much more clarity on where I fall on the “do I want to fuck them or do I want to be them” equation most of the time, and it has really helped me make better life choices.

I don't even know what to say about this honestly. Like no that would not be effective. But start getting into the nuts and bolts of why and you have already bought into a frame where mass violence and ethnic cleansing are legitimate policies to be debated dispassionately by bobbleheads.

SNsocio-steve.bsky.socialOct 2, 2024 12:25pm

I think women who doompost about how men are all pigs and heterosexual relationships can never be fulfilling, imagine women will read it and go, "aha! I'm better off without a man!" But in my experience, it mostly makes women go, "Oh, so my man isn't that bad."

It honestly put me in mind of this blog post tellthebeees.substack.com/p/the-mainst...

The Mainstreaming of Loserdom

On staying home v. going out, brat summer, and the ethics of rotting

Facebook has been showing me a lot of memes like this. I feel like something interesting is happening culturally that "homebody, barely got friends" is now considered broadly desirable enough that memes like this are extoling it.

Good luck! Make sure you are taking good care of yourself before and especially after the appointment. EMDR is great for some people, but can be intense.

This is the fundamental paradox of AI: if it's actually helping you, there is no way to know when it is no longer helping you. Put another way: if you can supervise it effectively enough to catch its mistakes, you probably didn't need it in the first place.

NPnatureportfolio.bsky.socialSep 30, 2024 1:39pm

Scaling up and shaping up large language models increased their tendency to provide sensible yet incorrect answers at difficulty levels humans cannot supervise, highlighting the need for a shift in AI design towards reliability, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4eCAnis 🧪