Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app

There's no systemic racism but weirdly every time we train an AI on public data sets it becomes very racist.

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The Supreme Court was always going to be skeptical of the independent state legislature theory, even the conservatives. Surprise about that comes from being largely ignorant of the Justices' jurisprudence, instead believing only that conservatives like bad things, ISL is a bad thing, therefore the conservatives on the court will like it. The conservatives like all kinds of bad things, but to understand why and which ones, you need to know their legal philosophies, not just believe they're evil.

11th century Venetians wanted to take the relics of St. Nicholas home from Myra.

When they got there they were told sailors from Bari had already taken the saint. They were offered St. Nick' uncle as a consolation prize. Just then, they smelled the scent of holy relics and found bones that surely belonged to St. Nick.

For centuries both Venice and Bari claimed they had the REAL saint.
Modern research proved the bones belong to the same man. So, they each got half of Santa.
🎅
#Santa #folklore

Protest matters. Protest just helped stop the SFPD from having the right to use deadly force using robots, a policy that the board of Supervisors overwhelmingly supported in a vote just last week. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/victory-san-francisco-bans-killer-robotsfor-now

About 10 years ago, I found myself frantically running a set of experiments the night before the NSDI deadline, and suddenly all of my Paxos replicas crashed at once.

It turned out that someone in the lab's Spotify randomly sent out a broadcast packet on UDP port 44267 and the unexpected packet triggered a bunch of assertions in my code.

This is what I assume everyone means when they talk about that "spotify wrapped" thing.

'tis the season for "How not to email prospective grad school advisors": https://decomposition.al/blog/2020/11/25/how-not-to-email-prospective-grad-school-advisors/

A lot of what's now associated with organized EA does not seem to me to follow from, and in some cases seems flatly at odds with, those basically good ideas.

The Venn diagram of rational logicbros who defend stealing Native Hawaiian land for a telescope because it's one of the few areas free from light pollution, and the Elon fanboys who celebrate StarLink, is a circle.

The damnable challenge is that the first few moves of both the true sage and the conspiracist are identical--chain-breaking, dislodging conventional wisdom, etc. "Let me enlighten you about the world; things are not always as they seem." But the followers by definition lack the information they need to tell the two of them apart as their journey continues and fate approaches.

I spoke with @charliejane, @pdjeliclark, and @scalzi to get their thoughts about how the chaos that Twitter’s undergoing has affected them and the SF/F community as a whole.

They made some excellent points: https://transfer-orbit.ghost.io/science-fiction-community-twitter-chaos/

hadn’t seen the cats for a couple hours and they were having a conference
#caturday #caturday #caturday

Looks like @irene has tucked Max in for an extra cozy #caturday nap.

#cats