@Phosphenes

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High School Student Discovers 1.5 Million Potential New Astronomical Objects by Developing an A.I. Algorithm

The 18-year-old won $250,000 for training a machine learning model to analyze understudied data from NASA's retired NEOWISE telescope

Smithsonian Magazine

I did not know that e-books are getting overwritten. Very memory hole.

https://youtube.com/shorts/reEMUU9AopM

Books Shouldn’t Get Software Updates

YouTube

The thing is, if AI is everything its promoters say it is, it's bad.

But if AI is not what they say it is, it's bad.

You can sell your time but you can't buy it back.

#labor

Happy International Women's Day.

#internationalwomensday

We either call ourselves 'pet owners', which denigrates them as objects, or (more recently) I'm hearing 'pet parents', which wrongly anthropomorphizes them.

Our language calls everything either human or sub-human. There's no room for just *different*.

Cats are aliens. I call my cats 'friends' because that's as close as I can get.

#cats #animals #language

I read people saying that protests make no difference. Here's my take:

When 7 million people turn out on the streets with one message, it's like showing a loaded gun without pulling the trigger.

Leaders pay no attention at their own risk.

#uspol

The front lines of this fight have moved to freedom of speech itself, so I updated the graphic.

#meshnetwork

Trendy!

1996: 'Those sunglasses are so fly!'

2006: 'Kewl beans!'

2026: 'What's the Polymarket on rape camps?'

#uspol

Ministry of Truth
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Truth Social

#uspol #orwell