@curtosis

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Computational linguist, artificer, λ(data). Syntactician with semanticist delusions. Theatre artist. Anti-Taylorist. Continuous everywhere, differentiable nowhere. Boosts are multivalent. He/they.

HEADLINE: "Elon Musk calls medical school 'pointless,' says Tesla robots will beat any surgeon in 3 years"

ALT HEADLINE: "Elon Musk, who's predictions are always completely wrong, makes another prediction"

https://moneywise.com/news/elon-musk-calls-medical-school-pointless-says-tesla-robots-will-beat-any-surgeon-in-3-years-and-tells-students-to-walk-away

Elon Musk calls medical school 'pointless,' says robots will beat any surgeon in 3 years — telling students to walk away

Medical experts, however, strongly disagree with Musk's claims.

Moneywise
@mekkaokereke one of the core lessons of public health is that bureaucracy is _expensive_. The entire “Who should pay what!?” Exercise slows the systems down and costs a ton of money and basically all it produces is spreadsheets that cruel selfish people use to be cruel and selfish, and that crowd can’t wrap their heads around the fact that the other thing that’s great about public services being public services is that it’s cheaper.

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116340930425957493

Every accusation a confession, part billionty seven.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@luckytran/116336718713225759

Every country absolutely needs to have a disaster management plan in place that does not include any action whatsoever from the United States.

This includes a communication plan where the US will be actively spreading misinformation and disinformation to make up for dear leaders incompetency on top of the known bad actors from mostly Russia whose agenda is to weaken the rest of the world.

Any country that does not have a plan that absolutely excludes the US is being negligent at this point.

Communication plans must also not rely on corporate media. They are not our allies in the fight for global health. They are extensions of the capitalist class and if the solution to keep us alive threatens Q4 earnings.... Guess what is more important?

This is not a drill. I literally just defended a dissertation on how the media killed people during COVID. I have receipts.

The main thing I learned from the Claude Code leak is that they plan to go out of business before anyone has to maintain it

All the devs saying that Anthropic’s code quality is “normal” are telling on themselves and everybody they’ve worked with

(Also supports what many have been saying about software quality being a crisis that precedes LLMs, but that’s another story)

you ever write code so inefficient they have to update the whole power grid
finally, Wendell Berry's standards for technological innovation--truly as relevant now as they were in 1987 #othernetworks
Krita’s Maintainer is awesome!
Political figures can and should be prosecuted for their actions in and out of office and anyone who suggests otherwise is in on it.