Jon BakerThe least believable part of A Christmas Carol is not the ghosts that visit Scrooge, it’s the idea that rich people can be peer pressured into being decent human beings
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Cha KnowltonIn fact, the billionaires are eating our children, their futures, all of our futures.
acb@emilymbender @rysiek One day we’ll look back on the use of the term “artificial intelligence” for statistical machine learning with the same cringing bemusement we have for calling locomotives “iron horses”
theserfstvThe weakest part of the whole "Natives were savage people who did violence to each other actually" line of right wing thought is that Vikings did horrifying things and I don't think of their descendants alive today as guilty of their crimes or as inherently lesser than
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Christopher MimsTurns out the existence of an "alpha" wolf is a myth.
It was based on old/bad experiments, conducted when unrelated wolves were thrown together in captivity.
In actual wild wolves, packs are just families. There's no dominant alpha battling for the top spot -- and in the rare cases there is, it's an alpha *female* wolf.
Insert obvious implications for the use of this term in human societies.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-alpha-wolf-idea-a-myth/
Steve HermanDilbert cartoonist labels Black people as a “hate group” and says white people should “get the hell away” from them. https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/02/23/dilberts-scott-adams-white-people-should-get-the-hell-away-from-black-people
Joshua HollandI'm sure the anti-cancel-culture folks will be all over this story.
"Florida Teacher Is Fired for Posting Viral Video of Empty Classroom Bookshelves"
https://jezebel.com/florida-teacher-is-fired-for-posting-viral-video-of-emp-1850130894
Dave LeeHaving fun on Twitter unpicking a curious thing that happened to me this morning. Someone reached me on Signal thinking I was ChatGPT. Turned out it had given them my number.
