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On special request, my final lecture of 'Natural Sciences for the Humanities' was about Einstein's special theory of relativity. Before this week, we had covered Greek geometry up to Newton's mechanics.
My students had questions:
- In Star Wars, when they go faster than light, why do the stars look like stars?
- If you imagine time as person, do you imagine a man or a woman?
💌 my students
@SylviaFysica And your answers?
@rythur I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology
@farah Wait a minute. I cannot have a conversation or read a document without doing that. Are you saying that is a standard element of autism?
@photovotary It’s more like being literal
Oh you're a Christian?
Which poor person did you give all your money to?
Oh you didn't do that?
Jesus was pretty specific about that
Anyway, before someone comes in here calling me a hypocrite, I'm not a Christian myself
I'm a dirty leftie heathen hippie and if I ever met god, I'd probably try to kill the bastard (YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID)
halcy @ :revision_ol:
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חנן כהן • Hanan Cohen
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☆☆☆RECRUITING!☆☆☆
Mastofam: I'm the exclusive recruiting partner for Oxford University's Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science led by Ben Goldacre and I'm hiring a few roles. I'm keen to hear from Head of Engineering candidates in the £90-95k zone, and senior developers (Python/JS and or devops/infra) in the £80-85k zone.
Location: remote UK only (+ no visa sponsorship)
Salary: as above, non negotiable
Full details via email > thayer@team-prime.com
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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Correctly understood, machine learning refers to the use of data processing coupled with complex statistical models to extend human knowledge by uncovering previously unverified information — for example, that millions of people will shuffle off values they previously endorsed if a consumer technology promises some marginal utility.
@kitty https://zandoprojects.com/job-openings/accountant happened across this remote role and thought of you
New Vivaldi just dropped.
And by new, we mean NEW. ✨
I love the new classic look.
What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-do-godels-incompleteness-theorems-truly-mean-20260518/
#HackerNews #Gödel #Incompleteness #Theorems #Mathematics #Philosophy #Logic #Science
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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And if you're wondering why people would disengage from a project, a brand, a product, a job, a community, or anything else over its embrace of AI, this might be the answer: that consumer AI represents an attack on such a complex tangle of values, the person no longer believes the group adopting it will stand in support of, or at least tolerate, the things that most matter to them personally.
🫧 socialcoding..
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✊ Help prevent Bayer and BASF from controlling the food chain even further!
The EU is planning a major hand-out to big corporations by scrapping safety and transparency rules for risky new GMOs, and let corporations profit from patented GM crops.
MEPs vote in June, let them know what you think at the petition
👉 https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/take-action-say-no-deregulation-gmo-food
@farah It's actually "Splitting hares" because when families were on hard thymes they would split a hare between 3 families. Sorry, not to split hares or anything.
RFC: Artificial Contributors to Open Source
https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/21/rfc-artificial-contributors-to-open-source.html
@andrewnez
> This document therefore constrains precisely the set of contributors who did not need constraining.
So, why have it?
Just to demonstrate to third parties that there is an established community norm that the non-compliant ACs are breaking?
#SlushFund Update: Republicans Narrowly Defeat Raskin Motion To Subpoena Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche
[Raskin] made a motion to subpoena Acting AG Todd Blanche, Associate AG Stanley Woodward, Treas. Sec Scott Bessent, IRS CEO Frank Bisignano and Treas. GC Brian Morrissey.
His effort narrowly failed [after holding the vote open to rally GOP members]... in an 18–17 party-line vote. But... one [former GOP] lawmaker voted with Raskin, Rep. Kevin Kiley from CA.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jamie-raskin-bill-block-trump-slush-fund_n_6a0ce19ce4b0d1a142e1beba
“I’ve read/heard of the sci-fi/fantasy book about Torment Nexus and now I’m gonna name my product/company Torm8 NeXus” is apparently an entrepreneurial category
@farah The billionaires are such broken people that they read a dystopian sci-fi book and go, "Yes, I want that!". Sorry, bold of me to assume that they read.
I haven't looked in years, so not sure when it changed, but it seems Google search results have reverted to using my dead name for the info box.
Game changing the modern web.
@mia wtf 😣
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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