Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

Unlike tariffs, you’re not seeing a lot of “This isn’t what I voted for” about what’s happening in Los Angeles.

Some people are so shocked by police violence, and so blinded by their Liberal outlook, that they want to see an "insurgent" or "occupying" force when the police exert unhinged amounts of violence. They rather see that as an exception, an anomaly, than recognize that capitalism (even it's "democratic" incarnations) needs such violence to exist.

But no, State violence is at the center of capitalism, it's a constant threat that hangs like the sword of Damocles over the heads of the have nots.

Anyone who thinks the "Fidel Castro/Hugo Chavez stole my slaves" contingent represents the whole Latinx community in the US can fuck right off

I don't know how to explain to some people that the fact that the predatory billionaire and the reprehensibly corrupt politician use drugs sometimes is not the fucking problem you should have with them.

Racism is not exclusive to the South.
In Oregon, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and basically any other non southern state I can think of, there has been some kind of racist policy to oppress our Black compatriots.

The only difference is that the North pioneered economic racism and casual discrimination, while the South sticks with overt racism till the end.

Northern racism is just as egregious, if not more than, Southern racism.

You know you can just not use AI, right?

You can make a choice not to be part of this.

Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it.

You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.

#NewSpecies!
New bathydemersal fish from off western #madagascar just surfaced:

Pycnocraspedum africanum

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DC87D1-901B-FFC3-FF77-FF6F8C16AB03
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5636.3.2
#Zootaxa #PycnocraspedumAfricanum

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#NewSpecies!
New mantis shrimp from #vanuatu just hit us:

Pullosquilla decocki

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/035D1B37-0C6D-FFCE-FF69-6F97FD68FD31
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5621.5.6
#Zootaxa #PullosquillaDecocki

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#NewSpecies!
New necklace worm from #japan just surfaced:

Paraopisthosyllis rufa

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038A9201-E412-FFD6-FF7E-8EB4725D5193
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5632.1.3
#Zootaxa #ParaopisthosyllisRufa

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What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.

What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.