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by derbOac 3mo ago
I think the message I've often heard is that looted objects are so obviously looted and subject to confiscation that there's now little demand for them. I took this article as a pushback against that idea. (Others are joking at th
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FCC to repeal 39% TV ownership cap in boost for Trump-friendly news orgs(arstechnica.com)
19 points by derbOac 3mo ago|1 comments
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The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changing social media use(blog.incogni.com)
86 points by derbOac 3mo ago|70 comments
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The Trade in Looted Antiquities Endures for One Reason: Demand(news.artnet.com)
19 points by derbOac 3mo ago|10 comments
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by derbOac 3mo ago
A different link: https://www.mixfont.com/ghost-font
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by derbOac 3mo ago
Although the idea is compelling to me, the evidence they present wasn't. I think the reason why is that it doesn't explain why all the other lifeforms in the same ecological niches didn't evolve the same level of cognitive fu
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TikTok users don't have as much agency over their FYPs as they think(arstechnica.com)
3 points by derbOac 3mo ago|0 comments
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From Quantum Relative Entropy to the Semiclassical Einstein Equations(journals.aps.org)
2 points by derbOac 3mo ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 3mo ago
Experimental designs are critical for obvious reasons but they have a few critical flaws, that mostly all reduce to the fact you can't randomize manipulations with everything. Whether it be due to ethics or practical constraints, you c
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by derbOac 3mo ago
The last paragraph has some important context: "De Jonge Akademie, an association of young scientists, warned last year that the fund could end up recruiting academic stars who are not under threat, at a time when Dutch universities we
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by derbOac 3mo ago
The poster to x apparently has a bsky account also — I wish they would cross post.
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by derbOac 3mo ago
> I'm not sure I understand the difference between "crappy forums" and subreddits. They have all the same features. There's a lot of differences and they show up all the time with subreddits trying to poorly emulate t
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Token Entanglement in Subliminal Learning(owls.baulab.info)
4 points by derbOac 3mo ago|1 comments
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by derbOac 3mo ago
The Tears in Rain monologue occurred to me as well while I was reading the post, but I don't think it's quite the same for one important reason: the replicants have experienced those things and processed them in whatever sense i
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by derbOac 3mo ago
Yeah there are a lot of great bakeries in the US; you just need to know where they are.
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by derbOac 3mo ago
I measure by mass when I bake, but I've always had the same questions as you (about humidity, for example). That was always the answer I got when discussing volume versus mass measurements — that volume can change due to all sorts of t
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by derbOac 4mo ago
> But if you joined a protest group where the organizer shoots a policeman and you’ve all got weapons at home and then you tell people to move the material you have at home that indicates you’re part of the group then I think the convic
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by derbOac 4mo ago
Agreed. Imagine an IPO where you put in money and then get no returns. Who would invest?
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by derbOac 4mo ago
A lot of focus has been put on the freedom of speech aspects of this — and rightly so — but my concern is that this is a much broader attempt to simply put control of research monies in the hands of the Trump administration for whatever pur
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A Federal Regulator Wants to Fast-Track AI Data Centers onto the Power Grid(gizmodo.com)
2 points by derbOac 4mo ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 4mo ago
I didn't know what Harajuku was, and thought it was going to be some Japanese term for some psychological concept, like ikigai, kaizen, wabi-sabi, or something like that.
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by derbOac 4mo ago
I think there's some evidence for this, and it's consistent with my experiences with myself and what I've seen in others. It's basically the idea behind the motivation to change literature, that there has to be some poin
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I Don't Know What to Think About Declining Test Scores and Neither Should You(pershmail.substack.com)
2 points by derbOac 4mo ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 4mo ago
More decentralized decision-making (in the hands of universities and institutes), requirements for permanent positions as a requirement for funding, more funding of individuals and programs rather than projects, more randomized funding (lot
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by derbOac 4mo ago
This is a narrative that doesn't match the reality. Reported failures to replicate are pretty similar in other fields, including in biomedicine. The replication crisis was just first highlighted in social psychology; lots of other fiel
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US approval of Paramount/Warner Bros. deal surprised DOJ lawyers, report says(arstechnica.com)
12 points by derbOac 4mo ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 4mo ago
Other people answered better than I could, although some of their examples were what I had in mind (China, much of Europe over the last 150 years or so, maybe the US during the 19th century).
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by derbOac 4mo ago
I love it also, but I think the comments are pointing to an unmet need for firewood splitting simulators. The comments are suggesting that someone could go to town adding different kinds of hatchets, mauls, axes, woods, and different swings
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by derbOac 4mo ago
This makes an important point, and is important to think about, but I'm also interested in how societies go to that brink and come back. I suspect there's a bit of bias in this, as you don't hear as much about the nations tha
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by derbOac 4mo ago
It's more than a little sad to me.

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