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by sterlind 2y ago
In 2022 the US would have actually showed up for Article 5.
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by sterlind 2y ago
I'm not giving Communism a pass, I'm picking the lesser of two evils. Also, because the Nazis would have sent me to the gas chambers.
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by sterlind 2y ago
I'm heartened to learn about Die Linke, thank you. I was afraid AfD's only real opposition was an anemic coalition of centrist political parties. Youth are rejecting the status quo, they're done with neoliberalism, for better
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by sterlind 2y ago
hey, it's defrag all over again! (not really, since it's not fragmentation, but conceptually similar)
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by sterlind 2y ago
It reminds me of the Gordian knot myth. All these sages had tried and failed to untie it. Alexander the Great, a true jock, sliced it in half with his sword. Trump and Musk style themselves after Alexander. They see the complexities of geop
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by sterlind 2y ago
Buying Greenland, annexing Canada, retaking the Panama Canal, building beachfront resorts in Gaza and squeezing $500B of rare earth minerals out of Ukraine isn't imperialism? Or does Trump get a pass on what he says he'll do, beca
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by sterlind 2y ago
Will I need to purchase a blue check mark to vote in the next election?
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by sterlind 2y ago
How do you know that it was Paxlovid that made you better, rather than coincidentally convalescing? There's a tendency for fevers to break as the body gets the upper hand on an infection, so if you started taking Paxlovid during a high
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by sterlind 2y ago
sucks to be Poland or Finland then, I guess. some tactical nukes ought to soften up whatever conventional forces are defending Warsaw and Helsinki. maybe Trump can meet with Putin in Saudi Arabia again to broker some peace accords. ...serio
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by sterlind 2y ago
The UK and France also have nukes. I'm not sure about the UK, but France at least would shield NATO and EU with the nuclear umbrella even if the US leaves NATO. Finland, Romania and Poland might want to ask France if it minds sharing..
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by sterlind 2y ago
If the Supreme Court rules against the Executive, they might order an agency to comply with a ruling or - barring that - hold an agency head in contempt. Under this EO, the agency wouldn't comply, since the agency would assume Trump&#x
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by sterlind 2y ago
try saying "cisgender."
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by sterlind 2y ago
At present, LLMs are basically Stack Overflow with infinite answers on demand... of Stack Overflow quality and relevance. Prompting is the new Googling. It's a critical base skill, but it's not sufficient. The models I've tri
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by sterlind 2y ago
Just like getting demonetized on YouTube, then. Maybe we'll see grant proposals to study "dis@bility progression in Multiple Sclerosis", "light p0larization" and "weights and b!ases"
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by sterlind 2y ago
I'm sure DOGE could provision an LLM to censor at scale. Unthinkingly obedient language models enforcing dictates is an authoritarian's wet dream.
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by sterlind 2y ago
> It’s like if the US south had a language common there: what icon would you use? Having grown up in the South, the Stars and Bars would be a depressingly popular choice.
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by sterlind 2y ago
could you please contact me on Discord or email (in my profile)? I have also investigated the connections between hEDS, being trans and a specific kind of autism, along with TNXB.
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by sterlind 2y ago
conservative media has the opposite rule: make every story about a trans person into a narrative about trans ideology. this should be a story about an ideological cult with trans members, but instead it's a story about the cult of tran
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by sterlind 2y ago
it's been an exhausting couple of weeks for me, as a trans person. one executive order after another, explicitly attacking us. scrambling to update all my documents, navigating a Kafkaesque bureaucracy with constantly shifting rules. n
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by sterlind 2y ago
Optimization solvers usually don't benefit from GPUs. I think it's because it's sparse matrices and a sequential series of pivots.
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by sterlind 2y ago
it's wild to me, because ME/CFS can, in rare cases, be terminal. autopsy reveals various findings: inflammation of the dorsal root ganglion, degeneration of the frontal lobe, metabolic issues and tangles of proteins in neurons and
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by sterlind 2y ago
the same apply to Vietnam and Cambodia. yet those countries are far more functional than DPRK. the extreme and dynastic cult of personality seems unique to the Kim family.
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> Would you take the same tone if it were an American startup that were forced to sell a big chunk of itself pre-IPO? Would you roll your eyes at them for "being greedy" at any indication of pushback against such a requirement
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by sterlind 2y ago
I could be wrong, but I thought you have to operate a subsidiary in China, which is majority Chinese-owned. for example, Azure China is operated by 21Vianet, who also owns all the infrastructure.
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by sterlind 2y ago
controlling the algorithm is a lot more subtle than using bots. it's pretty easy to notice bots and shills. it's harder to notice when it's all humans with sincere beliefs, just that some beliefs are overrepresented.
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by sterlind 2y ago
I'm quite worried about both, but at least I can (in theory) vote on my US overlords, at least.
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China doesn't allow foreign corporations to operate within their borders. why should we? there is no First Amendment right for Chinese companies to operate within our market. there is no First Amendment right for RT to be carried on US
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> they didn't ban the app. they said china couldn't own it. but china would rather not sell it. this doesn't get enough attention. ByteDance could have easily partitioned off the US environment and made bank selling it.
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by sterlind 2y ago
I think the flaw works like this: 1. Acme Inc. has 40,000 white employees and 10,000 employees of color on payroll. The statistic would be 20%, if Acme were hiring at a constant rate by the same demographics. 2. However, suppose Acme hired
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by sterlind 2y ago
except when it comes to banning books in schools. and prohibiting classroom discussions on race or LGBT topics. somehow free speech never seems to cut both ways with these people.

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