so surreal, seing all those simple policies, that have been shown to work, but conservatives cried that they were never going to work, and seeing them work.

It isn’t even an “i told you so”.

example

Found it while writing this article

if you think this bullshit is bad, in Israel high ranking politicians literally do tiktok sketch comedy.

Ben Gvir, Netanyahu…

Sketches about genocide.

At some level of stupidity, I think we should let the scammer win.

like, that’s just a stupid tax, they deserve to be scammed.

how the fuck i didn’t realize that!!!

Fuck,

so 1 in base pi is still 1, but 10 is pi

makes sense,

1 =pi ^ 0

10=pi^1

100 = pi^2

my intuition kept telling me that using an irrational base system would end up with all integers being irrational. didn’t realize how easy it is to prove it otherwise

ie, I had a very bad conjecture and I gained better understanding why it was wrong

trivial,

Impossible in decimal, but if we use Pi as a base, then the final (and first digit) is 1

Imagine having a streaming service so bad it fails twice

reminder than during 2019 there were streaming services popping left and right, all showing tremendous growth because they started from zero, and articles were about how bad Netflix was doing due to having practically no growth compared with the competition (they already had a massive subscriber base). Twist? Netflix was the only streaming service that was actually making a profit, the rest were a massive loss but big growth.

Needless to say most of those streaming services died; who remembers DC streaming service, or Yahoo’s? While Netflix is basically as stong as ever, despite the prevalent enshitification happening through the whole industry.

Point of the story? shareholders don’t care about stable profitable business, only cancerous growth. AI is like that, zero profits, ton of cost, but as long as they show growth the shareholders are happy, regardless of how cooked the books are.

Study finds what sponsored content means

i think it was a bus, and it was used in hills to get extra energy while going down and using ot while going up.

https://medium.com/tikun-olam/fuck-the-markets-lets-legalize-insider-trading-5356526bf6e7

Fuck the markets

At the time I was working on cancer research, but I wanted to build a database of gene mutations and model them using AlphaFold (predicts a protein structure). No one in my life at the time cared at all.

I can see how people fall for AI bots, why they develop parasocial relationships with them. I can’t blame when desperate people fall for something that gives a bit of comfort.

It is extremely sad. and it isn’t just a toxic masculinity thing (maybe only for porn bots). we are so atomised and isolated.

I remember when GPT came out, told it about my projects and it responded as if it cared. I knew ot was bs, and in retrospect it was sad and pathetic, but I genuinely cried at seeing text directed to me that was nice.

I’m in a better place now, but we as a society are way too atomised and isolated.

i don’t think it’s tech, it’s that tech stopped being something that helps you, now it’s just things that control you, and it’s all so shitty.

being a millennial was nice. almost every new piece of tech was useful and made life easier. but i think it was around 2010ish when it all began going downhill. first, capacitative buttons, then smart everything that didn’t help, just monitor you and sell your data. now so much tech is straight up hostile.

i think that’s already the case

love being lectured about my ethnicity/religion.

Judaism is both a religion and an ethnicity ish. you can be 100% atheist and still be Jewish if your mother was Jewish.

And lecturing jews about them not being real jews is peak antisemitism.

Back to starting a local bund cell.

I am Jew, some synagogues turned the genocide into their whole identity, those ones must be shamed. Chabbad has no right to exist in it’s current state.

it wasn’t, but that was the expectation imposed in the past 20 years.

and mosques weren’t selling stolen real estates, or most mosques didn’t have collaboration with terrorists orgs (most synagogues have collaboration with Israel, a terrorist org)…

there’s a massive schism in Judaism with this, lots of explicitly antizionist synagogues are popping up. because for any jew to go to a synagogue with ties and collaboration with Israel, is them literally collaborating with a genocide.

great for medical/disability use. scary dystopia if it’s for consumer use

I’m going to strongly disagree. It is a core part of judaism to fix the world. and ignoring a genocide done in your name is absolutely the opposite.

yes, in abstract, no one should go out and distance themselves from crimes committed by other people. But in practice??

Jewish voices have been among the loudest antizionist voices, however, synagogues must do the same.

however many synagogues have close ties with Israel, from summer camps, to advocacy. Some synagogues even conduct real estate sales for Palestinian stolen houses. Israeli politicians regularly attend Chabbad conferences. those are not neutral, they are genocidal propagandists. And by now silence is complicity

I doubt Tzedek chicago gets any hatred besides from other zionist communities.