Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

🚨 New Paper (that I forgot to share on Mastodon)! "Testing methods of neural systems understanding" by me & David Bau is online now. We argue for an explicit test of the tools used to understand 'neural systems', i.e. brains and artificial neural networks. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389041723000906
#neuroscience #AI #MachineLearning

Karl Popper really nailed it in 1945:

"[I]f we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them."

@bhawthorne

A new expose on Elon Musk in The New Yorker details how Musk held Starlink hostage for $400M from the US, blocked off access to Ukrainian forces on the offensive, and even spoke with Putin personally, to the horror of Western officials.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule

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Oh gawd this feels too real.

#satire #funny #starwars

People mobilized in so-called #Flagstaff, #Arizona, to demand freedom for Epona Rose, a transwoman who was arrested and thrown in jail for defending herself against a transphobic attack.

#EponaRose

https://itsgoingdown.org/community-rallies-to-demand-freedom-for-trans-woman-flagstaff/

Innit, though. Reposted with alt-text.

This quote is on the tip of my tongue! Something like "We can have a democracy or we can unregulated markets, but not both." Anyone have the precise quote and source? Thank you in advance!

Two law professors active in the Federalist Society wrote that the original meaning of the 14th Amendment makes Donald Trump ineligible to hold government office. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/us/trump-jan-6-insurrection-conservatives.html?unlocked_article_code=jY7PpdvXprpiNqZvjT66Ix1gjcWy727DKbj0E22KPJMXDEDE8VZ9aCEK68slh1J9uDF2KWbLn-U707rToN7SJYiJwoiciAcFlOw6lFrnpdmyzGzkbf-ZOc8SbFAoXxmkM20CGPEYF0EZ8utCZ9-maXWfVKVdk4uVl9tAunkrfKiBOOfpaXLJG57XF61uCgg0g7qpbi3jkjFiZKGf1lmPenlWmHxpwUHmGckYfT0v15rbxcI1eyuxT7hcbTDaz3453e0kTrgI6z2KDkGsalUAaeuFREkl68yESGnvAw4qFWe6eGGwKm6Gq7XbDaran8FJ5EuB8i9RP7yp0I8x-0OoJZepKEA2O0EFY5xe&smid=url-share This notion is picking up speed! Don’t let traitors serve in government!

The world's first computer programmer was a woman named Ada Lovelace. She wrote the world's first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine, and as a result, is often described as the first computer programmer.

Hi. If you see "Biden only gave {tiny amount} to help {issue X} while spending millions on Ukraine" in any of your social media, that is propaganda. It's from Putin's disinfo shops aimed at convincing the west to stop supporting Ukrainian defenses against the Russian invasion.

You can and should report and block those accounts.

#Ukraine #Disinformation

I have to agree! This is how I think of words, too. They are life in so many wonderful ways. And they definitely do make things happen because they're at the center of every kind of communication. I consider words to be riches that are so rewarding to arrange. That's why I never grow tired of organizing them to create some sort of meaning. ❤️

#writer #writing #writingcommunity #writinglife #amwriting #amwritingfiction #amwritingmystery

@franciscawrites

@bookstodon

#Farside #comics #WritingCommunity

In honor of Gary Larson's birthday, repost with a Far Side cartoon that you love.

Dad's favorite

#Farside #comics #WritingCommunity @bookstodon

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@lovelylovely@masto.ai They believe Trump more than they believe their own religious leaders? That is frightening.

I'm not here to be sold things by, or see ads for, corporations, but if you make, grow or create something yourself, post it. If you used to get by on Twitter, and you're struggling since its destruction, I want to see that even more.

Maybe some of y'all are anti-commerce in all forms, and I wish you luck with that, but in the real world a lot of artists, growers and makers are struggling. I care about that much more than any commercial purity test.

I would like to see the baby.