ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

After contacting former FTX employees and using a VPN for dubious reasons, why the hell is Sam Bankman-Fried still out on bond? Rather than giving my own uninformed speculation, I asked criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor @Popehat.

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/i-asked-popehat-why-isnt-sbf-in-jail

Also I inherited a collection of lisp and other golden age MIT AI lab papers that don't exist anywhere else, won't someone help me figure out what do do with these I'm very lost

It’s hilarious that after 70 years of ingenious people programming computers to do thousands of valuable tasks millions of times faster, more reliably & accurately than humans, the ability to write bad poetry and inaccurately summarise text is trumpeted as the dawn of a new era.

Masks work! Amazing study of 26 elementary schools that pulled wastewater samples every 15 minutes. Researchers observed the masked percentage in the school. “The odds of a positive wastewater signal in the 5 days after one of these observations decreased by 47% for each 10% increase in the proportion of people who were fully masked."

“It doesn't have to be all or nothing. Even a little nudge can keep kids safer at school.”

#Covid
#CovidCautious
#CovidIsNotOver
#WearAMask

A European Robin bird is sitting up in a tree in the morning and is greeting the new day with a beautiful song. The morning sky is glowing in soft pastel colors in blue, yellow and pink.

A new day acrylic painting - find it here: https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/a-new-day-karen-kaspar.html

#MastoArt #art #AYearForArt #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #MastodonArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #TraditionalArt #contemporaryArt
#bird #birds #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdArt #birding #nature #NatureLover #BirdWatching #vogel #cute #animals #robin

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#followfriday Check out some of my fav boosters!

@Davy

@n69n

@fabianocerqueira

@ceoln

@RTFirefly

@paulmoore121

@editor

@speedpasterobot

@morwynskya

@Thad

snekboard #snake #ballpython

@NicoleCRust
I think some of the most exciting ideas in neuroscience start out as half-baked ideas that where 'not even wrong'.

But I think we should have a time-limit on them. 5 years I'd say. If a new idea still doesn't make any testable prediction after 5 years of being written about and discussed, maybe it wasn't such a good idea after all.

My prime example: "The cerebellum is a forward model for motor control and cognition". A really cool idea, influential, and has motivated tons of experiments. However, it has also become clear that without additional specifying assumptions the idea in itself does not make actual predictions - or can 'predict' anything.

So we need to stop pretending that "cerebellum is a forward model" is a theory - it's not. It's a hazy make-me-feel-good notion that may become testable with additional assumptions - and it is those assumption that form the real theory.

From 17 Feb: Stargaze from the web browser with an open source planetarium - If you’ve seen the news recently, you’ll have noticed many articles on the comet with the green tail... https://opensource.com/article/23/2/open-source-planetarium

Norfolk Southern is planning to spend $7.5 billion buying back stock to enrich shareholders.

But it's only paying $6.5 million to help victims of the Ohio train derailment.

When it comes to corporate greed, the train keeps rolling apparently.

#Garfield #music #LetsGetitStarted
#bot #lyrics

Celestial delights: the crescent #Moon & #Jupiter (with 4 of its moons, their visibility here depending on Mastodon’s level of photo compression) in the #Texas sky tonight. Together with #Venus lower down in the wider shot. Jupiter’s moon lineup tonight is: Ganymede, Io, Europa on the one side and on the other all by its lonesome, Callisto.

#astrophotography #photography

Silverback does not exist #TerranTradeAuthority #AIArt #midjourney

In the US, you can view a lot of BMI indicators as another way of saying "Lots of Black people fall into this category."

High BMI is associated with shorter life (Black people in the US have shorter lives. Because racism.).

People with high BMI are more likely to die from covid! (Black people are more likely to die from covid. Because we're exposed much more, and get worse care when we get it).

A lot of what you're seeing is the medical outcomes of systemic racism.

We've prepared a zine version of our article, "The Forest in the City—Two Years of Forest Defense in Atlanta, Georgia."

Please print these out and distribute them in your community!

https://crimethinc.com/zines/the-forest-in-the-city

#StopCopCity
#DefendtheAtlantaForest

Right-wing extremists committed EVERY ideologically driven mass killing in the U.S. in 2022, with an "unusually high" proportion perpetrated by white supremacists, according to a new report published Thursday. https://www.axios.com/2023/02/23/mass-killings-extremism-adl-report-2022