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I increasingly think that “freedom” is the most important word to take back from the fascists.

In rightwing hands, freedom often means
“no rules to allow billionaires to accumulate all the profits and power” or “privatize and destroy societal services” — schools to healthcare.

Real freedom is freedom from want, freedom to pursue happiness without worry about healthcare bankruptcy and with good schools for all.

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"I build little people out of acorns and sticks, then photograph them in the wild with real animals.
Join me as I share my process of building and photographing.
Learn more and buy prints at www.davidmbird.com."

youtube.com/channel/UC6q7I1DD2

#birds #wildlife #critters

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Comet NEOWISE rising over the Earth just before dawn as seen from the International Space Station.

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Yet another AI reproducibility / reliability / generalizability crisis, this time in medicine

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

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The vOICe for Android version 2.65 is now at 99.21% crash-free users, and it looks like this percentage is still going up; crashes are annoying but harmless: you just restart the app; will brain implants for vision have 99.21% seizure-free users?

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Ice Eggs beach. Thousands of balls of ice cover a beach in Finland due to a phenomenon that occurs when ice is rolled over by water and wind. 💙

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Physics didn’t take away your free will, and quantum mechanics didn’t give it back. I won't try to convince you of one point of view or another about free will in general. I’m a physicist, and what I'll explain why, no matter which viewpoint you choose, the cold, impersonal laws of physics didn’t take away your free will – nor did quantum mechanics give it back by changing our ideas about randomness.
bcrowell.github.io/free_will/
#physics #FreeWill #philosophy #neuroscience

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There’s a difference between underlying (latent) truth and syntax, even if the syntax is very high quality.

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“got my first question at the library this week from someone who was looking for a book that the bot had recommended. They couldn't find it in our catalog. Turns out that ALL the books that #ChatGPT had recommended for their topic were non-existent. Just real authors and fake titles cobbled together.” @bibliotecaria

blacktwitter.io/@bibliotecaria

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