Becca
sciencelizard.bsky.social
Becca
@sciencelizard.bsky.social
570 followers 730 following 3K posts
Science, snark, lizards
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
Reposted by Becca
While the top 1% control $54 TRILLION

(not a typo)
Reposted by Becca
Talk about an in-flight meal.

For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
Reposted by Becca
My goodness. Please don’t send in ghosts. They are very frightening. We only rate dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: theodore.goldenvelt)
Reposted by Becca
This thread makes a point I find myself coming to often these days.

It's hard to make this point in a way that doesn't sound like a threat, but it's just a fact that for centuries the wealthy in America worried that the mob would come get them and did all they could to avoid that fate.
lol what the wealthy today don't seem to understand is part of staying wealthy in society is not pissing off the masses.

There's a reason why Carnegie and the Rockefellers poured money into institutions. Gutting institutions and making it harder for the masses to survive is a...choice.
Fair enough. Let me be direct. My information ecosystem has lots of AI news articles (good, bad and ugly) and < 5 "wow this person went round the bend after chatbot" articles. It seems rare to me. But. I'm trying not to make assumptions given that LLM companies might not disclose everything.
Everyone else gets news from many places that are not this website. And choosing who to follow surely skews your information ecosystem, it is not less influential for you having more control (perhaps less creepy!)
You're not though. Everyone is reading their own news stories thanks to The Algorithms. It's likely early for academic studies, but I bet OpenAI has plenty of data that they can cause derealization. Question is if it's deliberate.
I mean, on the minus side, more Trump. On the plus side, Trump having an incentive to off JD Vance (or whoever would have enough of a death wish to serve as the POTUS to his VPship) IS too cute.
Q: One theory on how you might try to serve a 3rd term is that you could run at the vice president

TRUMP: Yeah, I'd be allowed to do that. But I would rule that out because it's too cute.
People who had used Toyota Priuses to sell were rhe real winners
Reposted by Becca
To conclude: my silver lining hope is that AWS going down can be a learning moment, in which the risks of concentrating the nervous system of our world in the hands of a few players become very clear. And that this can help us craft ways of undoing this concentration and creating real choice ❤️ 13/
Lean in to aging! Make rhe children cringe! 6-7!!!
the gift of middle age is not giving a shit if young people think you are cool. some of you are squandering that gift. stop being mad that the children make fun of you, it’s undignified. they’re supposed to make fun of you.
Reposted by Becca
He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house.

Remove him from office.
Reposted by Becca
Cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see them.
This Rollercoaster Tycoon video is an actual work of emotionally-gripping mad genius
Defying Gravity | Synchronized Roller Coasters (Wicked)
YouTube video by Tube Cody
youtu.be
Reposted by Becca
i made a helpful reference
Reposted by Becca
Appendix A7 most striking graph for me:
Reposted by Becca
Probably two things:
1. The authoritarianism that runs through the birth-rate discourse is inconsistent with limiting bosses' control over workers; and
2. A lot of the birth-rate worriers want mothers to quit their jobs, rather than balance work and parenthood
I find it a little surprising, but not shocking. It also makes the protein bro cultural phenomenon a little interesting
I'm not saying coffee is an entire economic system, but this does appear to be a pretty solid case of the free market competition driving value youtube.com/shorts/Sukq5...
Chinese coffee culture ☕️
YouTube video by marissainchina
youtube.com
I've gotten into arguments with other white people about that last bit, and to be 1000% clear I do *not* mean those folks face an even playing field. Just that mathematically it doesn't prove you're reaching out to underrepresented groups.
Context dependent. Usually I mean Black (African heritage) and Brown Hispanic people. In politics and leadership (CEOs or ski instructors) I probably mean anyone who isn't passing as White. Sometimes in tech workforce I give no diversity points if your POCs are all Indian and Chinese.
Americans would be better off with more fresh coconut oil and less soybean oil that has been reheated 5 times, but thats quite a bit more expensive and beef tallow ain't it bro.
I spend all this time trying to figure out what the master plan is, and it always hits me: nothing. Just conspiracy brain worms all the way down. And the most smug self-righteousness as Kennedy and cronies destroy over a century of concerted scientific effort and hard work.
Reposted by Becca
This isn't a reimagining... it's just literally what Frankenstein is about.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 3d
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains. n.pr/3L5exuu
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
n.pr
It shouldn't be as hard as it is to find places that are mostly modest single story ranch homes with minimal grass yards and good sidewalks and bike paths.