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Eli Sennesh

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · Aug 30

Had a great time visiting Berkeley's Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience!

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Eli Sennesh: Oscillations, but not Spike Rates, Encode Predictive Processing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Talk by Eli Sennesh of Vanderbilt University. Given to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley.Abstract: The appearance at the...

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1m

People have definitely gotten bricks through their windows for selling falafel as Israeli food.

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You guys should use real screenshots from My Jewish Learning rather than making fake ones.

Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 2h

Awesome to see a description of Islamic influences on the Tau Empire.

Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 2h

Well you choose to play Tau because you want an army focused on being shooty, right?

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 3h

the joke here is: "the eternal degenerate Jew has no culture to call his own, he is but a parasite, what he has he steals and degenerates"

leftists sharing it are sharing nazi content. fuck you all strasserist fucks

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 4h

If you haven’t resolved the issue why are you letting the executive dismantle agencies he doesn’t have the definitive legal authority to dismantle?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 3h

He clearly doesn't understand good anime.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 8h

thiel is a phil major

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 6h

This is an area where quite frankly the answer is "doctor, heal thyself." There is nothing uniquely bad about Ben Shapiro in an environment where everything gets reduced to a desire for characters to talk to the camera and say what kind of communist they are

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 8h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 18h

Don’t wanna downplay how serious this is. Is there a meaningful line between what he’s saying he’s going to do (redirecting appropriated funds for a non appropriated purpose) and, say, deciding to spend 20% more than the total Congress has appropriated at all because he controls the treasury?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18h

more and more convinced of the need for a sort of plastic surgery norm around Gen AI: it’s fine in of itself to use, any use of it where it’s clear to a layman that you used it should face severe ostracism. If you can’t get away with it without me knowing, you aren’t responsible enough to use it

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 1d

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The AI water issue is fake

On the national, local, and personal level

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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 1d

Are we growing tired of social media? Have we remembered that there are better ways to spend time (like reading good books)? #AIEthics By @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

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Have we passed peak social media?

As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1d

We already got Bayesian inference as dialectics

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 1d

I made this in 2020 and I'm not as nuts about nationalizing everything under the sun anymore but the kernel about fighting the privatization of science is here.

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Thomas Wood @advanced-eschatonics.com · 1d

The "Great Resignation" under Biden was literally a mass reinforcement learning event for the capitalist class. Workers discovered they had power, quit en masse, and the ownership class got traumatized. Now they're operating from that learned trauma - hence the "jobs are sticky" phenomenon.

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Peronism with American Characteristics @olenargy.bsky.social · 1d

Fight Club as a nihilism canary

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 1d

For the tl; can't read folks:

Being a subsistence peasant as an absolute nightmare and especially if you were a woman or doing "women's work," where meeting your "respectability" could be nearly impossible for many households.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

This week on the blog: More Peasants!

This week, we're modeling the full(ish) structure of women's labor in a pre-industrial peasant household, very roughly assessing the work required for textiles, farming, cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc.

Now with pie chart!

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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVe: The No-Rest Of It

This is the fifth dish of the fourth course of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers, who made up a majority of all of the humans who…

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Has a government ever simultaneously pissed off its troops and its farmers before? Because historically, doing just one of those tends to lead to bad things.

two men are sitting at a table in front of a crowd and one of them is saying that 's a bold strategy cotton

ALT: two men are sitting at a table in front of a crowd and one of them is saying that 's a bold strategy cotton

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1d

He was a baby! How do we know he was an asshole?

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 2d

The basic idea seems to be that the economically exploitable ones should be kept and exploited while those who are either too rich or too poor to exploit as a labor force should be expelled en masse.

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 2d

LaTeX

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 2d

The dog has to be regimented and disciplined so the man can stream on Twitch? I didn't know dogs were forces of production!

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