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I think economics could be a much more respectable science if they all admitted they are a social science rather than desperately cosplaying as a natural science

Mindesthaltbar @mindesthaltbar.bsky.social · 2d

Funnily enough the Nobel price for economics is also "fake". It has nothing to do with the Nobel committee that gives out the other ones

Mindesthaltbar @mindesthaltbar.bsky.social · 3d

That one is more mercury though

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merritt @merrittk.com · 4d

if you look at social media and dont immediately feel better what you should do is keep going back to it every five minutes or so. eventually you will find the Post that makes your life better

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Mindesthaltbar @mindesthaltbar.bsky.social · 4d

Bolsonaro full on food fascist

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 5d

I've been re-acquainting myself with NNs, transformers and LLMs this week, so these are early thoughts. But I am starting to think about language without the capacity to imagine language, i.e., an LLM unable to imagine itself participating in language. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...

What Machines Don't Know

Imagining Language Without Imagination It's important to acknowledge that Large Language Models are complex. There's an oversimplified binary in online chatter between the dismissive characterizatio...

mail.cyberneticforests.com

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Mindesthaltbar @mindesthaltbar.bsky.social · 4d

Polycrisis doesn't mean polycausal. One thing can cause multiple crises.

Even still there is more to climate change than simply greenhouse gases

Mindesthaltbar @mindesthaltbar.bsky.social · 5d

Culture is upstream of politics and they know this and operated accordingly since gamergate

Mindesthaltbar @mindesthaltbar.bsky.social · 7d

Dude thinks the basilisk is real

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 7d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Mindesthaltbar @mindesthaltbar.bsky.social · 7d

And he is directly funneling money to newsmax

Mindesthaltbar @mindesthaltbar.bsky.social · 9d

It's so weird that magical thinking has become a business venture nowadays. Magical thinking is free for all to practice.

Placebo yourself, do a little ritual, talk with your imaginary friends, know that it is all gonna turn out ok,...

Instead we get AI + brain and boner pills etc and self help

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1-900-HOTDOG @1900hotdog.bsky.social · 10d

In this week's FREE article, @seemoreevil.bsky.social makes a friend! An AI friend. Yes, he bought one of those AI necklaces and wore it for comedy science. Everyone read his article and say thank you, or I'm sorry. 1900hotdog.com/2025/10/upse...

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Mindesthaltbar @mindesthaltbar.bsky.social · 11d

Wait till you see käsleberkäs

Mindesthaltbar @mindesthaltbar.bsky.social · 11d

Both the words gyros and the very similar döner refer to the spinning meat skewer I think

Mindesthaltbar @mindesthaltbar.bsky.social · 11d

Also that mohnweckerl looks sad af

Mindesthaltbar @mindesthaltbar.bsky.social · 11d

Calling leberkäse meatloaf feels reductive