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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 7h

relevant xkcd xkcd.com/2799/

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 1d

old.reddit.com/r/PastSaturn... hmmmmmmmm

The Saturn Time Cube (MEGATHREAD)

I know this is all I talk about, but every time I make a post about this subject, people ask for more information on it. I think it’s been...

old.reddit.com

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 1d

is this related to the saturn hexagon?

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 5d

pacific rim www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnIV...

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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 6d

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 8d

don't worry, the next republican admin will just hire them in as private contractors

S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 8d

sort of linguistic gettier case

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 8d

truthvote and beautyvote are deprecated for being too controversial

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ceej @ceej.online · Oct 28

lol he's not wearing a "Blood Army Uniform." 🙄 that style of overcoat is called a "Murder Duster" and was only used by a few units for a couple of months during the very beginning of the Slaughter Crusades. but I guess you people will never let history get in the way of a good controversy, will you

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 11d

bsky.app/profile/andy...

Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · Sep 30

Electricity price rises from data centers do in fact be real. I'm pretty worried that
1) The correct framing here is "We should be building out renewable infrastructure instead of limiting a new industry."
2) We're not actually building it out enough.

S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · Sep 30

@andymasley.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... might be interesting to you, especially this graphic:

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 11d

It seems to me like many of their arguments are just about what is relevant wrt to (often implicit) attributing of causality, not about disputing specific factual claims made by fact-checked articles.

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 11d

doesn't grifter normally imply making money off it in some way?I don't see how that's the case here, maybe arguably the substack but that doesn't publish any paid posts. bsky doesn't give engagement money like twitter. Does grifter just mean "someone who is wrong in arguments lots" contextually?

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 14d

awesome, thx for finding

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 14d

yes!

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 14d

this was a relatively long time ago (pre-LLMs) so context was different as well

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 14d

I remember reading an essay from an engineer who was hired to automate a worker's job (maybe a machinist?), and them struggling with this same problem as the worker taught them everything they'd need to know. I don't expect to find this given the state of search engines, but it was interesting

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Kat Kayelem 🏳️‍⚧️ @kayelem23.bsky.social · 15d

One of the more interesting images from the NTSB report on the Titan submersible implosion.

Imagine you work in data recovery. You've got data off devices dropped from heights, driven over, immersed in water, lightly incinerated... then someone from NTSB rocks up and leaves this with you...

Image of "a large electronic and metallic mass" taken from the NTSB report on the hull failure and implosion of the submersible Titan. The description reads:

"The NTSB laboratory received a large electronic and metallic mass from the United States Coast Guard on November 13, 2023. The NTSB was working on behalf of the USCG. The mass was transported in plastic storage container. The mass weighed approximately 100 lbs. The mass was a compilation of compressed metal, compressed plastic, compressed electronic components and compressed other materials. The mass exhibited signs of thermal damage without typical signatures of having been exposed to open flame. A section of the mass contained polar fleece material."

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#1 wavesmiley er @jack.cab · Sep 27

I installed all 65 thousand Firefox extensions in a VM and it has yet to render a second frame

Firefox skeleton loader with a bunch of black to its right and bottom, task manager is open showing 299 mb of ram and 40 mb/s of disk and 46% cpu

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#1 wavesmiley er @jack.cab · Sep 30

I tried 6000 it's the same thing you can't load a single page except for about:addons which takes about a minute to render itself

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 25d

Bring back inscrutable security posters

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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 26d

The S1500 is the largest floating wind turbine ever launched.
It's 60m long, 40m in diameter and houses 12 turbine-generators in its annular duct, generating potentially 1.2 MWe travelling down a high voltage tether to the ground.
Belongs to Beijing SAWES Energy Technology Co.

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 29d

how wrong is asking for their base rate of heart searing pain, and doing a bayesian analysis on that to calculate probability of a causal link (or just heartburn)?

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · Sep 30

@andymasley.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... might be interesting to you, especially this graphic:

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · Sep 30

james hoffman for obsessive coffee science nerdery, I don't even drink coffee and I still watch his videos

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S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · Sep 30

photonic induction is an insane british guy working with high power electricity www.youtube.com/@Photonicind...

Photonicinduction

One man and plug socket = Mayhem. Interesting and mad scientific experiments involving electrical energy, plenty of interesting components and everyday items tested and cranked up with so much power "...

www.youtube.com

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