Yeeeeup

Does a system need agency to be alive or does agency emerge from living systems? Enjoyed your recent discussion of some of this on Reading Our Times, curious if you think agency is foundational here.

Could be worse I guess. One guy today decided to use the tongs from the vegan platter to move some shrimp around his plate before putting it back, so now I definitely can't have any.

NMR acronyms such as COSY and DOSY are an elaborate cover story. In fact, all NMR spectra are made up by small, cute sprites who can be summoned by spinning liquids at a magic angle.

Early drafts of Avatar: the Last Airbender featured more elements beyond the four classical ones. But after the deaths of several animators following experiments in bending alkali metals, this was abandoned.

The film the Fifth Element was originally a buddy movie starring Bruce Willis and a lump of boron, but studio meddling mandated they replace B with an attractive but impressionable woman instead.

Many chemists are shocked to learn that not nine but ten elements were first discovered in Ytterby, Sweden. The tenth was, of course, the element of surprise.

If only some tech bro would come and apply AI to this, pharma could shut up shop tomorrow /s

It's a big ask to expect them to stand up against him when they're all afflicted with congenital spinelessness.

It's a baby boomalope rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Boomalope

I've started getting the occasional follow on here from accounts that have this kind of bs in their profiles. Grim. So much of linkedin is just empty buzzword-laden, positive affirmation-style self promotion.

I've never seen people use so many words to say so little.

I'm not a great writer, and have many bad habits — whether it's using overusing commas, abusing em dashes, or inserting lists of three everywhere — and sadly many of these are also hallmarks of AI slop.

He is just two stupid eyes in a ball of grey