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Knowledge is the Supreme Goal
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NJ passes a law preventing cranky fucknuts from going apeshit on school libraries and librarians.
www.nj.com/politics/202...
N.J. just struck a blow against banning books
It's called the "Freedom to Read Act."
www.nj.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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This can and should be better.

There is huge variation in how this breaks down. But the overall message is clear!

www.science.org/content/arti...
Women faculty feel ‘pushed’ from academia by poor workplace climate
The gender gap in faculty attrition worsens after tenure, according to a new study
www.science.org
December 10, 2024 at 7:22 AM
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That exhilarating feeling that *everything is possible* when you open an editor to code, it hopefully never goes away.
December 9, 2024 at 7:25 AM
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I keep reading that this is a place for kinder people, but gentle souls have always been among us. We just couldn’t hear them anymore. Perhaps our gathering here is proof that we missed those voices. What a wonderful thing to believe about ourselves. It can be a bold move to choose kindness.
December 8, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't need to justify your reading preferences and choices to anyone. Audiobooks count as reading. Also, you don't have to finish books you don't enjoy. Don't read to impress, read for yourself. Life's too short, love yourself, ok?

Signed, a librarian
December 8, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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David Baker visits all the Rosetta folks after his Nobel lecture. And photo of all three Chemistry laureates - David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper. An honor to be here in Stockholm to see this.
December 8, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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December 8, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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Thoughts?
December 8, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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The replies to Brian Thompson’s last post on LinkedIn — all from before the shooting — are a horror show
December 6, 2024 at 7:11 AM
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Yes. This experiment will work if you make it your own. Customize your experience, build new ones, make a social network that can be controlled by the people who use it an idea we do not go back on.
The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.
December 6, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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This doctor’s letter to United Heathcare for denying nausea medication to a child on chemotherapy.
December 5, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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Ever wanted to see the world through someone else’s eyes?
dame.is dame @dame.is · Nov 28
looks like graze.social makes it extremely easy to emulate the following feed of any other user on the network — see through someone else's "eyes" instantly! super cool
November 28, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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3/ And if I may, that's not even something we'd wish for. Open source and open science mean people explore, test, and correct mistakes if there were any, taking responsibility for them in a very transparent way. We don't need the ethicist there to say what's right and what's wrong.
November 27, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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NeurIPS Test of Time Awards:

Generative Adversarial Nets
Ian Goodfellow, Jean Pouget-Abadie, Mehdi Mirza, Bing Xu, David Warde-Farley, Sherjil Ozair, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio

Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks
Ilya Sutskever, Oriol Vinyals, Quoc V. Le
November 27, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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Hi, I’m God.

Keep your butt clean.

Love,

God
November 26, 2024 at 1:18 AM
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This moment in Bluesky is a great example of how joy itself can be defiance and resistance.

We are just hanging out, shitposting, being silly, happy, and normal. It is being treated as if it is transgressive, opting out of the endless negativity. Because in a way, it is.

Joy is my favorite weapon.
November 24, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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One of the things I still don’t understand is how these tech bros can be pro-technology and anti science.
November 25, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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We’re not going back.
November 24, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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While Bluesky looks like other social apps on the surface, it’s actually quite different. It’s an open network.

I blogged about it here:
Benefits of an open network
emilyliu.me
November 24, 2024 at 11:53 PM