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alex nicksay retweeted
I read an article about the “end of the subsidized millennial lifestyle” wherein it discussed the fact that platforms such as Uber, Lyft, DoorDash etc were only cheap due to being subsidized by investors + favorable market conditions, but now those platforms need to turn a profit
alex nicksay retweeted
excuse me one question, what did you just fucking say
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🙏🏿Lord please grant me the confidence to deny a brilliant woman prof / researcher tenure track, demote her, push her out of my school, to be the adversity that she had to overcome in life... and when she overcomes me and wins the Nobel prize, to roll in like I did something. Amen
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, Penn’s historic mRNA vaccine research team, win 2023 @NobelPrize in Medicine bit.ly/48BswPR #nobelprize
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In an interview posted on the official Nobel Prize feed KarikĂł describes being "kicked out" and "forced to retire" by @Penn.
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alex nicksay retweeted
Not only that. You will also lose access to a whole bunch of tooling you built yourself, to support your work style.
Because your previous employer will have claimed it and/or your new employer has security frights.
A new job is in many ways starting from scratch.
Under discussed thing that happens in big tech
Change jobs and now your code library is gone
Even if you have other tech skills, losing that infrastructure and previous code is akin to lighting a file cabinet on fire
I’m insanely jealous of indie hackers and solo founders who have decades of code to return to
alex nicksay retweeted
Fahrenheit 451 was never my favorite Bradbury/dystopian fiction because it felt a little too blunt, too far-fetched in its metaphor— the state deploying high-tech 'firemen' to burn books to maintain its censorship regime? A bit on the nose.
Currently reevaluating that assessment
Missouri Republicans at a literal book burning. They think flamethrowers should be legal but history books should be destroyed.
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The video show two Republican state senators incinerating a pile of empty boxes they said symbolized "woke liberal agenda" "leftist policies"
One of the senators (William Eigel) also stated that he will burn woke books too - "on the front lawn of the governor's mansion"
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alex nicksay retweeted
“A typical vaccine teaches the human immune system to recognize a virus or bacteria as an enemy that should be attacked. The new “inverse vaccine” does just the opposite: it removes the immune system’s memory of one molecule.”
We might have a vaccine for type 1 diabetes!
alex nicksay retweeted
NFTs, the metaverse, and web3 felt like that to me. And so did the AI insanity of Q1 2023.
We are now well past the peak of the LLM bubble -- things have already came back down to a large extent. There's still some way to go until everyone sobers up completely, though.
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Welcome back, Voyager 2.
@NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2. We shouted 12.5 billion miles (19.9 billion km) into interstellar space, instructing it to turn its antenna back to Earth – and after 37 hours, we found out it worked! go.nasa.gov/3Y9qP7D
Can you hear me now? 📡
Last night, I reestablished full communications with Earth thanks to some quick thinking and a lot of collaboration. I'm operating normally and remain on my expected trajectory. So glad I can finally phone home.
-V2
More: go.nasa.gov/3Y9qP7D
This matches my current thoughts but I haven't been on bluesky yet to check so maybe hachyderm is the place to be
alex nicksay retweeted
In January I was diagnosed with a weird form of lacrimal cancer & while the US healthcare system being bad isn’t exactly a revelation, I want to give a glimpse at how that system actually functions from a patient & policy standpoint, along with legislative origins & options
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There is absolutely no way in hell that this is practical, and it's probably not even more than an extremely stage-managed demo, but it's also about the most futuristic-looking thing I've seen in years.
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Open protocols … to do what, exactly?
Collect taxes? What about privacy?
Military defense? What about opsec?
Make laws? What about representative democracy?
Enforce them? What about judgment?
Honestly, does anyone in Silicon Valley actually know what gov’ts do?
alex nicksay retweeted
Oh look, Joe Biden didn't replace the politically-appointed Trump prosecutor who ran this investigation from the jump, allowing him to see the whole thing through. nbcnews.com/politics/joe-bid…
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The awesome power and stunning beauty of a humpback whale breaching seen up close.
Credit: Beau Pilgrim
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