jslezak

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by jslezak 11mo ago
Hm I don’t follow. The objects aren’t moving, and what’s the point of pulsing the light
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by jslezak 1y ago
What an appalling comment. You can’t possibly justify what you’re doing so you pretend it’s something “the left” did first. Did the left deport students because they wrote an op-ed article, or went to a protest? Did senior administration of
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A Boy Genius Who Killed 14M Poor People(thebulwark.com)
19 points by jslezak 1y ago|14 comments
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by jslezak 1y ago
What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?
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75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll are now considering leaving the US(nature.com)
25 points by jslezak 1y ago|5 comments
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by jslezak 1y ago
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
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by jslezak 1y ago
They are the billionaire Silicon Valley people who thought it would be cute to use their insane wealth to back a fascist seizure of power by Musk and Trump
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by jslezak 1y ago
Please direct questions on this to Marc Andreessen, Peter Theil, David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, Mark Pincus, Joe Gebbia
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by jslezak 1y ago
We’re about to watch a bunch of “libertarians” and anarcho-capitalists with kindergarten-level opinions about how societies function realize that markets require strong state regulation in order to function There’s a reason there’s no stock
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by jslezak 2y ago
A show-down between a politician and a court whose majority was either appointed by him directly as naked partisans, or by his party At least one of whom flagrantly accepts “gifts” from right wing activist business leaders with business bef
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by jslezak 2y ago
By my count we’re down to 1 co-equal branch then
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by jslezak 2y ago
I must have missed the part where a bill was passed on this Or where the incoming administration announced this policy during their campaign Maybe it was in the announcement where they committed to canceling pediatric cancer research and US
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by jslezak 2y ago
That’s 3.3 million estimated deaths caused by DOGE illegally shutting down a congressionally established and funded agency of the US government: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid
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by jslezak 2y ago
Yes they are. Because Peter Thiel and Elon Musk and half the people in this community have been working for a decade to make that happen. Now joined by Marc Andreesen and a bunch of people who’ve gotten rich off the back of the exact kind o
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by jslezak 2y ago
Has anyone tried it for handwriting? So far Gemini is the only model I can get decent output from for a particular hard handwriting task
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by jslezak 2y ago
Effective US policy is that people must serve whatever corporation wants their labor or else they will be left to die without healthcare, shelter or food Other countries do not have this policy
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by jslezak 2y ago
Exactly. He has a dishonest and predictable schtick. We need skeptics for any industry, but he is just grifting in an ecological niche as a knee-jerk reactionary. There is near-zero value to anything he writes or says in that role
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by jslezak 2y ago
You are saying words. They make little sense however. The total cost of running these institutions can be broken down however you want. If the total doesn’t add up to the necessary amount they can’t operate
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by jslezak 2y ago
Dude this IS the grant funding they’re slashing. The NIH (and other grantmakers) make research grants and the overhead fee from that goes to the university. This is precisely what they’ve cut
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by jslezak 2y ago
Private industry does not run campuses full of graduate courses and basic research that America’s technological prosperity depends on Those overhead fees go to fund that, so universities don’t have to be even mere full of nepo baby donor le
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U. of Pittsburgh pauses Ph.D. admissions amid research funding uncertainty(wesa.fm)
142 points by jslezak 2y ago|13 comments
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by jslezak 2y ago
MAGA dudes would like America to be “Great Again” but would like you not to Google what the top marginal tax rate was in the pre-civil rights era they are taking us back to (hint: it was 90%)
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by jslezak 2y ago
The important thing is that Marc Andreessen still gets 2% of all funds under management regardless of what happens, and his accumulation of material wealth is our priority Your job as a technologist is to try to get into his good graces
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by jslezak 2y ago
What would you need to be paid to accept a 3 percent risk in Russian Roulette?
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by jslezak 2y ago
This has been obvious since day 0, for the same reason that doing elaborate industry-funded R&D to develop piss-extraction technology to filter and sequester piss from your swimming pool will never be more efficient than simply not piss
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by jslezak 2y ago
We need teams of people working on decentralizing any important information sources like this, with mirrors and open protocols that don’t have single points of failure
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by jslezak 2y ago
“Print what we tell you or you’re banned”
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by jslezak 2y ago
Emancipation was politics too bro
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by jslezak 2y ago
Their next move - and the Rubicon none of us can uncross - will be defying the court orders that are inevitably issued to stop the flagrant criminality Once they defy those, it’s done. The enforcement of federal laws including court orders
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by jslezak 2y ago
Pretty clever of the school administrators to spend a year criminalizing protest They did it on behalf of pro-ethnic cleansing donors, who at most write $10 M checks. The schools need those checks to make up for the public funding cuts that

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