#NeedsMoreLikes

[chgoliz]

Neurodiversity Think Different

This is a big subject, and there are a few questions in this that need answering. To a first approximation, yes. This is because it (in the form of the ABA associations) is really good at marketing itself to desperate parents and bewildered doctors as the last best and only hope for those poor doomed children. And the association, and its halo of “researchers”, and the parents who think it helped, and the doctors who read all the papers, all combine with the lobbyists who schmooze with the pol…

[FGD135]

A to-the-point explanation for why Musk bought Twitter

I think the term we are all looking for is “cargo cult engineer”. A sort of engineering mindset that imitates but doesn’t really grasp engineering. As if the idea of what an engineer is comes from reading early Dilbert strips instead of actually trying to understand how to build something. I am also reminded of how engineers are different from scientists in many definitions: the “scientist” is all about discovering, the “engineer” is about applying that which was already discovered. Few are onl…

[MerelyGifted]

Turns out Bob Dylan didn't actually hand-sign the $600 "hand-signed" copies of his new book

So what you’re saying is his fans are unhappy that he went electric?

[Sally_Mahoney]

Woman on plane bit fellow passenger and attempted to open the exit door mid-flight because Jesus told her to

Weird how Jesus never seems to appear to people and suggest they sit down and shut the fuck up.

[anon52120741]

New toner cartridges are 20% full and report themselves empty at 15%. What's going on?

The cartridge is actually entirely full; but shareholder value doesn’t absorb x-rays.

[smulder]

Why dust might make or break future human presence on the Moon

I hate how initially appealing these “let’s do x first” arguments are, when the logical extension is so absurd. “Let’s stop spending money on foreign aid until we fix our schools.” “Let’s stop spending money on education until everyone is fed.”

[Sally_Mahoney]

Horses were in North America before Europeans. Don’t tell Tucker Carlson

DNA research is science, she deserves props for doing it. Science, correctly implemented and understood, shreds bias instead of perpetuating it.

[MrShiv]

Kanye tells Jewish people: "Forgive Hitler today. Let it go, and stop trying to force it on other people."

I am not sure why it matters. When most of Italy and Germany got behind fascism, it wasn’t like it was a mass mental-illness event. It’s quite possible for people to do and say horrible things because they actually believe them, not because they have a chemical imbalance in their brain. Trying to pass off his words as the rantings of a mentally ill person 1- Does a disservice to the millions of people (like me) who are struggling with mental illness, yet somehow manage not to have anti-semiti…

TBH, the comment already has lots of likes. However, it needs more.

[MerelyGifted]

Warnock wins Georgia senate runoff

What’s the point of having an Olympic swimming pool full of oil industry cash if you can’t swim in it!?!

[FGD135]

Days Gone director blames reception on 'woke' critics

Could this be the quote of the day? The week? The month? The year even?

[chenille]

@DukeTrout

Musk offered to buy Twitter on an impulse, like buying expired, discounted Paqui ghost pepper chips at a bodega. But his friends double-dog dared him to eat the whole bag, and now that he’s in the ER getting his stomach pumped, people are trying to explain how that was his plan all along.

This analogy.

[milliefink]

This crowbar.

Why Tom Morello and Ted Nugent are friends

There are rare exceptions. For instance, if a fascist is about to kill someone, it might be a good idea to argue with them as a distraction while a friend sneaks up behind them with a crowbar. And if you think that’s not really what debate means…that’s all it means to them. A distraction while the other fascists go out and hurt people. As Mindy and Melizmatic say, they never engage in good faith.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Free speech foe Elon Musk suspends Washington Post's Taylor Lorenz for asking him for a comment

I’m shocked, shocked that someone who’s been ingratiating himself with the far rights is doing the very thing that he’s accusing other people of doing.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Redditor's share they're list of most annoying grammatical error's

Their they’re, yule bee awl write.

[FGD135]

Russian "meat magnate" who criticized Putin dies in fall from hotel window

Magnates, how do they work? looks up definition for magnate Turns out, they don’t.

[Sally_Mahoney]

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/alex-lubins-book-never-ending-war-on-terror-explains-it/238604/4?u=sally_mahoney

[anon52120741]

I always thought that magnates were repulsed by prols

[milliefink]

Indeed. As well they should be.

Egads, the prols are revolting!

[gero]

In a challenge to Google, Microsoft is adding ChatGPT to Bing

As someone who spent 25 years in AI, I take strong exception to this characterization by the Times. This is unequivocally false. The whiz bang AI chatbots and art generators we see now are not creative. They are not creating or synthesizing new information. They are elaborate statistical models that are averaging all the existing art/words currently in the world. They’re more like the median of all previous creativity, rather than creating it. We may never get to the point of AI being truly c…

[smulder]

@docosc

Literally every player in the league will be injured in the course of their employment. In fact, depending on how you count it, it could be hundreds of % due to every one being injured multiple times.