Gargron shared a status by MrLovenstein

J. L. Westover

MrLovenstein@mastodon.social

Secret Panel HERE ✨ https://patreon.com/posts/99334862

1 hour ago

Gargron shared a status by blogwart

Endzeitbärchi

blogwart@mastodon.social

Bitte denkt bei diesen Temperaturen daran, eine Schale Wasser für durstige KI-Rechenzentren rauszustellen.

3 hours ago

Gargron shared a status by johncarlosbaez

John Carlos Baez

johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz

Bad at lab work? Don't give up hope.

The man who discovered the electron through some of the most delicate vacuum-tube experiments ever performed was a complete disaster with his hands.

J. J. Thomson was hopeless in the lab. His assistant Ebenezer Everett forbade Thomson from touching anything delicate on the grounds that he was “exceptionally helpless with his hands”. According to Ainissa Ramirez:

For such a small man, he was a Victorian bull in a china shop. When he visited his students in the laboratory, they’d wince when he offered help, and quickly tried to move fragile things out of his way. They took deep breaths when he sat on a lab stool to speak. Life was no better at home. J. J.’s wife did not permit him to use a hammer in the house.

Quote from

• Ainissa Ramirez, The Alchemy of Us—How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massaschusetts, 2020.

1 day ago

Gargron shared a status by GIFS_of_Puppets

Muppet GIF of the Day

GIFS_of_Puppets@ohai.social

Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...

1 day ago

Gargron shared a status by mothcub

mothcub

mothcub@mastodon.social

This happened to me in real life.

A girl stares blankly at a bed with a face, which says to her, "I am your bed. Come to me." She replies, "ok".

21 hours ago

Gargron shared a status by fi

Karoline 🐈

fi@chaos.social

Sharknado

1 day ago

Gargron shared a status by xgranade

Cassandra is only carbon now

xgranade@wandering.shop

There's a temptation to be "nuanced" or to hold "complex" views about AI.

I ask that you please reject that temptation and recognize that full and complete abstinence from AI is a complex view that considers the tradeoffs, compromises with the relative extremes of direct action, and that comes from a comprehensive understanding of what AI is.

2 days ago

Gargron shared a status by MikeElgan