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Anybody have a source on why this was retracted?
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Oct 8, 2023 13:18
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The discussion here seems to think the author completely misread a slide presented at trial and used that as the jumping off point for a bunch of incorrect conclusions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37802116
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Oct 8, 2023 13:25
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This is a great article about the late great SF author Octavia Butler, all the messiness and difficulties of her life, just full of surprises: https://www.vulture.com/article/octavia-e-butler-profile.html This is a much shorter piece, a review of Michael Lewis's recent book on Sam Bankman-Fried, which dismantles the book and makes SBF look even worse: https://airmail.news/issues/2023-10-7/the-journalist-and-the-fraudster Behind a sign-up wall but there are ways to deal.
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Oct 9, 2023 16:57
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https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/4021/the-dark-side-of-buddhism Great article about the dark side of Buddhism
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Nov 7, 2023 03:44
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SimonChris posted:The Woman on the Line - Every day, the calls come. She can tell quickly who might die. Holy poo poo. Pro-click right there, that's an amazing life-saving service.
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Nov 7, 2023 03:59
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‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza
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Dec 3, 2023 20:45
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Ghosts on the Glacierquote:HIGH ON ACONCAGUA, the Western Hemisphere’s highest mountain, the shrinking Polish Glacier spits out what it once devoured — in this case, a 50-year-old Nikomat 35-millimeter camera.
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Dec 10, 2023 19:51
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Cool article, guess we’ll never know. I have that exact camera, the Nikon Nikormat, I inherited from my father, and it’s a loving tank. If any camera could hold up to being frozen in a glacier for almost 50 years, it’s that one. Takes great pictures too, but you can’t get the poisonous mercury battery anymore that runs the light meter.
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Dec 11, 2023 00:16
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JnnyThndrs posted:Cool article, guess we’ll never know. I like that at the start of the article I was like "ha ha another stupid conspiracy theory" and by the end I was like 
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Dec 11, 2023 09:07
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That escalated quickly The unresolved mystery about what happened in those hours between the last photos and the deaths is going to lurk in my brain indefinitely.
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Dec 11, 2023 09:35
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coolusername posted:That escalated quickly Yeah. There's just something about deaths of climbers in the mountains that is so indefinably, tantalisingly horrible and interesting, especially as the photos taken hours before show such cheerful faces. The article itself says "Norms shift at high altitude", and there is something very terrifying about that.
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Dec 11, 2023 13:11
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Yeah I was also going to dismiss it as yet another climbing accident but uh, the injury patterns.
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Dec 11, 2023 18:46
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https://twitter.com/emilymbadger/status/1734218597210247328 Why Are So Many American Pedestrians Dying at Night?
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Dec 11, 2023 18:54
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Florida pedestrian hits are up 75%, compared to a popilation increase of 17%, and it's basically all people getting hit at night? I am gonna blame old boomers losing their nightvision
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Dec 11, 2023 20:14
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I live in Florida and I’ve witnessed multiple people blatantly walking into flowing traffic in the middle of the street not looking either way, while being less than a block away from a light and a crosswalk. I don’t understand it. Like yes, we’re not pedestrian friendly and I would like more mass transit and pedestrian safety, but I’ve seen plenty of people with an apparent death wish ignoring every safety measure and just walking into a potential death trap. But I’ve only seen it happen at night.
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Dec 11, 2023 22:28
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Cacafuego posted:I live in Florida and I’ve witnessed multiple people blatantly walking into flowing traffic in the middle of the street not looking either way, while being less than a block away from a light and a crosswalk. I don’t understand it. I also blame the pedestrians for the increase in pedestrian deaths, thankfully with the increasing deaths it is a problem that will solve itself
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Dec 11, 2023 23:04
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Cacafuego posted:Florida Found the reason 
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Dec 12, 2023 13:32
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Tunicate posted:Florida pedestrian hits are up 75%, compared to a popilation increase of 17%, and it's basically all people getting hit at night? People looking at phones People loving up their night vision by looking at a phone when walking around at night ?
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FrozenVent posted:Yeah I was also going to dismiss it as yet another climbing accident but uh, the injury patterns. Feel like there's a possibility high altitude hypoxia and hallucinations caused someone to kill those two, but who even knows if they realized it. Then the questions come and people think to themselves "I don't think that actually happened, I can't remember anything clearly, I'd never do that" etc
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Dec 14, 2023 23:04
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He spent his life building a $1 million stereo. The real cost was unfathomable This one has some turns.
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Jan 16, 2024 00:54
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What a colossal dickhead. ‘Die slow, motherfucker, die slow’.
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Jan 18, 2024 03:41
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He doesn't give the impression of someone who really, really loved audio. He seemed more like a nerd who was afraid of and incompetent at every aspect of life that wasn't part of his obsession. I would simply not be an emotionally immature egomaniac.
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Jan 18, 2024 17:02
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The Man in Room 117 - Andrey Shevelyov would rather live on the street than take antipsychotic medication. Should it be his decision to make? (archive link with no paywall)
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Feb 1, 2024 11:35
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Whole lot of child abuse has taken place in Tasmanian institutions.
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/a-teens-fatal-plunge-into-the-london-underworld A Teen’s Fatal Plunge Into the London Underworld Fascinating long read about a London teenager’s apparent suicide and his involvement with the city’s seedy underworld.
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SimonChris posted:The Man in Room 117 - Andrey Shevelyov would rather live on the street than take antipsychotic medication. Should it be his decision to make? (archive link with no paywall) This was a difficult read, good lord. I can see no happy ending here for Andrey, and my overwhelming feeling is just one of deep sorrow for his mother and stepfather, whose lives have been consumed by his illness as much as his own has.
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Podcasters Took Up Her Sister’s Murder Investigation. Then They Turned on Her. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/magazine/murder-podcast-debbie-williamson.html quote:“People think it’s a movie,” Moore said, once we all had coffee and pastries and had found a table inside. “I don’t think people think logically when they get into those groups. They think the absolute worst.”
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nonathlon posted:Podcasters Took Up Her Sister’s Murder Investigation. Then They Turned on Her. Non-paywalled: https://archive.is/NRmIi
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I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a cop
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Feb 7, 2024 19:44
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lol a buddy taught at a community college for a few years & would often relate how students felt the need to over explain toilet trouble absences, glad to see it’s a well known phenomenon in academia.
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Feb 16, 2024 15:22
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I feel like the person who wrote the article forgot that a lot of jobs need actual rigid standards or there can be serious consequences. For example, you wouldn't want an architect who only had a more abstract evaluation of their skills. There is a lot of fundamental knowledge they need to know. A gap in their knowledge could be deadly. I know the writer argues that its not their job to evaluate a person's skills, but its unfair to a student to spend lots of time and money on education only to find out at the end they don't have all the skills needed for their job. There is also the argument that universities should be about education not about getting a job, but unless you are a rich trust fund baby who will never have to work in their life, that's an unrealistic expectation. Granted something like humanities would probably be able to get away with a more abstract grade. Not that evaluations are perfect or anything. People will still slip through the cracks, but at least its something.
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Feb 16, 2024 17:23
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Maybe in business school the time you spend in the classroom is sufficient to learn the material, but in real classes you need to spend 3x the time inside of the class on learning and applying the class knowledge. You need some way to carrot or stick students to spend time outside of class learning the material, which will then build on the next classes material, which will build on the next classes material, etc much much faster than standardized tests can measure. Grading sucks and dealing with angle-shooting students sucks but if you don't have a grading system in place those angle-shooting students will just not learn as much as they need and be lost in future classes or lost at whatever test or job years later actually required them to learn it.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:I feel like the person who wrote the article forgot that a lot of jobs need actual rigid standards or there can be serious consequences. For example, you wouldn't want an architect who only had a more abstract evaluation of their skills. There is a lot of fundamental knowledge they need to know. A gap in their knowledge could be deadly. I know the writer argues that its not their job to evaluate a person's skills, but its unfair to a student to spend lots of time and money on education only to find out at the end they don't have all the skills needed for their job. There is also the argument that universities should be about education not about getting a job, but unless you are a rich trust fund baby who will never have to work in their life, that's an unrealistic expectation. Granted something like humanities would probably be able to get away with a more abstract grade. So yeah if you don't think the stuff you do in academia matters why should you care whether or not your students actually learn anything.
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nonathlon posted:Podcasters Took Up Her Sister’s Murder Investigation. Then They Turned on Her. That podcast duo seem like real pieces of poo poo
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Feb 17, 2024 20:00
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You know, I really enjoy my murder podcasts but most of the people that try to participate in the hunting of the criminals just suck. They're like 95% nutty, bored conspiracy theorists and they latch on to the craziest poo poo. Like there's a reason they don't have jobs that take actual investigating.
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Scathach posted:You know, I really enjoy my murder podcasts but most of the people that try to participate in the hunting of the criminals just suck. They're like 95% nutty, bored conspiracy theorists and they latch on to the craziest poo poo. Like there's a reason they don't have jobs that take actual investigating. In this case it seems the podcasters were egging their audience on, actively disparaging the family to their fans in retaliation for the family members not cooperating with them enough, and taking credit for unrelated breakthroughs in cases. This is how they treated the sister of another murder victim. quote:They have continued to criticize Moore as well: for her appearance on a “Dateline” episode about Gould more recently and, during Miller’s sentencing, for not putting flowers on her sister’s grave — as Bucholtz and Jared did that day. The reason she didn’t, Moore told us that morning, was because she had taken her younger sister, Danielle, to the hearing, and Danielle was on her fourth round of chemotherapy at the time and needed to go home and rest. Danielle died this year. The murder victim in question is the one who's case they claim credit for solving. The way they've inserted themselves into her story at the expense of her surviving family is skin crawling. mycatscrimes has a new favorite as of 20:18 on Feb 17, 2024 |
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I don’t know how he made it through the entire article with only one dead grandma reference; when my wife taught and I TA’d we called the first major assignment due date “dead grandmother season” because wow it happen consistently. Then we weren’t at that stage of our lives anymore, so we stopped celebrating dead grandmother season. But there happens to be a herpetologist phd with exactly my name, and I got emails for him from time-to-time. I knew he picked up a job as an adjunct when I once again started getting the traditional October dead grandma season emails. Because of course the worst students just sent emails to <ourname>@gmail.com talking about their beloved dead grandma and how they will be late with the assignment they had a month to do.
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Remulak posted:I don’t know how he made it through the entire article with only one dead grandma reference; when my wife taught and I TA’d we called the first major assignment due date “dead grandmother season” because wow it happen consistently. I had the best excuse ever for one of these. Professor was like “NO LATE SUBMISSIONS ARE ACCEPTED WITHOUT OBITUARY OR DOCTOR’S NOTE NO EXCEPTIONS” in the syllabus and I got to send an email going “hi I believe I have an exception. The date I’m supposed to present for our class, I have been called to testify at a committee for our federal government. I am legally required to attend by our parliament and there is no one who can substitute for me.” I don’t know if it was just a completely new one to the prof or if the nature of it stunned her but I got back “yep sure one week later for the assignment?” Didn’t even need to submit proof (not that it would have been hard, I had my official request to testify and poo poo)
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https://aeon.co/essays/the-strange-and-turbulent-global-world-of-ant-geopolitics It’s about invasive, global, unicolonial fire ants. It’s also about how misleading the language and metaphors we use to describe their world is.
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