Unnamed TNG skant beefcake

Tired of streaming services?

Don't want to spend $$$ on physical media?

Not sure how to avoid getting caught while doing piracy?

What if you could just borrow a disc with the TV show or movie you want on it?

WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THAT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY ALREADY EXISTS

Your anti-AI rage is completely justified

Democrats won't oppose Trump when he does the worst things because they think it gives them an electoral advantage when he does something bad

Republicans won't oppose Trump when he does the worst things because they think it gives them an electoral advantage to be on his side

Great political system, everyone 10/10, no notes

I got a non-ironic "This is the worst that AI will ever be" from someone I know today

Yes, just as Google Search got better and better, so too will AI

Reminder to everyone: You gotta ask, when someone talks about a technology "getting better": better at what, by which metrics, better for whom?

Pet peeve: scales where "meets expectations" isn't the top of the scale

Thinking about all those military officers who loved Star Trek and enlisted in part because they saw this idealized utopian military as kids

Wishing that they would have also internalized the "We're going to disobey on principle these corrupt/genocidal orders coming from command" part that you see in Star Trek too

Many AI's are sentient, by which I mean, many things that are called AI's, are actually remote human operators that are hidden by computer interfaces so that nobody has The Bad Feeling about the exploitative nature of their relationships to this kind of labour

My big problem with American Evangelical Christianity is that its core philosophy, that your actions don't matter and only your in-group inclusion or exclusion determines your moral value, that philosophy maps really neatly onto fascism and it's a big part of why the worst people are in power right now and will never face justice

The gallant crew of the Enterprise travels through time to Palestine, Earth in the year 30 and accidentally set in motion a series of events leading to the death of a local, and then-unpopular god

They tell them that he will "live on in their hearts"

Data takes this too literally and resuscitates the body, telling only Troi before they return to the 24th century

Troi is unfamiliar with ancient Earth history and tells him "I'm sure no one will even notice"

Critiquing bad Twilight Zone episode premises:

What are the chances that the astronauts would be off-planet at *just* the right time to avoid the nuclear war?

I did one productivity today

I made a tool for categorizing medical evidence slightly easier to use

It isn't world-changing but it will help

And the software that I wrote would fit on a 3.5" floppy diskette

It's useful and good and small because I told a computer what to do with my meat brain

I hate that I have to explain this, but for things like "operating a machine that convinces children to kill themselves and others"

If we don't treat it like a crime, with jail time for individual people

They'll treat the children's lives like just another cost of doing business

I love my Nextcloud on a Raspberry Pi setup

But there's a dozen reasons why I can't recommend anyone else set one up

Also, I can imagine a world, not too different from our own where these things don't require years of experience to set up, backup and maintain

Tell the people in your life who are important to you that you love them

Them: Hmm you have a body? I'm gonna ask you to be much more ashamed of it, or I'm gonna get weird about it and make it your problem

(Screaming and screaming)

It's a Monday and it's a new week

Maybe you can make a safe space for someone in it

Definitions:

• MSL: Field-based Medical Science Liaison roles focused on scientific exchange with healthcare professionals.
• RWE: Real-world evidence, HEOR, epidemiology, and safety surveillance research roles.
• Trials: Clinical research and CRO roles involved in study execution and trial coordination.
• Other: Roles that don't fit neatly elsewhere, including patient engagement, science communications, and medical education.

PDFs that are multi-hundred pages of low-res scanned images of text that I have to read are proof that god exists and he hates me in particular, probably because of how funny I find jokes about deicide to be

Is there a good iOS Fedi client yet?

I've been using Toot

And it's mostly okay

Until there's alt text 😬

hoax, n., pl. hoaces