BrainBow65

I'm halfway through Blood Meridian right now and I've already decided I need to immediately reread it

The Face of the Deep by Jacob Twersky. It's a novel written by a blind man about blind characters published in 1954. Its just a really interesting view into society at that time, the writer's views, and the character's struggles. Its not the best book but its certainly unique

I struggle with this too. I'm reading White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo right now though and it's main suggestion is to just oppose racism when you see it. Call white people out on their behavior even if it makes everyone uncomfortable and makes you unpopular.

Also, to listen to feedback from people of color without getting defensive. No one is going to be perfect and we live in a system which is constantly socializing us, it's ok if we fuck up but just try and fix it when you learn better.

Bribes from dictators

It's worse than just using a new tool though. By definition LLMs use the statistically most likely option (with minor variation for flavor). People are literally asking a statistics bot what password can I use that is the most likely?

Yes! AI should be working for the user. I wish there were more projects doing this.

The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Bloom! It's so good!

Ok it sounds like they got functioning vessels after xenografting into mice (which has its own issues) and it mentioned connecting to micro fluidic chambers in the future for full ex vivo, but they don't have a functioning model for that yet. It's a very interesting and promising area of research but with practical lab work nowadays it's just not feasible. I hope they're able to get a full ex vivo model working soon though, that would be really exciting!

So glad someone already said it. I'm a neuroscience PhD student who works with brain organoids and the article is absolutely ridiculous.

Also, I'm not aware of any labs or research that has been able to produce brain organoids with functional blood vessels. Having a necrotic core is normal for old organoids.

The best movie ever, Reefer Madness musical (2005). It's why I really find her participating in a genuinely religious project so ridiculous

I don't think people here mind paying for stuff I think it's more that enshittification and subscription based business models should not be supported.