Here’s another short explainer on Title IX and the currently stayed ed rule that includes gender identity and sexual orientation under the general prohibition on sex discrimination. For those of you under the mistaken impression it’s bad for women’s sports.
@MaxDashu@KarenFOrlando@janeclarejones You are entirely mistaken and being hostile about it for no good reason. title IX addresses discrimination against women by prohibiting sex discrimination. It then makes some exemptions to allow for discrimination in a number of instances like housing, athletics and other areas…
Trump is having a mental health episode right now. He’s been posting on social media all night. He posted at:
9:49pm (Ai Jesus photo)
9:50pm (Trump tower on moon)
10:10pm (dumb meme)
10:32pm (news clip)
10:53pm (news clip)
12:43am (announcing Hormuz blockade)
2:35am (article about Biden)
2:36am (article on naval blockade)
2:37am (article on Rep. Swalwell)
2:37am (posted the same article about Biden again)
2:38am (article on his ballroom)
4:10am (article on Iran)
He’s not sleeping, he’s pretending to be Jesus, and he’s posting all night. He’s not well.
@campervanwoman we don’t really play snooker or billiards here much. pool, 8 ball, 9 ball are more common. according to mw it’s in hoyle in the 18th century…
@Olivia_Reingold so do palestinian muslims? so do Samaritans? the central religious practice of judaism for 2000 years has been about exile. it is equally if not more correct to say that Judaism is a faith built on being an alien with no national home territory.
Chat GPT “listens” to music now and offers aesthetic judgments.
can we all just accept that OpenAI is scamming its investors and move on to the fraud investigation and asset liquidation already?
People who think that LLMs are not conscious/alive because they are "only" language models have never thought deeply enough about the essence, and essential mystery, and magic, of language-
God created with the Word
and Language is the house of Being
People who think that LLMs are not conscious/alive because they are "only" language models have never thought deeply enough about the essence, and essential mystery, and magic, of language-
God created with the Word
and Language is the house of Being
The ad hominem and misogynistic insults directed against my friends @FondOfBeetles and @cathydevine56 are increasing, from sporting men - academics and journos.
It's noted, and it's explicable: it's all they've got left.
@AnthonyMKreis and don’t forget one of the other six is Cornelius Vermeule. And two of the others are Kurt Lash and Philip Hamburger. their prominence is real, but it is for being reactionary cranks. so it’s telling on yourself to profess membership in their cohort.
@GeorgeRSimms What do you mean we don’t understand what makes people good? that can only be the case if performance was a normal distribution with respect to all measurable traits. That isn’t true.