leonard

I installed a miner on my home server ~4 years ago. It was too late for CPU mining. Oh well.

[leonard @andro_spock]

LOL!

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Joe Biden is suing the DOJ to stop the release of interview tapes tied to his memoir project.

[leonard @andro_spock]

@tedrigby And then the "tenants", or new owners, will be exempted from property tax. Because we must take the side of the downtrodden!

[Jebus @Jebus]

This unironically

Twitter is a reality controller once you get good enough at it

[Congressman Pat Harrigan @RepPatHarrigan]

For 20 years, a $6 knob that takes one hour to 3D print has been grounding Black Hawk helicopters four times a month, and the contractor responsible won't sell us the part or the IP rights to fix it ourselves.

So instead, American taxpayers have been paying $40,000 every single time to replace the entire system, multiplied by four times a month, for two decades.

That is NOT a procurement problem, that is a shakedown, and it is exactly why right to repair has to be in this year's NDAA.

[Max Zeigler @GrimnirsThegn]

In 3rd grade I wanted to read Three Musketeers because it was worth an entire semester of “reading points” and I didn’t want to have to keep picking books off their dumb list of “approved books”. I wanted to read Redwall instead.

My teacher put up a huge fuss about how I was going to waste a bunch of time “reading” then fail the comprehension quiz because a 3rd grader could never understand a book that advanced.

I got 100% on the quiz so of course she raised my semester threshold of “reading points” to keep me picking books off the list.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

this is the game we are constantly forced to play: 1) identify fraud named after charity, seek to stop the fraud, 2) dishonest, pro-fraud agent screams, “you hate charity,” 3) tens of thousands of normies, who somehow still don’t know what’s happening, come to his defense

[leonard @andro_spock]

So I figure that Trump was looking at the polls, figures he's going to lose Congress in November anyway, and decided, well, it's now or never. Let's do some good.

No, I don't agree with him, but I can see the logic.

[Rolf Degen @DegenRolf]

The already weak links between social media use and mental health problems in adolescents are probably due to the fact that troubled adolescents use social media more intensively.
As of yet, no consensus has been reached about social media impact on youth. Some concerns have been raised that analyses which focus on bivariate correlations, including meta-analyses, may inflate confidence in hypotheses linking social media use to youth mental health.
Some bivariate correlations show small covariances between social media and youth wellness in both directions, but these often disappear in multivariate analyses with theoretical controls Smalll correlations may be artifacts ofother trait or social issues occurring for youth, such as that more neurotic youth may both use more social media and may experience more mental health issues, without the former causing the latter.
The current study tests this in a large sample of [n=15,443] UK youth.
The current study provides no evidence for the belief that social media use, at least in terms of raw hours, is predictive of youth mental health. Cnsistent with prior research, small correlations were found between social media use and wellness, typically accounting for about 1–4% of the variance in various outcomes. However, also consistent with prior research, these correlations disappeared once theoretical control variables were employed in multivariate analyses.
These results support the notion that small correlations in self-reported social media use and mental health are artefactual in nature. The current analyses suggest that trait issues related to emotional regulation and resiliency, arguably opposites of neurotic personality traits, as well as belongingness and, in some cases, school connectedness are key variables of youth success, not social media use.
In these cases, it may be that resilient, emotionally regulated youth feel less need to use social media as much. By contrast, neurotic youth who are experiencing more problems may turn to social media to feel better. By focusing on time spent on social media we may be “blaming the messenger” and ignoring more internal-proximal causes of child mental health issues. Further, evidence suggests youth may overreport mental health symptoms as well, leading to false positive results
There are other possible explanations. For instance, several studies have now pointed out that genetic factors appear to explain the small correlations between social media use and youth mental health;. Rather than social media use causing mental health issues, common genetic factors are related to both.
It is recommended that policy makers hold off on further attempts to restrict social media for youth, given lack of evidence this is a useful policy. Evidence we have now suggests that restricting social media time does not improve mental health. further, restricting youth access to information and socialization may actually backfire, causing more problems than they help.

[Jebus @Jebus]

Hard to swallow that the Americans are both the richest and coolest people on the planet

“I may be poor, but at least I’m not evil like them” is easier to process

[leonard @andro_spock]

@deadalnix Q-e1! protects the knight, so seems the safe option. However, I kinda suck at chess, so I'm probably wrong.

[leonard @andro_spock]

@esrtweet so if you maintain giflib, does that make you qualified to say whether it's pronounced with a hard or soft g?

/knows he shouldn't be posting this
//posts it anyway
///dons flameproof suit

[leonard @andro_spock]

@Devon_Eriksen_ @TArchcast Not just LLMs.

"A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain." -- Lazarus Long

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

they keep telling us that when they’re back in power they’re doing mass incarceration for political dissidents as if this is as normal a thing to say as “we disagree with your views on abortion” or something

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

The most shocking and bizarre thing about the modern world is our extreme wealth compared to all other humans, and indeed all other life, in history. If you aren’t fascinated by how this happened and desperate to preserve it, you haven’t understood it.

[Soren Iverson @soren_iverson]

Google Docs show words left until AI replaces you

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

> DO NOT USE A BIG FIRM

Good advice. In my experience big firms are uniquely poorly equipped to deal with controversial speech cases because they have a lot of clients, and even one of them getting offended by the representation is a management committee problem.

[Nick Szabo @NickSzabo4]

When Odysseus and his soldiers left Troy victorious, they wanted nothing more than a speedy journey home to rejoin with their families. Then a storm blew them off path to the island of the Lotus Eaters. The Lotus Eaters tempted them in the most pleasant and compelling ways to stay on their island, forget about their voyage, forget about their families. The soldiers were only able to resume their voyage to reunite with their families by strong exercise of their willpower.

Like Homer's Lotus Eaters, modern corporations are unending in their skill to tempt us away from our own voyages, away from our own property, away from our cultures, away from our communities, away from our families, away, in the case of corporate feminism, from even starting families.

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

In 2025, the world is burning less, not more

Even Europe burned much less

None of this was reported

What you were told was that the EU burned more because it fits the narrative

(Of course, it is global warming, not EU warming. Here is a much more likely explanation for the EU: https://t.co/A3oYwXbCVi, https://t.co/xLvNp4zsUq)

Data from Global Wildfire Information System https://t.co/iDqlYckvRT

[leonard @andro_spock]

@Jebus @tecmo_bo I'm already in, bud