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if you wanna call me she/her because of "biological reality", fine, do that. i won't like you, but it's your freedom or whatever. unless it's workplace harassment, because it's not freedom of expression when you're giving me shit while i'm tryna earn a living.

the difference is that top surgery, again, has been objectively proven to improve the wellbeing of trans people. this has been researched for decades around the world.

just because breast tissue is naturally occurring and not causing any physical harm doesn't mean it's bad to remove. would you say the same to cis men (or 'biological males', whatever you wanna call them) with gynecomastia? that's a condition where men develop breast growth. it can have a variety of causes, but the actual tissue doesn't cause any physical harm. would you tell then they can't have the tissue removed because of that? i mean... it's technically naturally occurring.

gynecomastia is the reason top surgery was first invented, by the way.

and if anyone would like to compare it to people cutting off healthy limbs or that one woman intentionally blinding herself then... idk what to tell you man. not having tits isn't a disability.

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Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

Things this article has taught me:

This same order of adjectives more or less applies to languages around the world.  “It’s possible that these elements of universal grammar clarify our thought in some way,” says Barbara Partee, a professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Yet when the human race tacitly decided that shape words go before color words go before origin words, it left no record of its rationale.

One theory is that the more specific term always falls closer to the noun. But that doesn’t explain everything in adjective order.

Another theory is that as you get closer to the noun, you encounter adjectives that denote more innate properties. In general, nouns pick out the type of thing we’re talking about, and adjectives describe it,” Partee told me. She observes that the modifiers most likely to sit right next to nouns are the ones most inclined to serve as nouns in different contexts: Rubber duck. Stone wall.

Rules are made to be broken. Switching up the order of adjectives allows you to redistribute emphasis. (If you wish to buy the black small purse, not the gray one, for instance, you can communicate your priorities by placing color before size).  Scrambling the order of adjectives also helps authors achieve a sense of spontaneity, of improvising as they go. Wolfe discovers such a rhythm, a feeling-his-way quality, when he discusses his childhood recollection of “brown tired autumn earth” and a “flat moist plug of apple tobacco.”

Brain scans have discovered that your brain has to work harder to read adjectives in the “wrong” order.

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1. Plastic waste could be cheaply recycled using water and oxygen

“Researchers have found a way to break down everyday plastic waste into valuable chemicals using nothing but water and oxygen, with no catalyst needed. Stirring melted plastic into water scatters it into microscopic droplets, and the chemistry that cuts the tough polymer chains begins on its own. […] The same approach handled a messy range of real waste [… and] ran just as well in tap water and seawater as in purified lab water[….]”

2. A Brazilian bay’s surprise shark nursery sparks conservation project

“A fishing community in Brazil’s southeastern Ilha Grande bay once saw the blacktip sharks […] as potential food. That perception has shifted, at least in part thanks to scientists who discovered that a nearby cove is frequented by dozens of pregnant blacktip sharks, prompting efforts to protect the area. […] The scheme also aims to start environmental education activities in schools so that sharks will come to be seen as part of the region’s natural heritage.”

3. Defying Trump, Baltimore Rugby Players Refuse To Comply With Trans Sports Ban Demand

“[... T]he new rules stipulate complaints about trans athletes can only come from an opposing team. As The Banner reports: “The Capital Union teams decided not to tell on one another, rendering the ban functionally meaningless in regionwide games.” [...] Countless other rugby teams are also speaking out against the ban, including the Golden Badgers of Golden, Colorado—a Division 1 team, meaning it competes at the most elite level.”

4. How a community is helping sea turtles hatch in the Philippines

“When they find a nest, the eggs are dug up, counted, placed carefully in a bucket and brought to a hatchery. In past seasons, researchers found that most, if not all, nests left “in situ” on the beach were eaten by dogs or flooded by the tide. [...] In the early mornings or evenings, researchers and local patrollers take the hatchlings that surfaced that day, sometimes a hundred at once, and place them on the shore, where they begin their race to the West Philippine Sea.”

5. Researchers unlock new path for ultra low-cost solar by swapping out scarce and costly metal in PV cells

“An international team of researchers has successfully built the first high-performance, commercial-scale tandem solar cell that does not rely on indium, a scarce and expensive metal, replacing it instead with [tin oxide,] a material that is far more abundant and costs one per cent as much. [...] “Remarkably, we scaled this technology up to a 207.9 cm2 mini-module, obtaining an outstanding certified efficiency of 31.0 per cent.””

We need more of this. Public shaming in front of their families. The nerve of the war-criminal: please don't tell my children I played a huge role in the mass-murder of children.

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