Pekka Lund

pekka.bsky.social

16 August 2025 21:05

I'm still waiting for anyone to specify even a single thing for which consciousness is necessary. I think people used to more widely accept that (p-)consciousness is, at best, a non-functional side-effect. Now, due to LLMs, many are desperately trying to portray it as functional again.

Mike Sowden

mikeachim.bsky.social

16 August 2025 08:46

Today, Florence Nightingale is famously known as the founder of modern nursing, for her work as a trainer of nurses and as ‘the lady with a lamp’ during the Crimean War, working to improve hygiene and reduce suffering. What's often overlooked is that she was also a *pioneering statistician*. 1/

Julian Sanchez

normative.bsky.social

16 August 2025 08:46

I have lost all patience with the apparently unshakeable conviction that striking a reasonable, moderate pose means assuming the sincerity of transparently pretextual horseshit. Donald Trump does not care about reducing crime in DC. He is testing and normalizing paramilitary deployments in cities.

Michael

fleerultra.bsky.social

16 August 2025 08:46

it is indefensible and again illustrates that certain dems, many of whom make up congressional leadership, view politics as a friend v enemy battle against large portions of their own base, but not with republicans