Brain organoids, veganism, feminism, sometimes research & parenting life. Ruthless cosmopolitan. Critics rave: "Least annoying bad takes I've seen all week"
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23 Jul 2023
Because sentient animals evolved to pursue their own flourishing, not our instrumental goals, any workflow that exploits them as biological machines can in theory be made more efficient, reproducible, and humane by replacing the animals with designed-to-purpose synthetic systems.
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In awe of what the right-wing male brain can conclude from data showing that women in heterosexual relationships—but not men—dramatically improve their partners' overall health
Men are truly the sensitive and loving gender- a guy not having a gf has an 89% higher chance of dying
No effect on women
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"Translated by Grok from Hebrew" is a good meme, but idk if I've ever been as genuinely shocked #onhere as seeing this crowd of Saudis—in the big '26—guffawing about the idea of their uppity slaves wanting to see their IDs, get married, or (imagine!) schedule a half-day off
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As this longstanding trend continues, the biomedical research community has a choice: will we respect the wishes of the taxpayers we serve with a full-court press to develop and validate non-animal methods? Or go down as a field griping about how the plebs don't share our values?
History made.
For the first time since Gallup began tracking the issue, more Americans say medical testing on animals is morally wrong (48%) than morally acceptable (45%).
Public expectations are changing. The future of science is human-relevant.
Read more: navs.org/newsroom/public-opi…
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A reasonable Q: is this driven by an increase in pro-animal sentiment that we could try to honor, or an anti-science turn it's pointless to try to appease?
This data is limited/noisy but supports the former: opposition to hESC research is *not* rising, while anti-fur did tick up
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Musk: Blacks are killing Whites left and right. We must launch a race war now or die. Full support to the masked arsonist lynch mobs
Popehat: Musk appears to be trying to get minorities killed
Singal: Pfft. Get a load of this hysterical noodlehead lib!
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Common trend in etymology where neutral to positive words about women ("hussy", "tart", "wench", "madam") undergo "pejoration" when associated with disapproved sexual conduct, and respectable uses are quickly abandoned to avoid innuendo.
Neat ig that this can apply to men too
Jun 12
1970s: "Do you like faggots"
Community note
In this video the word 'faggot' is used to discuss the dish, not used as derogatory insult towards gay people.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(f…
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The Afropessimists are right that in our hegemonic semiotics it's hard to even express the idea of something that's black when it's good and white when it's bad, but they do exist. Some Black power movement should adopt the humble, delicious, & hard-to-uproot mulberry as a symbol
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Trying to start indoctrinating the 2.5yo with some version of secular-Judeo-Kantian pro-animalism. Not sure how much is getting across, but she does keep demanding "the story about there was nothing at all"
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Are the following morally acceptable?
🟨 Abortion
🟨 Physician-assisted suicide
🟩 Homosexuality
🟩 Changing one’s gender
🟥 Pornography
🟩 Divorce
🟩 Birth control
🟩 Pre-marital sex
🟥 Polygamy
🟨 Gambling
🟥 Death penalty
🟥 Medical testing on animals
🟨 Cloning
Jun 10
Are the following morally acceptable?
🟩Abortion
🟨 Physician-assisted suicide
🟩 Homosexuality
🟩 Changing one’s gender
🟩 Pornography
🟩 Divorce
🟩 Birth control
🟩 Pre-marital sex
🟩Polygamy
🟩Gambling
🟨 Death penalty
🟨 Medical testing on animals
🟩 Cloning
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Objectifying subjects is always bad and problematic, sorry, especially when you hook it directly into the limbic system. Marriage is, contra Kant, not in fact an effective safeguard against objectification, but if were premarital sex would be bad. (Hookup culture is bad.)
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And of course, intentionally inflicting specific kinds of suffering and death on conscious innocents, on the grounds that those specific kinds of suffering and death are bad in morally important (reason-giving) ways, is about as purely self-undermining as a maxim can be
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Among my mom's rare and based takes is that being a bodybuilder or strongman is straightforwardly selfish: you're choosing to consume 2-3x as many calories as you actually need, requiring supersize clothes/bed/car/etc, all out of vanity.
The critique here seems similar
Jun 10
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"Why are you eating a whole cow's worth of food, in order to intentionally make yourself cow-sized. That's lowkey kinda disgusting. Other people could be eating that you know"
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Macrophysiological System🐀 retweeted
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somerville ma is run by people like this and guys who are single-issue voters for bike lanes and unfortunately it's probably one of the best cities in this country
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wtf I love the concentration of economic power in the hands of idiosyncratic individuals now
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mystery buyer
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Macrophysiological System🐀 retweeted
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It would *actually* be useful to contact your senator, especially if you're in one of these states, and ask them to oppose the Save Our Bacon Act, which forces all states to allow pork from pigs in crates so small they can't turn around.
They take constituent opinion seriously!
are the Senate Ag committee members priority targets for calls (and other forms of constituent pressure) for now?
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Unpopular opinion apparently, but if Anthropic isn't confident they can prevent their superhuman-level "find and exploit vulnerabilities" specialist from designing bioweapons, I fully support their blocking me from asking it questions about anything biochemical
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All of bio-ML twitter is up in arms about not getting to play with the new toy, and just taking for granted that a service provider should care more about pleasing its customers than imposing risk on the public as an externality.
Rare corporation W/professional community L
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"They should simply solve alignment instead" uh ok
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