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@sorceressofmath
Scientific atheist. Self-governing cybercom. FALGSC. Marxist-Biocosmist-Immortalist. LFTR enjoyer. Abolitionist. Flight software dev. Cyborg. #BigComputerMafia
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It brings me no pleasure to report that I've written a reflection on New Atheism in the year of our Lord 2025
That is indeed their rhetoric, but the empirical fact is that the colonists were every bit as homophobic as the Ugandans.
almost all domestic rhetoric surrounding anti LGBTQ laws within Uganda revolve around supposed “colonial” (which is ironically understood to mean “British”) western influences corrupting indigenous Ugandan society to argue that the proponents of these laws are colonialists…
Homosexuality wasn't exactly accepted in Uganda during the colonial period, either, so this is just a non sequitur.
i’m not sure how you could look at what is happening in Uganda today with respect to criminalization of homosexuality, and conclude that colonialism was a bad thing
Funny that, I've asked Deepseek about the number of labour hours needed to build an EPR reactor, and then compare that to the same energy production for a system with solar and wind, and a third scenario where I do that assuming lead-cooled fast reactors instead, assuming the…
Genetically engineered cells. Used to make vaccines. That prevent cancer. Science can stop cervical cancer. You’re welcome.
Cervical cancer is being defeated thanks to two things: Pap smears and the Gardasil vaccine. HPV vaccination is so effective that many countries will have practically eliminated cervical cancer in the next two decades. Here's why🧵
character limits on twitterlikes mean that the first thing to go when your point gets even slightly complex is the caveats and qualifiers, which contributes to the toxic nature of discourse. we are all structurally discouraged from incorporating nuance.
A lot of people debate degrowth. Generally I find it tiresome because 1) who cares what one reads between the lines of Marx's later writing and 2) nobody agrees on what it means. To me, though, the below response to my article on New York public sector-led nuclear development,…
On the one hand, Christians have overturned reproductive rights in the US, banned homosexuality in Uganda, and let's not even mention that whole colonialism thing. On the other, a few people on r/atheism were *really* annoying in 2011. I literally can't tell the difference 🤷🏼♀️
“Atheists actually do believe in God, and when they say that they don’t, they’re just lying” has to be one of the stupidest things anyone can say, and yet I see theists on this site say it constantly.
Christians be like ‘You need to read the Bible’ like that’s some mic-drop. Fam, I’ve read it. Front to back. It’s violent mythology dressed as moral wisdom. 🚮 Bronze Age rules for a species that can split atoms. You don’t follow it either, you just quote the bits that…
I bring a “all sentient organisms/beings have some inherent moral value, nature only has instrumental moral value” to everyday conversation that people don’t really like.
This is your brain on copyright brain
THIS IS TAKING ME OUUUTTTTT
There's been a psy-op to get zoomers and gen alpha to love the boot. It didn't work on gen X and millennials in the early 2000s with all those annoying RIAA anti-piracy ads, but now the online hustle culture and closed DRM video game stores is finally cracking it.
Mining requirements for clean energy is way lower than for fossil fuels.
It’s true that fossil fuels have enabled an insane level of development, but we now have better options. These options need less destructive mining, reduce air pollution, and mitigate climate change. It’s just human progress.
MIT researchers pulled off something rare, they updated an LLM’s weights during test-time and saw a major performance boost. Usually, models are trained on massive datasets, fine-tuned on domain-specific data, and then frozen. Once in production, even a thousand real-time…
Did I hear someone mention Project Orion? No? Oh, well I'll mention it, then. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_O…