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ct_bergstrom

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I am a biology professor at the University of Washington. I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.

I wrote a book: Calling Bullshit: http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b

I love ravens and crows.

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“People spend one-third of their lives asleep. What if employees could work during that time … in their dreams?”

The first sentence of this article is like a Black Mirror episode pitch that got immediately shitcanned because nobody wants to watch heavy-handed Marxist social critique based on an utterly implausible premise.

https://fortune.com/2023/11/30/lucid-dream-startup-prophetic-headset-prepare-meetings-while-sleeping/amp/

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Must suck to realize that there are some forms of epistemic grounding that you and your pals can't simply purchase and torch to the ground.

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Life hack: press button six on any gas pump, conveniently labeled below, and it will silence the bullshit ads that blare at you while you’re filling up.

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What could possibly go wrong?

(from a spam email I just received)

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The 1990s and 2000s were a heyday for nerds. Tech was now cool and we could unabashedly embrace our enthusiasm for math, science, etc.

We've backslid.

Today's tech founders compete to be like "Fuck math. I hunt Siberian wild boar in the nude using a knife made from only my own frozen excrement."

What happened?

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A Saudi man has been sentenced to death for criticizing the government on two anonymous twitter/X accounts with a total of ten followers.

www.npr.org/2023/08/31/1...

Gosh, NPR, I can't imagine how the Saudi authorities could have verified his identity on X.

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OK this is hands-down the funniest thing I have read today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/dining/drinks/cocktail-glasses-gender.html

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Though it's kind of cheating to seek out 20-somethings working in finance.

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So this is crazy fcuked.

Despite their denial, Gizmodo caught the College Board (who administer the SAT, etc.) sharing scores and GPAs with Facebook, TikTok, etc.

https://gizmodo.com/sat-college-board-tells-facebook-tiktok-your-scores-gpa-1850768077

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It's pure coincidence that Elon Musk just happened to erase the entire record of how twitter was used to organize and share photos and video from Arab Spring, right?

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