https://hubski.com/A thoughtful web.https://hubski.com/images/discussion.pnghttps://hubski.com/https://hubski.com/pub/471863https://hubski.com/pub/471863https://hubski.com/pub/471860https://hubski.com/pub/471860I was homeschooled very briefly for the beginning of first grade for explicitly political reasons and the fantasy of every young republican mother to raise her own Von Trapp family. Then when I was asked who I wanted to invite to my birthday party I started naming characters from books. I was hurriedly re-enrolled in public school.The experiences of this person do not shock or even appall me anymore, they just make me sad and angry.These people believe they are being good parents. What does it matter you can prove to them they are raising hatemongers and white nationalists? That they are seeking out sources of 'information' that outright deny provable physical reality? Their family and church tells them this is the right thing to do. Home schooling is neglect at best outside of incredibly fringe circumstances.I’m still in South Carolina. A couple comes to the booth. They were here yesterday, and I talked to the wife. Yesterday, her husband stayed silent. Today he sees B and gets excited.“Here’s a guy,” he says. “He is ready to answer all of my questions.”I side-eye B while welcoming the couple back. I talk to the wife, and they wander over to look at our product.A few minutes later, the husband walks over to B.“My wife doesn’t know the story of Rosie the Riveter,” he says. “I’m gonna tell her, but I need you to fact-check me.”B glances my way.“Actually, Heather is the one who wrote the biographies.”“Yeah, I know, but check me,” he tells B.No one else is in the booth, so the husband stands in the middle. Center stage. He spreads his legs wide, slightly bending his knees, and his wife preps for the show.“OK, he and I...” he begins. With both arms, he dramatically gestures to B and himself, a platoon of two. “We are off fighting the war. You and her —” he indicates us girls — “stay home and support us by making airplanes. We —” another swing of the arms to indicate the platoon — “use the airplanes to win the war and come home.”He looks triumphantly at B. “Is that right?”I am baffled by this 10-second World War II reenactment. An awkward giggle escapes me. B looks at me and I shrug my shoulders. B’s on his own with this guy.He clears his throat and says, “Well, there’s more to it than that, but yeah, I guess.”The couple buy the curriculum and tell us they are opening a co-op school.https://hubski.com/pub/471849https://hubski.com/pub/471849Mojo & The Kitchen Brothers - Trail of the Space Sasquatchhttps://hubski.com/pub/471845https://hubski.com/pub/471845https://hubski.com/pub/471842https://hubski.com/pub/471842https://hubski.com/pub/471839https://hubski.com/pub/471839https://hubski.com/pub/471836https://hubski.com/pub/471836I was a young faculty member at MIT in the late 1970s when the psychoanalyst Erik Erikson visited to talk about engineering education. After his presentation, he asked me what I was doing as a humanist at an engineering school. I told him I was studying how computers change people’s ideas about themselves, and he made this comment: “Engineers, they’re not convinced that people have an interior. It’s not necessary for their purposes.” https://hubski.com/pub/471835https://hubski.com/pub/471835thenewgreen bullishhttps://hubski.com/pub/471826https://hubski.com/pub/471826lil steve hockey. The parentheses lyrics are placeholders for the gospel singer I hear in my head. Lol. Lyrics:Secrets bath in the shadows it seems They get skittish and hide in your dreamsSecrets blush when the topic comes upGather strength from your cancerous cells(The secrets came out the secrets came out. out to play)Can’t come clean cause the neighbors could talkCan’t admit that your down on your luckSecrets change they take on a new formTurn to shame and then live in your marrow(The secrets came out the secrets came out. out to play)Secrets give you a dopamine hitSo well hidden they barely existLeft unchecked they can fester like fireFamily trees getting burned in the quietSecrets turn a small whisper to rage Secrets weigh more the more that you age (The secrets came out the secrets came out. out to play)https://hubski.com/pub/471820https://hubski.com/pub/471820https://hubski.com/pub/471818https://hubski.com/pub/471818thenewgreen Bullishhttps://hubski.com/pub/471813https://hubski.com/pub/471813https://hubski.com/pub/471805https://hubski.com/pub/471805https://hubski.com/pub/471800https://hubski.com/pub/471800“I think there was a part of me that was resentful toward, like, men as a phylum because of how much I felt gender had written the script in my marriage,” she says. Dating women was refreshing not least because, she adds, “you get rid of assumptions or defaults.” Steaming her wife’s shirt, for example, “can be a gesture of love and care because she’s super-nervous about her first day, rather than I’m expected to do this because of patriarchy.”https://hubski.com/pub/471798https://hubski.com/pub/471798In 2023, security researcher Bar Lanyado noted that LLMs hallucinated a package named "huggingface-cli". While this name is identical to the command used for the command-line version of HuggingFace Hub, it is not the name of the package. The software is correctly installed with the code pip install -U "huggingface_hub[cli]". Lanyado tested the potential for slopsquatting by uploading an empty package under this hallucinated name. In three months, it had received over 30,000 downloads. The hallucinated packaged name was also used in the README file of a repo for research conducted by Alibaba.https://hubski.com/pub/471797https://hubski.com/pub/471797https://hubski.com/pub/471787https://hubski.com/pub/471787https://hubski.com/pub/471784https://hubski.com/pub/471784Rationalist groups tend to be functional to the extent that their activities involve learning to program, writing papers for general publication, building a giant dome on the playa, or otherwise interacting with the real world. Rationalist groups tend to be dysfunctional to the extent that their activities involve very long conversations about human psychology and social dynamics, especially dynamics within the group itself. Relatedly, the clearest-cut cases of rationalists being right have involved external events in the world and not the nature of human beings.https://hubski.com/pub/471782https://hubski.com/pub/471782Web archive link.https://hubski.com/pub/471776https://hubski.com/pub/471776Not a great article but resounded with me, as I suspect institutional knowledge is part of the reason I'm doing all right, job-wise.https://hubski.com/pub/471771https://hubski.com/pub/471771Semi-recently, I turned a corner with regard to my healthcare and I am actively pursuing a transplant so that I can not turn 40 having spent the entirety of my 30's disabled, not able to pursue my career and other interests. As a result I have been talking with many people, both patients and healthcare providers who work in heart and liver transplant (They often are a package deal).As of March of this year, patients at several transplant clinics in the United States are being told to explore options for treatment for the maintenance of transplanted organs, and for transplant as a whole, in other countries. I would name names but I have been asked not to for patient confidentiality.Very shortly, the United States will become unable to perform heart, liver, lung and other organ transplants because the systems that make those things possible are directly being attacked for defunding.This is Social Murder.I have been telling friends overseas, who have been pleading with me and bullying me to leave the country for my own wellbeing 'I want to stay. I don't want to run. I want to help fix things.'Now that sentiment, while still a good idea, is a slow suicide.thenewgreen Bullish huh?