empiricalskeptic 10 months ago

Umm, yeah, sure, what could possibly go wrong? #skepticism #criticalthinking

tovima.com

ChatGPT Convinces Greek Woman to Divorce Husband

ChatGPT told the woman her spouse would cheat on her in the future with a woman named "E" leading to the wife filing for a divorce

empiricalskeptic 11 months ago

OMFG US$2B for eight of these POSs that the Houthis are swatting down like flies. This deal reaks of corruption. #qatar #usa Original post:

Bluesky Social

@destcygnusx1.bsky.social

Found this: https://militarnyi.com/en/news/qatar-to-buy-eight-mq-9b-drones-despite-losses-to-houthi-missiles/

empiricalskeptic 11 months ago

This final hero’s homecoming of USMC veteran who died in Ukraine is visual proof that normal Americans support Ukraine and its struggle for freedom against Putin’s imperial ambitions. Now if only the broligarchs would catch up…

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UNITED24 Media (@United24media) on X

🕯️ U.S. Marine vet killed fighting for Ukraine returns home. Corey Nawrocki, a decorated hero from Lansdale, gets full escort.

#ukraine #russia

empiricalskeptic 11 months ago

Whenever objective reality became heterodoxy. Original post:

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Church of Jeff (@jeffowski@mastodon.world)

Attached: 1 image #ShitIFind

empiricalskeptic 11 months ago

“Regrets collect like old friends.” - Florence + The Machine

empiricalskeptic 11 months ago

Otherwise lost in the chaos and noise is the opening of the 2025 World Expo. Original post:

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The Japan Times (@japantimes.co.jp)

Challenges and hopes marked Sunday's opening of the 2025 World Exposition in the city of Osaka. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/14/japan/...

empiricalskeptic 11 months ago

Putin’s Palm Sunday Sumy Massacre in #ukraine was despicable, even by #russia standards. Trump can no longer rely on wishful thinking to end the war.

empiricalskeptic 11 months ago

Dumb question about Instagram’s UI. Is it now completely impossible to see a timeline feed without any algorithmic ranking? #meta #enshittification

empiricalskeptic 11 months ago

Well, that PagerDuty conference in Tokyo was a dud.

empiricalskeptic 11 months ago

Okay, Trump Slump it is. #trumpslump

empiricalskeptic 11 months ago

I prefer the anime stylized versions of my (real) photos.

empiricalskeptic 11 months ago

It’s that season again (AI rendering of real personal photo). #sakura #spring #ai

empiricalskeptic 0 years ago

Once again the S02 finale of Severance has defied my ability to guess where it’s going. #severance #appletv #scifi #sciencefiction

empiricalskeptic 0 years ago

“Slowly. Then suddenly.” How authoritarians creep up on a population. usa #oligarchy #authoritarianism

empiricalskeptic 0 years ago

“Then, a premium awaits those who, instead of blandly following tradition, or trying to foist their preferences onto the physical or social universe, are open to what the Universe teaches.” - Carl Sagan #science #mindfulness

empiricalskeptic 1 year ago

I’m a few fucks short of the necessary fucks to give at the moment.

empiricalskeptic 1 year ago

Blah blah, manufactured autopen controversy, blah blah… #biden #trump #propaganda

empiricalskeptic 1 year ago

It’s immediately clear that Putin is slow-walking the US proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine. He has no intention of accepting the proposal, but Putin needs to avoid saying “no” directly to Trump. And he needs only a few days to invent a provocation that makes the proposal unacceptable.

empiricalskeptic 1 year ago

Well, this is interesting. Curious whether he can stand reelection as a #forward candidate.

Forward Party

Utah Sen. Thatcher leaves the GOP to join the Forward Party

The Forward Party today is proud to accept Senator Daniel Thatcher (SD 11: Salt Lake, Tooele, Utah Counties) as its first elected member of the Uta...

empiricalskeptic 1 year ago

The purpose of efforts to study (the non-existent) links between #vaccines and #autism is to run multiple small studies with poor controls, then terminate early and publicize those that demonstrate the desired outcomes. #badscience

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Neil Stone (@DrNeilStone) on X

RFK Jr is about to squander taxpayers money on ANOTHER study to look at a possible link between vaccines and autism How do I report this monument...