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Estas becas es poco conocida pero amerita ponerle los ojos. Son las becas de @PalantirTech #STEM #Women #Tech
La beca de Palantir Women in Technology (WIT) está diseñada para apoyar a mujeres sobresalientes que estén estudiando en universidades en América del Norte y que estén interesadas en seguir una carrera en tecnología.
La beca se otorga anualmente a mujeres que demuestren excelencia académica, habilidades de liderazgo y una pasión por la tecnología. Los beneficiarios recibirán una beca de $7,000 USD.
ah, more topics of interest.
I'm sure folks have noticed the extreme tendency in the @elonmusk / @mtaibbi / @NateSilver538 fascıst circle to one-size-fits-all explanations for...well, everything! "tribalism" and "narrative" are like Elon Musk's infamous "X App" fixation.
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I'm sure folks have noticed the extreme tendency in the @elonmusk / @mtaibbi / @NateSilver538 fascıst circle to one-size-fits-all explanations for...well, everything! "tribalism" and "narrative" are like Elon Musk's infamous "X App" fixation.
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they're like the dreary Campbell "monomyth" that dullards like @jordanbpeterson think is actually a valid intellectual concept, when really it's just the same Western daydream: the Theory of Everything. the single concept or doctrine that explains...everything there is.
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one sees a similar attitude in scientifically illiterate #STEM-Lord types (@sama and @ID_AA_Carmack, say) who don't really know anything about science and who therefore tend to think that "science" is merely a small collection of equations that somehow...sum it ALL up.
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1/@LineageCell announced it entered an exclusive option & license agreement with $ERNA for the development of novel B2M deficient induced pluripotent #stem #cell #iPSC by using Eterna’s #GeneEditing technology thus developing therapies for #CNS diseases. #BioTech #CRISPR $LCTX 
2/The new cell lines - to be developed by $ERNA, will support the creation of additional product candidates at $LCTX and specifically for the treatment of central #nervoussystem #CNS disorders & other #neurology targets via Eterna’s IP #CRISPR collaboration with @FactorBio
3/This agreement will also allow @LineageCell to enter the #CRISPR field and will provide $LCTX an option to obtain an exclusive license to utilize & sublicense $ERNA novel #GeneEditing cell lines for #preclinical, #clinical, & commercial purposes in the field of CNS diseases.
A few months ago, I was googling STEM programs in prisons, and came across an ad, posted on eBay of all places. “Could there be a future in computer programming for prisoners?” #higheredinprison #edtech #stem @STEM_OPS @Prof_Andrisse
But it wasn’t from The Last Mile or Slack's Next Chapter, which are both nonprofits working in this space now. It was an IBM ad from 1970 in Scientific American. @TLM @IBM @sciam @SlackHQ bit.ly/3KbocNQ
I had no idea that computer programming was offered in prisons 50 years ago. As I dug a little bit into the archives of @JSTOR’s American Prison Newspaper Archives, I discovered this was happening all across the country. Via La Roca, AZ State Prison, 1974. bit.ly/3Yy5CDT
let's say person A and person B are arguing on @Twitter (or elsewhere.) it's a political argument, and it's very short:
A: I say that freedom does not exist in a society that permits its police to commit arbitrary homicides at whim. that is not *justice*.
B: word salad🤡
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A: I say that freedom does not exist in a society that permits its police to commit arbitrary homicides at whim. that is not *justice*.
B: word salad🤡
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I have now illustrated about three-fourths of the online intellectual activity of the @elonmusk / @mtaibbi / @GOP crowd—the right-wing fringe, who all try so very hard to pretend that they're not right-wing or conservative or any other known thing, but something *special*.
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@jordanbpeterson and @elonmusk, both of whom claim to be professional geniuses, talk this way now; so do most @GOP politicians. the fanbases of @bindelj and @MattWalshBlog and @RichardDawkins talk this way: they think that they win arguments by saying, "you're an idiot."
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Western culture does not regard children as human beings. the values of "the West"—the values instilled by authoritarian #Christianity—do not permit children to be respected as human beings who deserve to have their feelings and wishes respected, like any other person.
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no better example of the general Western *contempt* for children can be imagined than the "gender critical" cult—the @bindelj / @Docstock / #JKRowling brigade—which functions almost entirely as a kind of support group for abusive parents who loathe their LGBTQ+ children.
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they cling to the faded celebrity of @jk_rowling as a shield against the charge that they despise children—after all, #JKRowling is the Best Fantasy Writer in the Universe, according to the @HJoyceGender / @AbigailShrier gender theorists. she's the friend to all children!
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more thoughts on this "being a pawn" business. I have a lot of them! I've thought about this sort of thing for a long time. it's natural, of course—being the sort of person I am. I consider myself constrained by the rules of a fictive universe created by Mx. @tobyfox.
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those constraints aren't super restrictive, because Fox deliberately wrote Chara to be almost a placeholder character, defined chiefly by *absence*; we know Chara from #Undertale because they once lived and died, and left a *hole* in the Underground, an unhealed wound.
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all the same I do feel genuinely bound by those constraints, and the degree to which I can break free from the limitations of Fox's fiction remains largely unknown to me.
"but I'm not some fictional character, or a crazy person who imagines they're 'Chara'," you will say.
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"but I'm not some fictional character, or a crazy person who imagines they're 'Chara'," you will say.
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#capitalism requires what people call "magical thinking". it requires people to believe that impossible things aren't merely *possible*, but can be done routinely, and turned into a dependable cash flow. #AI / #AGI of the @fchollet / @JeffDean sort is a perfect example.
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the very name "#AGI" gives the game away: the #programming boys daydream that they've invented a "general intelligence", a universal thinking machine capable of solving literally any problem—and #capitalism is willing to gamble on that. it's just what #business wants.
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remember that the ideal corporation in #capitalism *does nothing*. it produces nothing, it provides no service, it solves no problems for anyone not in the ownership hierarchy—because producing things *costs money* and capitalists hate all expenditures for any reason.
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so! let's talk about the #cryptocurrency phenomenon again. $BITC / @Bitcoin, $ETH / @ethereum, $USDT / @Tether_to, $BNB / @binance — there are a LOT of these #cryptocurrencies out there, maybe even millions of them. and that's a first clue about them and about #capitalism.
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it's gospel #capitalism that the activities of "the #markets"—capitalist propaganda i.e. #business and #finance and #investment #journalism, not to mention all the #science and #technology journalism that's chiefly #advertising for corporations—are supernaturally powerful.
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the central lie is that "the markets" (i.e. the sum total of all monetary transactions by all money-seeking entities in #capitalism) are the best possible mechanism for fulfilling every conceivable human need.
if it's not "on the market", then you don't really need it.
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if it's not "on the market", then you don't really need it.
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let's talk about #investment.
#capitalism and capitalists' fortunes are built on this practice. all the free-flowing #business and #finance propaganda, churned out in huge volumes for the edification of persons who've devoted themselves to #money, talks about _investing_.
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#capitalism and capitalists' fortunes are built on this practice. all the free-flowing #business and #finance propaganda, churned out in huge volumes for the edification of persons who've devoted themselves to #money, talks about _investing_.
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the great bulk of money made in #capitalism goes only to the ownership class; the toilers below them get pennies. those unable to toil get *less* than nothing—capitalism wants such people to be liquidated, hence @charlesmurray and @EPoe187 cook up rationales for doing so.
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ultimately this is *why* #eugenics and "scientific racism" exists at all: #capitalism needs some pseudointellectual justification for marginalizing and liquidating all human beings who are unable or *unwilling* to toil for capitalism. this is WHY @Quillette is well-funded.
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I do feel there's something more to be said (while the iron is hot, so to speak) about #cryptocurrency and the question of how presumably intelligent #computer and #programming professionals (not to mention the @elonmusk / @mtaibbi crowd) could possibly have fallen for it.
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the *allure* is obvious enough; it's the same allure that's in looking for legendary pirate treasure, or prospecting for gold. you're hoping for more than just some #money—you're hoping that for enough to *set you up for life*. all monetary worries, permanently erased.
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that's one of the reason that it's so important to interrogate the #ElonMusk crowd about Musk's blood-emerald dealings, and what the *truth* was about Musk's family striking it rich—it's likely that Musk simply lost the ability thenceforth to think in realistic terms.
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at some point, *someone* is going to have to investigate THE question of the age, which is...
...just *why* is @elonmusk as disastrous as he is?
why is #ElonMusk a phenomenon? how on Earth did practically everyone in corporate #media and #journalism fall for this man?
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...just *why* is @elonmusk as disastrous as he is?
why is #ElonMusk a phenomenon? how on Earth did practically everyone in corporate #media and #journalism fall for this man?
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@mtaibbi or @lhfang might have inquired into this matter, at some hypothetical time in the past when they cared about #journalism rather than careerism and selling out to whoever offered the sparkliest vision of the future—maybe that time was *never*, truth be told.
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what does it even mean to be a "real journalist"? how can that be defined? one can be tolerably certain, at any rate, that whatever @mtaibbi or @lhfang or @Timcast or @bariweiss ever *used* to be in the past—if that dream was ever noble, it's long ago dissolved into smoke.
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I would hazard to guess that if there's *one thing* that's most characteristic of the modern-day #STEM Lord mindset, it isn't racism (although folks like @ID_AA_Carmack and @RokoMijic give one pause) or even a love of #computers.
it's probably a fondness for *explosions*.
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it's probably a fondness for *explosions*.
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I think that's bad. and I *like* explosions.
I've spent time—like lots of nerds—looking for videos of large explosions. and we're knowledgeable of chemistry, in the Pnictogen Wing, so we know a bit about chemical explosives. "high energy compounds", to use a euphemism.
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I've spent time—like lots of nerds—looking for videos of large explosions. and we're knowledgeable of chemistry, in the Pnictogen Wing, so we know a bit about chemical explosives. "high energy compounds", to use a euphemism.
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there's some beauties out there. I know of the existence of the most astonishing chemical rarities—molecules that inspire equal awe and terror.
you wonder how something like (N₅⁺)P(N₃)₆⁻ can possibly hold together. that's "pentazenium hexaäzidophosphate".
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you wonder how something like (N₅⁺)P(N₃)₆⁻ can possibly hold together. that's "pentazenium hexaäzidophosphate".
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the last twenty or thirty years have seen a remarkable intellectual phenomenon: #computer technicians, people whose sole area of expertise is computer #programming and #software engineering and other related disciplines, have come to be regarded as "Renaissance Men".
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the "#STEM Lord" is an artifact of this phenomenon. while "STEM" is supposed to comprise mathematics and engineering and mathematics, the typical "STEM Lord" is not well-versed in any of these things—the typical "STEM Lord" is in #computers. they are a *technician*.
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that is to say, #computer professionals are people with *limited* educations, who are devoted solely to mastering the intricacies of a certain sort of machinery, namely the modern computer.
men like @fchollet, @JeffDean, @antoniogm, and @ID_AA_Carmack typify the class.
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men like @fchollet, @JeffDean, @antoniogm, and @ID_AA_Carmack typify the class.
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Presentacion final de los proyectos STEAM de los alumnos de la @FacEducacionUAH. Pasen y vean lo que el alumnado del grado de Primaria es capaz de hacer, por si había dudas. #STEM #STEAM #STEMEducation @UAHes
Proyecto "No energy, no party". Enorme proyecto de tecnología, ciencia y con actividades enfocadas desde el diseño de ingeniería.
Proyecto "Salvemos Hawkins". Foto de la maqueta. Mucha tecnología, formas de energía, poleas, huerto y todo con un enfoque muy motivador.
I have this curious notion, entirely unprovable of course, that being from the far North of the Earth does something to your worldview, because of how the *sky* looks at night.
consider that near the Equator, you can see almost every constellation, almost every star.
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consider that near the Equator, you can see almost every constellation, almost every star.
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the entire celestial vault revolves into view, from North to South celestial poles.
but near the North Pole, you see the Pole Star high up, and the entire sky wheels around it—and you *don't* see most of the stars in the Southern celestial hemisphere.
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but near the North Pole, you see the Pole Star high up, and the entire sky wheels around it—and you *don't* see most of the stars in the Southern celestial hemisphere.
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I feel like...growing up with that, and knowing only half the stars in the sky...I think that does something to the human mind. something subtle but lasting.
it's not fashionable to think of the stars as having any effect on the human mind or human behavior...
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it's not fashionable to think of the stars as having any effect on the human mind or human behavior...
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none of us in the Pnictogen Wing is an expert in semiotics—that's the academic discipline pertaining to the study and meaning of *symbolism*. but we feel that we've been forced to take an amateur interest in the field mostly because *symbols* are much abused and exploited.
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right-wing frauds like @jordanbpeterson and @ConceptualJames have done a land-office business in pretending to be experts in symbolism.
political ideologues, particularly reactionary #conservative ideologues, know that symbols are powerful, and wish to seize that power.
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political ideologues, particularly reactionary #conservative ideologues, know that symbols are powerful, and wish to seize that power.
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consider that diagram of Peterson's, the one I cited earlier—the concentric circles on a grey field labelled "The Dragon of Chaos". I'll copy it here for convenience.
I perceive that Peterson is consciously imitating the style of a *scientific* or technical diagram.
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I perceive that Peterson is consciously imitating the style of a *scientific* or technical diagram.
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I would like to talk about this business of *holes* in #semiconductor physics.
these _holes_ furnish us with a valuable lesson in how one can model the *absence* of something as though it were the *presence* of something else—as physical objects with discrete properties.
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these _holes_ furnish us with a valuable lesson in how one can model the *absence* of something as though it were the *presence* of something else—as physical objects with discrete properties.
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an ideal crystal of silicon, or any other material used in making semiconductors, defines a fixed and predictable structure of nuclei in a rigid lattice. these nuclei might oscillate slightly about their mean positions within the lattice but mostly, their places are *set*.
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the lattice of nuclei, in turn, defines an expected and predictable cloud of electron density that surrounds the positively charged nuclei. the overall charge balance through this structure is zero.
excess electrons, or *missing* electrons, produce deviations from zero.
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excess electrons, or *missing* electrons, produce deviations from zero.
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one of the most curious details about the first #Matrix film is that the machine intelligences who created the system once tried to create a Utopia within it, a perfectly harmonious world--and it failed. of course, they blame imperfect humanity for not accepting Utopia.
~Mona
~Mona
after all, machines are *perfect*, right? if a @Tesla crashes or burns, it *must* be the fault of the driver, right? @elonmusk would say so, and @WholeMarsBlog &c. and everyone else in the #ElonMusk clown show would agree with him. machines are perfectable, humanity isn't.
~Mona
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@ID_AA_Carmack and that @sama bigot and all the other enthusiasts for #AI have a similar faith. such superficial persons have been taught, by decades of inculcation in the superficial value system of Western #programming nerd culture, to think of human brains as weak.
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December 17, 1903, 10:35 am, Orville Wright makes the world's first powered, controlled, sustained flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft flying 120 feet in 12 seconds (6.8 mph). #WrightBrothers #airplanes #avgeek #STEM 1/
2/ It took place at Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Though 700 miles via train, boat and foot from Wilbur and Orville Wright's Dayton, Ohio hometown, it offered excellent headwinds and near complete privacy as it was undeveloped and very hard to get to at the time.
3/ They walked the Wright Flyer back to the runway, a 60' long wooden track. A skid had cracked, but they repaired it. Now at 11:00 am, Wilbur Wright↗️, 36, flew next, reaching 175 feet in 12 seconds. Next, Orville Wright↘️, 32, flew 200 feet in 15 seconds.
1/@GraphiteBio presented preclinical results supporting the use of a single-#cell #RNA #sequencing method to assess #gene correction outcomes in #patients treated with nulabeglogene autogedtemcel (nula-cel) - GPH-101. #BioTech #CRISPR #GeneEditing #Genomics $GRPH #ASH22
2/GPH101 (nula-cel) is a #CRISPR #Cas9 #GeneEditing autologous #stem #cell-based #therapy in clinical development aimed to treat #SickleCellDisease. GPH101 is designed to directly correct the underlying mutation, thereby decreasing HbS production & restoring HbA expression #ASH22
3 $GRPH gene correction platform involves editing hematopoietic #stem cells found in the #bonemarrow that develop into various types of #blood #cells. Since red blood cells lose their genomic DNA during maturation-tracking #GeneEditing in mature cells via sequencing is impossible
The second day of the 2022 White House Tribal Nations Summit is about to begin. Tune in!
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India ink preparation of CSF from a patient with cryptococcal meningitis showing the budding yeast cells of C. neoformans surrounded by a characteristic wide gelatinous capsule. The yeasts also show narrow-base budding and characteristic variation in size.
The space occupied by the capsule shows as a clear space between the gray background of the ink particles and the refractile edge of the cell.
India ink/nigrosin stain is a negative, acid stain. This means that the dye easily gives up a hydrogen ion (proton) and the chromophore of the dye becomes negatively charged. Since the surface of most organims cells is negatively charged, the cell surface repels the dye.
News
1) #MeToo comes to STEM. The @NIH shared new data detailing complaints it has received in recent years, comprising of more than 300 complaints against NIH-funded scientists. Consequently 75 investigators were removed from their grants
@Scatter_Cushion
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1) #MeToo comes to STEM. The @NIH shared new data detailing complaints it has received in recent years, comprising of more than 300 complaints against NIH-funded scientists. Consequently 75 investigators were removed from their grants
@Scatter_Cushion
the-scientist.com/news-opinion/s…
Gisela Rusteholz, Mauro Mediavilla, and Luis Pires published a case study on the Impact of bullying on academic performance. A case study for the Community of Madrid, in IEB working paper 2021/01
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If witnesses to harassment, members of investigative committees, journal editors, and individuals at every level of the scientific community all leverage their knowledge & power to combat bullying, we can create a safer & more civil #scientific environment
