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A two-part lecture and discussion series that may be of interest to techsneerers:

Reimagining Space: Against Settler Colonial Space Futures

This workshop is a two-part lecture and discussion series addressing urgent issues in space and how they relate to Earth. What does ethics mean in the context of space? Is it possible to explore space ethically? How do military interests drive Mars exploration? Led by multi-disciplinary researchers and organizers Dr. C. Adeene Denton and Dr. Divya M. Persaud, this series will provide an overview of how space is grounded in real-world oppression, colonialism, and genocide and a chance to discuss together how this could be changed.

Runs on January 11th and 12th.

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I will always remember Sam Bankman Fried saying it's obvious that Shakespeare can't be the greatest author ever because it's unlikely. Just because something's unlikely doesn't mean it's impossible! You need to independently evaluate the evidence!

In the Going Clear documentary an author says that because Scientology was built by and for L. Ron Hubbard, people who follow Scientology are gradually moulded in his image and pick up his worst traits and neuroses. LessWrong was founded by a former child prodigy.....

They seem to believe that stereotypes often have a grain of truth to them, and it's thus ok to believe stereotypes.

I wonder where the superforecasters stand on aella being outed as a ghislain maxwell type fixer for the tescreal high priesthood.

Can you be outed when everyone knows that's what you are already?

You can't really accuse the Dead Boys of bad taste and expect it to mean anything. What a dumb idea though

Irish election watch: Scary far right candidate uses scary AI images for his leaflet in the Dublin Bay North constituency.

Some anti-AI propaganda via spellingmistakescostlives

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Coppers

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Bots

I'm scared of Big Ulster

I click the link and the first thing I see is an Andrew Tate NFT. "Yikes" doesn't cover it