A Tepid Bath of Startup Juice

[@FlippinFlaves]

15:12 "Assad was an Opthalmologist, Starmer was a Barrister" "Can i make it any more obvious" Went too unnoticed for how funny it was

[@darrens3]

What a bright light you all are in a dark world and season, keeping people sane in this trying time. Always look forward to these little fairground rides through the scenes of a Rake's Progress of British societal cannibalism.

[@thegrimmarcher202]

Meanwhile in Romania there are 17 Tom Clancy novels happening at the same time

[@am3lia420]

Mmm delicious, more startup please!

[@user-lk2vo8fo2q]

"Tessier and Ashpool climbed the well of gravity to discover that they loathed space. They built Freeside to tap the wealth of the new islands, grew rich and eccentric, and began the construction of an extended body in Straylight. We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self."

[@scout8145]

1:05:53 Lmao at the quote “his motivation to move into home security was watching progress speed ahead in areas like self-driving cars, while once-promising visions of domestic life like the smart home languished.” What? Right this moment, I can walk into a hardware store and purchase a $15 lightbulb that I can control with my voice. I cannot currently purchase a self-driving car. Understandably, the next part about a CCTV with a glock took priority, but the line before that is also kinda wild in its own right

[@vaska00762]

The security camera that shoots people? Didn't that exact scenario happen to the World Food Kitchen vehicles while they were delivering food aid? That too was an "AI" that made the kill decision without a human.

[@Frommerman]

@@vaska00762 To be fair, in that context AI meant Angry Israeli.

[@caidurkan2916]

"Kier's Sensual Bath" sounds like a bit from an alternate universe version of that tv show The Regime

[@Wha0e0er]

loafers on the ground now firmly in my lexicon

[@falloutghoul1]

England is truly the South Africa of the British Isles.

[@theonewhosmellsverynice]

dearest trashfuture i want you to know that i was able to hold a conversation about britain with a british person today solely of information ive absorbed from this slop

[@type6]

Spotlight qued to suspicious movement. Neighbors love him.

[@42PalaceOfWisdom42]

The fact this happened in Wilmington is extra fucked up

[@jacobmartin1100]

Oooh Orchid. Yeah, that interview is old. I was disappointed by the interviewer asking questions which were frankly dumb as rocks. The thing they should have immediately jumped on is the 5 picograms claim. The human genome masses out to ~6.5 picograms per (diploid) copy. An embryo, depending on the stage, has anywhere between 6-10 cells. 5 picograms per cell means you're recovering about 75% of the sample. Keep in mind you can't recover too much from these cells as they're your clients embryos, any sample you recover for sequencing is lost (unless they're somehow sequencing in-situ with high accuracy and read length, which would frankly be magic. It's possible that by sequencing the parents and comparing small fragments of the recombinant embryonic genome and using genetic distances you could computationally stitch together a genome from say, one cell, but that doesn't account for potential de novo mutations or mosaicism). Needless to say this should tickle people's BS alarms. This is also completely disregarding the lack of knowledge we have about certain traits, relative impact of genetics on those traits, and potential side effects that favoring certain alleles at certain loci for a given trait may have on other traits. If you're picking for a bs factor analysis reason (IQ, tendency to be good at an instrument/musicality, academic achievement) which have considerable environmental influence then you're going to be making walking talking genetics experiments. On the other hand, if you're screening for conditions that either have a well-established genetic component or are entirely genetic, then I see no issue with this- so long as such corrective measures are available for all if they so choose. The interviewer was not educated sufficiently to pick up on this and all they could do was yap about theranos and the tired old "playing God" line. The problem isn't that the interviewer asked about Theranos, the problem is that they don't have the education to be asking the right questions and it's infuriating that science journalism is done by people who don't have enough of a grasp on the science they're supposed to be asking about. Oh, and you missed the most egregious part of the interview, where the founder said that "The population in all the places we love" is shrinking. As opposed to the places "we" don't love. And the interviewer just let that slide without contest. It was enraging.

[@coreyjblakey]

I don’t think they are factoring in the Kiwis when they decided NZ was a safe place for them. Especially down south where they are concentrated, a lot of libertarian types with guns down there 😂

[@joshk3939]

5 pillars tee when

[@urgeintheicebox]

Douglas Yancy Funnie.