my partners got out of Georgia and they were both broke as fuck. it is possible.

she's the one that shouted the t-slur at Sarah McBride on the House floor.

it's fucked. I'm so sorry. I know it's a million times easier said than done, but I can't help myself to not give advice:

join social media groups for the trans community in a blue state, look into the orgs there, see if there's a couch you could crash on. save up what you can for gas or a bus ticket. once you get there, plug into the community, connect with services, find work. it's risky but it's better to try than to give up and die.

what's the difference between a single neural network and multiple neural networks? are BERTs multiple neural networks working together in concert, if you count the encoder and decoder separately? the different layers of a MoE? certainly VLMs count.

I've noticed a lot of infantile and absurdly maximalist takes on Lemmy lately. it's kind of souring me on the project.

bruh your username 😭😭 respect.

also, surely flerovium and the other mostly-theoretical elements would be denser, no? at least for a couple microseconds until they yeet some protons and fling themselves apart.

don't we have enough working forests to satisfy demand for lumber? even if we open some BLM land to logging, do we really need to log literally half of it?

mRNA technology premiering on the eve of a killer pandemic leaps to mind.

that's fair. progress in medicine more generally has been good. we've started curing fatal genetic disorders, we found the cause of multiple sclerosis, there's a new antipsychotic with a novel MoA for the first time since chlorpromazine..

None of this was indicative of better economics or a functional political system.

Obama, Reagan, Bush and Clinton weren't fascists. even Trump wasn't a fully-fledged fascist in his first term. he is now, and what's happening to the Federal Government is unprecedented.

look, I know the Weimar Republic had its problems, but you can't claim Hitler was just more of the same. so it is with the US in 2025.

the 8bit FOX interview with Tucker Carlson felt incredibly on theme. you could seriously remake Papers, Please with these aesthetics.

I'm a big fan and longtime reader of Derek Lowe. He called attention to suppression of grant funding for hypotheses that challenged the amyloid hypothesis, and the shockingly partisan and dogmatic behavior of journal referees and NIH advisors in the field. I've been following his coverage ever since he started reporting disappointing readouts from clinical trials on the anti-amyloid mABs.

His concern that this class of therapy is "pathological science" (think cold fusion, or EmDrive, or string theory - not outright quackery, but hypotheses that are endlessly tweaked to justify the latest failures) are valid.

However, the newest mABs really do seem to have a small but statistically significant effect on slowing disease progression. Enough to justify the risks of brain swelling? Or the cost? Probably not. But I think Derek has perhaps swung too far in the opposite direction. It's too early to call time on this therapeutic target. If it's marginally but truly effective, we should try to figure out why, and keep tweaking the drugs to see if they can be improved.

Donepezil was a dead end, but it's too early to say if Aduhelm is too.

what happens when you ignore a court order? remember, he's absolutely immune from criminal prosecution for official acts. he can pardon anyone he wants to. he controls the military. his cult of personality dominates the Republican party. Alito, Kavanaugh, and Thomas show absolute loyalty to him, and even decisions that should be slam dunks are 5-4 now. he's cleaned house in DoD and IC, and replaced the generals with sycophants. he has increasing control of social media, and an extensive network of allies.

I think he could successfully lead an outright coup at this point. but what's the rush? safer for him to follow the plan.

damnit, I saw this too late! I remember torvalds_says_linux.wav being a rite of passage for getting ALSA to work, along with days of strife and increasingly desperate modprobing. ahh, the bad old days.