Ian Ramjohn

@iramjohn

Wikipedia expert at @wikieducation.bsky.social.  Plant ecology Ph.D. 🇹🇹Trinbagonian in exile (if you want to verify my account's authenticity)

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Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· 13d

This headline is beyond hilarious. Mind you, he isn't wrong, but when a monopolist like Zuck complains about something like this, you know it's just because *he* wasn't the one able to corner the market.

Mark Zuckerberg Blasts Centralization of A.I. Power.

In an interview with The Times, Meta’s chief executive took aim at Anthropic and OpenAI, which have pushed to tightly control A.I. development, and said he supported “more openness.”

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· 25d

According to Barbados Today on fb, a legend has passed. 😢

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· 27d

Hmm. Her ParentData website says she's a "professor of economics at Brown University". Must have been hacked by Wikipedians. And just cook your lettuce. Who doesn't love boiled lettuce?

And please do not stop eating fruits and vegetables. If you are really worried about this, just cook your vegetables and fruits, which kills the parasite.

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· 27d

That's not good.

“Likely what happens is, it gets into the water supply that’s utilized to irrigate crops,” Marler says. He adds that agricultural workers typically get blamed for outbreaks, but “this is unlikely to be one lone worker not washing his or her hands, or someone pooping in the field. Something has gotten a water supply contaminated, spreading over a larger amount of produce.”

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· 27d

I love this quote from @joanwestenberg.com (over on Threads). I could quibble a bit - a lot probably - with the former. But it's still wonderfully put.

AI makes you wonderfully faster at producing things you already understand.

It makes you dangerously faster at producing things you don't.

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· Jul 11

Wow. Settlers are just armed thugs. But the Israeli military? Who do they think pays their salaries?

When two cars from the Israeli military pulled up, Mr. Khanna assumed the soldiers were there to help him pass. Instead, the soldiers smoked cigarettes, chatted with the men and after the settlers left, moved a car to block the road, he recounted.

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· Jun 19

How can you buy tickets in *December* and not have them delivered, I dunno, in December?

He bought the tickets for about $550 apiece in December. Then, two days before the June 14 match, he received an email from StubHub telling him, “The seller can’t deliver your original tickets.”

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· Jun 18

I had no idea this law existed. So there are at least *three* classes of US citizenship - "natural born" (who can run for president), naturalized (who can't) and this third class.

The McCarthy-era statute grants the government enormous powers over recently minted citizens: it can revoke their citizenship if, in the five years after they become naturalized, they join an organization that, had they been a member at the time they applied for citizenship, would have caused the U.S. government to reject their application. Ahmed traveled to Somalia intending to join the militant group al-Shabaab, which would later be designated a terrorist group by the U.S. government. The law frames these actions as proof that he willfully misrepresented his state of mind when he took an oath of allegiance to the U.S.

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· Jun 15

I love the symbol of the Flamingo Revolution

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· Jun 14

I'm still amazed that people will out themselves like this.

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· Jun 7

Gotta preserve the originals

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· Jun 2

This is the part that jumps out at me. How can public officials sign an NDA around something like this? How is that even legal? It's like your real estate agent accepting an offer to sell your house that includes a clause that prevents them from telling you the sales price or conditions.

County leaders such as Chaney had signed nondisclosure agreements with TeraWulf that prevented them from discussing the company’s plan’s publicly, and the sudden filing left them scrambling to come up with a messaging plan that would paint the project as an economic good.

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· May 31

But tailfins aren't actually necessary! xkcd.com/3241/

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· May 29

Do you have any idea if this CYA warning is new?

All TEVERUN scooters are delivered with a factory speed limit of 25 km/h, which is intended for use on public roads and urban streets where required by local regulations. The unrestricted riding mode is intended exclusively for use on private land, off-road areas, or other controlled environments where higher speeds are legally permitted and can be operated safely. Before adjusting any speed settings, users must ensure compliance with all local laws and regulations. Ride responsibly and always wear appropriate protective equipment.

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· May 25

Not exactly shocking.

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· May 22

Granted, that doesn't have to be the case that Duggan's withdrawal will hurt the Dems. But Republicans looking for an alternative to MAGA might also vote for Benson or not vote.

However, recent polling from the Glengariff Group, commissioned by the Detroit Regional Chamber, which endorsed Duggan early on in the race, noted that Benson had all but consolidated Democratic support in the race. It also noted that Duggan was beginning to potentially hurt the Republican candidates more than the Democrats by eight points.

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· May 20

I do love this for them: not having a valid boat registration 😂

McDaniel was arrested and charged with operation of a vehicle in a closed section of the lake, not having a valid boat registration and other water safety equipment violations.

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· Apr 30

So I suppose that just leaves Mr nazi tattoos. Ugh.

Janet Mills Bows Out of Maine Senate Race as an Insurgent Democrat Rises.

Her withdrawal reflects the energy of the party’s left and voters’ unease with older candidates and paves the way for Graham Platner to challenge Senator Susan Collins in November.

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· Apr 17

They are explicit in the discussion. Since HLA-DQB1 starts at 0, it's one of the genes that "have been under consistent positive selection since they arose" And they go on to say "We ruled out the possibility that our results are reflecting not directional selection but stabilizing selection"

By comparing the estimated age of the mutation that contributed each selected allele to the extrapolated time to reach fixation given its estimated s value, we find that about one-third of the favoured mutations are ancestral alleles and another one-third are derived alleles with true ages an order of magnitude older than the expected sweep age, indicating that selection coefficients must have shifted over time at these variants (Fig. 2c). The remaining up to one-third of the signals that we detect are consistent with classic sweeps where the newly arising variants have been under consistent positive selection since they arose (but they arose recently enough that the sweeps are not complete).

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· Apr 9

But never fear, I'm sure we can trust an Ai booster to speak about this in an unbiased manner. Ai totally isn't dependent on private equity to provide the billions they continuously need to set on fire. Right? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Carrie Sheffield is director of the Center for AI and Technology at Independent Women.

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· Apr 9

At a time when there's concern about the systemic risks posed by private equity, and when some many institutional investors are pulling money out, this seems like an awful idea. But then, maybe that's the point - let ordinary people bail out the funds now that the big profits are gone.

Countless Americans face a scary retirement. This rule could change that. When it comes to retirement investing, the deck is stacked against most workers.

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· Apr 3

Are my daffodils non-political? What about if I note that they're probably early because of the warm weather triggered by climate change? And the fact that they're non-native species in Michigan, as are the Lunaria (money plant) seedlings coming up in the corner of the pic?

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· Apr 2

"Iran’s tolerance for pain appears far higher than Mr. Trump anticipated". This line in a NYT article really hit home for me how little attention the Trump admin has paid to Iran. Iran relied on human wave attacks in the war with Iraq. The losses were catastrophic, but Iran tolerated the pain

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· Apr 1

Among all that red, I'm in that green dot in the very centre. Why? City-owned utility!

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· Mar 27

If you grew up in a house that looks like this you're probably required to believe in werewolves and vampires.

Montague Summers childhood home. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tellisford_House_and_Trinmore,_Clifton_Down_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5909536.jpg

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· Mar 20

They had a 20-year common law marriage, but because the US doesn't recognise it, she was never able to become a permanent resident. Among all the many power differentials in this story, this is one of the cruelest.

For years, she told The Times, Mr. Zampolli had dangled the prospect of marriage — and the path to citizenship that comes with it — and then taken it back. She held a string of temporary visas, the last of which expired in 2019.

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· Mar 16

How do people with big accounts handle that kind of thing? Even this little bit of attention to my fairly silly reply (for which I'm grateful) makes me want to delete my account and abandon social media forever.

Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· Mar 6

A tornado? In Michigan? In March?

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Ian Ramjohn@iramjohn· Mar 4

I also needed to read this, as I'm thinking about taking an abandoned draft and entirely reworking it. And wondering if it still needs to be speculative fiction.