dandelion
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- Comment on Can't wait for my demonologist's advice. 1 hour ago:
for those wondering what's in the photo
the photo is of a hydrojelly face mask, and it’s probably just seeds - maybe flax seeds or something like that; there are many different kinds of hydrojelly face masks, some of them have rose petals or lavender flowers, etc.
- Comment on Can't wait for my demonologist's advice. 1 hour ago:
www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00700-y
The American Academy of Dermatology recommends washing the face twice a day with a gentle cleanser, applying a moisturizer and — during the day — putting on sunscreen and protective clothing.
skincare is simple: just wash your face, use moisturizer, and wear sunscreen (and keep out of the sun).
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 hour ago:
just a reminder that none of us can sufficiently “doom prep” and avoid the consequences of large catastrophes like being discussed
beyond typical disaster preparedness: www.ready.gov
probably the best thing would be to develop community ties - get to know your local weirdo farmers doing a CSA, make friends with EMTs, get to know your neighbors, get connected with a local community garden, etc.
We will survive or die together, individual prepping is not going to save you.
- Comment on Red, White and Blue 2 hours ago:
source?
- Comment on what do you think is the future of the internet and tech in general? 1 day ago:
seems like the current trend is consolidation - it will be more expensive and less accessible to own your own computer or run your own servers, programs will continue to bloat and require more expensive hardware (see LLMs for example), and this will all lead to greater consolidation under fewer and fewer entities
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 4 days ago:
I did not know Brendan Eich was ousted from Mozilla and launched Brave because he was a homophobe who funded anti-LGBT+ campaigns 😬
- Comment on A photo of Iran’s bombed schoolgirl graveyard went around the world. Was it real, or AI? 4 days ago:
saved you a click, the image is real:
The cemetery image, it turns out, is authentic. Researchers have cross referenced the photo of the site with satellite images that confirm its location, and it can be cross-referenced again with dozens more images taken of the same site from slightly different angles, and again with video footage – none of which experts say show signs of tampering or digital manipulation. The “factchecks” by Gemini and Grok are just one example of a tidal wave of AI-generated slop – hallucinated facts, nonsense analysis and faked images – that are engulfing coverage of the Iran war. Experts say it is wasting investigative time and risks atrocities being denied – as well as heralding alarming weaknesses as people increasingly rely on AI summaries for news and information.
The story is about how LLMs are unreliable at fact-checking, misleading people into thinking the image was fake.
- Comment on Do cheezits come from a tree, like oranges, or underground, like potatoes? 5 days ago:
cheezits are squeezits out of zeetits
- Comment on How to find the standard term for a concept/idea? 1 week ago:
I use duckduckgo and sometimes it gives me better answers, but I do feel like SEO optimization has led to a kind of useless noise of search results that is improved by using an LLM to search for the needle of valuable information in that haystack of noise.
It’s not always true, so I still use search engines when I can, but unfortunately I have become increasingly reliant on LLMs as a kind of “efficient search engine” which could probably be solved with better industry practices and regulations to prevent the kind of SEO competition that leads to such useless websites vying for clicks.
- Comment on Blessed be the Civ 2 Gandhi 🙏 2 weeks ago:
there probably would be peace, after the nukes hit 🤔
- Comment on Dear Faith II 2 weeks ago:
no denying that people criticize women in STEM (as a woman in STEM myself), but there are series of “dear Faith” email posts that collectively seem a bit unlikely in their tone and situation, which is what makes me think it’s more likely they’re fake than real
- Comment on Dear Faith II 2 weeks ago:
yeah, I think the email is probably fake and made for internet points / humor
I have heard horror stories about how specific formatting has to be for a thesis or dissertation, though - and often those rules are very specific to a particular university or even department. So it’s also possible for rules like that to be local and not from a universal standard like the APA guide.
- Comment on Dear Faith I 2 weeks ago:
it could be an internal organizational title, but it definitely doesn’t sound like an academic position and not a part of a normal email signature either
- Comment on Dear Faith I 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know, the line “at this rate, the only original part of this thesis is your name” implies the issue is not just failing to cite sources, but having no original thoughts or contributions - maybe it’s exaggeration for humor’s sake, but I definitely did not read this as simply forgetting to cite sources.
- Comment on Dear Faith I 2 weeks ago:
I have never worked in academia, but I’ve spent time around academics and have read plenty of emails in both academic and corporate contexts … this particular one looks fake, even if the circumstances of plagiarism are common - this just not seem like how a thesis adviser would address this kind of plagiarism with a grad student
- Comment on Dear Faith I 2 weeks ago:
this can’t be real
- Comment on Dear Faith II 2 weeks ago:
the context is all there … Faith is a graduate student working on their masters thesis, in the thesis paper they included tables that they presumably color-coded (maybe different columns had different colors), and they used multiple colors such that it was “rainbow colored”.
Apparently the thesis advisor did not like the presence of color and advises using APA style guideline on how to style & format the tables: apastyle.apa.org/…/tables
- Comment on I LOVE EATING STIR BARS 3 weeks ago:
to be fair, stir bars are totally forbidden food - they look delicious
- Comment on I LOVE EATING STIR BARS 3 weeks ago:
- those are huge stir bars
- my body is about to become organ smoothie 😱
- Comment on Never understood this. If something foreign enters you your white blood cells go after it like a dog in heat, Would this not mean that our cells are smart enough to discern bad from good? 3 weeks ago:
look at Mr. Rogers over here
- Comment on Never understood this. If something foreign enters you your white blood cells go after it like a dog in heat, Would this not mean that our cells are smart enough to discern bad from good? 3 weeks ago:
lol, you’re right - white blood cells justify bigotry is a much better argument than “my sky daddy said so!”
- Comment on Never understood this. If something foreign enters you your white blood cells go after it like a dog in heat, Would this not mean that our cells are smart enough to discern bad from good? 3 weeks ago:
yes, in fact our moral reasoning comes from the function of white blood cells and their extreme xenophobia - it is an important lesson to learn that foreign = bad, white = good … oh wait, hmmmmmmmmm
- Comment on Anyone have good recommendations for thigh highs and skirts? 4 weeks ago:
came here to say sock dreams, lol
- Comment on A succulent meal 5 weeks ago:
I sent this to my nephew, lol
- Comment on Anon finds a glitch 5 weeks ago:
flat earth is pushed by the global elite pedophiles, after all - it’s what they want us to believe
- Comment on Anon finds a glitch 5 weeks ago:
this feels like a potentially sincere attempt to recruit people into an anti-science conspiracy movement - this doesn’t really feel different than the kind of reasoning you see with moon landing denialists or flat earthers.
- Comment on Downvote this post 5 weeks ago:
is this your least favorite emoji: 📉
- Comment on Downvote this post 5 weeks ago:
I think the Blahaj instances are just focused on creating a safe space for trans and other minority users, and downvotes are one of the targeted ways bigots can harass, so it’s just disabled for that reason. That said, trans folks don’t tend to strike me as snowflakes - we get a lot of hate and flak IRL and on the internet so a lot of us are pretty used to it. It’s just nice to have a space where we don’t have to worry about it.
- Comment on Downvote this post 5 weeks ago:
I can’t, my instance only has upvotes.
- Comment on These patients saw what comes after death. Should we believe them? 5 weeks ago:
“This is not the digestive function of some lower life form we’re talking about here. These are implications that reach all of humanity,” said Jeffrey Long, a radiation oncologist and co-author of the 2011 book “Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences.”
“Do we have some evidence?” he asked. “And how strong is that evidence that we have life after death, that our consciousness survives bodily death?” Long — who was not involved in either the NEPTUNE paper or the critique — said he has studied more than 4,000 near-death experiences.
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the “sweeping critique” was:
Of note, they did not discuss major NDE features that seem incompatible with their physicalist theory, such as veridical out-of-body perceptions during NDEs (Holden, 2009). Furthermore, some NDEs include encounters with deceased persons of whose death the experiencer had no knowledge, or whom the experiencer had never met; accurate information acquired about the deaths of these deceased persons challenges the interpretation of these visions as hallucinations (Greyson, 2010c; Khanna et al., 2018).
Martial et al. (2025) acknowledged that, in developing their coherent overarching model, “We have excluded dualistic theories from our discussion owing to the lack of empirical neuroscientific evidence and the fact that a fundamental tenet of neuroscience asserts that human experience arises from the brain”
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2026-82154-001.html
ruling out supernatural explanations and approaching science with an empirical and physicalist approach shouldn’t be that controversial, and the fact that some oncologist is willing to believe in a supernatural after-life doesn’t exactly change anything :-/
Out of body perceptions are common aspects of altered states and dissociative episodes (and dissociation is a frequent change in mental state that happens during trauma such as a near-death-experience, I’ve had this happen to myself during acute physical trauma). Out of body experiences don’t really prove anything supernatural.
And I’m highly skeptical that during NDEs that accurate information was acquired about deceased persons that they did not know before - that is the kind of claim that if found to be true would be all over the news.