Joseph Mastron

I'm less into Roko's Basilisk and more into Frankenstein's monster. We should not attempt to create yet another god to serve. We should play god and make the next generation of flawed humanoids, without perfection as the goal. This is existential: make co-equal symbionts, not apex predators.

This valentine's, we at *brand* want to remind you that the reason you're single is you haven't given us your money yet.

This is what AI is doing to your microscope images. You can trust your lasers but do you trust your pipeline?

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

The #SfN25 poster floor is buzzing with innovative studies and breakthrough discoveries. Get lost in the science and find inspiration at every turn! #neurosky #neuroskyence

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Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.

You are embarrassing yourself by lauding this monster. Do you defend these views, which he held lifelong. Where is the "nuance in these words?" Shame! liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

“The president demolished the White House.” “The president politicized the FBI and DOJ to go after his opponents.” “The president is why life is more expensive today.” “The president was besties with Epstein.” Messaging isn’t hard and makes you wonder why Dems aren’t saying this every day.

Why do First Class tickets get their own shorter TSA lane? Doesn't this violate the equal protection clause? Isn't this clearly discrimination based on wealth? I can understand precheck because you pay to get cleared in advance. But that doesn't hold water for general security.

Updating my LEGO White House

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

If you look up “heretic” in the OED, you’ll find the oldest use of the word recorded in English is the sentence “The kyng said & did crie the pope was heretike” (c. 1330, Mannyng’s Chronicle).

someone should tell Trump they don't give the Peace Prize to people who blow up boats and murder those on high seas nor to those who deploy military against their own people. NEVER.

This is why it's a "targeted act of violence" and not "domestic terrorism": because it's only terrorism if you can blame the left, and when the right does it, it's an isolated lunatic that's obviously not represetative.

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

It's quite dark that holding the opinion that "workers should exert concerted market pressure to prevent employers from treating us like slaves" is now equivalent to "encouraging political violence" but what can you expect from an authoritarian regime that thinks only 30% of us are real Americans?

!!ACETAMINOPHEN IS SAFE TO USE IN PREGNANCY AT APPROVED DOSES!! How embarrassing for HHS to endorse any other message. End of message. #FDT #FRFKJR #🍊💩🐒 #🪱🧠

This is how you do it.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk.

It is morally acceptable to be at least a little happy when bad people who actively pursue political violence die, even if the means of their death is abhorrent and denouncable. Sometimes, the universe provides just comeuppance, like a gun violence advocate being shot. "Prove me wrong."

I'm less into Roko's Basilisk and more into Frankenstein's monster. We should not attempt to create yet another god to serve. We should play god and make the next generation of flawed humanoids, without perfection as the goal. This is existential: make co-equal symbionts, not apex predators.

The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.

Controversial opinion: When it comes to US presidents, "blatantly breaking laws and violently violating people's rights" is a bigger deal than "is old," meriting greater public concern and a higher percentage of attention.

I am with people that we might need to revive the phrase "Deep Learning" to encompass all this good science stuff, with the phrase "AI" coming to mean "heavily tweaked/massaged/manipulated massive parameter large language model". I don't doubt these things can be useful in narrow settings

I would do this but my starting opinion would be that your personal morality shapes your interpersonal actions/reactions and thus every opinion is in some sense inherently political as it will invariably be closer to either manichaeism (with your opinion usually cast as "good-aligned") or pluralism.

BEHOLD! One of Earth's greatest lineages of life: the lil wiggle arm guys, Meteora. These single-celled critters, originally found in deep-sea sediments, are SO DIFFERENT from other lifeforms on Earth that they're likely in their own kingdom (as in, the Animal Kingdom, the Plant Kingdom etc). 🧪🌿

#NoKings in Henrietta, NY Awesome energy!

There were tons of people lining the road from Hylan Drive to just before Wegmans and nearly constant supportive honks.

#NoKings protest, Henrietta, NY, lining the sidewalk for blocks.

West Henrietta, Monroe county New York - No Kings anti-parade. 06/14/25 (Intentionally blurred video) #Iamnotafraid

Rochester NY area had several rallies, this one was in the suburb of Henrietta at 2pm. By 3pm there were twice as many people #NoKings

Henrietta NY video from a friend

Henrietta Sample:

A few thousand people out here in Henrietta, NY for the "un-parade" by my estimation.

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

If they want to take away my speech, they'll have to take me away. As long as I have the ability, I will not shy against calling out injustice for what it is. I will not do their job for them and self-censor. Retaliation against speech without process is one of the main reasons we fought George III.

very struck by the fact that whenever i use this image people will show up to tell me that it is gross and immoral when they could just skeet "i am addicted to losing" and save us all some time