exsolam.bsky.social @exsolam.bsky.social · 03/02/2025I haven't seen convincing evidence, but either way the media environment has been completely gutted, voters are not at all in touch with factual reality or meaningful discourse (by conservative design) 131
exsolam.bsky.social @exsolam.bsky.social · 01/02/2025We fought and lost. We don't have to sit down and take it but I definitely wouldn't rely on the courts at this point. They're actively dismantling all oversight and setting themselves up to purge all Democrats and non-loyalists. They've already dismantled the public's ability to be informed of it. 331
exsolam.bsky.social @exsolam.bsky.social · 26/01/2025B-b-but he promised to only con *everyone but us,* how could we have seen this coming??? 000
exsolam.bsky.social @exsolam.bsky.social · 24/01/2025No anatomical feature, including presence or absence of gamete production, suffices to account for sex, and the variation we observe for all physical traits is continuous and non-binary. A functional account of sex can end up binary, but it does NOT map onto colloquial sex/gender 000
exsolam.bsky.social @exsolam.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Biological sex is irrelevant to contemporary debates. Medical sex (which is basically colloquial sex) and gender are. I'd argue that there is a genuine, non-arbitrary binary in biological sex, but it also doesn't classify all humans, and it doesn't classify *any* human at conception. 100
exsolam.bsky.social @exsolam.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Now he's getting led around and advised by a bunch of self-serving sycophants and conmen who are sucking up to get a hold of his pale and flabby teets. 000
exsolam.bsky.social @exsolam.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Prove it to whom? Does anyone with power not already know/do any of them care? 000
exsolam.bsky.social @exsolam.bsky.social · 05/01/2025We tend to focus on the virion that infects as when we think of "a virus," but that's really just one stage of a viral life cycle. It's arguably just as valid to refer to the viroplasm or viral factory as "the virus," and in this framing the debate about whether its alive becomes more interesting. 020
exsolam.bsky.social @exsolam.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Survival of the fittest refers to units of selection, organelles aren't units of selection. 100
exsolam.bsky.social @exsolam.bsky.social · 05/01/2025They're not classical particles and they aren't classical waves, but aspects of their behavior at high levels (low information) can be modeled with both classical waves and classical particles. I think adding the "classical" qualifier helps make the point more clear. 150
exsolam.bsky.social @exsolam.bsky.social · 03/01/2025That seems dubious, but if true it seems like foreign companies stealing American business is a direct benefit (maybe an indirect harm) to American consumers. If the American sales get stolen, then they are essentially worse products (if success is an essential property) 000
exsolam.bsky.social @exsolam.bsky.social · 03/01/2025It's...strange, I do get the dystopian vibes, but it's also good signaling. I think it would probably have some real effect on people such that maybe more coats get donated. Seeing fake food makes us buy more real good, staged videos of people donating probably also cause some people to donate etc. 000
exsolam.bsky.social @exsolam.bsky.social · 03/01/2025If anything is in competition with an American product and makes any sales, is it inherently "ripping off sales from American Companies?" Talking about whether it *was going to* sell enough makes it seem like success is an essential property of products, that success is a direct measure of merit. 110
exsolam.bsky.social @exsolam.bsky.social · 31/12/2024An antique microscope slide showing a nice arrangement of Radiolaria fossils from Barbados 010
exsolam.bsky.social @exsolam.bsky.social · 22/12/2024First attempt at focus stacking with diatoms, 20 images taken about one micron apart for these Actinocyclus specimens. Nikon 20X NA0.75 and a Canon 55-250 IS STM on a Canon R100 010
exsolam.bsky.social @exsolam.bsky.social · 13/12/2024A portrait of Sternotomis amabilis, a longhorn beetle. Its green and orange scales get their color from photonic crystals of chitin+air rather than from pigments, a great example of structural coloration. 021
exsolam.bsky.social @exsolam.bsky.social · 13/12/2024@cosmicskeptic.bsky.social Are you familiar with the idea of metalinguistic negotiation? It came to mind while watching you and Sam Harris talk about ethics and emotivism and what it is we're doing when we say "murder is wrong." 010
exsolam.bsky.social @exsolam.bsky.social · 12/12/2024An iris agate cab, ~1.3X macro. No pigments involved in these colors, the microstructure of the agate acts basically as a diffraction grating www.flickr.com/photos/29682...flickr.comIris agate abstract macroJust messing around a bit 020
