Nikolaj Bichel
PhD and research on hunting, environmental ethics, conservation. Author of the 2023 British Ecological Society book of the year. Open to remote work.
- We've reached the "you should smile more" stage of fascism.
- Turns out she managed to get the selfie before she was mauled.
- It's a great selfie. Gotta give her that much.
- As Trump slides into madness, so seemingly does the crowd of people that he likes to have standing behind him. Very soon, they will be joined by a firefighter, three toddlers in a trench coat, a wookiee, the bottom half of a giraffe, a mariachi band, and the bony remains of Charlton Heston.
- Guess the movie.
- Why am I supposed to take it as a positive that someone was a "man of faith"? Tell me that they were a "man of reason" and I'll take it as a positive.
- The worst thing about being an atheist is knowing that Trump is 79 years old and believing that only while he still lives will he be able to pay for everything he's done.
- Is anyone else seeing this? Read the last page... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
- "I was 13 years old when Donald J Trump raped me."
- I hate how, in discussions about whether videos of current events are AI-generated or not, agendas have overwhelmingly come to overshadow the pursuit of truth. I was studying videos of Alex Pretti kicking the car taillight tonight, trying to find out which are real and which are AI... (cont.)
- It's really difficult now. I've done this a lot, and it used to be easy. I want to look at what others find too, and see if they're right. Clues that it's AI and clues that it's real. The problem is that people overwhelmingly see what fits their agenda and whether they want the videos to be real.
- Many claims of AI are obviously wrong. People see AI-evidence where there is none. People are mostly bad at recognizing AI, but they're also REALLY bad at recognizing reality, when something being AI is what fits their narrative. And what's worse are the reactions when you present your arguments.
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View full threadA case in point here that just happened. A conservative assuming that I must be conservative because I'm making an argument about a video that seems to support a conservative agenda...
- There is to me something especially sad about seeing how deeply corrupted all the official channels of communication have become. Crazy individuals will be crazy individuals, but it used to always seem like official institutional channels of communication would remain professional, if not impartial.
