Did she? I watched the video and it just sounds like she’s expressing support for Palestine and suggesting others do the same.

Where’s the farmhouse? Peekaboo! There it is!

It’s the Pinterest approach to house sales

I was baffled by the shamelessly non-critical way my university stats course presented Bayesian inference. To transition smoothly from all the ways that we have to use data to produce compelling and realistic results and move on to… Numerical confidence in a belief… Seemed utterly ridiculous. Why include the belief at all? It just seems to me like you’re introducing your own biases into actual data.

Except an actual compas, of course. They really don’t need a third axis in most cases.

I have never heard of cassette futurism before today but that’s a cool af looking multitrack recorder. Zoom could learn a thing or two.

Amazingly evocative, and beautifully painted

Science fiction presents a vision of the future - it is, I think, an effective mirror for the collective thoughts and beliefs about what is to come. For much of the 20th century people were strongly optimistic about the future - postwar and into the tech boom in the 80s and 90s it seemed like everything was only going to get better.

Nowadays though… we don’t have that optimism anymore. We have climate change rapidly escalating, corporation’s sucking us dry, states doing fuck all about it. This is reflected in those grim police robots and dark themes, just as the shiny space ships and friendly aliens of the past reflected the optimism of the time.

N.b. I do agree with the other commenter who said audience expectations of “realism” play a role - but I also think audiences have a pretty warped idea of what is realistic.