Kilian Walsh @kiliantics

astrophysicist-turned-ml-scientist, enjoys maths/programming puzzles, biking, baking, brewing, learning languages, and questioning illegitimate power structures Brooklyn Joined October 2009

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Kilian Walsh @kiliantics

8 months ago

@gbrl_dick @BurakYngn Piketty's capital in the 21st century argues that the world wars were an anomaly in the general trend of wealth concentration. That the infrastructure investment for the war and the destruction of capital led to a huge wealth transfer from rich to poor, a great equaliser.

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Kilian Walsh @kiliantics

8 months ago

@user_ops @SwiftOnSecurity Homes were custom built from the trees of the property. Cobblestones in town were each hand hewn from a quarry. Human little details everywhere if you look close. Now everything is just poured concrete and plastic. Bigger, cheaper, faster. But nothing has a soul anymore.

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Kilian Walsh @kiliantics

10 months ago

@signulll @synthshareai University research labs are largely funded by external grants, not tuition. Tuition money (and the research grant "tax" that labs pay) goes towards the bloated administration

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10 months ago

@theapriorist @shinboson What is this fairytale book? Sounds interesting

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Kilian Walsh @kiliantics

a year ago

@FitFounder A bicycle

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Kilian Walsh @kiliantics

2 years ago

@NandoDF Tech workers should have unionised while the going was still good

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Kilian Walsh @kiliantics

2 years ago

@pachabelcanon @toxopneustes You have obviously never gone to organising meetings of serious leftist groups. There are many very competent and very driven people that are achieving a lot with very few resources. If they could pay tech salaries they would easily be winning the discourse.

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Kilian Walsh @kiliantics

2 years ago

@Hieraaetus How about more recent findings that suggest there were large organized peaceful cultures before agrarian civilization, e.g. the societies discussed by Graeber in The Dawn of Everything?

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Kilian Walsh @kiliantics

2 years ago

@hexprax @kahntra @Nous4t4t4t @UMN79573628 @bindtortureill There are some aboriginal tribes in Australia who have maintained in their oral history the knowledge that they arrived to Australia and brought certain plants with them (confirmed genetically/archaeologically). Are they indigenous if their cosmic connection acknowledges this?

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Kilian Walsh @kiliantics

2 years ago

@nickelpin @TheLastFarm Most of that corn is grown to feed cattle

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Kilian Walsh @kiliantics

2 years ago

@dan462 @Luas Wow all this and the luas is still free, amazing!

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Kilian Walsh @kiliantics

3 years ago

@skdh @lepetitro Capitalism forces us to live in ways we don't want. Few would want to commute 60 miles a day but auto lobbies effectively engineered society to be car dependent so now many do. No one wants to work 40 hours to make more rubbish for others to consume but we just have to.

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Kilian Walsh @kiliantics

3 years ago

@jbrownramsey @owenbroadcast In science and even in climate science, there are usually several competing theories at any time, no true consensus. Newtonian dynamics was popular but not the only theory before relativity and quantum theories. Those modern theories are still incomplete so there are many others

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Kilian Walsh @kiliantics

3 years ago

@DonalkCoffey @TuohyConor The fact we design our physical infrastructure so people individually have to move multi tonne vehicles just to get where they need to be has many barbaric consequences, especially considering we had plenty good rail lines before. EVs don't change this.

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Kilian Walsh @kiliantics

3 years ago

@RikAdamski @philritz1 Monhegan in Maine fits in with this too

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Kilian Walsh @kiliantics

3 years ago

@captaincabine13 @marketarianism @katewillett The crazy thing is that the US is a modern equivalent, with US multinationals squeezing profits out of the rest of the world with unprecedented efficiency, and yet the lived environment of the average US citizen is absolutely hideous

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Kilian Walsh @kiliantics

4 years ago

@baileymeyers I thought misled was pronounced "myz-eld" for too long

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Kilian Walsh @kiliantics

4 years ago

@nickpumper @artofarchitect Except those are also fake

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Kilian Walsh @kiliantics

4 years ago

@simonsarris Nice work! I was wondering if this was the Sobon shed. I'm close to finishing my first frame too. Love how your enclosure looks

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Kilian Walsh @kiliantics

4 years ago

@JKSteinberger Most acts of participation in society are destructive, even when you're not consuming. Most forms of paid labour we do to survive will contribute to destructive behaviour. That labour is taxed and those taxes will fund more environmental destruction.