Max Pearl 🏳️‍⚧️

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Black, Trans, Queer, luddite, multi-genre writer. Ph.D. Neuroscience. MFA student Antioch University. Cazadero, CA https://maxwellpearl.com https://overlappingmagisteria.com

Results Among 231 783 youths in the analytical sample, 41 472 youths (17.89%) were transgender (median [IQR] age at baseline, 9.00 [7.00-11.00] years; 31 246 with female gender marker [75.34%]) and 190 311 youths (82.11%) were cisgender (median [IQR] age at baseline, 8.00 [6.00-10.00] years; 128 942 with female gender marker [67.75%]). Being transgender was associated with higher odds of mood disorder diagnosis (aOR, 4.42
Yellow plastic for adapting 45s to a record player.
Hello Maxwell, We’re updating our settings to give you and your child even more control over saved history and personalized recommendations across Google Search services, including Search, Maps, Shopping, Hotels, Flights, Translate, and News. You’ll see this change in your child’s Google Account in the next few days.
Book cover: "The Artifact" with rings (jump gates) and planets, with space ships.
Book cover "Friends with Wings" a forest scene with wings in the foreground
Book cover, "House Trageri Omnibus" Becoming Queen and The Colonists, with a woman with short-cropped hair and a bow and arrows
Book cover, "The Cassiopeia Chronicles": The Right Asteroid, and The Saturn Moon
Four book covers: "The Casitian Universe Omnibus" , "The Expedition", "The Casitians, A History" and "The Human Family" Covers are mostly blue, with some pictures of earth, and assorted things.
Volkswagen ID Buzz Van Orange Bottom, White Top
Two pictures next to each other of the same Black person 10 years apart. To the left is a person in a blue sweater, low afro, no facial hair. On the right, a bald person with facial hair and glasses.
Bed of Bambu labs bed with small boat 3D print
House drawing with solar system and electric pole. Solar panels producing 10.1 kW, house using .9 kW, export to grid 9.5 kW
A new study by researchers at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) introduces the concept of “cognitive surrender,” our tendency to adopt AI outputs with “minimal scrutiny,” overriding “both intuition and deliberation.” I’ve read it, and the findings, although unsurprising, are still quite scary.
Screenshot of Bluesky post: "Yup. Heat it to about 165 degrees for 16 seconds. That will make it safe." Original skeet that was quote-skeeted "Blocked"
Octavia E. Butler Parable of the Sower book cover. Black woman with earth near her heart, moon in background.
Grass in foreground with green bushes, then ridges, and finally sky in the background.
This is the age of hubris — a time in which we are going to watch stupid, powerful and rich men fuck up their legacies by finding a technology so vulgar in its costs and mythical outcomes that it drives the avaricious insane and makes fools of them.
A white shepherd dog looking soulfully at the camera with big ears and black eyes. Background is blurry.
Crew of deep space 9: from left to right: O'Brian, Max, Sisko, Odo, Kira, Bashir, and Quark.
Fat Bear Week poster with bears in the foregrround eating salmon, and a bracket with different bears to vote for.
Experts agree that delusions among patients are an issue that demands attention. It all comes down to how chatbots communicate. They exploit our tendency to attribute humanlike qualities to others, explains Matthew Nour, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at the University of Oxford
“I can’t stand the word empathy, actually,” he said. “I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that does a lot of damage.”
Max PearlBluesky Max Pearl @pearlbear.com Followers 1,931 Posts 699 Following 1,924 Packs 0 Joined Nov 10, 2023 Roasted Aug 3, 2025 Black, Trans, Queer, mulit-genre writer. Ph.D. Neuroscience. MFA student Antioch University https://maxwellpearl.com https://overlappingmagisteria.com Max Pearl: The Neuroscience of Wit and Wisdom A multifaceted thinker unraveling the complexities of life, society, and tech with a side of sass. " Like a caffeinated philosopher at a punk rock show, blending intellect with irreverence. " 92.5% Authenticity 89% Thought Leader Key Topics 95% AI and Technology 90% Social Justice and Community
She'll sign saying "cash back per gallon" and other language, with Exit 216
Sideways view of a theatrical program of the play Jitney by August Wilson at OSF
Dialog box. Leaving Mars Project targets. Session target 1,028 out of 1,000 words.
We want to share an important update about Sonoma County Pride 2025. After thoughtful consideration, Positive Images has made the decision not to participate in the Sonoma County Pride parade or festival this year. We know that Pride events hold deep meaning for many in our community, and we want to offer transparency around this decision. Over the past year, we have been in ongoing conversations with community partners and the Sonoma County Pride Board about concerns related to accessibility, safety, and inclusivity—particularly for our most marginalized community members, including Queer and Trans people of color. These conversations have raised a number of issues, including the prominent platforming of police and law enforcement in the event, a lack of accommodations for undocumented individuals, disabled and neurodivergent community members, young families, and elders, and a continued pattern of sidelining partner organizations like the NAACP, whose voices and leadership deserve greater priority.
Leaving Mars Project Targets 8914 out of 50,000 Session Target 1630 out of 1000 words
Character sketch of a dark-skinned, full-figured woman with kinky hair, a yellow flowy dress, and a white scarf.
AI Disinformation Personal mute list. People who have spread disinformation and sensationalist claims about AI, LLMs, machine learning, diffusion models, etc. I do not wish to see these people in my feeds. Neither a pro nor anti AI list. Excludes academic, constructive & critical perspectives (as best as possible).
Three character sketches of three women. Tristan on the far left, wearing slacks and a shirt with a diagonal set of buttons, Melinda in the middle, dark-skinned woman with a short afro, and green trousers, and Kerry, wearing coveralls and a utility belt.
View of Seward park with water and trees.
Picture of Black man in the SF Japanese garden with a pond, trees, and building in the background.
Glass door with sign that says "Secure Document Area" and a combo lock.
Image of Star Trek's Deep Space 9 station and the wormhole in the background.
Visions: A hopeful anthology of science fiction stories. Submissions due May 31, 2025. Text background faces and stars.
Blue sky in background, green hills with futuristic looking buildings, foreground has a tree with a ship launching, then two femme figures, one natural, one metallic.
Two book covers from Maxwell Pearl: The Casitian Universe Omnibus, with earth background, moon and stars, and The Expedition, with hands with chain, and earth background. Books are on desk with other items in background.
Book cover: The Casitians: A History. The Casitian Universe Series, Volume V. By Maxwell Pearl. The cover depicts a herd of cows in the African Sahel, with a person, and a background of a cuniform tablet.
Political contributions by LL Bean from Goods Unite Us. 40% Democrat, 60% Republican
Book on a table, titled "Cassiopeia Chronicles" Author Maxwell Pearl
Text from Stonewall National Monument: “By the time of Stonewall...we had 50 to 60 gay groups in the country. A year later...1500.” Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights and provided momentum for a movement. Five visitors and one park ranger standing next to an iron fence as they post rainbow flags.
A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. "Gulf of America" will be at the top 3. Click on 3 dots 4. Choose "Send Feedback" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect " and type in whatever text you want.
Encouraged by Kennedy and Johnson, Webb made racial integration a priority for the agency. NASA publicly supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964[20] and initiated a series of innovative programs aimed at increasing black participation [21] including specifically targeting black colleges and schools with recruitment programs.[22] On one occasion Webb and Wernher von Braun famously confronted and lectured segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace on racial integration in front of the press.[22] NASA had the worst black representation of any government agency in 1961, but by the time Webb stepped down, it was the best and considered the model for other government agencies on racial integration.[22][20]
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As I've written before, OpenAI simply burns money, has been allowed to burn money, and up until recently likely would've been allowed to burn even more money, because everybody — all of the American model developers — appeared to agree that the only way to develop Large Language Models was to make the models as big as humanly possible, and work out troublesome stuff like "making them profitable" later, which I presume is when "AGI happens," a thing they are still in the process of defining.
Maxwell Pearl Science Fiction Author. Titles: "The Expedition", "The Casitian Universe Omnibus," "The House Trageri Omnibus," "The Cassiopeia Chronicles,", and "Friends with Wings." author.maxwellpearl.com
Get to know my Writing, for every like, I will post one quote.
ADL statement about Elon Musk: "This is a delicate moment. It's a new day and yet so many are on edge... It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture...
Flowering azalea with leaves and a small bit of sky.
White guy putting Tabasco in his eye.
Maxwell Pearl, Friends with Wings, picture of trees in a forest with wings in the foreground
Maxwell Pearl, House Trageri Saga Omnibus: Becoming Queen and The Colonists. Picture of a woman with a bow and quiver of arrows, wearing loose pants, a tunic and a cloak
The Cassiopeia Chronicles. The Right Asteroid, the Saturn Moon, by Maxwell Pearl. Picture of Cassiopeia A nebula.
The Expedition: The Casitian Universe Series Volume IV. Maxwell Pearl. Big viewscreen with earth below, and a person's hands in chains in background
The Casitian Universe Omnibus: The Casitians Return, The Story of New Earth, Humans Untied by Maxwell Pearl. Picture of earth plus moon and stars in the background
Picture of Langston Hughes in a suit.
Deep space 9 Kira, Jadzia, and Sisko in the foreground.
In July 2007, The Container Store sold a majority stake of the company to the private equity firm based in Los Angeles Leonard Green & Partners