d4v3.bsky.social

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Lessons I've learned from the LLM era (list to be expanded, probably): 1. Sufficiently advanced autocomplete is indistinguishable from an impossibly well-read toddler on peyote. 2. Almost any decision has the potential to be a life-or-death decision, if you're bad enough at it.

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This is both a correct and obvious strategy. Let’s go for the throat.

I think it's even worse than this for Hochul. Now every New Yorker is going to blame her specifically when the subway/LIRR/Metro North is bad instead of the more nebulous MTA bureaucracy. It's making her a target via intervention, and it's political suicide.

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Every morning my dad used to come upstairs and ask if Trump was dead or in jail yet. He hated that son of a bitch. I missed my dad last night.

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Okay, I don't want to keep being political, and I'll stop after this, but I saw this one and it made me laugh harder than any other post.

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Ay, all of them

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ah well neverthele- wait what

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there is literally no way a belligerent women-hating psychopath like alito would be a wife guy. stolen wife guy valor.

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To repeat: generative "A.I." is not inevitable. It's a derivative, boring bullshit generator. It wallows in mediocrity and fails by design and definition. Just say no.

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Gift link: Jamie Raskin. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/o...

Opinion | Jamie Raskin: How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Caseswww.nytimes.com Can they really decide for themselves whether they can be impartial?

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I subscribed to Paramount+ just so I could stream Star Trek: Lower Decks & be angry about its cancellation! You can too! Apparently tomorrow (May 25th) is the official day to do it, but you should stream Lower Decks now anyway! Because it's awesome! #savelowerdecks

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LOWER DECKS! LOWER DECKS! LOWER DECKS! LOWER DECKS!!!! I am rarely this passionate about a TV show, but Lower Decks is truly phenomenal. #SaveLowerDecks

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Oh my god oh my god oh my god 😭😭😭 www.savestartreklowerdecks.com

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Jerky, 7-Fingered Scarlett Johansson Appears In Video To Express Full-Fledged Approval Of OpenAIwww.theonion.com SAN FRANCISCO—In response to allegations that the artificial intelligence research organization used the actress’s voice without consent, a jerky, seven-fingered Scarlett Johansson appeared in a video...

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I love this show, the Trekkiest of all Treks, and I'd love to see it continue.

Oh my god oh my god oh my god 😭😭😭 www.savestartreklowerdecks.com

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you're a mean one, mr grinch you're as average as can be if an eel and skunk were one and five you surely would be three mr griiinch

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one of the most fun days i had on twitter before i stopped using it for fun was getting people to change every vowel in animals’ names to O: olophont. rhonocoros. zobro #onomals anyway, today i have the word “flopjock” in my head so let’s do the same with food. poncokos. spoghotto. chockon pot poo

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You have the absolute right to shame or shun people who say things you consider odious. Not just the constitutional right, which you obviously have, but the moral right. Sometimes the moral obligation.

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I applaud Apple for their new iPad ad: "We are a huge corporate machine that will crush anything you love in order to make a buck" is refreshingly honest.

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real echoes of the jack welchified 80’s where companies that had been totally viable and competent through two world wars and the resultant downstream upheavals just suddenly wanted nothing more but to dissolve themselves in consultancy acid to make line go up while destroying their workforces

they’ve got over 100K employees, most of whom work in manufacturing or service, and a very large number of people who may not even realize it have their retirement accounts tied up in the company

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If The Onion turns out to be the turning point in restoring some form of sustainable national media model, well, that would be very funny

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kristi noem when the family pet knocks over a water dish

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I feel like you can't overestimate what a breaking point Uvalde was for a lot of Texans. The story went on and on for weeks and the longer it went on the worse it got. There was little to no resolution or justice. We're all just sitting with the memory of it. bsky.app/profile/rena...

the students/protestors chanting at the line of riotous cops: who failed Uvalde?! DPS!

I am so excited for the final season of Young Sheldon. I can only hope someone finally, finally beats this little shit to death. I embrace the narrative dissonance. Contemplate your sins against geekdom. May your fealty to continuity be your passport to madness.

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Secret Panel HERE 🫴 tapas.io/episode/2871767

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It’s stunning that we just take for granted that people serving on a jury for a trial of a former President should simply expect to get avalanches of death threats from his supporters. What are we even doing here?

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Because it seems important to acknowledge it when it’s true: my life is going well and I’m happy

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This is what I really believe about intelligence. If you're not constantly aware that you could be wrong and that there's important stuff that you don't know — that there are ways of knowing things that come from outside your limited experience — then you're not very intelligent, by definition.

Lately I keep thinking our biggest problem is that we confuse intelligence with loudness and arrogance, when really it's the opposite. Intelligence is humility. It's listening and paying attention. It's understanding there's stuff you don't know or understand. Fuck the Smartest Man in the Room.

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Adults are children faking it. Suddenly it all makes sense

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I feel like I every time I bemoan shitty things falling apart, people tell me about Vimes Boot Theory, and guys: the billionaires know about Vimes Boot Theory, and they’re trying to dismantle it. They don’t want there to be any more good boots.

I used to be a tech enthusiast. I am becoming a tech dethusiast. I don’t want any more tech to buy. I don’t want smart appliances. I don’t want smart pants. I don’t want smart dumbbells. I just want things that I can buy and that work for 20 years.

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AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech. CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders