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Blovius Maximus.
Software Developer, Old Car Enthusiast, MMT.
Always prefer a full bottle in front of me to a full frontal lobotomy.

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Thanks, but I'd rather scratch my balls with a cheese grater.

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Wolfie Rankin

Friends! Romans! Countrymen! etc

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imagine how much great art could have been created if we took a fraction of the money spent on getting computers to make shitty art and gave it to actual artists

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Tyler

This is some extraordinary bullshit, given how little technical knowledge of LLMs is necessary to refute this claim. Model training has nothing in common with how humans learn.

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Just reupping www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s Not ‘Bluffing’: Inside the MAGA Efforts To Make a Second Term Even More Extremewww.rollingstone.com “Yes, we do really want to burn it all down,” says a Republican close to Trump.

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J.J.

Bettye LaVette’s version of Dylan’s “Things Have Changed”. Phenomenal.

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz

Doppelgangbangers!

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Nonfic-Jen

If that's not the name of a guitar effects fuzz pedal, it absolutely should be.

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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes

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Stephen Bush

“Pregnant with horrors” is quite the turn of phrase for Boris to choose, I must say.

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Ian Boudreau

This showed up on Marketplace (via the Ugly Guitars group) and I thought you better know about it.

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Kwisatz Sazerac 🖤 🐀🐀🐀

Seems an appropriate end for them. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

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Emma Evans

I'm sorry, what?

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Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish poem: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.

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Wolfie Rankin

Perfect for people who would use this garbage.

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Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear

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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

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voikukka 🇹🇼🇵🇸🇺🇦

There’s a Mr Philip K. Dick on the phone who would like a word…

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we live in an age in which we have near limitless storage for data. unfortunately at this time we must erase all works of culture to make room for the infinite sea of machine slop

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Just Another Film Nerd

And you let Mc Anally thru to the keeper?

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Stilgherrian

Death and taxes..

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pee wee herman-palladino

I saw it described somewhere as a “Temu DeLorean” and by god I wish I’d come up with that.

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Luke

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I'm sure this is nothing to be concerned about.

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨

When you get down to it, it's just typing in your prayers and hoping they manifest.

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Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton's week: SUNDAY: The government ignored concerns from the community about offshore windfarms THURSDAY: We would override local concerns about putting nuclear reactors in their community.

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Rs: We gotta put biblical rules in schools Me: Holy shit! Like a debt jubilee every 7 years? Rs: Haha, no, not that one Me: like "you shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt"? Rs: Hahaha not that one either Me: so, uh, which rules exactly? Rs: Oh, you know the ones

Google image search results are turning up AI-generated images of celebrities and leading users to sites that host AI-generated nudes celebrities made to look like children. www.404media.co/google-image...

AI Images in Google Search Results Have Opened a Portal to Hellwww.404media.co Google image search results are turning up AI-generated images of celebrities and leading users to sites that host AI-generated nudes celebrities made to look like children.

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨

I don't think you can rule out the idea that it's being attempted, even if actually winning the block reward is stupendously unlikely. This is Elon we are talking about.