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I periodically ask ChatGPT to describe very basic things about nuclear weapons to me. It does a great job of regurgitating well-known information, but then will insert subtle hallucinations that only someone already well-informed on the topic would catch.

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RIP to everyone who moved on from The Intercept to pursue their own venture but I’m different. And saner. Maybe even saner than Glenn Greenwald.

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Well, folks... I watched most of these frames render in wonder, and I genuinely think this is top class. I can do better, but the base here is solid. God, I love lookin at it. #Blender #Astronomy #Scifi #VFX #SciArt #Procedural #MathArt

Procedural Gas Giant Planet - Blender 4.2 Beta / Eevee Nextyoutube.com The latest in my attempts to create procedural gas giants, and... this is really hitting my target. I think I can do better, but mostly in polish and window ...

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Doodling with the Mac’s command icon: alexwlchan.net/2024/command... I’ve been wondering what ⌘ would look like with more loops, or bigger loops, or smaller squares, and I got carried away. 😅 This was a fun little generative art project.

Doodling with the Mac’s command iconalexwlchan.net Rotating a looped hook around a central point creates a surprising variety of shapes.

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under Roberts's opinion, I'm not sure you could use the show as evidence of bribery. maybe you could use re-airings of the show as evidence. maybe you could use the AV Club's summary of the episode as evidence. maybe you could only use the AI aggregation of the AV Club summary as evidence...

If Trump is reelected, his new weekly show "Who Wants To Buy a Pardon?" is going to be a commercial smash.

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this would not be happening in a country with a powerful and cunning Grand Vizier

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how do you rebut presumption of immunity? nobody knows. but you can't consider the president's motive in rebutting it or the fact that murder is against the law. doesn't matter if president says to his advisors "I would like to kill rival because I hate them." inadmissible

let's do the seal team six hypo. president orders st6 to assassinate a political rival bc rival is a threat to national security. possible this is absolutely immune under pres's commander in chief power. if it's not, then it gets presumptive immunity (which may be absolute anyway)

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Update #8359 from NROL-111 (TOP SECRET) 1. Octopus Pillars 2. Fiery Grotto of Selfies

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every girl has 2 wolves inside of her. the issue is she also has a bag of grain and a chicken inside of her too. she also has a rowboat that can only carry 2 of the 3 types of things inside of her at any given time. how does the girl get to the other side of the river without losing the grain or th

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for example, wills details how yoo tried to argue that the president has an exclusive power to enter the country into war because the “declare” in Article I’s “Congress shall have the power to declare war” actually means that Congress shall have the power to *notify* the country of war.

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“Don’t you think she looks tired?”

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"Don't you think she looks tired?"

I love how this is going to end deadline.com/2024/06/jk-r...

J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History”deadline.com JK Rowling has branded 'Harry Potter' actor David Tennant the "gender taliban" after he said transgender critics are on the "wrong side of history."

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On the same morning, the Court said: 1) We should not presume to know more than small town mayors regarding complex, technical questions like whether to arrest people for being poor. 2) I don't see why a "PhD" in "nuclear physics" should have any latitude to implement ambiguous energy rules.

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SkiFree (1991)

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A one-armed hot tar roofer is found with the skin stripped from the genitals using a potato peeler. Suspicion falls on Little Auburn’s black-swan-wrangling club, angry that the imminent increase in postage rates might threaten to reveal that up to 20% of art in British museums is fake.

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I never knew that Farmington, MN had an annual festival called “Dew Days”, named so because, in 1979, they drank more Mountain Dew per capita than any other city in the country.

About Farmington Dew Dayswww.farmingtondewdays.com

Noise complaints Georg www.businessinsider.com/person-under...

Person under aircraft flight path filed 20K noise pollution complaintswww.businessinsider.com A Perth resident accounted for nearly half of Australia's aircraft noise complaints in 2023, data shows. They complained on average 56 times a day.

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putting the Fix the Court data into a pie chart (usually the worst form of chart) really helps communicate the scale of what is happening here docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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If we look at the market itself, it's a very unlikely place for an outbreak to have started, if it wasn't for the high risk exposures to potentially infected animals. There are *many* other places *much* more likely for an outbreak to take off in a big city. Yet, it was the market.

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oh hell yeah www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSwe...

tfw there's a good remix of a song you overplayed so you get a reason to do it for another straight month

Selfish Soul (ODESZA Remix) - Live at Lollapalooza with Sudan Archiveswww.youtube.com 'The Last Goodbye Tour Live', released 31 May 2024 on @foreignfamilycollective / @ninjatune: https://odesza.lnk.to/tlgt-liveYo Selfish Soul (ODESZA Remix) - ...

I am going to become the Joker

Breaking News: Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York halted a congestion pricing plan, which would charge motorists to enter Manhattan, just weeks before it was to go into effect.

Hochul Halts Congestion Pricing in a Stunning 11th-Hour Shiftwww.nytimes.com Weeks before New York was to charge motorists to enter Manhattan’s business district, Gov. Kathy Hochul postponed the program citing economic concerns.

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My buttercup. She builds me up everyday and I love her. But does she call me? Never. She lets me down. It drives me mad

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The "average person does 3 felonies a day" factoid actualy is just statistical error. The average person does 0 felonies per year. Felony Georg, who lives in Manhattan & does over 10,000 felonies each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Shimogoro, the mascot for the town of Shimogo, is based on the local delicacy “shingoro,” which is a ball of glutinous rice on a stick, coated in sweet miso, and grilled.

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leviathans only do this when they're in serious distress

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*tearfully* it's mueller time

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Average American president has been convicted of .74 felonies

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An item from a specific moment: When IN RAINBOWS first appeared as a pay-what-you-want download in 2007, Radiohead did not include a cover. In the brief window that followed, fans created their own cover art. I do not know who made this, but to my mind, it is the proper album cover, now and always.