Ben Slusky

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Look Spelling Bee, I don't know what you want from me here

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Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.

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This Originalist™ court has effectively immunized both the president and all federal law enforcement officers from any meaningful accountability. Because if there are two things the Founders cherished, it's the power of a king-like executive and armed agents of the government to act with impunity.

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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.

If you see this post a Doc

I don't care that the candidate whose message was, "vote for me to stick it to those uppity Blacks," beat the candidate whose message was, "vote for me to stick it to those conniving Jews," in the NY-16 congressional primary last night. I wouldn't care if it were the other way around either.

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It hasn’t sunk in yet that Donald Trump committed these 34 felonies *during his presidency* One of these was the same day Trump ordered the MOAB strike on Afghanistan One was the same day Mike Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI pdfs.nycourts.gov/PeopleVs.DTr...

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When you see it you’ll shit brix

You Forsook Me All Night Long

Damn! I'm Glad I'm Not Your Lover

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When we say “tech guys need the humanities too” we’re not talking about diluting the pool of Linus Torvalds with underwater basket weavers, we’re talking about arming them with enough literacy to comprehend Sci-Fi in a way that doesn’t get them sued by Scarlett Johansson

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We now have a website. udm14.com

Tell your friends about &udm=14

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Google has introduced a fix, a version of itself without AI. tedium.co/2024/05/17/g...

How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Searchtedium.co Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. You just need one URL parameter.

gif from a movie you're sure you have seen ten times

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I've been laughing at this for 3+ weeks

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👇🎯💯

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⚠Preliminary info: #earthquake (#sismo) about 20 mi W of North Plainfield (New Jersey) 1 min ago (local time 10:23:19)❗MAGNITUDE NOT AVAILABLE YET❗Updates at: 📱https://www.emsc-csem.org/lastquake/how_it_works/lastquake_app/ 🌐https://m.emsc.eu 🖥https://www.emsc-csem.org

Did Mayor Adams' new AI project cause an earthquake?

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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claimprojects.propublica.org You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

If you see this, post a monster

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The reason this is happening all over the place, btw, is that large pre-2023 corpora of text written by actual humans is the low-background steel (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-bac... ) of LLMs right now -- if LLMs continue to exist in another 5, 10 years, they will be forever frozen in 2023.

"Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the deals and internal documentation referring to the deals." www.404media.co/tumblr-and-w...

Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Toolswww.404media.co Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users' data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.

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Humans can, do, and must learn how to write, draw, whatever by studying what other humans have done, and the work they produce from learning is used by others, and so ad infinitum. If an LLM can't be trained on its own output, it is proof its output is useless and subtracts from human knowledge.

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Heads up if you use a PC with Windows 11: recent updates have put "Copilot" on your computer! This is Microsoft's new AI and it is integral to your OS; you CANNOT delete it! BUT! You can -disable- it. And since it spies on you, odds are you'll want to it! They don't make it easy, though.

Soon: "IMHO my Cybertruck looks better as a burnt-out shell. And it drives pretty much the same as before."

Seasoning my 80K low-poly truck like a cast iron pan. Researching high smoke point oils and such

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The inconvenientest truth of all.

It will be a battle for the ages

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

If you see this, post a robot.

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These throwable fire extinguishers seem like a real-life example of xkcd.com/937 — they have really good reviews from everyone except the few people who tried using them to put out fires

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There is a large number of conservatives who did not understand the themes of their favorite shows, movies and comic books prior those franchises casting more black people in prominent roles. Star Trek and X-Men are among the strangest targets for this complaint bsky.app/profile/pete...

Definitely the funniest and most confusing thing I've seen today:

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if the ritual is free you are the sacrifice

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OK I laughed