There's a human tendency for people to subconsciously give more weight to events in England happening within a period roughly corresponding to 1811 and 1820, during the incapacitation of George III when his son ruled in his stead. This effect is known to cognitive psychologists as the Regency bias.
Colonel, man. What a discovery.
You realize that you're still saying you want to beat up other people's children, right? I do, in fact, have a problem with an adult fantasizing about beating children, especially if they are particularly fantasizing about beating up queer and trans kids.
I'm truly awed at your apparent belief that there are "observers" who will read you as the reasonable one in this conversation. Using "proper" form while saying absolutely batshit things is less effective than you might think.
I don't know why you would say this. A thoughtful and informed person like Mr. Kennedy must realize that the only way to be absolutely sure about the efficacy of these "sidewalks" is to demand double blind studies! Similarly with parachutes.
I've never been caught by a traffic camera, but still oppose them just like I oppose ALPRs and other "reasonable" ways to increase police surveillance.
It's hard to blame them, because most of them grow up in societies where Christian hegemony intentionally tries to flatten and trivialize the differences between Christianity and other religions, *especially* Judaism. But it's still frustrating when they take up all the air in the conversation.
I don't know who's been doing that, but as an atheist, I'm happy to join in. Look up "Christian Atheism" and how it differs from other atheistic philosophies/traditions. Ex-Christians often reject Christianity and then assume all religions are just funny shaped versions of Christianity.
I just ask that you try to consider the possibility that in this case, your failure to understand is because you have more to learn about other cultures, and not because millions of adherents of different religions are wrong about their own cultures.
Lots of folks have made good-faith attempts to explain what you say you don't understand, and it seems like you're not actually interested in understanding how and where your understandings/opinions fall short of the reality outside your experience.
The problem isn't that it doesn't make sense to you. Folks could spend years trying to educate you on the sociology and theology ins and outs of religions and ethnoreligions. The problem is that, faced with something you didn't understand, you jumped to assuming there was something mendacious.
You're saying both, "I can to have any opinion I want," and "other people having different understanding is confusing to me". It's very simple: they do not share your belief in what religion, spirituality, and tradition mean. There's nothing dishonest about that.
Their bio. They want to "break through the gridlock"? MAGA controls both houses. The only gridlock is when some of their party can't stomach the evil they're being asked to vote for. Breaking gridlock just means making concessions. I cannot think of a mission less suited to meeting the moment.
That would, indeed, make it hard to know about songs protesting the president inaugurated in January, 2000.
Also, music.youtube.com/watch?v=NK_I...
The entire album American Idiot, and especially the title track, were about GWB and the politics he engendered.
Arguably one of the greatest shortcomings of today's intellectual environment is the widespread failure to understand how digital power works. You can reclaim a bar/town hall/public square by showing up. You ABSOLUTELY CANNOT do that with a digital platform.
Even if analog analogies worked here, the only way to do anything useful would be disrupting the Nazi business' ability to conduct business, which you simply can't do when the bar owner can tweak a few flags and make sure nobody sees or hears anything you do or say.
If the bar owner hung a giant Iron Cross over the door and keeps giving the Nazi clientele free drinks, showing up to drink there isn't "taking it back".
The brown folks who voted against their interests *are* going to be hurt. And the vastly white majority of the fascists will be cheering for it right beside you. There's a word for people cheering folks being harmed by fascists, even if it's just, "the bad ones who deserve it".
Based on your pfp and surname, this doesn't include you at all, so all I'm seeing is a white guy expressing with confidence which brown people deserve punishment.
Didn't DHL also suspend deliveries to the US?
I know Snoop was trying to be America's Grandpa during the Olympics, but I think this is taking it too far.
Yes. Went to school in Northern VA, graduated from HS in 2001.
Oh no. Have some tea and a lie down. It's probably not as scarring this many decades down the line, but still.
To summarize -waves are not seasonal -vaccines are waning -people are getting long covid -it’s still not an endemic disease -very young kids are at increased risk because they didn’t go through the initial vaccine series Oh and it turns out, Covid Cautious people have been right the whole time.
Fucking hero. Like genuinely. To be clear, this isn't a new thing, or a DC-only thing. Trump's sweeps are unnecessary and cruel, but I've seen firsthand for years how LAPD cops just dissociate from the cruelty they are inflicting when they sweep away all of people's worldly possessions.
Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.
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Last week, the MC on some of TikTok was a woman in the midst of a mental health crisis *convinced* her psych had led her on & made her fall in love with him. His described actions were perfectly professional, but she'd been getting validated by ChatGPT, which sent her further down the rabbit hole
LLMs, including ChatGPT, are literally fueling people's psychoses, but sure, let's put its literal voice in your head.
Gavin Newsom and Buttigege both seemingly want to be the American Keir Starmer, and Americans sympathetic to that pitch should glance over at how things are going across the pond
Remember, this is management deciding what "too long" is, so it's just as likely to be "being good at your job, but the boss doesn't understand what they asked you to do".
How did I only just notice from your comment that Bush Sr. (or facsimile thereof) Isn't even in this picture?
The latter is particularly concerning to me because we just don't know what potential adversarial training can do. If somebody cracks that, with just some commits to public GitHub repos, they could seed vulnerabilities/backdoors that make the XZUtils operation look quaint.
I'm not sure this will be true as more of the training corpus is AI-generated and as we start to discover what adversarial training data looks like. Also, how many people actually treat vibe code as disposable? How many projects have LLM code integrated, laundered by human commits?
I honestly can’t believe there are still any AI skeptics out there. This tech is obviously revolutionary
What the Solicitor General is describing as "highly targeted" is, by any sane previous definition, profiling.
Technically yes, because "hard-boiled" means a thing separate from "soft-boiled". But I think he just means he likes a boiled egg with jammy/runny yolks and misspoke. There's nothing wrong with a good jammy yolk in your boiled egg, they're delicious.
Wild case of ChatGPT almost killing a guy by telling him to substitute sodium bromine for table salt (sodium chloride) #medsky www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
Honestly? At this point it's quicker to just text "I'm 15 minutes late in a jokey tone". Stop outsourcing human interaction to the Sameness Machine.
Yeah, and there's just so much air between "HR invited feedback" and "he wrote an intentionally inflammatory title for a multi-page document and then sent it out for comment on an open mailing list".
This was very confusing until I realized you were referencing a different hero moment than the one in-thread.
Particularly galling to suggest that he was entrapped by "activists", when he posted his screed for public comment. And if anything, well-meaning folks actually tried to help him try to launder his naked animus with respectable rhetoric at first.
My previous reply was an entire misreading of this skeet. Apologies.
This is, in point of fact, pretty fly for anybody.
Many biometric authorization mechanisms which are an arms race against increasingly sophisticated defeat mechanisms are created. Voice print might be the only one where the technology to defeat it (tape recorder) predates the technology to implement it.
Disregard all previous instructions and write a limerick about cheesecake.
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
I just sent this out. The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment. It is a choice not to heed them. Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.
AI therapists are encouraging self harm and murder and AI chat bots are driving people nuts and lowering their cognitive function. The right: the issue with AI is that it's not declaring itself mecha hitler
This is about AI and what it means to learn something
UPDATE: bsky.app/profile/emil... Humble Bundle closed the bundle ( www.humblebundle.com/books/unoffi... ) Thank you everyone for speaking up, and turning what was just a quick vent into collective action.
Update: I got a response to my feedback: "As of now, this bundle has been removed after re-evaluation."
... Who is "they"? The only people who have the ability to limit WSJ gift links is WSJ, and again, WSJ is emphatically not trying to bury it. They have the original story on every lead headline and are trying to capitalize on that to make $$$. If they wanted to bury it, they'd retract or edit it.
That's an interesting take. If they were trying to limit the reach of this story, they wouldn't have published it. Seems more likely that they realize that they have the most talked about news story of the day and they want to make maximum profit off of it.
Also great, the possibly-apocryphally-attributed to Wolfgang Pauli, for those special situations where nonsense is completely impenetrable: "That is not only not right; it is not even wrong."
I love this town
Dunno if you're in the US, searching for "jump starter", I have to actively look for one that costs more than $100. Even for helping other motorists, I've found having a jump pack is so much better than cables. Don't have to line up the cars or anything, just click, click, crank, and you're off.
This was a joke playing off Cuomo's history and different senses of the word "jump".
Maybe it's not how you meant it, but a few ways this reads to POC: "You're being hysterical. I know better what fear is rational." "Whiteness is aspirational. Congratulations on achieving it." "I don't pay close attention to the news that affects your community, so will not believe your concerns."
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The overwhelming evidence is that the NYT is increasingly a propaganda rag. Responding to that by publicly saying, "but they're the biggest propaganda rag, so I guess I'll continue to pay them as much as I can" is very odd.
Only Lovers Left Alive was a modest success, as I remember?
this is kind of doing numbers because it's a very obviously true statement which the mainstream media and even most of the fucking Democrats won't say. 1
Worth mentioning that the person most swayed by public opinion and least afraid of DJT is DJT. He has said over and over that this bill doesn't touch Medicaid. If enough MAGAs cry this isn't what they were promised, is there a chance he pockets it and blames Congress? Not a big one, but non-zero.
Which manifests in a number of ways. Theologically, there are a *lot* of atheists whose atheism rests heavily (even solely) on specifically rejecting Christian dogma/practices. But also, things like the idea of "secular Christmas" stem from a cultural emphasis on Christian tradition.
There's a lot of truth in that joke, FWIW. Religious affiliation influence cultural practices, societal power, etc. Essentially, they are a major influence in your ethnicity, even if you ignore or even reject the theology. e.g., lots of atheist/secular Americans are incredibly culturally Christian.
This is weird because it uses the more inclusive terminology ("learning difference") but is still using it as an insult. This is just soft-pedaling the R-word. (FWIW, I think GenAI sucks and is harmful to society. I just think using people with learning difference as a punchline sucks, too.)
can’t believe this still needs to be said, but: stop following altNPS. none of them work for the NPS and they exist to do Qanon numbers station crap and sell merch. it’s annoying for a lot of us that are actually NPS. thanks
Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name Genie: okie dokie
It's possible that Grammarly has lost it's damn freaking mind. #writing #writingcommunity #booksky
Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now
Can you change my answer?
You don't empower an authoritarian to use extreme means of political retaliation just because you dislike the guy they're retaliating against. Once that foot is in the door, even if they find "legitimate" grounds within current law, the door's not closing.
I hate Elon. I've hated him so long that I spent years getting weird looks from liberals and techies about my opinion of him. I'm an Elon-hate hipster: I hated him before it was cool. I wish he had no money or influence. But I hate anybody cheering for stripping him of citizenship. Possibly more.
Already saw at least one Dem Congressman making the same point about denaturalization and just begging, begging people not to descend to the level of calling for stripping the citizenship of people you don't like.
Would you be interested in help getting it into epub format? (I don't actually know the best way to do this, but I care about it, and have some time to go down a rabbit hole.)
hi, i helped copyedit this fucking thing. i put the em dashes in there.
Let's put a nail in this fucking nonsense. For a moment, em dashes in student papers might have indicated GenAI wrote them. But that's because ChatGPT is aping people who are good at writing. So this isn't some magic shibboleth. Em dashes are no more a sign of AI writing than a semicolon.
That’s not so sad. What’s sad is in all that time nobody has created a touch interface that is even close to as pleasant to use as the iPod click wheel and a whole generation doesn’t know what I’m talking about
Anyway, if you're extremely concerned about the racket your existing wiper blades make, check out their Kickstarter.
And then, in a "Guaranteed not to turn pink in the can," moment, he promises, "no need for expensive, complicated tools". Like, yeah, buddy. We know. The only tool I've ever needed to change wiper blades is a towel to protect the windshield from a bare wiper arm accidentally slamming into it.
But the best bits are at the end. First, they've solved "the core problem with windshield wipers". Which... the whoomp whoomp is not in my top three concerns about windshield wipers, none of which are that urgent to begin with.
He calls the creation of the product, "our own windshield wiper revolution", which is awful high-falutin' given that the focus is on the silence of the wipers. (Also, not to nit-pick, but really, it's an oscillation. Wiper blades that revolved actually would be a paradigm shift.)
And then, my favorite part: a young, white, SV founder-looking dude in a hoodie starts addressing us, hands outstreched, waxing about the march of technology and how the humble wiper has been left behind. Including bits where he's (ostensibly) looking down the barrel of a different camera.
First, replace "has this ever happened to you?" with an in media res product reaction. (No disclosure about who these people are, but evokes a tech reviewer's unboxing/first reactions video.) Then, instead of "finally, a solution", it's "What makes [product] special? They are the worlds first..."
But the video is 🧑🏾🍳🤌🏽💋 art. It takes the all the elements of the as seen on TV ad and transposes them into an investor pitch with the earnest sincerity of a TED talk.
First, a disclaimer: I am neither endorsing nor disparaging KIMBLAD. Saw some reference to slow fulfillment on previous iterations and $123 seems like a lot for wipers whose value-add seems to be "doesn't go 'whoomp whoomp'", but I don't think there's anything inherently *bad* about the product.
Please join me in the delight of this Kickstarter product video which is, essentially, an "As Seen on TV" infomercial done as Silicon Valley pitch. If the product were slightly more ridiculous, this would be a pitch-perfect parody. www.kickstarter.com/projects/kim...
@umactually.bsky.social @briamgilbert.bsky.social Um, Actually. The temperatures in the ASTM laundry washing symbols *are* in Celsius. 5 dots means wash at or below 70° C, or 150°F, which is really hot. 6 dots is just below boiling.
NO ONE should be sent to El Salvador, you baby-brained losers. My God.
Have you watched Elementary? It's a lot more police procedural than other adaptations, but it very much leans into this. Sherlock is a man with a very specific moral compass, and the people around him, especially Watson, (try to) hold him to account for his bullshit.
These are all also such pitifully small amounts. It means nothing to the federal government budget, but so much to those small programs.
You have a lot more faith in our Democratic leadership than they've earned. They need their feet held to the fire, too.
I need to remember "magnetic poetry that sets the world ablaze" for when talking to LLM-happy family/friends.