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But her emails!
Given Jordan’s past, more like: The Unabomber says that the transcript of an interview between Jeffrey Dahmer’s lawyer and the Son of Sam shows Dahmer is squeaky clean
I agree with others in the comments: producers > history of the world But hot take: young Frankenstein > blazing saddles, though not by much Otherwise, no gripes
Maybe we could just give Putin Florida and call it quits
When my family relocated overseas temporarily, having a lot of big, cheap bags we could toss stuff into was very helpful. Then my kids used them when packing for college, doing laundry, etc. But we bought them for a big but not permanent move (ie, no furniture etc)
Those are nice jobs reports you got there. Shame if something happened to ‘em… statisticians can be so careless, ya know…
Talk about normalizing your own incompetence
“I can’t figure out how to do what millions of other people do every day: live in a city safely.” Not “I don’t enjoy living in a city” — which is fair, since not everyone does — but “I *can’t* do it, so clearly *no one can*”(1) (1) even with all my money and privilege
Ha ha ha… oh, wait…
+1, absolutely
Speaking only for myself — and not attacking or defending other positions here or elsewhere online — I think it is equally problematic for university students to study the humanities without any depth in a science. We need both perspectives to make good choices in a very complex world.
I think the real question might be whether Jimmy Carter wants to be joined by Donald Trump
Your argument here is saying “the internet doesn’t kill local news; people kill local news.” It’s *people with guns* who kill people* — as it is for news. Guns make it easier to kill people. Particular characteristics of internet make it easier for people to kill local news
Hi, Tom, here and in some the other post you’ve put up on the topic. You’re ignoring the structural impacts of technology. On the internet there are more free news sources, that come in small soundbites. The internet affords a different pattern of news consumption Old rules don’t really apply.
Indeed. It is basically the “guns don’t kill people; people kill people” argument. No technology is neutral. Every technology changes how we see the world and what actions we take.
If I were a billionaire, I would definitely pay a billion dollars to see other billionaires wait tables, mow lawns, and put in the tiny screws you need to make an iPhone
Awesome. The US Government now has terms of service: "This computer system and data therein are property of the U.S. Government and provided for official U.S. Government information and use. There is no expectation of privacy when you use this computer system." Data ripe for the selling...
Yes. But unfortunately, the jerk faces are louder
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This is why large language models have such juvenile prose! They hoovered up too many examples written by Donald Trump
Sadly, precisely right
Honestly, too coherent to be the T-meister
Like a toddler who just learned a new word and wants to show off to everyone
And just to clarify: I think laborers should be paid a living wage I think ICE should not be brutalizing and deporting or renditioning people without due process And I think this country is stronger for having immigrants than not having them But I don’t agree with the “economic” argument here
I mean, yes, prices would rise if we pay workers more. But arguing that we need to keep hiring under-paid workers is like the AI industry saying that they can’t make their product unless they violate copyright law. Or a robber saying they can’t do their work without breaking into your house 2/
Far be it from me to take issue with the premise here — I think what ICE is doing is unconscionable. But I do think there’s a problem with making the argument this way. If labor is scarce, wages should rise. The workers he’s talking about are thinly ones showing up for the wages he’s paying 1/
This is the same thing that happened on The Apprentice. No matter what Trump said or did, the show’s producers edited the film to make it look like what Trump did made sense. He’s so used to having complete enablers that he’s lost all sense of a reality that isn’t a projection of himself
Nice country you got there. Shame if something happened to it…
That’s a nice country you have there. Shame if something happens to it…
@baldwin.senate.gov *please* *please* pay attention to this 👇👇👇 With great respect, one of your constituents and campaign contributors
I’ve seen posts to that effect. It would be great to know if it’s more than just (informed) speculation
I really appreciate this thread. Quick question: what do you make of the fact that the soldiers were not marching in step? They were just sort of… walking
Yes yes yes
Former teacher here. Yup, absolutely
Are the jokes risqué?
(There’s some good writing about this is the QE community.) Thing about validation is it’s HARD, so people just shrug their shoulders and give things to ChatGPT to code Which (**checks notes**) is a problem
I have a slightly different take on what to trust from an LLM — but the proof is too large to fit in one post 😉 Seriously, though, I agree 100% about the value of deterministic, transparent, rule-based coding.
I see some good scholars across the humanities and social sciences punt on these steps Some have never used an automated classifier before LLMs Others have done this before, but it’s easy to overlook the unique challenges of LLM code validation This is a really interesting moment for researchers
Serious reply here as this is what I study (quantitative ethnography) Two things to remember when doing LLM coding: 1. There has to be a process for validating any automated classifier 2. This is challenging with LLMs because they are a black box Not saying it’s impossible, just use caution
Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:
Even if he meant to say they are 1/4th as expensive as they were, they are nowhere near that cheap! Not sure about anyone else, but I am not paying $2 per dozen right now. Still in the $5-$7 range depending on exactly what kind you get. So either he made it up again, or eggs were $20+ 4 months ago.
This ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️
Even other clowns, it turns out
As a fellow academic, I think getting a grant canceled is Naloxone for schadenfreude
Reading today’s news about Trump and Musk setting each other on fire kind of makes me think the Third Reich would have ended much sooner if Hitler and Goebels had access to Twitter
I wouldn’t want to be a DOGE kid ever
Definitely the smartest guy in the room. Another investment paying off so well for Elon
I mean, I agree, but you just can’t make this stuff up!
I want to know what Trump will use as nickname for Musk Doped-up Elon? The midnight timer? Feeble-minded Musk? Cybercuck?
That aged well
Credit where credit is due. Good call
Indeed! Well played Killer
I feel so very sorry… for the deportees
No, he shouldn’t. But if anyone should be deported without due process, I can’t think of a better choice
So definitely not gold and not at all standard
The right mobilized and the left didn’t (or didn’t as much). I mean, I wish George Soros had been spending his money the way the right thinks he does! Happy to hear a counter-argument here, of course….
The closest leftist equivalent (I think?) has been critical scholarship, but that has been mostly in academia with little investment (of the kind you detail here) in this kind of mobilization. In some sense, the rhetoric of the left was defeated by the rhetoric of the right because 2/
Serious comment here. First, thank you for the scholarship that went into this thread. 🙏 Second, this makes clear that “finding a Joe Rogan of the left” is pointless without the years of investment the right made in mobilizing and developing a rhetoric of fascism (like they did here) 1/
Was the milk from a road-kill cow in RFK’s trunk?🤔
Also, last time I checked, there is no such thing as an “LGBTQ graduate major,” at Harvard or anywhere else. Maybe she thinks that an LGBTQ graduate major is someone who outranks an LGBTQ graduate lieutenant?
“She means ‘fewer.’” - a Harvard graduate
Where do they dig these people up?
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Show us your writing process in a gif
+1
“I wanted the zombies to eat other people’s faces”
Taylor Swift should!
Queen Maxima, natuurlijk!
Man. Woman. TV. Thing you carry babies around in….
The sheer number of times someone has told me "AI doesn't work for my field because of [specialized knowledge], but I can see how it's useful in other fields."
I think people have a kind of Gell-Mann amnesia towards LLMs — like, they can think "AI is bad at things I am good at and know about, but good at things I can't judge because I'm bad at them" Tech bros think AI is good at everything, including coding, and that's because they are also bad at coding
THIS 👇👇
He could’ve just paid his taxes and saved us all the trouble Plus Tesla would still be solvent Win-win
You don’t need the last 3 words there
I don’t know. Looking around at who’s doing things, it seems like it isn’t preventable…
Thank goodness it definitely won’t be use on US citizens
Man, I’m not usually a huge fan of zoos, but @greenevillezoo.bsky.social is ON FIRE!🔥
Has anyone else listened to the T lately and been reminded of the Star Trek episode Patterns of Force, with T as John Gill, mumbling his way through speeches while Nazism rages? Maybe giving T too much credit, though memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/John_Gi...
A 4th grader with nukes
What a tra-la-la-goondiay
Well, that is a thing. Not a thing I like, but a thing people do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But let’s not get out too far over our skis with all the hype
To be clear: it’s AMAZING that we can build a machine that can think like a college student who skimmed the reading and is trying to fake its way through class And you absolutely can use it to gather information and do other well-formed tasks if you use it with care and check the results
But when the chips are on the line, it’s like talking with a very literal-minded 8th grader m.youtube.com/watch?v=eVWH...
Please don’t get me wrong, in some very well-formed domains LLMs can do wonders — dealing with code in real programming languages for example — and it works well if you don’t really care about the details of something and are just looking for a laugh — “write a haiku in the style of Walt Whitman”
“the OpenAI executive acknowledges the importance of learning how to ask important questions that provoke a thought process that could potentially help solve complex issues” So, a little like the way a fortune teller works
So let me get this straight: To use AI you have to learn a new programming language called “question asking”, only there are no rules to guide you and the machine’s responses are indeterminate. Sign me up 🙄 www.windowscentral.com/software-app...
This is wonderful, but shouldn’t it be a catarrh?
This is such a poetic, tragic, human way of describing the indescribable. I’m so sorry you and so many others are going through such a horrific cataclysm
You’re welcome! Honestly, I suspect anyone who is following your feed would be able to figure out what you meant either way… between the sheets…
This is very funny! When I was in school we used to say “between the sheets” which I always thing of as being funnier than “in bed”. But your way works too… between the sheets
It’s on Amazon to rent or buy, FWIW ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh, what’s the weird spooky Scottish one? Sounds interesting.
This was my question also
Wait. Black holes have *sides* now???
Seriously. It is funny, sweet, and moving — even for my 20-something kids, and that’s saying something.
Happy Christmas, BlueSky And may I recommend this for your Christmas watching👇 m.imdb.com/title/tt4729...