That, plus the official Catholic doctrine of the universal destination of goods, which is a fundamental basis of doctrine like "it's not a sin to steal what you urgently need to survive from someone who has enough to spare you what you need; in fact, in that case it's not even stealing".

It also means after next week the next five months will probably be 105, 95% humidity, and a UV index of 7,000,000, with occasional tornadoes.

It's that time of year in the mid-Atlantic when the trees and flowers are blooming, and the days are sunny, low-humidity and in the low 60s, so sitting outside in the sun over lunch is absolutely wonderful.

Is there room, though, to say "the platform believed that exercising its editorial control in a given way would result in specific, measurable harms, but would also increase profits; it then made those editorial choices, the anticipated harms actually resulted, and the platform is therefore liable?"

How is a like button not speech? It's me stating an opinion about what I liked. What that opinion *actually is* may or may not be "I think this is good" -- it may just be "I want more people to see and read/watch this because it's important we all talk about it".

"Warm blanket with eyeballs sewn into it" sounds like either a fever dream, or new WtNV merch...

A meme consisting of Yoda from the Star Wars movies, with the caption text "What you did there, I see it". This is in turn a reference to a popular meme of Fry from Futurama with his eyes narrowed (although in the actual episode of the show Fry said nothing at that moment, the meme was frequently captioned "I see what you did there"). It's an older meme reference, but it checks out.

Here am I staring at my inbox,
Dissociated,
Sync's not going through and there's nothing I can do...

For me, always the dril "FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL" tweet.

At any rate I was at home in my room and a houseguest we had for a few months was the one who came in and told me the Space Shuttle had exploded.

My memories of that day are at wide variance with most of my generational cohort -- I wasn't in school. My recollection is that January 28, 1986 was a day off for students in my district -- maybe a teacher work day.

...but in fact he was in Houston and I recall reading there was no video monitor to see the actual launch visually -- all the flight controllers saw was their telemetry disappear. A good many seconds later Nesbitt said that the flight dynamics officer had confirmed the vehicle had exploded.

I don't think Dan Rather said anything at that moment -- CBS didn't cover the launch live (it seems only CNN did). NASA public affairs officer Steve Nesbitt said "Obviously a major malfunction" on audio a few seconds after, which some people apparently thought was him making light of the tragedy...

I didn't even watch. The last launch I actually watched was the Wallops Island Antares one that blew up all over the pad.

Vault dynamic secrets, basically?

"And then the screen goes up, and the lights come up, and they go to the new President, 'Any questions?'"

Sometimes I wonder what Bill Hicks would make of our current moment. In this case I'm pretty sure: "...it’s a shot of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you’ve never seen before... that looks suspiciously off the grassy knoll."

The whole idea of "founders" as a meaningful (and, as he clearly implies, special) group of people who share enough common attributes to address them as a collective like this betrays just how narrowly-informed his view of the world is.

There appear to be Māori oral accounts of it hunting and killing humans, which were typically somewhat smaller than its main prey, the 500-pound giant moa.

In other news I just learned New Zealand used to have an eagle that weighed up to 40 pounds and had up to a 10-foot wingspan. Basically, imagine an eagle the size of a goddamn basset hound, with wings as wide as an economy sedan's wheelbase is long.

Now: go look at the terms and conditions of literally *any* other website that hosts user-supplied content (including this one), and tell me what you find.

If you see this, post a rabbit 🐰

I am resolved that the next time I see this I will become a substantial member of the conversation. "I have the latest projections here in front of me and they are not good."

Now, now, there's no need for the death penalty. There are tens of thousands of remote uninhabited islands these people can be safely relocated to and supported with a monthly parachute supply drop. They desire not to live in a modern society and I say we give them what they're begging for.

And while LLMs' manipulations of text tokens are easier to talk about and understand, the fact that they are text tokens doesn't mean it's impossible or inherently invalid to generalize from them to how other types of tokens are handled. I dunno, am I wildly off-base there?

...but whether it's text or image or video or audio or, I dunno, magnetic sensor data or something, by my understanding it's all (some form of) *tokens*.

I feel like I'm missing something because the Gyges article seemingly attaches so *very* much importance to the idea that "LLMs don't train only on text any more, therefore every argument based on how they process or output text is invalid"...

One of the other autographs I got today was George Takei.

As for the signing, I was at a convention that Summer Glau and the rest of the extant Firefly cast were at, and they all did the usual autograph/photo activities.

The print I did myself. I took the PNG for the comic, moved the bottom panel to the right of the other four, scaled that panel slightly to match their height, and then added the title above and the alt text just below. Then I had FedEx Office print it on glossy letter-size cardstock.