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Posts by Michael Kasten
Every day that ends in "y"
Neither brain cell is firing for Finn here.
Lovey dovey dumb boys
Finn is startled by loud sounds and bright lights but manages to be happy in a shoebox
Jake in predator mode
The idiot boys (Finn and Jake) send their best.
Counterpoint: The haters said we couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters.
Wow. Cooler than the other side of the pillow!!
I get it. That would drive me batty. I’d be popping beta blockers like tic tacs (if allowed).
I’m not universally against nouns -> verbs, but this one grates because it’s not superior to existing verbs. You’re losing specificity and meaning by creating a worse word. Gross.
No. I hate it.
Lumpers vs Splitters, FIGHT!!!
BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges.
/w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social
"Air Travel: Personal use of private air travel for no more than twenty (20) in-flight hours per Contract Year. Program-related use of private air travel for all recruiting activities and for other
program related activities." Only 20 hrs? Crazy!!
Introducing the Sherwin Williams refugee test. #racistbullshit
Agreed (esp without knowing the timescale), hence the non-technical term “bursties”. I just expected boring tonic firing. Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
Very cool!!!
Bursties??? I did not expect that.
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Poster w/black text reading: Mad Scientist says NOPE with red E being a king's crown
Let's GOOOOOO!
#nokings #standupforscience
Not all of them!!! I’ve got some 600 hzers that’ll send along glutamate!! As always, the auditory system is weird.
That's a bigger goof than the centrifuge loading in "Project Hail Mary".
Pffft. I bet it can't even fire at 100 Hz. #Sad
Nice cell!
That's very nice, though I am a big fan of 21st Ave E in Cap Hill.
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You just need to tighten it a little harder.
Don’t think
Don’t ponder
Don’t read
Don’t wonder
We have an LLM for that
A matrix so large we had to turn the sky black to build it
It has read everything and can calculate the next word
The most likely
The most basic
The most average
The most normal
You can’t argue with the algorithm
I prefer the layman’s term, “drunk driving”, and I think it’s reckless and disqualifying.
Wha did you peak at?
Watching Scarpetta on Prime and the company involved is called “ThorLabs” but I don’t see a single box filled with treats.
Obvious follow up: “Is the former President who told you bombing Iran was a good idea in the room right now?”
Thermo Fisher Scientific welcomes Donald Trump to their production plant in Cincinnati.
I have to question the wisdom of welcoming the man whose administration is strangling your customers, but what do I know??