I like this thread, but unfortunately I’ve worked in far too many places where “the production of text, or knowledge-shaped documents” is indeed the goal. The answer isn’t LLMs; it’s reforming the organisations to remove such busywork. But that seems to be too hard.
Sure why not.
if you're writing your post-apocalyptic story you have to take into account in your "lost technology" narrative that this guy figured out how to make RAM in his garage.
youtu.be/h6GWikWlAQA?...
Fun Trivia: the original 70s STEPFORD WIVES film is unavailable in any current format because in the 70s a lot of companies with too much money diversified by buying film companies. Most soon realized what a bad idea that was, but Bristol Myers held onto the rights for some reason.
The Justice Dept’s theory of the case— that the group that single-handedly disassembled the Ku Klux Klan defrauded its donors by concealing that it was using paid informant to do that work and more— has about as much merit as the now-dismissed charges against Jim Comey.
a soft looking and somewhat worn felt swan with a big beak and trailing feathers
thinking about this 1500 year old plush swan made of reindeer wool
This is horrific. I feel physically ill.
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I think literally every single person who participated in this administration, from the president down to aides, should be prosecuted and become the last people imprisoned in the old system we will then set about replacing.
Cover of Red Deer in New Zealand, A Complete Hunting Manual by Roger Lentle & Frank Saxton It's red-brown in colour, featuring two stag photos
Infographic showing the characteristics of deer shit -- in different seasons, different deer, different conditions, how it degrades with time, &c &c
Inforgraphic "The deer at rest and his defences" showing the typical posture of an unalarmed deer facing downwind, the range and effectiveness of deer senses, and detailing the alarm matrix: either smell alone, or a combination of sight and sound
Infographic showing "The rules for stalking in pairs", showing two hunters moving parallel to each other into the wind, with visual communication between them and allowable fields of fire for each hunter comprising a 180 degree arc opposite the other hunter with a prominent NO SHOOTING IN THIS AREA between
One of my bids for the apocalypse library: Red Deer in New Zealand, A Complete Hunting Manual by Roger Lentle & Frank Saxton
A taonga of a book. Nearest thing to a Bible for practical deer hunting in the NZ-specific context
Worth it for the hand drawn infographics alone
Do you have endorsements for Post-ing though
Very very funny that Nicola Willis is on Morning Report sledging Tangi Utikere as unprincipled for courting NZ First, with whom she is currently in government
First saw this story over on Threads, and people really, really, really did not like anyone correcting misinformation about their misreading of the story. We seem to be moving to some sort of post-reality where people just want fake stories that reinforce their beliefs.
Cars and vans bobbing in flood water in an Edwardian suburban street.
"Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it"
Or till the background is the street you grew up in. Hits home.
this video stopped more people from dropping acid than the entire reefer madness series
The general zapped an angel (1970). Ilustración de Karel Thole. #art #painting #illustration
RUSTY SELLSWORD DESIGN X CORTEX
Huge news for fans of the Cortex system and more news to come. I’ve been working for a long time to get to this point and I’m thrilled to share the announcement!
news.direwolfdigital.com/cortex-prime...
Well this is a ride, NGL. But I do hope you sort it
I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"
Our team went through the data file and removed the most obviously false responses — the impossible or extremely improbable ages, the ethnic/racial mismatches, the people who gave AI-generated free-response answers. When it was all said and done, we removed 574 of the 1,174 current Orthodox (48.9%) and 422 of the 695 former Orthodox (70.8%). Combined, we removed 53.3% of the respondents we were sent — and remember, that’s after a bunch of bad respondents were already removed in the data cleaning process prior to our receipt of the data.
Unfortunately, a great number of bogus respondents can sneak into opt-in online surveys, polluting the results. Among Orthodox Christians in a recent opt-in survey, about half seemed to be bogus respondents.
orthodoxstudies.substack.com/p/what-the-quiet-revival...
Oh no!
They’ve been doing amazing things with Honeycrisp varietals. What I want to see is something with the bakeable texture of a Granny Smith, but the flavor of a Honeycrisp.
That’s a thousand dollar idea right there.
Beautiful sunrise with a palm tree in foreground , sky tower in background with an orange pinky sky
What a sunrise today
If you haven't read Elizabeth Sandifer's "Cuddled Little Vice" it's absolutely and 100% worth the time. It's hard to imagine anybody will ever write a better reflection on Neil Gaiman's artistic legacy and all it implies, both about the limits of art and the limits of a particular person.
“What are you in for?”
“Felony bralessness”
one of the defining traits of the conservative movement is how ready they are to destroy the lives of completely random nobodies if it helps serve their lies and propaganda.
According to medieval astrology, Taurus season is a bad time for starting wars, bloodletting, bathing, and anything to do with water. [4/4]
something to note on the prevalence of marketing like “not left. not right. forward.” from far-right/cryptofascist spaces cynically exploiting a growing dissatisfaction with both parties of the establishment.
Not knowing what the worst people in the world were thinking every fucking day
NOTING THIS. 🫤