I support the right of everyone to block me for any reason whatsoever, including that their dog farted while they were reading my post.
That said, occasionally I do go through three stages of being blocked:
1) Huh?
2) Seriously?
3) Yeah, that’s probably for the best. We were not gonna be friends.
I mean, Kathryn, you saw a guy trying to pass off a problematic LLM translation of a chapter as his own work by manually fucking it up like it's the 5th grade. To the person who gave the challenge and warned about some of the types of difficulties, kind of hinting at knowing the text.
This hits the nail on the head. It’s about behaviorism or functionalism in epistemology and the theory of the mind.
Turns out if you want to totally unhinge a certain type of LLM enthusiast, all you have to do is give them a question that they need to do the tiniest bit of research to answer
it’s the weirdest fucking phenomenon. They absolutely to refuse to consider that one could just think “huh, what else do I need to know to answer this?” and then … go find that stuff out
instead they go all lemongrab at the AUDACITY of not giving them everything they need to solve it
Liars and learned helplessness. It’s just the most insane anti-intellectualism. If Claude can’t answer the question they just sit down on the floor and howl like an overstimulated toddler.
I am genuinely not sure they could handle it. I’m serious.
There's a guy who raped children in charge of America
There's a guy who raped children in charge of America
There's a guy who raped children in charge of America
There's a guy who raped children in charge of America
Republican lawmakers won't pull the plug.
It's up to us.
A poster that reads, “Believing a 12-year-old is mature enough to give birth to her rapist's baby, but needs parental approval to check out a book, is peak Republican.”
NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK
Believing a 12-year-old is mature enough to give birth to her rapist's baby, but needs parental approval to check out a book, is peak Republican.
Tomorrow, I’ll post a reminder to the GOP about book bans and censorship :-)}
Emails released by California’s attorney general show Amazon colluding with other companies to raise the price we pay for pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Not going to happen ... this year.
Let's make sure next year is a different story.
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So to recap:
-$160 BILLION+ unconstitutionally collected in tariffs from 🇺🇸 corps, despite Trump saying foreign co’s pay
-they pass that cost to us
-Now corps collect the💰back… from us?🤔
heads they win, tails we lose!😕🤷🏼 (almost like this was the plan all along)
And on a less positive note I'm ashamed to say that as a fit young man I was blissfully unaware how savagely inaccessible a lot of London infrastructure is until I started trying to push a buggy around it. OMG that opens your eyes to the challenges faced by people who depend on wheels to get about.
Pushing a double-wide twin stroller, which is exactly the width of an ADA-compliant doorway, instantly makes me realize how difficult the built environment still is for people with disabilities
You're absolutely screwed America. Fucked beyond help.
Trump's running out of women in his cabinet to blame.
Never talk about criming on main. 😆
Here's the FUN STORY OF THE DAY:
After a 17-month legal battle, THE ONION has successfully acquired Alex Jones’ ‘Infowars!!’ Yay!!
It will become a parody of itself, with the support of the Sandy Hook families. Double Yay!!
Or else we were "essential workers" who had lots of human contact, much of it terrifying. It was a very different experience, but believe me that it marked us too.
So yeah, that prolonged enforced and necessary lack of casual and non-casual contact with other humans was hard and painful and awful, even for people who generally prefer to be loners, and those who don't recognize that either aren't remembering well, didn't follow protocols, or are antisocial IMHO
Yeah, I’ve never quite got over the profound moral injury aspect of watching so many Americans absolutely refuse to even mildly sacrifice to help others during Covid - watching MAGAs somehow become even more evil was radicalizing.
And now the bastards are trying to destroy MRNA research.
Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).
Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.
And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.
Remember this.
Other false media statements identified in the Kash Patel complaint:
1. Special Agents do not, in fact, refer to him as “J. Edgar Shart”
2. Patel did, in fact, know that the FBI is part of the Executive Branch and that Wyoming is a state. He just always looks surprised when you tell him things.
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Being 1000% clear, your immunocompromised friends (you have them, right? Well, you do now) weren’t happy with lockdown because we hate people and didn’t want to hang out.
We miss lockdown because that’s when abled people acted like they cared if we died.
You know what’s even worse? Losing 95% of your friends because they can’t be assed to care whether they bring deadly pathogens into your vulnerable household.
So, you know.
This is like that XKCD about experts in different fields assuming other fields are simple, except they’re only experts in boot licking.
I think the biggest problem with police today is how right-wing they are. They are more and more so each day. Every example of ICE or CBP brutality cements their support. Call a murdered women a bitch, the rank-and-file cheer.
