@leebillings.bsky.social In the article "Master of Chaos..." it states, "A linear equation is something like y = 2x, which states that the value of y doubles whenever you double the value of x." but this is incorrect; what is described is y = x.

I assume the machine is keyed to reject it in front of the voter, but any ambiguous ballots should be reviewed before the election is certified.

I worked for the Broward County Florida elections office years ago (years after 2000!) and they took it gravely serious given the history there.

Some people would sooner die than see a Muslim elected mayor of NYC, and I wish them well on their journey

Claude for Excel Claude understands your entire workbook—from nested formulas to multiple tab dependencies.

Nuclear weapons? Asteroid strike? Pestilence? Super intelligent AI?

No, putting LLMs in Excel is what is going to end civilization.

Yesterday's school shooting won't show up in a bunch of summary statistics.

"Only" two people other than the shooter died, so it won't count as a mass shooting as counted by many organizations.

US women waiting longer to have children, CDC data shows New CDC data shows the average age of US mothers reached 29.6 in 2023, with significant differences across geographic and racial groups.

9 months seems like a pretty long time already

"We don't know who they are, or even which agency they represent, but does that make these police "secret police"?"

Yes, it clearly does.

The pandemic generation: How Covid-19 has left a long-term mark on children The stress and isolation of the pandemic has left social and emotional scars that are already being seen in children, but scientists also predict there could be huge economic costs.

I'm normally hesitant to make claims of causality, but it's a pretty easy bet that repeated infection with an incredibly damaging virus is a more likely cause of detriment to kids than other kids being out of school for a few months before they were even born.

The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It

The professors defending the use of LLMs to create course content in this article are beyond embarrassing.

No, this is not "AI" and students will not need to know how to "ethically" use this in their careers.

Anyone pretending otherwise is misinformed, lying, or both.

RIP Pepe Mujica

The first American Pope was Francis. This isn't hard.

Calling Pope Francis the "first Latin American Pope" is such a weird thing, when he was the first American Pope, without any modifier.

I don't post on here much, but I'm so psyched every time I see @roywoodjr.bsky.social getting some of the credit he deserves.

His series got renewed, and he had a Detroiters reunion on one side of the stage for yesterday's show.

Cake's cover of I Will Survive was released closer to the release of the original than to the present day.

This was true starting in 2014.

Nope

Ronin the rat sets new landmine-sniffing record Ronin, a giant African pouched rat, is the first rodent to uncover more than 100 mines in Cambodia.

Ronin the rat was quoted as saying, "I set a record doing WHAT?!"

Roman dodecahedron replica removed from eBay after complaint Archaeologists say the copy of the Roman artefact "ripped off" their work.

It takes a special kind of temerity to try to claim intellectual property rights over something not only plundered, but 1700 years old.

New York Times Headline: Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots Lede: Men and women who have taken to the air on behalf of the United States expressed bewilderment after the leak of attack plans. “You're going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.

I have bad news for these pilots about what they're doing on these missions

Goldberg dismisses Waltz’s Signal leak defense: ‘Numbers don’t just get sucked into other phones’ Atlantic editor says Trump adviser’s defense for accidentally adding him to war plans chat was implausible

It's just a matter of time before The Atlantic finally just admits that Waltz is a source, and that's why they're contacts of one another in @signal.org

It is beyond wild that Cameo labels deceased performers as "out of stock"

I've been off of here (and all social media) for a few weeks, and I'm going to keep that going a bit.

DM me for Signal.

Be well.

Biff Wiff, 'I Think You Should Leave' Actor, Has Died Biff Wiff, the beloved character actor known for his roles in ‘I Think You Should Leave,' has died.

RIP Biff Wiff 😔

Will markets tanking be enough to stir up political will? Everything else sure isn't.

Maybe it'll take huge contractors getting cut off.

The Whimpering Twenties

The Bulwark is literally just a rebrand of The Weekly Standard. It's extremely gross.

Despite writing a whole lot on child rearing and education, he forced his wife to give up all five of their children, and described her as a woman of low intelligence.

Some of his political philosophy is historically important, but dude was pretty soundly a real horrid dude.

It's probably been said before, but @hrbrmstr.dev seems like a truly dreadful enemy to have.

May we all be even a fraction as productive in opposition to fascism.

This is just an auto-complete. That's all it can do. If it happens to explain something correctly, it's quite literally by chance.

Stop expecting meaningful responses from these things.

Reasonable people using them, like Chris here, lend credibility to inherently untrustworthy technology.

Almost unbelievable hypocrisy

I've been seeing a lot of "but they said they weren't going to implement Project 2025!" takes, but it's all standard GOP policy. This is exactly what they said they wanted.