Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

Culling the Weak

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For #MTG Secrets of Strixhaven

ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere | Stuart Heritage Once you start noticing “it’s not X, it’s Y” as you scroll online, you can’t fail to register it. I’ve become so hypervigilant that it has seeped into my subconscious thoughts

In 2019, I defended my PhD on 'It's not X, it's Y' and similar constructions, which I call contrastive negation constructions. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that 'It's not X, it's Y' would become the topic of comment pieces in newspapers.
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Yes!!! The LLM text in the art book was so, so bad, too 🙈

Una in space Artist and Publisher

Don't back these! I was an idiot, backed the Renaissance one, and it's fully, *fully* slop. Now they're out with new ones that *also* claim to not be AI. Yeah, okay. It's not too late to stop someone else from feeling as dumb as I do now!

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#tarot #kickstarter

the apple contacts poster editor is exactly what i want in a photo editor for, like, outfit pictures. i shake my fist at the sky that the product managers of cupertino deny me this

I too aspire to have an API limit and for you to either pay me more to keep working, or wait until after I've had a nap

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

based on my subsequent experience of other things in this list, i am newly battlestar galactica curious

grid of 9 boxes in different pixel art styles: pokemon, castelvania, cave story, yume nikki, fire emblem, earthbound, and runescape. each box contains the CSS to apply that style

new webcrafting supplies @ ribo.zone/free/snippets/borders

It's TWO VAST AND TRUNKLESS LEGS OF STONE Tuesday!

Yeah, I think it was more trying to offer hope that you wouldn’t have to track during “your steady-state lifestyle after the diet is over”. Folks broadly didn’t treadmill down to satisfaction with it 😔

(not synonymous with health, but some amount of admittedly skewed signal as to whether e.g. contemporary Americans can happily stick to brown rice and spinach)

WeightWatchers used to have a theory that after one finished the main program one could maintain by eating without rigorous tracking of quantities, limited to a restrictive (well, relatively to the mainstream) set of foods. Anecdata on success with that: low.

And extra frustrating Discourse because of for-show claims about bad-tasting or high-effort options not being so.

do your evals measure unexpected delight www.eastgate.com/garden/Unexp... does your harness reflect the seven lessons www.eastgate.com/garden/Seven...

building an agent skill but the root is www.eastgate.com/garden/Enter... and all of the pages are in the reference folder

recent events have brought to my attention that the correct characterization of thursday’s bang trim is in fact That One Wig From Weapons

A picture of a sad mac errror screen with a knife coming out of a dead Sad Mac, and the error code below in an appropriate pixel font is "ET TU, BRUTE?"

The Ides of Mac.

missed alt text: a green ultra pro nine pocket binder with the Sunshower Druid art painted on the front. inside: it is full of Sunshower Druid cards.

Magic: The Gathering™️ is a game where you collect Sunshower Druid. The more Sunshower Druids you collect, the better you are at the game

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are you a customizer at heart or do you keep things default? Like, when you have a brand new thing (phone, notebook, bag etc) do you customize it to hell and back or do you leave it plain forever?

wire head scratcher product photo

Hieroglyphics with translation texts below them that reads I made my body evolve through my own effectiveness. I am the one who made me. I built myself as I wished, according to my heart.

Just reminded myself how hard the ending of Coffin Text Spell 714 goes

wow

If you attentively regard almost any quadruped’s spine, you will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebræ to a strung necklace of dwarfed skulls

People lean very hard on the “language is dynamic” notion because the possibility that we are collectively going downhill is extremely unappealing

here is my recent blogpost on AI being an excuse blog.vbuckenham.com/make-a-chatb...

wait i thinkkkkk my notetaking system came through
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there was something really good i read one time and am struggling to re find that argued prohibitionists were way more consciously anti industry predation than they’re given credit for