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And that’s not me handing over the problem and taking credit for results. That’s me having a deep knowledge of data and spotting when it makes mistakes and fine tuning but having it help with grinding mechanical aspects. It made me *way more* likely to persist.

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I started out extremely skeptical and work has pushed it hard and I’ve found lots of places to put it additively into my workflows and it has very much enhanced what I’ve produced, particularly the stuff that requires coding (which I’m bad at) where I would otherwise have given up.

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“Touching AI once for as long as it takes to watch a commercial makes you give up on anything hard ever.” No it doesn’t. That’s not true.

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This headline is insanely broad for what looks like a much much much much narrower result than anybody would have thought even viewing the study skeptically.

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Yes! Like all of this is markedly different from his first administration. His rallies are lower energy and even more rambly and slurry and he just sits there and naps with his droopy mouth while his viziers do the presidenting.

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He was always a liar and he’s still a liar and ever since he’s been in the political eye for the last ten years he’s never been incredibly sharp or disciplined, but it’s much much worse now than even a handful of years ago.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 10h

It’s seriously worth watching a clip of Trump even just from 2020 if you have some doubt about how much he’s declined since then. And I don’t even mean to make a diagnosis at a distance. I mean he’s slower and slurrier and demonstrably less able to think on his feet.

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My Lai Massacre-ass administration. Between this and retaliating against any FBI agents who worked on the Trump cases, they’re trying to set the precedent that doing the right thing ever at all will be punished.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 10h

Also feel like this helps not just boost Ossoff in the race, but associate Mike Collins’s specific name with Nazism and racism. Like when people in Georgia see an ad that has “I’m Mike Collins and I approve this message” at the end, they’ll be like “Mike Collins? The Nazi???”

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 10h

I’ve never seen one, seen like 93%, but I’ve seen videos of people basically losing control of their emotions and senses while one is happening, and I have no reason to believe everyone I’ve seen is faking it.

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Tim Meadows has one of the highest value added per appearance rates of any actor in anything.

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Ok, I’m Drosselmeyer, confirmed. Probably for like seven years if I want to be.

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Memnoch’s argument is that in remaining both human and divine, Jesus did not fully commit to the human experience.

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There’s so much stuff you will like. Why spend so much time on stuff you hate?

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And I very much do not mean the “this guy’s stuff is not for me” posts. I mean the “this guy has never made anything worth putting in my eyeholes except apparently I did put all of it into my eyeholes because I have lots of opinions about why all of it is bad.”

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The thing in this case, for me, is the works of Mike Flanagan. I haven’t seen Carrie (not in a particular rush) and I haven’t adored all of his stuff, but a lot of it hit me in a deeply personal way, and I don’t know why so many seem to have it in for the guy.

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Everything is not for everyone and that’s totally fine and I would never try to force someone to be into something they’re not into, but also it feels bad to like a thing and have several friends whose whole schtick is “this thing is fucking horrible and only idiots like it.”

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The Falcon is John the Baptist, the Falcon’s Children are Jesus.

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This is a post designed for maybe like one half of one person to like.

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Just realized that the critique at the center of Pulp’s “Common People” is the same as the title character’s critique of Jesus in Anne Rice’s Memnoch the Devil: “if you called your dad, he could stop it all.”

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Oh god this is 100% going to be turbo shitty Narnia.

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There’s been a pretty quick deterioration where now he’s regularly saying out loud like “ok dipshits I’ll say the stupid shit you want me to say, fuck you”

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 15h

The thing about Peter Thiel is he’s both deranged *and* a fucking moron.

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Thinking about an iterated prisoner’s dilemma where cooperating or defecting doesn’t just change your opponent’s behavior next time, but the table of punishments and rewards itself.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 16h

Samuel Wurzelbacher! I also remember after Joe the Plumber they tried, much less successfully, to roll out Tito the Builder.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 17h

Trump is in a position where his strategic interests are very obviously served by just shutting the fuck up for a bit except he’s not capable.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 17h

Personally I love that Trump is publicly shitting on Tom Cotton as he’s running for reelection and the only thing he could do that’s worse for him is publicly celebrate him.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 19h

The thing is you genuinely don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 19h

The courts that forced Biden to retain this Trump policy are complicit here and this should be more ammunition to reform them root and branch.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 19h

La publicación más Bluesky.

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If this holds then it would mean Hispanics probably compose a larger share of the electorate than in 2024 and also that they swing against Trump by huge margins. Either is bad for republicans, together it’s disastrous.

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No, not at all. I’m saying it’s a truth that I don’t know what happens when it’s spoken, you know?

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Anyway, declining to do enforcement in wards and districts where politicians don’t do what you want is election interference and coercion and the barest hint of it should be grounds for dismissal of anybody who approved it but instead it’s just standard practice.

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I’m not at all convinced this is true. It may be but there’s also huge risks to going to the public and being like “the armed men theoretically under my control are actually not.”

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Politicians can’t admit this even though it’s plainly true. I think it also was going on with ICE at least at the outset of Biden’s presidency and probably all throughout it. There was lots of noise about them going rogue at the beginning and then it died down but nothing about redress.

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