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Christian Archie Panels @christianarchie.bsky.social · 15/06/2024
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 13/06/2024
never got round to this one before. good stuff
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
this has always been the meat of the Alito stories. not just that there’s a “scandal” in the traditional sense, but that he is legitimately a moron
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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 11/06/2024
lmao Google's AI is eating itself already -- telling you how much glue to put on pizza, citing a @katienotopoulos.bsky.social Business Insider article about Google's AI telling people to put glue on pizza
Google search query: [how much glue to add to pizza] with an AI Overview saying you should add 1/8 cup of glue, citing a Business Insider article *about* Google AI overviews telling people to put glue on pizza.
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 11/06/2024
sound like wrong 'uns to me. a bad lot i shouldn't wonder
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
hmm. rather not
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 09/06/2024
guess they promised not to put his wife in jail after all
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 08/06/2024
I like the out of nowhere swipe at wyndham lewis in this NYT review of The Unnameable by stephen spender
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
seems like the obvious answer here then is that they should all, at all times, say "i am not capable of judging my own accuracy" www.newscientist.com/article/2429...
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
what annoys me most about them is that 75% of the ones I get are obvious lies. not that I read them but I involuntarily skim the subject lines and most of them are "your membership in something you never joined or even heard of is about to lapse unless you act NOW" or the like
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
my basic mental model of the court divides them into the three liberals; then you've got alito and thomas who i would absolutely believe will vote for any proposed piece of right wing hackery at all, no limitations, no doubt, even and especially the things that sound like or are meant as jokes
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 02/06/2024
and the technology is still young, imagine the day when you can be in six meetings at once, or ten
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 02/06/2024
"unfiltered" is a great euphemism
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 02/06/2024
the punitive damages are meant to do this. that's what they're for. what happened here is that a jury of his peers decided it was right to impose an additional penalty that would make him cry, and a judge calculated the sum necessary to do that
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steve @stevefelix.com · 02/06/2024
I think about this all the time. Let’s give a big thank you to “the disgraceful state of analytic art criticism!”
Post from @matthewseiji: Came across this startlingly deranged Marvin Minsky quote from 1968 where he blames *art critics* for why computers can’t make good art (because they refused to codify art for him)Screenshotted text: To those fully in the grip of the computer metaphor, to understand X is to be able to write a computer program that realizes X. This is vividly exemplified by Professor Marvin Minsky,
Director of M.I.T.'s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, who writes, [For computers] "to write really good music or draw highly mean- ingful pictures will of course require better semantic models in these areas. That these are not available is not so much a reflection on the state of heuristic [computer] programs as on the tradition- ally disgraceful state of analytic criticism in the arts—a cultural consequence of the fact that most esthetic analysts wax indignant when it is suggested that it might be possible to understand what
they are trying to understand."
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John Carpenter's Corey Beckner @captaincorey.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
Two people smell a dead body.
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
as a little treat
science.org
Octopuses may have nightmares
Study of single cephalopod suggests the animals may have narrative dreams
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
the funny errors were the only good thing about it
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
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Joyce Carol (p)Oa(s)tes 😱 @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
Miller devised it as homage to John Martin’s “Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum”! Martin was the blockbuster spectacle guy of the early 1800s
John Martin’s painting “Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum” from 1822. It depicts Romans in a field cowering before an immense, enveloping cloud of red ash. The erupting volcano is visible in the distance through a kind of tunnel-like opening. Lightning is flashing inside the cloud.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
doing the clockwork orange forced viewing behavior modification scene to every single democratic staffer and consultant and the screen just keeps flashing “appearing savvy to political reporters is not an important goal and does not help you win elections”
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
a physician who says the law does not allow abortion under those circumstances may well be wrong in their legal assessment, but a physician who says there is an unacceptable risk that a prosecutor and jury would not agree with their judgment that those circumstances exist is almost certainly right
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Henrock @bchenrock.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
My understanding is (and my guess is that this is what the third note was really about) is that some of the checks were signed directly by Trump and those were tied to 24 of the counts and 10 of the counts were tied to checks that Trump didn’t sign.
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
people keep saying this "all 34 counts" thing but was it ever really logically possible to convict him on some but not all of the counts. aren't they all the same misrepresentation on different documents
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
in another couple of years it will just be understood that right wingers fly the flag upside down all the time, that that's just the right wing flag now
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
will no one rid me of this troublesome pervert
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
head of six companies, including a major U.S. military communications contractor and a company that puts wires in paraplegics' brains, wants you to know that he considers filing fraudulent business records to be a trivial matter
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
i agree but it's very funny that this needs to be said www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
twitter is about 80% trump fundraising ads for me this evening
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
tried to explain all the pending and recently resolved trump civil and criminal trials to the kids and had to look one or two of them up
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
lol
IGN calling Trump a felonIGN battling in the replies and referring to Trumps videogame
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
"even the conviction of a former president is novel only in the american context" well ok but that is the context in which it is occurring
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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
Average American president has been convicted of .74 felonies
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
a solemn day
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 29/05/2024
no
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/05/2024
Alito lied about the reason the flag was up because he didn’t know the couple had text messages establishing the date of when the incident took place. They were supporting the insurrection. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/u...
To better understand the clash, The Times interviewed Ms. Baden, her mother and her husband, as well as other neighbors, and reviewed the texts that Ms. Baden and her husband sent to friends after the episodes. Justice Alito, who did not respond to questions for this article, has in recent weeks given his own explanation of what happened.

There are some differences: For instance, the justice told Fox News that his wife hoisted the flag in response to Ms. Baden’s vulgar insult. A text message and the police call — corroborated by Fairfax County authorities — indicate, however, that the name-calling took place on Feb. 15, weeks after the inverted flag was taken down.
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 28/05/2024
fun read on why chatbots are so bad at saying "no" www.quantamagazine.org/ai-like-chat...
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AI Like ChatGPT Are No Good at ‘Not’ | Quanta Magazine
Today’s language models are more sophisticated than ever, but they still struggle with the concept of negation. That’s unlikely to change anytime soon.
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 27/05/2024
[on the verge of achieving full AGI] why would they be asking whether it's safe to drink bleach if they didn't want to drink the bleach
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/05/2024
the soft pivots have begun. that's fine, nobody gets everything right. but for the record: you didn't need clairvoyance or irrational pessimism to worry that a campaign beginning with a defense minister promising to engineer a famine might end somewhere bleak from Oct 9: www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
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Israeli defense minister orders 'complete siege' on Gaza after Hamas surprise attack
Israel’s vaunted military and intelligence apparatus was caught completely off guard, bringing heavy battles to its streets for the first time in decades. Israel formally declared war on Sunday, porte...
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 27/05/2024
so, I didn't go looking for this. this is genuinely the first interaction i had with the AI Overview, or at least the first one i noticed
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 27/05/2024
people ask "why are there so many articles about these freaks" and obviously one answer is just "peter thiel" but another answer is that it's fun to judge other people's parenting but generally you should try not to but here you have the green light to do it without reservations
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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 27/05/2024
Maestro
"In the manga Uzumaki, I was supposedly explaining the mystery of the spiral pattern that has existed since ancient times. But the mystery's not solved by the time we get to the final chapter, so I drew Lovecraft-like ruins to cook something up and get out of there."
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Arin Arcady @rnrkd.bsky.social · 27/05/2024
well now I have a second-favorite fact checking parenthetical, coming after "(Eritrea denies committing human rights abuses.)"
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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
what Very Serious People (derogatory) In fact "We want innocent people to stop dying" is the most serious position, and "the bombing will continue until someone comes up with a plan to do the thing the bombing won't accomplish" is childish
Akiva M Cohen:
Nobody cares. People just want innocent people to stop dying and nobody thinks beyond the immediate
Nicholas Grossman:
It’s an understandable, very human impulse.
It’s also why I find most of the commentary… I’m not sure what’s the right word… unserious?

Basically “I feel bad about these bad things happening, I wish it were better.”
Yeah, me too. So much. I just don’t think wishing makes it better.
Joshua Katz:
I agree. Childish approach to a complicated topic.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
really telling that the default solution proposed here is to drop bombs in pursuit of no particular strategic objective until such a time as an objective occurs to the people with bombs
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 26/05/2024
if you want a picture of the future imagine this weirdo slapping a toddler's face
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flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 26/05/2024
it's very easy to criticize the NYPD for arrogant, contemptuous lawlessness but who are you going to call if you have a problem and you need someone to come over and kill your dog and threaten to arrest you for being upset about it
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