Reposted by @flglmn.bsky.socialChristian Archie Panels @christianarchie.bsky.social · 15/06/2024 16716144
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 13/06/2024this one's very enjoyable. more in his mervyn-peake-ish vein than the more pulpy ones 000
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 13/06/2024never got round to this one before. good stuff 070
Reposted by @flglmn.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12/06/2024this 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 161004144
Reposted by @flglmn.bsky.socialColin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 11/06/2024lmao 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 24905308
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 11/06/2024sound like wrong 'uns to me. a bad lot i shouldn't wonder 2160
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 09/06/2024guess they promised not to put his wife in jail after all 0140
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 08/06/2024the ads should also completely cover the back button so you can't get away from the page or stop looking at them 1270
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 08/06/2024i feel like an editor wouldn't let you get away with that kind of thing today and we are the poorer for it 120
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 08/06/2024I like the out of nowhere swipe at wyndham lewis in this NYT review of The Unnameable by stephen spender 1141
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 04/06/2024seems 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... 2133
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 04/06/2024we're going to get that fucking duck for good this time 170
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 04/06/2024"FELIX: Pete Buttigieg asked us PERSONALLY to reach out to you because he is concerned your membership in the DCCNC will EXPIRE at midnight and everyone will know you are a Trump supporter" no he didn't, my what now, why are you talking to me like you hope i might be senile 0250
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 04/06/2024every time I open my email I have to skim past two to four communications addressed to my first name personally, from what is or at least appears to be an organ of the democratic party, and immediately and instinctively dismiss them as just bullshit. is it good that are they training me to do that 3242
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 04/06/2024I cannot believe it is good for the party that most of the direct communications most people get from the party, or from outfits holding themselves out as acting for the party, are obvious lies in the style of "your auto insurance is about to lapse unless you send us your bank details NOW" scams 2291
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 04/06/2024what 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 2300
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 03/06/2024he wrote the majority opinion in bostock too. he's solidly bad don't get me wrong but he cannot completely be modeled by "will always do the nastiest thing possible in the nastiest way possible", unlike alito 030
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 03/06/2024right, he is absolutely not a moderate in any meaningful sense, but there are some limits to what I will believe roberts would be willing to do, which is not the case with alito 140
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 03/06/2024then the others, who will probably vote for that stuff, but conceivably might not, or at least one of them might not for any given piece of right wing hackery 030
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 03/06/2024my 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 3230
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 02/06/2024well i suppose you would also be in three meetings at once with AI so it would only be one third as bad 120
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 02/06/2024there's no reason in principle why you couldn't be in an infinite number of meetings at once, like sticking your head inside the Aleph, but for meetings 2170
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 02/06/2024imagine being in so many meetings at once that your AIs have to hold separate meetings to keep track of how many meetings you're in. sounds great right 3140
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 02/06/2024and the technology is still young, imagine the day when you can be in six meetings at once, or ten 8252
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 02/06/2024the compensatory damages were to make up for the harm he caused. the additional punitive damages were to make him cry 0370
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 02/06/2024the 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 1542
Reposted by @flglmn.bsky.socialsteve @stevefelix.com · 02/06/2024I think about this all the time. Let’s give a big thank you to “the disgraceful state of analytic art criticism!” 45426
Reposted by @flglmn.bsky.socialJohn Carpenter's Corey Beckner @captaincorey.bsky.social · 01/06/2024 49723
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 01/06/2024as a little treatscience.orgOctopuses may have nightmaresStudy of single cephalopod suggests the animals may have narrative dreams 0429
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 01/06/2024otherwise it was just pointless and annoying, a dumb thing you had to scroll past to get what you were looking for 3221
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 01/06/2024the funny errors were the only good thing about it 1291
Reposted by @flglmn.bsky.socialJoyce Carol (p)Oa(s)tes 😱 @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 01/06/2024Miller devised it as homage to John Martin’s “Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum”! Martin was the blockbuster spectacle guy of the early 1800s 1217
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 01/06/2024this does make sense, I think, they could coherently have said that all of them were false but he was only personally responsible for the 20 or so he personally signed bsky.app/profile/flgl... 000
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 01/06/2024oh juries are 100% capable of reaching split-the-baby verdicts that don't really make sense, even in far less politically charged cases than this. i was just wondering if there was any logical basis for doing that (turns out there was though) 110
Reposted by @flglmn.bsky.socialMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 01/06/2024doing 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” 110914
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 01/06/2024what they want is to place all the risk of uncertain judgment calls and complex factual circumstances on doctors and their employers and insurance carriers and etc. we made the law, you guys figure out how to make it work. but hospitals can't work that way 1434
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 01/06/2024a 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 411234
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 01/06/2024ah that makes sense. so they could have found all of them false but that he personally was only responsible for some of them bsky.app/profile/bche... 1140
Reposted by @flglmn.bsky.socialHenrock @bchenrock.bsky.social · 01/06/2024My 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. 191
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 01/06/2024oh yeah it's good politics and i'm not going to object to anyone saying it 130
flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social · 01/06/2024people 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 590
![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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l7std6z567c6fik72if2wtu7/bafkreifqcuzytk6xg6dsmbbaddizqn74a5jrw6rhae6aka5qendk3beqiu)
![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."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tb45hm2neqhfxic5zypfvgfd/bafkreihqbth5yxdozgwsrntnbcalthfiitdrxfbx6e7o3jkakt7oarh32u)
