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He looks like one of those rap guys girlfriends

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Sara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social · 16h

The Onion? The privately-owned equity of a techbro billionaire? That Onion?

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Important to remember the Onion is an oligarch-owned media outlet and works hard to advance oligarch interests

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 22h

It was a good tweet though.

Your kid's birthright is to have no competition getting into college?

Oh, well my kid's birthright is to live in the country that all the nerds move to because it's the place where nerds can get rich.

It's true. want to irrevocably change the culture of the US. I want to make it nerdier.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 15h

It's all in the training data

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I long for just straight up racism instead of this "actually white people possess uh ancient ways of knowing and studying hurts us"

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 15h

they're all just lying, it is tremendous lying, but it is just lying

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 15h

Babysitting has some big downsides over working at the grocery store too - irregular hours, much more responsibility and stress, etc

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Baumol rules everything around me

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 15h

Harvard successfully argued to a federal appeals court that they don’t have to admit more Asians because we have shitty personalities. That was in 2020. Conservatives have now re-derived this argument from first principles docs.justia.com/cases/federa...

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Opposition re 546 MOTION in Limine filed by President and Fellows of Harvard College for Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College et al :: Justia Dockets & Filing...

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Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 17h

Every work fantasy league is a fucking chore by week 2. People like March Madness brackets because you sit down for a few minutes and then you're done.

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Btw "sportsball" is cringe when said by dweebs who don't know the rules of football but when it's said by dudes tired of streaming defenses in their 14 team work league it's actually extremely good

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I would definitely have AI play fantasy football for me are you serious "oh no I have to be on my phone when it's announced on Friday morning that the starting RB for the 20th best run offense in the league is out for two games" gtfoh

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This is actually pretty funny, sorry to the haters on this one

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Love that people are apparently just now discovering that Ratm has stupid leftist politics

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this better not ever leave the group chat

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Yes I think there's no way a criminal rape/assault charge sticks on the guys

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I think the q is pretty straightforward - do you think that it can do math at some level of accuracy better than you'd expect from a "fancy auto complete" without tool calls. Bender basically denies this. You are very squirrelly about this. I think it's obviously true (and gave an example).

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 19h

Idk seems much better than random at math

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That's crazy, it's probably making a tool call for that

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 19h

You can see tool calls in the UI for most commercially available AIs that I know of

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 21h

This is so corny sorry

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 21h

He was gonna do a time skip and instead wrote book 5 and that fucked him up

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah imo the biggest issue with game of thrones is actually that the middle season dragged. Like why is Dany in Meereen for 3 seasons. The final season would have benefited from 2 more episodes but it felt all the more rushed bc of how slowly everything had unfolded.

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Look even I'm not a big enough sicko to read the Yale subreddit

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Hotd is good as a binge watch now that they have enough eps out. Season 2 as a standalone was so incomplete though.

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Lost doesn't count, they were never gonna stick that landing. Dexter is still rewatchable season to season. Game of Thrones is still good, sorry to the haters.

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Like if Pam and Jim divorced at the end of The Office or if Ross had died at the end of Friends, it would have completely destroyed the rewatchability of the show.

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah the answer has to be a sitcom like HIMYM. The rewatch value on a show like that in syndication/streaming is so high if the ending isn't total bullshit.

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HIMYM is the canonical example here.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 22h

"why would I ever need a task to be done faster" come on, guys. Because we're dying. Because we are literally all dying all the time. Because we're running out of time. The fact that it's often hard to measure or stupidly measured doesn't mean "saving time" isn't an important thing to human beings

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So close, you are thinking of Camille Paglia ❤️

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 23h

if you could then you know you would

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Quite gifted fanfic writers

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 23h

Quite gifted fanfic writers

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Clint Harris @clintent-to-treat.bsky.social · 23h

My conjectures: 1. People who work hard in these places either get out or fail, so if you compare people around you, you learn that effort is a waste. 2. Evangelicalism. Hustling to help others is doomed (world going to hell), hustling for yourself is greed. A great excuse for laziness.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 23h

You look very dapper. Like you're heading to a meeting with the headmaster about your son being left off the sporting clays team.

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Imo - 1. The Bones Are Their Money 2. Brians Hat 3. Zipline 4. Hot Dog Car 5. Drivers Ed

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They're already making season 2, it's definitely not 1 and Done

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What are the Top 5 ITYSL Sketches

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Yes but it's notable that the best representation of this exact thing in 21st century media is the main character in Better Luck Tomorrow

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Introducing...the Scrub — Sirlin.Net — Game Design

Apropos of the discourse, the seminal essay on The Scrub. "A scrub is a player who is handicapped by self-imposed rules that the game knows nothing about. A scrub does not play to win." www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/int...

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So far you have learned only obvious and mundane things. I know that taking the first step can be the hardest part of the journey, so I wanted to coddle you a little just to get you going. The coddlin...

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