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I have been saying this

a good LLM prompt requires

-understanding the nature of a problem
-breaking it down into coherent component parts
-describing them in turn in clear language

which is... a college essay

11.12.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes

09.12.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 16433    πŸ” 3009    πŸ’¬ 925    πŸ“Œ 179

He invented the ACA

09.12.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 925    πŸ” 123    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 7

when you see Trump on camera angrily attacking female reporters for asking straightforward questions, it doesn’t take much to imagine what he does behind closed doors when a woman says β€˜No’

09.12.2025 09:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2571    πŸ” 658    πŸ’¬ 87    πŸ“Œ 31

Justice Jackson nails it, but that this has to be spelled out is so depressing.

08.12.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1046    πŸ” 290    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 8

A reminder that "we just want immigrants to come here the *right* way!" was always a lie

07.12.2025 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 622    πŸ” 225    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 4

Guillotine is the only answer

07.12.2025 03:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can't believe our tax dollars are going to be spent settling the upcoming exorbitant defamation suit with Sabrina Carpenter, but maybe this is just how public arts funding is going to work now.

06.12.2025 04:30 β€” πŸ‘ 7440    πŸ” 1207    πŸ’¬ 154    πŸ“Œ 16
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WOW! AN HONOR! β€” GCN

06.12.2025 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 29871    πŸ” 5886    πŸ’¬ 834    πŸ“Œ 542

Laws aren't real. They exist solely on account of buy-in from society's participants. Once one side disengages, you no longer reside in a society based on laws. You live in a society based on power and armed force. I am begging folks to accept this so we can get moving.

06.12.2025 04:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1802    πŸ” 557    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 16

$20 billion could end homelessness in the US

$40 billion could end hunger globally

Both would still only cost 3/4 of what Meta blew on Mark Zuckerberg’s obviously bad ideas because nobody would tell him they were stupid because he’s worth over $200 billion because he doesn’t pay his share of taxes

06.12.2025 11:54 β€” πŸ‘ 927    πŸ” 289    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 5

Our opponents will be extra motivated to beat, you know, the fascist country. If this was the movie Victory, we’re the Nazis.

06.12.2025 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

since we're doing USPS discourse again, a reminder of what Dems should be saying

05.12.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1362    πŸ” 483    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 7
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Trump awarded inaugural Fifa peace prize at World Cup draw in Washington US president receives new Fifa honour as scrutiny grows over Infantino’s political alliances and Trump’s disputed record on global conflicts

The logical end of a project based on fictional victimhood that has spent considerable time complaining about participation trophies in sports.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

05.12.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 7

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

03.10.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 10477    πŸ” 3140    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 73

There's a lot to criticize in the new NSS - almost all of it, really - but can I just start with how notably poor it is in presentation?

The opening statement from the president is both childish (natch) but also looks badly scanned and the rest of the thing is just a PDF-converted word document?

05.12.2025 05:15 β€” πŸ‘ 226    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

A lot of suicide attempts, especially among young people, are impulsive, which means that throwing up even temporary obstacles can save lives. It's not true that everyone who gets advice on how to kill themselves from an LLM would have figured it out anyway. These tools are causing avoidable deaths.

04.12.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 849    πŸ” 205    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 9

Three weeks ago Trump suggested the pipe bomb was an inside jobπŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡

04.12.2025 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 199    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2

An entire room full of powerful old white people smiling and laughing as the president dehumanizes black immigrants and the first black president.

Just fucking pathetic.

03.12.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3660    πŸ” 1041    πŸ’¬ 138    πŸ“Œ 55
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Kushner’s Moscow mission wasn’t just corrupt. It was unconstitutional. Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, has been traveling the world to participate in high-stakes foreign policy negotiations on behalf of the president.

1. Jared Kushner's trip to Moscow yesterday was not just unethical; it was illegal.

You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.

It says it right in the Constitution.

03.12.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3669    πŸ” 1597    πŸ’¬ 129    πŸ“Œ 113

Trump calls human beings β€œvermin,” β€œgarbage,” β€œdiseases,” β€œpoison,” and β€œanimals.”

Then, when I rightfully point out that the same dehumanizing language has been used by fascist regimes to justify humanity’s worst atrocitiesβ€”Republicans lose their minds.

Give me a break.

03.12.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2660    πŸ” 639    πŸ’¬ 81    πŸ“Œ 30

I received an "F" on my dental school paper for writing "the tooth fairy takes 'em while you sleep" and now I'm suing the school for religious discrimination

01.12.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4028    πŸ” 852    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 12

Thanks for holding that nugget until now, Jonathan! I hope your book sells negative copies.

02.12.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 888    πŸ” 189    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 3

Like, for example, what does the US Department of Defense use as a literal example of a "clearly illegal order?"

Why, it's firing upon shipwrecked sailors! JFC

01.12.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 616    πŸ” 159    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 6

Yep. This was a prosecution developed by the professionals at the DOJ under Trump 1.0, despite the fact that the first Trump admin's DHS was actively working with JOH on migration, and praising him as a valuable ally.

Here's Chad Wolf meeting JOH in 2020, AFTER his brother had been convicted.

01.12.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 216    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

If you don’t remember who the β€œFront Line COVID Critical Care Alliance” is, they did not work on the front lines but sold millions of dollars of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin - and merch - at flea markets and online and both of the founding members had their medical board certifications revoked.

01.12.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 151    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Her parents owe their lives to the United States accepting them as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in Iraq in the 1980s. She wouldn't be here if we had not offered her family safe haven.

The hypocrisy is stunning.

30.11.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 7819    πŸ” 2361    πŸ’¬ 335    πŸ“Œ 96

If a Psych prof assigns students an essay response paper with explicit guidelines and then flunks a student for turning in a paper that ignores those guidelines but instead makes vague gestures to "the Bible" then THAT IS NOT A VIOLATION OF THE STUDENT'S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.

30.11.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1891    πŸ” 350    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 13

What is Jared Kushner's job in the administration?

30.11.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2004    πŸ” 404    πŸ’¬ 74    πŸ“Œ 37

Great. Fucking. Point.

30.11.2025 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 109    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

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