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Agreed on what the actual ****.

This is reflected of a pretty fundamental failure to understand what historians do, because LLMs do basically none of my job and are completely incapable of most of it.

But they have the ears of the people that write the checks, so this is real bad news. 1/

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

No kings in this country!

...except a few of the nice people we found walking along the Venice Beach Boardwalk 👑

Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌

DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!

Who's your favorite sexy Dropout car wash team?
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You've never seen anything as satisfying as watching Trapp and Sam pull long strips of dried glue off of Paul...

If you love hearing oddly satisfying cracks at the chiropractor, Grant O'Brien has something special for you...

Forget having to choose between The Big Game and The Puppy Bowl - we've got the ultimate sporting event that combines them both: The Human Puppy Bowl! 🏈🐶

Can Jordan correctly identify three of their friends' breast milk?

Let's find out... 🤔🍼

Now everywhere Erika goes, a roast of Sam Reich follows... 🔥

The lady said $3,000 worth of animated buttholes, Sam! 🍑

Brennan's announcement

YouTube video by PyCon US Keynote Speaker - Cory Doctorow

If there’s one talk you watch from #pycon let it be Cory Doctorow’s keynote youtu.be/ydVmzg_SJLw?...

panel 1: the terminal driver: an interface that hasn't changed since the 80s person: “I pressed an arrow key and it just printed out ^[[D???” terminal driver: “what's an arrow key?" panel 2: when you're typing text, there are two situations 1. by default: the terminal driver (part of the OS) is responsible "canonical mode" 2. the program is responsible “raw mode” panel 3: "canonical mode" is a terrible way to edit text because the terminal driver hasn't changed much since the 80s, you can only do: 1. backspace 2. Ctrl+W (delete word) 3. Ctrl+U (delete line) panel 4: how canonical mode works 1. you type "helll" + backspace 2. the terminal emulator turns what you typed into bytes 3. the terminal driver passes on "hell" and interprets the backspace 4. the program gets "hello\n" In canonical mode, terminal driver doesn't send anything to the program until you press Enter. In raw mode, the terminal driver just sends “hell\xFFo\n” without changing it panel 5: how to try out canonical mode Run `cat` and type some stuff! Interactive programs almost never use canonical mode because it's so limited. But if you run into it `rlwrap $COMMAND` can help

more terminal fun: canonical mode

wizardzines.com/comics/canon...

oh god, it’s true, we’re living in an era of Clippy Maxing

as a person who knows that banishing evil spirits by swearing at them is a common thing in multiple Slavic traditions, i am DELIGHTED by this tip

A screengrab from Twitter. HeatherLhaney @heather_l... asks: “Why do you think we have so many more kids with Autism” David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS quotetweets this reply: “Probably for the same reason there are so many more planets in outer space now than there were before the telescope was invented”

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

Imagine that the cost of Legos dropped to almost nothing, millions of bricks for a penny, and suddenly people were claiming that non-experts would now build all of our houses, bridges, skyscrapers, and infrastructure out of Legos.

"AI will replace software engineers" people sound like this.

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

The image is a heatmap titled "Measles," showing measles cases across U.S. states from 1928 to 2003. States listed on the y-axis include Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The x-axis spans years from 1928 to 2003. A vertical line marks the introduction of the measles vaccine around 1963. The color scale at the bottom ranges from blue (0 cases) to red (4,000+ cases), with shades of green, yellow, and orange indicating intermediate values (1,000, 2,000, 3,000 cases). Before 1963, many states show frequent high case numbers (yellow to red), while after 1963, cases drop significantly, with mostly blue indicating near-zero cases.

And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”

With the White House using OpenAi to make racist propaganda in studio ghibli art style there has never been apt scene in anime history:

Even if the technocrats were right about AI replacing all jobs (they’re not), notice they never pitch any vision for what happens to humans. “No one has to work anymore” sounds great, but the only version of it where we’re not sleeping under bridges is one where these guys pay their fucking taxes

What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.

I have been trying to formulate some rules for giving good talks and fundamentally it’s this: tell a story. People like stories, and they will listen to you if they trust you are telling them.

A picture of handwrieen text on a page in beautiful blue calligraphy. It reads: "Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willnae be fooled again!”

Taken from user _greens_eggs_and_sam_ on reddit. The battle cry of the Nac Mac Feegle, from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series (first from Wee Free Men)

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

A dremel and a sphere bit? m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71E...

Surely applying the word "reasoning" to what Large Language Models do is false advertising? Like claiming your microwave oven "time travels".

You'd think the DeepSeek-replacing-OpenAI situation was kinda obvious - I don't think there's ever been a company who's "bottled lightning" and thought to themselves "oh yeah no one could ever replicate that" and had it work out well. #ai #machine-learning