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This paragraph is actually part of a section discussing the Chinese room iirc

Thinking about how good pale machine 2 was

what the formulation "israel has a right to exist" is meant to stand for is "the nation of israel has a right to define its electorate such that particular people are represented and others are not," which is something so plainly ridiculous that it cannot be stated outright.

I am kind of sitting here mouth agape as I realize that the thing that really got eight Democrats to cave was a provision which provides backdoor criminal and civil immunity to them personally by making it functionally impossible to ever investigate the Senate

Hahahahah they were just playing a trick on us where they’d pretend to fight back until we voted for them, and then immediately cave www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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DS9 Playing God is really good

Debunking “When Prophecy Fails” In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....

Holy shit, this is kinda huge if you're into the social sciences

I think that if someone was saying that kind of stuff I’d start to believe that they knew what they were talking about regardless of their professed credentials

menswear guy type shit

Actually it appears that the young animators have discovered that the furries have discovered Sidney Gish

It appears the furries have discovered Sidney Gish

YouTube video by DORIAN ELECTRA Dorian Electra - F The World (Official Video)

Dorian Electra was doing some fun satire in that area a few years back

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The funny thing about the invention of the wheel is the guy who invented it died penniless. It wasn't until much much later that pennies were invented

if the blue jays win the world series, they will need to ensure that every member of their roster is at least 21 years old before celebrating with champagne. this is because the legal drinking age in canada is 21, with the exception of quebec, where the legal drinking age is also 21

#TheBanksAreOutOfMoney

what’s wrong with DoNotPay?

I need to stare at the definition of adjunctions for at least two hours I think

Metamucil is the real deal though in my experience

This is the single best and most vivid explanation of how persuasion actually works at both the individual and social/group level I have ever read. This is the core of what Rs get and Dems do not. And not the main point at all, but he gets the tactical use of testing and research right, too.

The hinge “pay money to see all your likes” thing is Evil

I mostly type math so Concrete Roman and Euler, but otherwise sometimes Palatino or Optima

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why are all the sparkfun / adafruit thermal printers discontinued?

slight spoiler maybe:

I also quite liked the ~romantic subplot~ if you wanna call it that and like how it was structured, from the pov of the reader, sort of as a mystery

really fun book! got a little bogged down in names and proper nouns but it all ended up coming to a satisfying conclusion

also, one of the most Liberal and reformist fantasy books I’ve ever read lol

just finished The Tainted Cup!

I would just have one side of my bed hooked to us-east-1 and one to us-west-2 or something so if one fails you have roll over redundancy

Has anyone tried to give an LLM access to dummy tokens for it to use to manipulate its state during reasoning? Kinda curious now