Stan Yen

@durbin.senate.gov should resign NOW. The minority whip should not be undermining the caucus by being part of the surrender squad.

you should resign NOW.

was curious about this... Based on exit polls, even some Republicans were in favor of the Prop 50 redistricting.

Exit polls: Election 2025 | CNN Politics share.google/NCVxPN2JDp4N...

Is he talking about the cuts to SNAP benefits, or just that furloughed federal workers can't afford food?

I guess we tuck & roll?

it would be expensive, but maybe let him try?

they detained the whole building.

and then they want to send the national guard to "restore order" to the chaos that they themselves are creating.

it's real.

xcancel.com/PeteHegseth/...

front of blue-grey t-shirt with some brown smudges towards the bottom, likely cat poop smear.

Nap win/fail:
win: kitteh snugs
fail: butt blot

fucking dropshippers.

tried to avoid Amazon and bought bulbs from Lightsdaddy; package came from Amazon with receipt showing they marked up the price by $24.

NYT: Looks how good this administration is at fascism!

This is the Rebellion manifesto written by the character Nemik from the series Andor. It offers a guideline for hope while under threat from tyranny and inspiration for those brave enough to stand up and fight.

Andor, a Disney+ show about resisting fascism, just won 5 Emmys. Three days later, the network caved to it.

The Kimmel Cancel Response Blueprint Jimmy Kimmel Live has been “indefinitely suspended” for saying the Charlie Kirk assassin was "one of them." The FCC threatened ABC's license.

cancel, boycott, mock.

open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

thebasedad: If a democrat was assassinated could you imagine what would be going on right now? michaelandwicket: Yes. I can. Because it happened literally 3 months ago. And guess what? Democrats called for gun reform and right wingers made jokes about it. Trump said calling anybody to give his condolences would be a waste of time and then skipped the funeral. So we don't have to imagine. It literally just happened. And not a single person on the left called for a war, or called for the Republican party to be labeled a domestic terrorist organization. You cared so little that you don't even remember it.

disgusted to see flags at half mast for a white supremacist troll.

On a scale of Andor, we are currently at S2E8 Ghorman Plaza sniper.

was wondering why water in my nalgene tasted funny this AM then remembered I filled it from office "filtered" source yesterday.

Another strike against RTO.

sure seems to work for Elmo.

when I checked this morning, stock was up over 7%. Wonder how many in the admin and GOP members of Congress bought in before that.

a black keyboard missing the labels on the S, F, X, C, V, and ALT keys.

lol. guess the editor.

this dude would not shut up this morning.

full disclosure, they're probably crows. What do you think?

unfortunately, they do offer health insurance.

couldn't agree more. It should be eliminated as it exists today, along with its MIA acting admin and restored to how it was before this administration gutted it.

2 pairs of ravens appear to be hashing it out in mom's backyard.

I guess we'll see if Elmo gets deported for trying to follow through with his threats or if he caves like he did the last time.

This is an excerpt of an article titled, "ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study" by Andrew R. Chow. At the top of the image, there is a circular icon of a person wearing glasses. Next to the icon, texts read, "by Andrew R. Chow" and "CORRESPONDENT". The excerpt reads: Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results. The study divided 54 subjects—18 to 39 year-olds from the Boston area—into three groups, and asked them to write several SAT essays using OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s search engine, and nothing at all, respectively. Researchers used an EEG to record the writers’ brain activity across 32 regions, and found that of the three groups, ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” Over the course of several months, ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study. The paper suggests that the usage of LLMs could actually harm learning, especially for younger users. The paper has not yet been peer reviewed, and its sample size is relatively small. But its paper’s main author Nataliya Kosmyna felt it was important to release the findings to elevate concerns that as society increasingly relies upon LLMs for immediate convenience, long-term brain development may be sacrificed in the process. “What really motivated me to put it out now before waiting for a full peer review is that I am afraid in 6-8 months, there will be some policymaker who decides, ‘let’s do GPT kindergarten.’ I think that would be absolutely bad and detrimental,” she says. “Developing brains are at the highest risk.”

Note: The MIT study mentioned in the article hasn't been fully peer-reviewed.

With the above said, I feel that we should be alarmed by the potential deteriorating effects of genAI usage on brains (esp. young brains). I don't use genAI for moral & personal reasons.

Source:
time.com/7295195/ai-c...

not a trap

I can't even...