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Really love a folk country trio album

The victim of this was already a massive prospect in position to where if he didn't get too hurt and stayed out of trouble he'd have a fairly high likelihood of making millions in the NFL. Pretty transparent evil move to trick him into signing over his rights shortly after his 18th birthday.

"Let's let the computer program trained on anime porn and fan fiction decide what books we should read" is a weird conservative stance

School district uses ChatGPT to help remove library books Faced with new legislation, Iowa's Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books 'contain a description or depiction of a sex act.'

1) Don't ban books
2) Don't waste educators' time with book bans
3) Don't make decisions about books without reading them
4) Don't fall for OpenAI's interface: ChatGPT is not the kind of thing you can sensibly ask for information

https://www.popsci.com/technology/iowa-chatgpt-book-ban/

RIP to the star of my favorite spatial orientation reference

I really worry what the next year of reading and reviewing scientific papers is gonna be like after people who have spent years glossing over references pages are forced to double check.

Screenshot of a TikTok video showing a ups truck filled with packages at 8:45am

Only a crypto podcaster would think ups drivers only deliver 5 packages an hour, lolol

would kill for a market to short these stupid assholes. How do I make a fortune betting against these dopes? The guys on top may not believe their own bullshit but they have 1000s of cult followers who genuinely believe we’re 6 months from AI robot workers taking over UPS and Netflix writers’ rooms

Cleaning up a baby peacock sullied by a non-information spill Last week, I wrote:

That cute baby peacock photo? It's fake. Here's a reflection:

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/cleaning-up-a-baby-peacock-sullied-by-a-non-information-spill-d2e2aa642134

Hoping all the flippity-floos who took a stab at the Internet Archive are happy with themselves. The #1 "you have a library, and if it's not close you can use their e-catalog" argument is going out the window.

It’s crazy to think of how much of harmonica you hear on country songs of the past forty years is one guy in Willie Nelson’s band

If you ever see me looking at my phone in disgust, you can be sure that I’m looking at something like this 🤢

My main social media interaction these days is watching home inspections of new construction and audibly gasping at half driven nails and load bearing caulk

Just learned Brian Cox is 5’6”??

Onions spread over a frying screen

Bowl of tomatillos with green husks

They know their symptoms!

This seems like it’s gonna kill somebody

Some people might not consider it cheesy, but I really liked American Gods as a vacation read. Felt really easy to pick up and put down when I had time

We’re like two months from having to rebuild the search engines of the early aughts because people can’t get the answers to simple questions.

Truly amazing how quickly the quality of the google search algorithm has deteriorated over the past two years from the already bad ad driven results