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As always, selling the Dream. And, sadly, it seems to be working.

As a job-seeker, I unfortunately spend a lot of time on LinkedIn, and the gallons of AI Kool-Aid people are drinking over there is staggering. According to "thought leaders", if you're not an expert on AI, you're behind the curve.

That's ultimately more marketing speak. The average person doesn't understand what a "large language model" is. But "AI" sounds sexy, and we have half a century of sci-fi providing context. Even if it is wildly misleading context.

Also, there are plenty of e-readers out there other than the Kindle. Yes, you may need to buy a new e-reader, but think of it as a long-term investment.

To clarify, the inability to read on Kindle is due to Amazon's DRM policies, and affects other sellers, as well.
They're currently working with Kobo to enable compatibility there.
Selling books self-published through Draft 2 Digital and IngramSpark is in the works.
Source: bookshop.org/info/ebooks

In an effort to be fair, sometimes the issue isn't the actor/performer, but the editing. I don't remember Hannibal well enough to know which it might be.

Rewriting the corpus of human knowledge into the corpse of human knowledge.

After a lifetime of being told about the character-building benefits of hard work, "easier school is less taxing for everybody" is whiplash-inducing.

They want us dumb and easy to control. The less we know about U.S. history/government, the easier it is for them to break the rules without pushback.

This

"These are kids who will never pay taxes," Kennedy declared. "They'll never hold a job. Theyl never play baseball. They'Il never write a poem. They'll never go out " on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted. We have to recognize doing this to our children. we are

RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is

sometimes I feel like a dinosaur, cause no one looks anything up anymore 🦕

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Problem solved. Can we move on?

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As much as I appreciate your ability to cut through the BS, it's depressing to get these reminders of how many dudes really couldn't see that those dystopian novels weren't aspirational.

As someone who, through necessity, is spending a lot of time on LinkedIn these days, it's frightening how much of the vibe there is about embracing AI as this game-changing tech that you need to get on board with if you want to succeed.

Starting a new thread called: The oldest elected president in US history has lost his mind, and it's insane that the media isn't talking about it every day like it did with Joe Biden.

Thread...

The richest man in the world is getting a car sale on the White House lawn as Americans' 401ks plummet

Today, if you feel the need to make a big deal about why there isn't an International Men's day...

Instead, ask yourself, if it was really so important for men to have that extra validation, why didn't you already know that International Men's Day has been around since 1992?

I know a couple where he prefers the drummies and she prefers the flats, and it's a whole Jack Sprat situation.

Tweet: "Have you said thank you once?" -@VP JD Vance - pic of jd Vance looking oddly symmetrical. Why are his pants so tight?

I can't stop laughing at this man I'm sorry. This is the kind of shit the biggest loser in the world would say to their girlfriend about buying her flowers on Valentine's Day once, and he's doing so in an argument that started because he called her a bitch

ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs

The Night Disco Died | The Racist and Homophobic End to Disco — Blk Girl Culture Revisiting the Disco Demolition and the racism and homophobia that lead to the violent destruction of disco by white America.

The wish to either appropriate or kill anything interesting in Black culture has always been an American disease:

www.blkgirlculture.com/blog-2/the-n...

this was always coming. Elon wants contracts for the things he broke. and sometimes he just wants to take other people's contracts.

It is truly amazing how much of the US right now is driven by people who don't know how science works being conned by people who also don't know how science works but are willing to lie with gusto about it.

To be fair, some of these people don't know how *anything* works.

Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Screenshot from a scan of page 289 of an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote. The text is set in two columns. In the left column, we read in part “thou hast hit the point, Sancho, which can alone shake my resolution”, and on the right “thy share of the booty would would have been at least the emperor’s crown of gold”; by coincidence, these align so that the phrase “shake my booty” can be read across the columns.

Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

Post on Threads showing AI misinterpreted a paper and now there are scientific papers with incorrect citations

*stares in historian*

I don't hate technology, or tools that simplify complex things. But it feels like the underlying pitch of all AI products at this point is essentially: "Is thinking too hard? Has doing stuff become a burden? Let AI do it for you!"

Dirty Harry and the Hendersons

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A Clockwork Orange Julius

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