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I appreciated how you talked about If I Had Legs I'd Kick You. That the movie seems to be saying "...you know what? Things are kind of rough, actually. And you have good reason to be upset."

We can't fix the roughness, at least not immediately. We're in it with you though. All the best mate.

Full-color image of the Cathedral of Barcelona, composed on a typewriter by Montserrat Alberich Escardívol. Image from WikiMedia.

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

A frame from Peanuts by Charles M Schulz. Lucy, football in hand, says to Charlie Brown: "Anyone can trust someone who's trustworthy... I'm giving you a chance to trust someone who is NOT trustworthy!"

Flipping heck, Schulz

Until 2022, "BLONDIE & DAGWOOD" (bottom right) was the comics IP with the record for inspiring the most (AND most single-continuity!) feature film adaptations, 28 in total from 1938-1950 mostly featuring the same cast.
Only the MCU finally surpassed it as of "Doctor Strange 2."

TURN DOWN FOR WHAT in the Zohran Mamdani campaign sign style

Can you click the Tolkien characters while avoiding antidepressants? Agedal Cirdan Azafen Cledial Elendil Elronon Bergil Desyrel Erestor Celebrian Elavil Eskalith Finarfin Haldir Minalcar Nardil Narmacil Norval Orophin Prothiaden

watching this shit on Newgrounds was genuinely the coolest thing on the entire internet when it came out

a bunch of us in high school crowded around the same computer and flipping out about what we just saw

stick figures as art, man, just incredible work

Tweet from Ella Devi: canvassing for @ZohranKMamdani in the east village today and the actor who plays dr. strugis in young sheldon is in my canvassing group!! Photo of Ella with another canvasser and Wallace Shawn

On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable

I hope future generations recognize how quickly and strangely the contours of what counts as a political scandal changed for this president.

If Trump gets Congress and the SC to say that a 3rd Term is OK, the Dems might well run him.

Mechanical keyboard with only one keycap, you have to remove and then place it for each key you press

I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵

Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino, Who Fired Tear Gas at Little Village Crowd, Set to Face Federal Judge U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis ordered Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino to appear in her courtroom at the Dirksen Federal Building in downtown Chicago at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino is set to appear before U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis.
What you need to know, for @wttw.bsky.social:

You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on.

Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

The thing is, until you have personally experienced this kind of targeted operation it sounds like tinfoil hat or the ravings of someone who has lost their grip on reality.

And once it happens, almost no one will believe you if you so choose to confide. You end up alone, frozen

GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS

Gentlemen, this is

democracy

manifest

Interview from the Titan submarine investigation. The witness name is blacked out. The first line is "Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

Great moments in redaction history.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

if we are going to have a supreme court that is as powerful as it is, i basically think justices should be forbidden from public comment on their work as well as any supplemental source of income while they are on the bench. (they should also ride circuit again but that's a bit separate.)

YouTube video by SniFZeTla™ Natural Self - The Rising feat Andreya Triana

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🧵 I'm excited to share that my article "Democratic Backsliding and the Limits of Civilian Control of the Military" has been accepted @thejop.bsky.social.

It answers the question "how ought militaries act when civilian leaders turn on democratic institutions?"

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#CivMilSky #PolTheory

LLMs are doubly deceptive. Most people think that they can ask it a question and get an answer. The majority of the rest think that you can ask an LLM a question and it will return what an answer might look like, statistically.

But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.

YouTube video by Patrick Carney - Topic BoJack's Theme (Full Length)

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as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

your core users are people who have already demonstrated a willingness to abandon a more popular social media site for another, in the most part for disliking the politics of the people who run it. write this on a big whiteboard somewhere in the office

I don't recall there being an official answer. Caveat: it's been years since I was current with WoD.

I'd say a nature spirit.

absolutely incredible things are happening. someone should write a poem about it