Jared Gardner

You know the best thing about being Jewish ? Never having to definitively make up your mind about anything. Which is why those who wrap themselves in the Israeli flag and defend it without hesitation should be excommunicated (not that we do that of course but I am willing to make an exception).

I seem to have new following friends for the first time in ages, so I’m guessing some new wave of migrants has arrived? What brought on this one?

Remember lead paint chips? Ah memories. Well, not really because of all the lead paint chips

Every. Time.

I think about this ham far too often for a Jewish boy

I miss leaded gas. But at least Alf porn is back, so that’s something

Gen Xer here: let me tell you about the days of yore

Because honestly a zombie would be a massive improvement

Caffeine for your body legos

a man with a beard is talking on a cell phone in front of a fire ALT: a man with a beard is talking on a cell phone in front of a fire

Really confused why everyone is all bummed about Barry White taking over CBS news. I mean, I thought he was dead but … is that it? Are people upset about a zombie taking over CBS news?

Wait! You did what????

Maybe a swift kick?

The depraved cruelty and spitefulness of this regime is the stuff of nightmares I thought, foolishly, belonged to a dark age long buried.

Although it is better I don’t have them. I’d be flashing them everywhere and getting them all sunburnt

r/Lollapalooza 3 yr. ago DaL 028 Join [deleted] I'm excited for Limp Bizkit, but I'm a little worried about Antifa... Question I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

In some ways this is the government now

Getting to be more of a stretch every month

Quote post an unfiltered pic and say your age: 59

Please do! I’m doing it all wrong

ASCII art of FidoNet logo: a dog holding an envelope sitting next to a water bowl

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Every time someone speaks of LLMs as possessing "intelligence" I giggle. And also think they are less intelligent than I did before.

The word fingerbanging keeps cracking me up

There was!

I’m going to Friendster

Also I think there may be an exception for fingerbanging

Do you really need to come into someone’s feed to scold and lecture them? It is so unpleasant and performative . I’m sure you have friends and coworkers to scold and shame. Focus on them

Seriously — can’t drink or do drugs any more so I am down to the cheese grater and two eyeballs

I’m just sad I still have to go to work

Towards a Human-Powered AI Part 1. The Cardsharp in the Room The very nature of thinking is "but." Things are complicated. It’s “and,” “but,” “either” — it’s all those things. – Susan Sontag, 1979 Heading into this new acad...

Starting a series of ambivalent posts designed to help me and other Humanities and related academic types develop a healthy working relationship with AI

Towards a Human-Powered AI Part 1. The Cardsharp in the Room The very nature of thinking is "but." Things are complicated. It’s “and,” “but,” “either” — it’s all those things. – Susan Sontag, 1979 Heading into this new acad...

At campus-novel, I begin a series in which I try and bring AI down to earth, if only for my own sanity.
campus-novel.ghost.io/towards-a-hu...

YouTube to pay $24.5 million to settle Trump lawsuit | CNN Business YouTube agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump after he was suspended by social media platforms following the January 6, 2021, insurrection.

Not one of these companies has to settle. As private companies, Internet companies can deplatform whomever they want. They are settling soley to pay tribute and signal their obeisance.