Greg Burton

Greg Burton

@gregburton.bsky.social

Warriors Basketball, Eclectic

362 Followers 208 Following 2,112 Posts Joined Jul 2023
4 hours ago

what an amazing night of banjo :)

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5 hours ago

Basketball Announcer: The triggerman is (Isaiah) Joe.
Me: Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand?

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3 days ago

Blow their minds. Mention how much more time Gui would have had if JK wasn't hogging it.

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3 days ago

the spices that journalist was seasoned with must have been Shilling...er.... Schilling (bought out and no longer in production)

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3 days ago

if you're doing 20ish year generations? yeah, 3 generations ago would be the early 60's or late 50's - and it was true then. Broke in the 70s with stagflation.

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4 days ago

has the author not been aware of virtual machines? Or am I missing something?

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4 days ago

not to mention that I also, even knowing the dual meanings of "puck" in this case (not including Puck), immediately envisioned a hocky player shooting a coffee puck on goal and getting really confused (and messy)

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4 days ago

nice metaphor for persistence of form over function, there. Could maybe apply it to most AI output.

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4 days ago

Many people seem unaware that most text processing and content generation doesn't require AI at all, and are now conflating any generated content with AI

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4 days ago

insert "still" after CU

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4 days ago

It IS a policy issue - several of them in a nice tangled bundle. And the clear need to rewrite the tax code and qualifications for non-profit status doesn't get clicks or votes. But if I think that does need to be done, and have major issues with CU think the video is misleading, then what?

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4 days ago

Motivated reasoning is the default condition of thinking for most people.

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4 days ago

my point is that it's a misleading ad. But, hey, why should a campaign be honest, right?

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4 days ago

none LOL

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4 days ago

or, you know, you can mislead people and then wonder why they don't believe you later.

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4 days ago

Either CU would have to have a carve out to say they're NOT eligible, or the entire code around non-profits would have to be revisited and revised, affecting thousands of educational institutions - including, say, CUNY.

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4 days ago

neither one - I'm not defending CU, nor am I shilling for capital. I'm pointing out that saying "make Columbia pay their taxes" is misleading - it doesn't have any taxes to pay under the current system - and completely avoids the question of 501c3 eligibility. (1/2)

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4 days ago

Hey New York - did you know that Columbia University "doesn't pay it's taxes" because it's a 501c3 non-profit and isn't taxed?

Yeah, Columbia is a huge mass of problems, but let's try to avoid the misleading clickbait, mmmkay?

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5 days ago

as portmanteaus go, it's got a lot of baggage

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6 days ago

I think in Nic's case that's literally how it happened. Brook had been in the studio down the hall with Tito Puente, and just kind of wandered in.

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6 days ago

I'm willing to bet that more people will read your 50,000 word book than would read my 3,000 word essay - if I ever wrote it.

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6 days ago

Before Ea-nāṣir became a shady copper dealer, he was a hump-plumper.

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6 days ago

sorry, can't stable my camels with you - heard you were a hump-plumper

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1 week ago

FM radio
tape recorders

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1 week ago

One was a shopkeeper in LA, he was too old for WW2 and immigrated to the states in 05. The other was a con man (literally) we don't know much - he bailed on his polio-stricken wife and my 4 year old father. Greats - shops in Poland and Rumania, an MD and a farmer in Cali, the farmer was in Civil War

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1 week ago

I like a Jewish perspective on it - God wasn't who you hurt, you need to get forgiveness from them, not God.

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1 week ago

25 years ago I was enthralled as he stopped a concert to give a long digression about the WPA to a bunch of mostly teenagers

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1 week ago

OH - "They're young and pink right now" (it was a discussion about slime molds)

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1 week ago

love that song - and also hate that it needed to be written and is still entirely too relevant.

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1 week ago
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The discrepancy between water year to date precipitation and snowpack at California's snow-monitoring (SNOTEL) stations is remarkable. Just 40% of the precipitation remains locked up as snowpack, the second-lowest percentage since 1981, amid above-normal temps and rainy-dominated storms this winter.

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