Seamus

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

it's not the issue of this story, but it is a transparent example of how the "cars are freedom" narrative is a complete farce. when the state controls your movement and can immobilize you on a whim, you are not free. car dependency is an arm of fascism for the car *IS* fascism and must be abolished.

Pet Shop Boys' live performance of "Left to my own devices" from their 2023 #Dreamworld show in Copenhagen is now available to watch on YouTube. The “Dreamworld” concert film is now also available to purchase on Blu-ray/2CD.

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Photo of a bearded man with a red hat and black shirt with a slight smile looking at a pall of smoke coming out of an industrial oven/smoker with trays of grain inside it. The entire idea of a smoky beer is grotesque. Why would anyone want a beer to taste like a cigarette or whiskey? The article is clearly trying to manufacture.consent.

Did a malt smoking machine vendor write this article? Yeugh.

Manufacturing consent for the consumption of the worst beer.

Newsom is the Starmer in waiting; let's not do that.

A drawing of a crow perched on a post in profile, looking back at the viewer with its beak open . The feather's are drawn in purples, blues & blacks.

"Crow", pencil crayon/graphite on watercolour paper, 9x12", 2026- $450(Cdn) #art #wip #birds

It's incredible that we uncover the oldest film about a robot and it's about a construct turning on its creator

The Butlerian Jihad remains undefeated as a moral philosophy

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

YouTube video by A-ha - Topic Take On Me (MTV Unplugged / Edit)

Music to cook by: A-ha, on MTV Unplugged playing Take on Me:

Check this out

The Muppets Take Arrakis

To be fair: no I would not want to live in a tiny ski town, but a mid-sized city in Europe? Hell yes.

Came back from a trip to France and Italy and really hoped that I would not be allowed back in. It would be so terrible to live in a walkable cosmopolitan city with easy continental transit, please no, anything but that.

I'm a cognitive scientist with an interest in epistemic vigilance, and this essay that's been going around gave me pause.

I don't think it's straightforward to apply the concept of epistemic vigilance to interactions with LLMs, as this essay does.

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I would love to know what the cat is doing to her ceramic water bowl in the bathroom. Massive pinging noises as she's (headbutting?) the bowl nearly out of the room. It's a bathroom, so I'm not about to set up a trail camera to see "what's going on".

I love you all

some YouTube asshole lied about Somalians stealing daycare subsides. so Trump is stealing healthcare from the entire state

Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much With public sentiment on AI resoundly negative, the tech CEOs pushing the new tech only seem to be doubling down.

just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism

Listen...these dudes changed the locks on her mailbox

They marked her mail undeliverable and returned it to the sender

They blocked her & her tenants from receiving doctor’s bills, medications, credit card statements, car titles, property tax statements, & more

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/posta...

Box set of the Chronicles of Prydain

inspired to pull these out again tonight by @gregpak.net

Hat embroidered with “hello, i am fleeing the American century of humillation. Can you show me where to buy Mountain Dew Baja Blast?”

“It rains a lot, up here; there are winter days when it doesn’t really get light at all, only a bright, indeterminate gray. But then there are days when it’s like they whip aside a curtain to flash you three minutes of sun-lit, suspended mountain, the trademark at the start of God’s own movie.”

rereading old William Gibson short stories, and man, this bit about Vancouver

Ken Marino driving a van and singing “Danny’s Song” but the text has been changed to read “Diane, 11:30 AM, February 24th. Entering The Town Of Twin Peaks”

Seems quite cruel that my son "gets" extra credit for watching the state of the union and... good luck to him on that.

(He knows what he's in for and is not a fan, so at least there's that)

Even the processing time is suspect because they totally rewrote all the services / database schemas.

Them: We moved all of system X to AWS and everything improved!

Everyone else in this call: What did you measure, why did you choose those measurements, how did they compare to the on-premise system?

Them: We don't actually have any measurements other than processing time.

What is euchre? Brother, it is the best card game in the midwest

We need a decentralized Torment protocol and federated Nexus ecosystem so users are not locked into a specific Nexus and can easily change Torment providers when they are not being Tormented in accordance with their Torment preferences. We need a flourishing marketplace of Torment middleware to allo

"Hmm, I wonder what the die cutting machine meta is like"
[Ten minutes later] "I have discovered the discord for experimental Cricut hacking. The are developing their own FOSS firmware to liberate their machines. Their cause, which I was previously unaware of, is righteous"

[let them fight gif]