@mikecaulfield.bsky.social
Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press). Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
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“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”
Yes! It's like a warm cup of hot chocolate after shoveling the driveway clear of snow
Give it to Rental Family you cowards
It's an absolute gem. It's small in focus but everything in it is on such a high level. And such heart. And when the "lawyers" saw who the "detective" was I had the most wonderful guffaw of the past 12 months.
We give the award usually to a film that is doing something that hasn't been done before, but could we give the award for doing something we'd forgotten how to do? Part of me wonders, why not?
I mean, OK, probably not. But I honestly wondered for a while if we'd lost our ability to make films like this. In the early 2000s there were a couple films like this a year at this quality. And then somehow we lost the art. It gave me hope to see a film like this again.
Give it to Rental Family you cowards
@pfrazee.com maybe?
The FBI is now just a Make-A-Wish Foundation for Kash Patel
I have met a lot of people recently who have convinced themselves that antisemitism is exaggerated and I really don't understand what toxic media a person must swim in to think that just eight years after Pittsburgh
I don't know how this will all play out or what happened but I can tell you that what Hegseth is hoping is that you blame "AI" and not a department whose leadership believes that the reason we don't win wars is we care too much about collateral damage.
They took it down
The most interesting negative reviews to me are the ones where the reviewer clearly thinks something unique and lovely about the film has been squandered. But to do that you have to watch the thing with an open heart.
Sorry, I know that is one of the darker quotes, but I think often people who don't read Adams, particularly those who don't know the Dirk Gently books, don't realize he could have a real lyricism to him. The dude loved a sentence.
With less than 50 senators and a presidential veto, yes, that's the math of it for Schumer.
Not packed in tight either, like a crowded but liveable lawn party.
This is impressive but I will note that with a state population of a million and a house with 400 members I could have fit all the voters in my district when I lived there into my back yard.
Schumer has to make sure that Republicans who like the filibuster don't overturn it, if they do then the SAVE Act passes and we lose any chance at stopping this nightmare train. That means despite what we want in theatrics and fight, Schumer must maintain decorum.
Lol
Schumer gets under my skin like anyone else, but he basically has one job until election day, and that's to maintain enough rapport with the Republicans who won't overturn the filibuster to pass the SAVE Act that they don't cave. That's 95% of the job through September or so.
I do ramble on my blog and don't edit that much. But "I've been famous before and it was mostly a pain in the ass" replaced with "I prefer this to fame, which I have found mostly unpleasant" takes the best sentence I've written so far this month and pulverizes it to within an inch of its life.
Since I had the Grammarly account for a bit anyway, I ran a couple of paragraphs from my blog through it, and my god this is a machine to smash every last bit of life out of your prose. Original then the Grammarly "improvement" cc: @biblioracle.bsky.social
Honestly I mostly just hate they made me a dumbass open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...
The whole Grammarly thing reads as high dystopian, but it's mostly just a laughably bad bid for relevance probably coded over a long weekend which doesn't even succeed on its own terms. open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...
Yeah I just saw a way to do that in platformer
You're probably right, the whole thing seems a small stylistic gloss on general LLM abilities, implemented poorly
"the moveon" yeah also fuck time changes
