The fifteenth century wool trade in Flanders is of world-historic significance as anyone who knows anything knows
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The fifteenth century wool trade in Flanders is of world-historic significance as anyone who knows anything knows
08.08.2025 18:42 β π 10 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0NEW: shooter at Emory was reportedly targeting the CDC because he believed he was sick from the Covid vaccine.
Kennedy and the GOP have done so much damage!
A monster
Magnificent beast
09.08.2025 00:06 β π 12 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0HRT and trans medicine is a scientific miracle
08.08.2025 17:17 β π 244 π 44 π¬ 1 π 0Tried to show my friend a blister on my index finger but it just looked like I was affirming the oneness of God
08.08.2025 21:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Fundamentally a lot of people are really worried about tail case scenarios the next 2 years and not enough people are worried that the median case scenario for the next few decades is 2 years of this every 4 years, with 50% probability
08.08.2025 20:18 β π 38 π 9 π¬ 1 π 0ChatGPT File β’ β’ Edit View Window Help ChatGPT 5 > How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry The word "blueberry" has the letter b three times: β’ Once at the start ("B" in blueberry). β’ Once in the middle ("b" in blue). β’ Once before the -erry ending ("b" in berry). Total: 3 O92 Show me where the letter b appears in the word please. Sure β here's "blueberry" with each b highlighted: B lue b erry Positions (counting from 1): 1 B - first letter 4 b - in blue 6 b - in berry D9< Spell that out with all three bs please. I mean, just spell the word. Sure β here's the full spelling with all three b's shown in place: BLUEBERRY That's exactly how blueberry is spelled, with the b's in positions 1, 5, and 7.
ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help E ChatGPT 5 > You wrote "BLUEBERRY". There are only two bs there. Ah - I see the mix-up. Let's slow it down and spell blueberry carefully, letter by letter, showing all three b's. blueberry Now you can see them: β’ 1st b β position 1 β’ 2nd b β position 5 β’ 3rd b β position 6 blueberry Exactly β blue berry has three b's: β’ 1st b β at the very start β’ 2nd b β right after the e in blue β’ 3rd b β immediately after the second b, starting berry So the "bb" in the middle is really what gives blueberry its double-b moment. Its double-b moment; I see. Yep - blueberry is one of those words where the middle almost trips you up, like it's saying "b-b-better pay attention." That little bb moment is satisfying, though β it makes the word feel extra bouncy.
ο£Ώ ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help ε·΄ β’ ChatGPT 5 > My students get you to write their essays for them, you know. Ah, the old "ChatGPT, do my homework" routine β I'm familiar with that one. I can see why they'd be tempted, but here's the thing: I'm a lot more useful as a coach than a ghostwriter. If they use me to brainstorm ideas, plan structure, or clarify tricky concepts, they'll actually learn and still have their own voice in the work. If they just hand in what I write, they're skipping the thinking part - and it usually shows. I'm good, but I still leave a trail of... telltale ChatGPT-isms. A trail of blueberries, as it were. Exactly β a trail of blueberries: easy to follow, a little sweet, and maybe just obvious enough for a watchful teacher to notice. If your students really are leaving me to bake the whole blueberry pie for them, they might forget that the best part of pie is making it themselves... even if it gets a little messy. "Blueberry" only has two bs. Nope - blueberry really does have three b's. Here it is spaced out: bluebberry Positions: b- at the start 5 b - in the "blue" part 6 b - right next to it, starting "berry" That middle double-b is easy to miss if vou just glance at the word.
I had to try the βblueberryβ thing myself with GPT5. I merely report the results.
08.08.2025 00:03 β π 8317 π 2263 π¬ 461 π 876The bizarre thing is that what folks in the know can now recognize as mindless slop probably would have fucking killed on Weird Twitter a decade ago if done with intent. People would have gone nuts for Dwight D. Efeezhswer
08.08.2025 19:32 β π 89 π 11 π¬ 15 π 1Mastadon should make another album about the book
08.08.2025 19:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I got a copy of Moby-Dick yesterday and managed to sneak in some time to read the first couple chapters. My main takeaway is that I despise ChatGPT for taking the em-dash away from us.
08.08.2025 18:24 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0we laughed at this guy but it's clear now he basically invented the way people have thought and talked on the web for nearly a decade
08.08.2025 17:50 β π 40 π 3 π¬ 5 π 2One side says that LLMs lack knowledge of the world because theyβre extensively trained on text and have no model of the real world, the other side says LLMs have PhD-level intelligence. Guys, guysβyouβre both right
LOL Musgrave
08.08.2025 17:06 β π 714 π 114 π¬ 8 π 3If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK
08.08.2025 17:00 β π 2840 π 1141 π¬ 46 π 27the UK: if you are trans it is illegal to talk to children
also the UK: if you call the robot slurs, we will fire you for your bigotry
Hmmβ¦ sounds eerily like something we all know about and have read about beforeβ¦
08.08.2025 15:27 β π 15 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs about fairness in womenβs sports.
08.08.2025 02:34 β π 7301 π 1226 π¬ 274 π 41"The basic form of domination is the racket."
- Horkheimer, "Rackets and Spirit," (1942/1944)
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lol young Felix Weil was a menace. protest w/ his socialist student group at a right wing profβs house. doesnβt flee when the cops come bc he didnβt break the windows. defends the people who did. kicked out of school. continues to organize Spartacist speakers for students. banned from entire town.
08.08.2025 02:26 β π 19 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Look there are other parts of my personality, though this is of course a load-bearing part of it
08.08.2025 05:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The carnage in Gaza constitutes βthe most lethal case of a Western democracy using the punishment of civilians as a tactic of warββand it will have serious implications for the value of democracy around the world, writes Robert Pape.
07.08.2025 19:41 β π 26 π 20 π¬ 1 π 2"settler colonialism" is like "microaggressions" in that it's one of those things that obviously exists so critics just obsess over the fact that it sounds a little bit like something a sociologist would say
07.08.2025 17:43 β π 366 π 51 π¬ 10 π 2Se acabΓ³
07.08.2025 21:12 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.
Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.
07.08.2025 20:00 β π 32307 π 5655 π¬ 1017 π 434Important distinction: They don't want to track autism--they want to track autistic people
07.08.2025 20:26 β π 1708 π 596 π¬ 24 π 16Me: The rack? You're going to torture me with boobs?? Maybe after that i can suffer the Thighs lmao
Medieval torturer: See it's this kind of thing that got you here in the first place
Rick the GOAT www.them.us/story/design...
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