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A fluffy orange cat, similar to the original picture, looks up from lying on a rug

Oh, I have one of those too! Don’t worry, perfectly ordinary behaviour, nothing to see there

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Sure, there might well be better paid versions out there. This was a discussion about the general use of these tools though, mostly via the free options eg ChatGPT, and their unreliability even when specifically requesting sources. Unreliability is pretty much baked into the basic LLM model though.

I’ve seen it done that way and cite non existent sources, so, again, no

And only occasionally makes them up wholecloth or completely misinterprets what was said.

Screenshot of a NYT spelling bee puzzle, spelling out the word ‘Cloaca’

@dropoutpresents.bsky.social at least the troubling names Zac Oyama gives to his familiars come in handy with the NYT spelling bee…

Same deal in London. A total nonsense. But I guess outside of the cities it’s more important to be able to drive to the airport and go somewhere cool??

However true it is, it’s unfortunately not going to defang the emotional weight of the anti-immigrant arguments unless it’s accompanied by meaningfully improving the lives of the left behind ie radically redistributing wealth

Made glögg cocktails, ate a delicious Christmas spread, opened presents and watched a devastating documentary about taking one last trip to France with the filmmaker’s elderly father. Do Swedish Xmases always feature this much sobbing?

sandi toksvig is the national treasure ppl like to think stephen fry is.

I often think about how our biggest export to Sweden is our trash (because we’re so terrible at recycling) and how perfect an encapsulation of how awful we are it really is.

She was smarter and wiser than humans have any right to be

No, my classicist brother was telling me it’s still something of a mystery how they’d have done it without flooding the gladiator cells below!

Just tell them to get internet users seeuatbasrars476, msmisFITs11 and Cohenofcandy to explain it all to them in excruciating detail, then they’ll see

A variety of stickers with illustrations on a bathroom door, including text such as “A Trans Person peed here”, “all business, no pants”, “the man, the moth, the legend”, “hot naughty hedonistic smut”

When the bathroom door at the house party manages to go harder than you

Absolutely not, never in a million years. Alas.

How does one add alt text here?

The beer in Bruges falls mainly in our glasses

Seems legit

Off to Bruges to inflict barbershop harmonies on unsuspecting Belgians and tourist crowds. If anyone has a favourite street corner for buskers there, let us know…

“A bit basic” very much sums up my view of it, though I don’t know how much you were referring to mere simplicity vs slang for unoriginal and uninspiring

Not a huge amount. Work meetings, mostly.

Describing myself loudly as a cis ally bc I’m prepared to clear my calendar at a moment’s notice to stuff my face with takeaway food and rewatch one of the best shows I’ve ever seen

I reckon it’s important to distinguish between the bonkers hardcore fans (esp. the online ones) and the wide raft of people who voted for him despite all that because they weren’t feeling the results of any economic improvement

As a Mr A Price, I always appreciated that one

Manufacturing consent always feels more depressingly relevant every five years or so. But when it exposes the patriarchy’s fault lines it somehow seems especially egregious

Indeed. The self-evidently true “you need to listen to and talk to a lot of people who voted Trump[/whatever] if you hope to change the way they vote in future” =/= “you have to listen to or engage with far right trolls”

Amazing Suki outfit! Top tier

Or they might go for something that references the logo? Buttering? Fluttering? “Go on, give it a flutter”

“Woah, look at that BS”