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Have you tried Hades II, though

Ruin a song by adding the word “literally” to the title.

You Have to Literally Fight for Your Right to Party

Honestly I think we all know who the true hero here was.

That … looks fantastic. I know what I’m saving up for next!

Yeah, we invested in and then broke both an Atlas and then a stand mixer pasta roller, both of which really assume pleasant, compliant egg noodles rather than knife wielding “come over here and MAKE ME” ramen dough. It’s probably time to invest in something more purpose built.

Oh man, condolences and sympathy, having done the same some years ago. What’s your hydration level? We make them annually and have to get them started by double bagging the dough and standing on it with our heels.

My hunch is that LLMs will continue finding useful niches, assuming the actual non-subsidized price of running them (which who know if/where that will stabilize once the underpants gnomes running them decide it’s time to make some profits) is not ludicrous.

“Assuming” is doing some heavy work. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Countersigned, emphatically.

I feel like the oddly formal “Thank you for your attention to this matter” is getting lost here somewhere.

The abridged Bible is just amazing; now I need this to extend the set. (waves in ”rare type of nerd”)

Damn. Respect.

K: The guy on the radio, the WI state rep, said "I shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms."

Me: ... he shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms?

K: No, he said "I shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms."

M: uh, _you_ shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms?

K: No. _ICE_ shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms.

M: Oh.

YANSS 157 – The psychology behind why people don’t speak out against, and even defend, norms they secretly despise Have you ever been in a classroom or a business meeting or a conference  and had a question or been confused by the presentation, and when the person running the show asked, “Does anyone have …

Agreed! We’ve got to break down what’s termed “pluralistic ignorance” youarenotsosmart.com/2019/07/02/y...

Thank you, now I will hear nothing else between my ears until I play the original

I did the same double take, years of Halloween sibling negotiations having ingrained in me the taste and street value of every commonly available American candy. “Chalky citric acid, faintly sweet” would be my candy sommelier’s take.

... to position themselves as unassailable and all-powerful.

They are simultaneously daring the public and courts (MOLON LABE, anyone?) to try and make them release Abrego Garcia but also want to preemptively discourage anyone from trying.

It's up to us whether they succeed. 3/3

... their image as all-powerful authorities in their own countries, beholden to nobody. Nobody—not crowds, not opposing political parties, not courts—can force them to acknowledge a mistake or someone's humanity once categorized as Other. It's very important to would-be dictators ... 2/3

The implicit message in the winking, chortling press conference that Trump and Bukele did this morning is not that they _can't_ do anything about wrongly-imprisoned Abrego Garcia. They of course very much can—they are executives in their respective countries—but will not. This reinforces ... 1/3

This. Two heads of state laughing ghoulishly this morning about the innocent man whose life they just can't possibly see any way to help or affect in any way, despite one of them being a self-described "dictator" and the other doing his damnedest to become one.

Adam.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Checks out (source: live in Wisconsin)

I wonder to what extent the utility of LLM assistance for writing code is influenced by the character of training data; code problems on StackOverflow tend to have clearer questions and less ambiguous results than, say, magazine articles about academia.

This articulates really well some thoughts about the power of widespread public understanding (and framing) in our era of increasingly decentralized media.

Those who have won capitalism's game have done so by unnaturally positioning themselves at the headwaters of the natural generative stream created by human society, then damned it for themselves. Having thus stolen as much as they can, these fools believe their theft means they invented water.

A round flour-based object surrounding various things? I was half expecting you to claim it as a burrito variant.

I will rely on @harkaway.bsky.social to weigh in on this particular fanfic, but it at least made me chuckle on a day where I mostly feel like screaming into a pillow about how we're losing to nincompoopery this profound.

Roadmap to American Reconstruction A roadmap for retaking power and laying the foundations for American Reconstruction.

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