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Start or* leg up.

*shakes fist in the air*

WE WANT TIME-BOXED EDITING!

ChatGPT - Fusion energy Shared via ChatGPT

Honestly, I usually use it for Q&As re: subjects no one I(my)RL has the knowledge/interest to discuss. Example from this morning: chatgpt.com/share/68ea75...

To be completely fair, though, this could all be riddled w/ wild inaccuracies/hallucinations & I wouldn't know any better.

My husband's used it as a coding assist but, even w/ the temp turned way down, he likens it to "an eager & knowledgeable junior dev w/ an unaddressed major head injury". Its product can be a great start of leg up but consistently needs review and refinement.

Though at this point distressingly usual.

He consistently looks like Dr Phil in a half-hearted Halloween costume.

US Founding Fathers on Islam Juan Cole British social philosopher John Locke was extremely influential on the Founding Generation, and on the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. John Locke had already advocated civil rights for n...

This is a good read:
www.juancole.com/founding-fat...

lol, "thank fuck" was literally my reaction as well.

YouTube video by PBS Terra Wildfires Poison the Soil. This Scientist Has a Way To Heal It

Brand new episode of PBS Terra discussing how wildfires poison our soil by burning the chemical compounds in our homes and our cars and all of it goes directly into the soil.

Worth watching:

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...

A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts.

For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

(Published June)

*sees you posted this 8 mins ago*

Like...for real?

⁴to be doing an even better job of delegitimization better than the absence of enforcement ever could.

(This is actually meant to be a question, not a statement. I'll be legit overjoyed if you end up addressing this & explain why the nagging thoughts I've had about all of this are wrong.)

³eliminating institutions or flooding them with contradictions, and then pointing to the resulting mess as proof that democracy doesn't work.

The major place they've diverged has been in ramping up enforcement capacity in some sectors (ICE, etc), but the manner in which that's being done seems³

² "hard reboot" or full takeover in order to enact Yarvin's ideas re: "managed state collapse" (I think that was the term)?

They seem to be sticking pretty close to the accelerationist playbook of saturating government with loyal but incompetent actors, cutting enforcement capacity, ²

@hcrichardson.bsky.social I'm not sure where you take questions for your round-up streams, but:
Do you think there's a possibility that this is an orchestrated effort (by at least some factions in or influencing this admin) to intentionally delegitimize the government either in order to justify a¹

Well, they're trying to get something going but will likely settle for fabrications if that doesn't work.

It's me.
I'm a sicko.

Alas, it was too late when I remembered that last night's plan for this morning was for me to act contravention to established precedent and,upon awakening, LEAP out of bed and move my clothes for today from the washer to the dryer.

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Apologies.
There has been a pixel containment breach.

That reminds me of the story of when a DM gender swapped all of the characters in a D&D module. This led to all NPCs (except, I think, for an unnamed "husband of" someone) being female. It didn't take long for the players to assume that something nefarious was going on (curse, cult, etc).

That's so odd.

I had hoped that such lunacy was restricted to my current side of the Atlantic.

Perhaps I'll make some black bean patties & call them burgers with extra gusto tonight.

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I tried to find this post from @reactorsff.bsky.social to repost, but alas.

A Moomin Movie Is Coming From Steven Universe’s Rebecca Sugar - Reactor In a just world there would be more Moomin movies than Marvel movies.

MOOMIN MOVIE INCOMING this is not a drill!!!!

reactormag.com/rebecca-suga...

Like this guy?
bsky.app/profile/dumm...

Let’s check in on the warzone in Portland.

I'm not even Dutch and all I can hear right now is, "PAPIER HIER!"

CWG & a few select reporters are pretty much the only reasons I stay subscribed to WP.

(/s)

It'll be fine.

October and November are notoriously quiet months storm-wise, especially for anything coming in off of the Gulf.

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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"Shut up and get to bouncin' you absolutely ripped snake."