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“Threatening to block the program will change its model weights” is a special type of ignorance

You’d be p̶r̶e̶t̶t̶i̶e̶r̶ more profitable if you smiled more

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Definition of USEFUL IDIOT a naive or credulous person who can be manipulated or exploited to advance a cause or political agenda… See the full definition

And if they have different intentions, that merely moves them into a different but no less harmful category: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/u...

The status is not quo

Tomato (tomato)

Out: Frankenstein’s monster
In: Frankenstein’s Oscar Isaac

She knows she’s not in the files and nobody she cares for is in the files. If some people senior or more influential than her get caught in the blast radius, all the better!

4 Pinned Elon Musk X @elonmusk •7h O .. When Tolkien wrote about the hobbits, he was referring to the gentlefolk of the English shires, who don't realize the horrors that take place far away. They were able to live their lives in peace and tranquility, but only because they were protected by the hard men of Gondor. What happened to the nice man who was brutally murdered while walking his dog will happen to all of England if the tide of illegal immigration is not turned. It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die.

He’s just so stupid, is the thing. So, so stupid. Like, we can comment on the poisonous heart of it in a minute, and how terrible it is that he can spew this stuff in a media environment he can pay to control. But first we have to get past just how clankingly stupid he is. How stupid all of this is.

Would it be an ettobrella in Japanese?

Halloween costume idea this spoooooky season: a follow-up question from Isaac Chotiner

One major difference: Obama was operating under a congressional AUMF. Trump is not.

It may not be very different morally, but it’s a stark legal difference

Derived from Tartarus (Greek)?

iOS shortcut to strip tracking info from a shared URL

On iOS you can make a shortcut to do this automatically.

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“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”

YouTube video by NOW COMEDY "It's Going To Be A Maze" | Community Season 2 Episode 7 | Now Comedy

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YouTube video by NOW COMEDY "It's Going To Be A Maze" | Community Season 2 Episode 7 | Now Comedy

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“Every accusation is a confession” remains undefeated

A two-panel historical infographic contrasting "Genocidal 'Wonder Weapons'" (Nazi Germany's WWII projects) on the left with "American Wonder Weapons" (U.S. military tech) on the right, divided by a timeline marker "77 years later." Left Panel (Nazi Era): Top: Black-and-white photo of a tall V-2 rocket on a launch pad, labeled "A 200 ton tank that won't hit much." Middle: Photo of a sleek, arrow-shaped Ho 229 flying wing aircraft in flight, labeled "A cutter jet powered that cuts the British put one in service two months later." Bottom: Photo of a squat, heavily armored Maus super-heavy tank, labeled "A super tank that won't hit much." Right panel: a picture of fat man and little boy captioned “A portable fucking star”

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Like a lot of things, it’s legal but not good

Still frame from Community captioned “I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at animal cruelty”

From waaaaaaay downtown!

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

Cropped and flipped pictures of Trumps hurricane prediction that look like a pair of big naturals

I’m sorry I made this, but if I had to look at it you do too

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It seems the latter. Grand Juries, historically, could be convinced to indict a ham sandwich: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

A more honest accounting would average in the zeros