"a mix between Amelia Bedelia and the guy from Memento" is possibly the greatest description of AI agents we will ever get
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Mel Brooks could say this to Richard Lewis and it would be very funny.
Things are looking up!
"this man is bad at sucking dick" however
Thinking of the Yale Law eminences who vouched for Brett K. (Hi, Akhil Reed Amar! Amy Chua! William Eskridge! Start of a long list.)
Can't emphasize this enough:
STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS DOESN'T COST ANYTHING!!!
It doesn't require you to PAY the borrowers; it only requires you to NOT get paid BY the borrowers.
"Serials and Shorts: Exercises in Form"
If you're in need of Wham! quotes, I'm your man.
I had to read Elijah Anderson's "The White Space" for a course I'm teaching and I couldn't help but think of how moderation policies on social media platforms increasingly create "white spaces" through policing such that white comfort becomes the norm of the space.
(Yes this is a joke, we all saw 300, calm down.)
We're doing warfighting now! Warfighters don't need to know about chokepoints! Do you think the Spartans worried about chokepoints??
She’s got a headache back cramps boobs are heavy
She’s feelin bloated already ate too much spaghetti
Lining’s shedding, on her chin a pimple’s reddening
To a head, and she keeps on forgetting
To buy tampons at Vons she’s in line
She says sorry forgot something
To the checkout guy
I am super mid at Excel, the most dogshit of organizational softwares, and I can do more than Claude.
There's this tool called grep which we've had since 1973 that searches text for patterns, and then there are hundreds of other tools we have built since then to turn virtually any kind of data from scans of documents to whatever else into text that can be searched with grep.
I would probably read Jane Eyre Rochester.
Showing this to myself in 2022 and having an aneurysm
“You say this technology is godlike and epochal; fine, then it must be democratically governed.”
MUPPET WICKER MAN (Brian Henson, 1993)
Police Sergeant Kermie travels to the isolated town of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. He finds the locals to be a surly and suspicious lot, rustic practitioners of crude bawdiness and Celtic neo-paganism. Starring Vincent Price as Lord Summerisle.
Pitch an unnecessary sequel
Waiting for Comedot
That wouldn't even have cost any money! That money's all spent already!
Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt
"Making potions, having sex, destroying the pig men who insulted me, chilling on the beach. #JustGirlyThings"
To say Circe would be popular on Bluesky would be a huge understatement.
I think she'd have a fantastic Instagram.
I feel like Penelope would a great poster to follow, though
It's two times.
Exactly this. Every third post is about falling to get any.
"gg 2ez cyclops! what a noob!" *gets sniped by a rock* "omg hacks!"
