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Mine just gave me enough for half a drink. Am I not getting the premium lawsuits? Where’s the Black Friday of class litigation???

IMDB apps work really hard to keep the search functionality hidden.

UBCO study debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation - UBC's Okanagan News New study uses logic and physics to definitively answer one of science's biggest questions

Oh look, our friend Gödel is at it again, now proving that the universe is not a simulation: news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/10/30/u...

Need to establish a norm against making the manifold chip-coloured so im not hungry reading papers

Paper, "Equal contribution: author order settled via Mario Kart"

Gotta love the scientific community

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Oh so THIS is why #Silksong fleas look like that. They are pupaes. And if you mispronounce them as if you read it in English it sounds like “puppy”. It all makes sense now!!!

Ice That Freezes at Room Temperature Discovered in X-Ray Laser Experiment A strange new phase of ice has been discovered during experiments with the world's largest X-ray laser.

There were like 20 types of ice and they just released version 21???

www.sciencealert.com/ice-that-fre...

inconsistent indentation

It's one of those projects

I'll write 3 bullet points and ask AI to elaborate a full document for it. Then someone won't read it and will ask AI to summarize it into 3 bullet points.

This is because at some point we agreed that communicating as humans wasn't acceptable anymore.

“Chat, is this real?” but they’re French and asking their cat

I beat them. I wasn't ready. I won the battle but I don't think I really won.

Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment - a cheat sheet The numbers clearly show this is a pointless distraction for the climate movement

Amazing analysis on AI emissions and its relation to other activities: andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sh...

LOOK AT THIS MASTERPIECE

So NOBODY was going to tell me that Silksong had two beautiful gay grasshoppers? And they dance while they battle? No??

I love autumn. When the leaves get all cringey

Incredible to see upper management in big companies work. They just throw around millions like it’s not big deal.

I keep reading all of this mess going on and I'm just tired. Let's please overthrow the government and get done with it. I've got things to do.

That’s the evil-listening antenna

Did a Catholic use wrong pronouns with you? Don’t worry. Remember they have a 3-in-1 god and still use “he/him” even though it should be “they/them”

oh, the appstore was shutdown on May 31st so sideloading through resigning apps is out of the question unless I can somehow replace the certificate chain. TizenBrew seems out of the question.

This sucks so baaaaaaaad

I'm having the most awful time trying to install a 3rd party app in TizenOS and I can't believe that people get joy out of making Doom run on a piece of toast

Signed! Thank you for this. The information seems a bit outdated though. Last I heard the problem lies in intermediate payment processors/banks? They should be included here.

I actually liked the AI features in the Warp console but they keep adding things that are meant to take over even my IDE and... nope, not into that.

BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

Any room can be a panic room if you don't take your meds

The abstract of "AI Consciousness: A Centrist Manifesto", available at the posted link.

Here is "AI Consciousness: A Centrist Manifesto". I've been working on this feverishly because the issue seems to me so urgent - and I'm worried extreme positions on both sides are becoming locked in, when the best way forward is in the centre. Please read it! philpapers.org/rec/BIRACA-4

Ooohhh that sounds neat. Would you dare to throw a one liner to the rest of us mortals? /respectful

the disappointment when you wanna buy an album off an artist but the only place you can purchase it is through itunes.

Lemme get it off bandcamp or your official website or something, bro. I don't wanna give apple more money. I wanna give *you* money.

It appears that the marginal energy used by a standard prompt from a modern LLM is relatively established at this point, roughly 0.0003 kWh (8-10 seconds of streaming Netflix)

Water is more complicated (.25mL to 5mL+), depending on definitions. Training resources are much less clear at this point.

Update on this post:

A commenter on twitter pointed me to a paper where:
1. They perform the exact experiment I propose
2. LLMs display the exact behavior I said I would be “highly surprised” to see in current models (!)

I’m updating my assessment of LLM introspective ability accordingly!