Monica Riese

'The ball is flying 5 yards further': Are the NFL's new kicking ball rules changing the game? Eagles defensive coordinator Vic Fangio says new kicking balls are changing the game. Does the data agree?

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graphic of a gold star written "has never even opened ChatGPT"

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today's a great day to make sure "require alt text before posting" is enabled in your settings and to continue to make bluesky more accessible and inclusive bsky.app/settings/acc...

It’s too late for this trip, but I picked up some allergy alert cards from Equal Eats in a few languages and really appreciate the peace of mind — highly recommend!

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

A meme from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In the top panel, one man labeled "literally every company" hands a plate labeled "AI" to a man labeled "me." In the bottom panel, the man labeled "me" nonchalantly tosses the plate down the hallway, discarding it with casual disdain while the first man watches.

Time to post it again.

Journalism could use a come from behind win over Internet Advertising and Private Equity.

A business woman in a grey skirt suit, pointing a rifle at a boxy 90s PC

trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app

Words matter

Eastside Cafe (rip) in Austin was an adorable institution in a craftsman home on Manor before that area exploded, and they had a chocolate silk pie that I still dream about. Perfectly smooth, decadent, and airy all at once — I’ve spent years trying to get close but I know I’ll never quite match it.

NC Court of Appeals gives over 60,000 challenged voters 15 days to prove eligibility The majority wrote that, even though they have the authority to completely throw out the contested ballots, they decided to instead mandate a cure period for most of the challenged voters.

If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks.

The website to check linked in the reply.

www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Happy balloon day to you! 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

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Velma and Wallace were robbed. Justice for the animated knitwear!

Tell them you don't want any Medicaid cuts. Tell them you don't want any SNAP cuts. Tell them you don't want huge tax cuts for billionaires.

Tell them why it matters to you. *Make them* hear WHY Medicaid matters to you. That is how we convinced Murkowski, Collins, and McCain to vote no.

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

in an archival photo, WeRateDogs founder Matt Nelson, a man with curly hair wearing a long-sleeved shirt, snuggles over on a blue couch to wrap an arm around his senior German shepherd, Doug. Doug is smiling and wearing a bright pink bandana. one of his ears has a signature wonky fold. they both look excited about the project they're launching.

A few years ago we started a foundation that sponsors shelter dogs with medical needs to make them more adoptable. We have done truly incredible things with your help and we hope to continue that here on Bluesky. Please go give @15outof10.org a follow! ❤️‍🩹

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Master doc of mutual aid groups helping people and animals on the ground in LA. Please share docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

From a FB post. Hey California friends…my friend’s dog sanctuary in Topanga has burned to the ground. 30 dogs looking for fosters ASAP. Please contact me if you can help, even help for a temporary basis it would do so much . Please call or text me on 248 520 0054

The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions: 1. Insults about: Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality. Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits. 2. Highlighted section: The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

Left one more out there for you, Ripken 💙🧡

Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.

amazon reviews of a yankee candle: Mary K Verified Purchase not very fragrant Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2024 i was surprised for yankee candle that this wasnt that fragrant at all. i have bought cheaper candles, in this scent, that were so much more fragrant. Guy Verified Purchase A candle with NO fragrance Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2024 Normally, Yankee candles are very good. I said "normally". This was delivered to me today and I lit the candle tonight. Initially there wasn't ANY pleasant fragrance, so I just let it burn for another 30 minutes thinking that... "maybe it has to burn down to where an odor... See more

it’s that time again

I’ve started appending “-ai” to my Google queries to skip the nonsense. Highly recommend.

I love how Captchas are all “find the crosswalk” and “find the bicycle” now as they desperately seek ways to teach self driving cars not to kill people

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Truly the only good part of Twitter anymore. Come for some @darthbluesky.bsky.social and @blairbraverman.bsky.social love, stay for the pro tips!

This is just a sample of some of the "Biden/Netanyahu ties are strained/things are more fraught/a breach is definitely widening" stories written between November and February. In that time, around 17,000 people in Gaza were killed. www.thenation.com/article/poli...