surfer slacker stoner spy

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

done

Lock her up

If you make them web-based they don’t have to be loaded through app stores

This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant.” — Plato, Phaedrus 275

Socrates was a Luddite who would have hated AI

Concerns about new technologies are not new. An old geezer named Socrates felt the same way in Phaedrus

Never sure whether the apostrophe goes before or after the s on that possessive

The day the world learns the difference between general machine learning models and generative AI is the day the world starts to heal

Has Texas declared war on Illinois?

Perfect

Investors buy bigger share of properties in South Shore than other neighborhoods near Obama Center Investor interest in South Shore has steadily increased with investors buying single family homes and condos.

There's a bigger play going on here. Slumlords coordinating with ICE to roust tenants, steal or destroy their stuff, damage the building so its uninhabitable. All to trigger legal expedited evictions, make insurance claims, and then sell to developers.

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ChatGPT no longer loads on my iPad, just a blank screen. Even though this is well documented elsewhere by multiple users, the OpenAI help bot denies that there is any problem.

Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible To Do Well As some people know, I’ve spent a fair bit of time studying economist Kenneth Arrow whose work on endogenous growth theory and information economics influenced a lot of my thinking on the eco…

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Fox News is much more damaging to the human brain than marijuana

No that’s where they hide from their parents while they’re smoking it

But still insufferable

She should drive around looking for those personal injury lawyers who advertise on the billboards. LA has a lot of them along La Cienaga.

She can recruit a team worthy of this case with legal scholars like Sweet James, LemonDaddy, and “Something Wrong? Call Anh Phoong”

Sounds like you’d be happier over at Twitter

huh?

I gladly welcome a list of things Republicans have done to improve health care.

Let’s listen to this guy:

“But just because I am scared does not mean I am helpless. I will not let that fear drive me to hide or stay silent.”

There it is

Sounds a lot like Lucent in 1999. Time to unload my NVDA

Teen Vogue has been covering stories that the major American networks are ignoring.

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

Free guns at a trade show

‘Merica

Given that Bari Weiss is somehow the head of CBS News and given that ICE is strategically targeting press at protests and given that the Trump administration is gleefully pro-censorship, now an excellent time to support the independent media of your choice.

It’s even worse than the headline