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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

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C h r i s n a @chrisna.bsky.social · 5h

Mark Borchardt is here, too, sitting under a tree and reading the New York Times. #MilwaukeeCelebSpotting

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C h r i s n a @chrisna.bsky.social · 5h

I just saw Ted at the farmers market. I almost said "Hey, I saw you on TV last night" but I realized that that is almost meaningless to a person who is on TV daily.

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C h r i s n a @chrisna.bsky.social · 7h

This is the most modern technology I've seen her use in these videos. Do they not have some goats around to eat this grass?

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 9h

For many of the tasks where they're being pushed, LLMs' effect on student learning and worker productivity is roughly the same as that of alcohol

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10h

IMHO, LLMs will be an economic negative for years.

They'll do a worse job than humans,

but will still replace humans because they're cheaper for employers,

but really they're costlier, it's just that lots of costs get externalized to society by our horrible energy/tax policies.

Lose-lose-lose.

The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All

While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.

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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 9h

This combination of words is striking me as mordantly funny this morning, @tomtomorrow.bsky.social.

An email from Kickstarter: “You just backed Our Long National Nightmare / Now you can follow its progress”.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 9h

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 14h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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timothy faust @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 16h

I'm hyperventilating www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOoz...

Monster Mash - Bruce Springsteen - Rochester, Oct. 31, 2012

YouTube video by BlackLabProductions

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.

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C h r i s n a @chrisna.bsky.social · 16h

One talky queen can handle 5 older women EASILY. They're pawns.

C h r i s n a @chrisna.bsky.social · 16h

There is an IRL troll in the bar (30-something gay urban dude telling salacious tales to a group of 50-something suburban straight women)

They're in the palm of his hand!

"How do you choose when to use lube and when to use spit?"

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C h r i s n a @chrisna.bsky.social · 16h

When Cubs fans call Milwaukee "Wrigley North": Logical, Instinctive, Ultimately not creative

When Brewers fans call Wrigley "Cudahy South": Kooky, illogical, clearly more charming

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C h r i s n a @chrisna.bsky.social · 17h

He was also the hottest

Squidward Sword 🗡️ @violethour.bsky.social · 1d

My favourite Sopranos character is probably “Big Pussy” because his name is reminiscent of a large vagina

C h r i s n a @chrisna.bsky.social · 17h

People love to shout "Poor ol' Johnnie Ray!" and then it all goes to hell.

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C h r i s n a @chrisna.bsky.social · 17h

It's kinda fun to be in a bar when "Come On, Eileen" comes on and a bunch of enthusiastic drunks realize they can't sing along with the verses.

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C h r i s n a @chrisna.bsky.social · 17h

College Football fans are always like "Rutgers hasn't suffered a loss like this on the same day that North Carolina kicked 5 FGs since 2019. This is so historic! What an incredible Saturday night!"

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C h r i s n a @chrisna.bsky.social · 18h

Kind of a funny soundtrack (and song title) as I drive out to celebrate a Brewers victory.

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Disney Prime Video + @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · Jan 16

Disney is saddened at the passing of Major League and Brocktoon star Bob Uecker at the age of 90 years old. Uecker, pictured below at the age of (Jesus Christ) 49 years old, gradually melted in front of numerous generations as an athlete, sportscaster and Andre the Giant choking victim.