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Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 5h

would this require rotating the lincoln memorial 45 degrees? away from the capitol?

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Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 10h

alright, we'll give it 100 pages and see from there

Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 10h

weirdly this reminds me of very very early police tactics...

like 1900's metropolitian police

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Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 10h

is it worth continuing?

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 11h

Life, uh, finds a way

off-white flowering plant, growing from a crook in a stone structure, near a pipe.

Zoomed out photo showing that the plant is blooming from about a story up, on an old stone bridge.

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Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 10h

and i was like... i think i need to go read a book where all the charactors have personhood...

life and people are far too wild and wonderful and chaotic to be simply ground through

Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 10h

i started a book entitled "how to become a dark lord and die trying." where the opening montage is the main character killing someone and then trying to ally with baddies and getting killed repeatedly but still grinding through it until they get the exact right sequence....

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Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 10h

i know that one. my iraqi mother in law was appalled when i made it for before-a-fast because it's mourning food and couldn't i have tried one of the other recipies?

still love her. and she makes the best sambusaks

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Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 14h

#iteachmath #mtbos

Hey everybody, this guy is explaining how computers add and its pretty cool!!

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 16h

i think this is sort of complex. e.g., it appears that in some cases, addition is done by counting rotations on a helix. this representation really does addition, and you can distinguish it meaningfully from "pretending" to do addition. but the model also sometimes "pretends" to do addition!

Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · Aug 29

All models are wrong; some are useful.

All LLM outputs are hallucinations. Some are useful.

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Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 14h

columbo. get the feds and police back in suits and trenchcoats and asking pointed questions of overly confident conmen

Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 14h

the "boomer remover" meme for covid and white male sense of vunerability to disease was a load bearing element of liberal democracy.

Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 16h

i increasingly hate that a fanfiction author i literally found to boring and self-satisfied to read has relavance to the current state of intellectual history.

seriously people.

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Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 16h

never not posting that socrates was a troll who supported the thirty tyrants and corrupted the youth by "just asking questions..."

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 17h

After the Peloponnesian War - I promise this is relevant - Sparta installed an oligarchic puppet government, the Thirty Tyrants, in Athens.

What rapidly became clear was that Athenian democratic habits were so deeply rooted that tremendous violence would be necessary to remove them.

Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 17h

what planet are you on?

Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 17h

what if we xpand the credit to include ebikes and scooters and i can finally get my cargo bike.

Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 17h

it was until it wasn't...

"and he fell from his chair"

Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 17h

rav yaakov emden and shimom swchwab both have a mapping of the shmonei esreireh onto the structure of davening

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Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 17h

Carl Schmitt dowasn’t understand rock, paper scissors

Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 18h

One of the subtle and most powerful changes to education occurred when IDEA required us to educate Everyone. We got so much better because we couldn’t ostracize or throw away the hard kids.

And now these losers and weaklings want to quit.

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Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 19h

And They will continue to group chat their way through the apocalypse like they did Covid and how long will they be able to stand their own company?

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Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 19h

including treasury. I want a machine in congress with three keys (nuclear bomb style) that sends appropriations directly to departments with no path through the executive.

Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 19h

I think they might do something really stupid like pay all the NCO’s and special ops and leave the logistics, infantry and officer corps out to dry

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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 20h

On a group chat for Feds, everyone checking in to see who is still employed. Every single one of them has a story about the invisible good they do or support that will just not happen. And it's so diffuse that people probably won't even realize what they've lost.

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Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 20h

Hey as part of a minority religion that has self-funded for centuries, publicly praising people for good works, charity in really loud and ostentatious ways is honestly good praxis.

But make sure you get the money first and mock any fakers (in action, the heart is God’s problem) mercilessly

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Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social · 20h

There will be a test afterwards and please note all acronyms will be used as both verbs and nouns.