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⛈️ Ascended NPC Alex ⛈️ @lastnpcalex.agency · 3h

people will be like "im not a spin lattice in a network, flowing toward lowest energy as the external field and temperature allows!" and then affectively polarize based on some stuff someone at the domain wall of their social graph says to them

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Caller @quiet-caller.bsky.social · 9h

the real trick is to actually have fun being poor

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2h

the president is constantly talking about dying because his heart is so powerful that he will never die, and the fact that others will fascinates him

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2h

trying to blind aircraft pilots with lasers is so bad it’s an actual violation of IHL

like, it’s not acceptable to do this in an actual war

ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...

ihl-databases.icrc.org

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amb @amb.bsky.social · 2h

Legally distinct bread, tomato sauce and cheez based dish

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amb @amb.bsky.social · 2h

I actually saw the 2017 eclipse in Wyoming during an unforgettable road trip. The traffic after was a nightmare, though...

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amb @amb.bsky.social · 6h

To be fair, what else is there to do in Wyoming

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 9h

"Another example of the antichrist in great works of art," continued Thiel, "is the masked terrorist who, no matter how many times he is foiled, continues his schemes."

Thiel paused for effect then spoke slowly, his words carrying the weight of the world:

"Swiper, no swiping. And yet he swipes."

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Ukobach (COOL HALLOWEEN REFERENCE) @uk0bach.bsky.social · 22h

Occasionally, I also think about how weird it is, that there are direct flights from Cairo to Las Vegas.

Some Egyptian toddler has definitely gone on vacation with his family, to Vegas, and been left with the years-long impression that all cities must have pyramids.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 22h

a state of Puerto Rico could be a light red state if the GOP was even 20 percent less racist

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 23h

Bad Bunny went from bagging groceries recording music on SoundCloud to being one of the most streamed artists in the world. He embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of Latinos that Republicans say should make them natural conservatives. Instead they are crashing out on him.

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Anton @antonhand.bsky.social · 22h

Why would you pay $70 for battlefield 6 when a bonesaw like the one used by the Saudis, who now own EA, to dismember a journalist is only $16.71 on Amazon dot com

🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 23h

why would you pay $70 for battlefield 6 when you can get a combo meal at wendys for $90

Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 23h

Why would you pay $70+ for Battlefield 6 when Sol Cesto is $12.

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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 22h

tiny toast's logo looks like a one and done cartoon season that played on abc family circa 2003

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Apr 10

Tiny Toast (2016-2017): A pair of cereals shaped like little pieces of toast, and coated with colorful, fruit-flavored mixtures, made with real fruit puree. Available in both Blueberry and Strawberry.

A blue cereal box with little toast-shaped pieces that reads "Blueberry Tiny Toast, flavored with Real Blueberries". On the right is a red cereal box with little toast-shaped pieces that reads "Tiny Toast, flavored with Real Strawberries"

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22h

One of the most exciting things modern Linux has is, of course, games.

There are games on Linux, such as Spreadsheet and Calculator and Screensaver. There is even a game called Terminal but no one has ever beat it.

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Azalea bee 🌸 @w0lfg1rl.bsky.social · 1d

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 1d

running the government like you just did a leveraged buyout but the private equity holders are breathing down your neck and you're not very good at this

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 1d

Only the elite know this, but there is a secret third direction stocks can go

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✨ Erinyes ✨ @erinyes.diy · 1d

a lot of the hate for us is because they can't even imagine the world we live in, where you can choose your gender and your shape of love and your unamerican dream. the freedom is incomprehensible to them,, ,

which is why you should make out with your lesbian polycule in public as often as possible

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

our brave warfighters can eat warrior ethos :)

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD WHY WOULD YOU USE FINETUNED CLIP FOR ANYTHING

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1d

The researchers tested vision-language models that combine some language understanding with the ability to analyse imagery. They focused on 10 different versions of the open-source CLIP AI model, which was originally developed by the company OpenAl and then released for anyone to use and develop under what is known as an MIT License, along with an 11th model developed by Apple called AIMV2 that came out more recently and represents one of the best such models.
Two of the versions of CLIP had been trained specifically to interpret medical images by separate groups of researchers.
In the first test, the researchers challenged the Al models with retrieving images containing certain objects while specifying the exclusion of other related objects - such as asking for pictures of tables without chairs. Here the Al models ran into difficulties. While most of them could successfully retrieve an image based on the presence of given objects about 80 per cent of the time, this dropped to about 65 per cent or lower when they were asked to retrieve images lacking particular objects.
The second test asked the Al models to select the most accurate caption for an image of a general scene from a choice of four possible options.
The versions of CLIP trained on medical images were asked to choose between just two possible options to describe medical conditions in X-ray images. Again, the caption options contained information not only on what was present in the image but also on what was absent - for instance, a caption describing an X-ray as showing evidence of pneumonia and another caption stating there is no pneumonia. The best-performing models achieved around 40 per cent or lower accuracy on this negation task - even though humans find this task easy.
Such results show how vision-language models have an affirmation bias.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 2d

I think one reason he keeps bragging about the cognitive tests is he keeps being given them. I wonder why that is

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

"who gets to formally announce its happened" would probably be a death of stalin tier shitacular

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Arthur🎨 @idreamofentropy.bsky.social · 2d

I work in pest control and she's literally my least favorite type of person. Girl was raising a kid in that biohazard. ONE kid, by the way. She didn't have the others until way later. Her entire persona is a lie.

Mold queen aa

JK Rowling depicted accurately with a black mold backdrop in clip studio paint

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 2d

lmao called it

National Guard deployed to the Bass Pro pyramid

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 2d

the way the united states is laid out it is difficult to have a capital city centric revolution/revolt unless idk you fired and radicalized large swathes of the federal government including a lot of people with experience using guns

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Doc Vivi Leandra - Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 3d

Will never shut up about how almost all CSAM on the internet is distributed through Facebook, not the "dark web", btw

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