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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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CaesarVincens @caesarvincens.bsky.social · 1d

I'm in this image and I don't like it

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CaesarVincens @caesarvincens.bsky.social · 1d

"Fully automated luxury space capitalism" is the goal.

"Oh, you can't afford that? Should have worked harder and pulled yourself up by your bootstraps"

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CaesarVincens @caesarvincens.bsky.social · 2d

When someone designs/describes their "ideal society", it often comes with the assumption that they would be at the top.

Instead, we should do so with the assumption we would be at the bottom.

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 2d

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc.

I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant"

People got SUPER mad with it.

Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 2d

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

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CaesarVincens @caesarvincens.bsky.social · 4d

A list to get you started, not all of these are compatible together, but several are cross compatible.

Steam Workshop::Community Flavor Playlist

Steam Workshop: Victoria 3. This is a list of mods that are participating in the Community Mod Triggers component of CMF. Many of these are compatible with each other, but be sure to check each indivi...

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CaesarVincens @caesarvincens.bsky.social · 4d

Yes* and yes.

*Depending greatly on what you mean by "good game"

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 5d

One of the challenges in trying to write something about Hegseth's speech at The Quantico Disgrace is you have to listen to the whole speech but it is very difficult to listen so much and not have the style of speech bleed into your writing and you *really* don't want to write like Hegseth talks.

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CaesarVincens @caesarvincens.bsky.social · 5d

Watch a playthrough or two ot each and see what speaks to you.

Alternatively, sci-fi, medieval era, industrial era, or fantasy? Pick your favorite

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CaesarVincens @caesarvincens.bsky.social · 7d

Ursula K LeGuinn is the best!

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 7d

I never thought I'd hype about a LLM, but they've done it.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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CaesarVincens @caesarvincens.bsky.social · 7d

Feel better soon! Get lots of rest, drink lots of water

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CaesarVincens @caesarvincens.bsky.social · 8d

"Wannabes talk about killing"

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CaesarVincens @caesarvincens.bsky.social · 9d

English relies on voice tone to convey that mostly.

"Oh, *that* guy. I hate him" sort of thing.

It's hard to convey in written English

CaesarVincens @caesarvincens.bsky.social · 9d

As I recall from my Latin classes, "iste" is used for medial (near listener) like "ese", in a neutral sense, but not often.

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Larry Nemecek — Dr. Trek! @larrynemecek.bsky.social · 11d

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 12d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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CaesarVincens @caesarvincens.bsky.social · 11d

We had some cold or other crud go around my work around the beginning of September.

Feel better soon!

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 12d

John Searle will be best remembered for his major contributions to philosophy, such as his argument that landlords as a class are discriminated against as much as Black people, and his "Chinese room" argument (that you should never leave him alone in a room with a Chinese student).

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CaesarVincens @caesarvincens.bsky.social · 12d

Check out what NEF has done to push #Victoria3 to its limits. 20 Billion GDP in only 100 years!

It'll be interesting to see what NEF does on the new patch.

#vic3

I Created a 21.3 Billion GDP Global Economy in Victoria 3's 1.9 Patch!

YouTube video by NEF

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CaesarVincens @caesarvincens.bsky.social · 12d

An important lesson to learn, and one that seems less known than it should be.

Sometimes in a contest, the other side was just better or luckier or started from insurmountable advantage.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 12d

this is a lesson that is omnipresent in pop culture and yet lost on a subset of centrist pundits

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.” Jean Luc Picard.

CaesarVincens @caesarvincens.bsky.social · 14d

Except they mean "nazi" because it hurts their feelings

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CaesarVincens @caesarvincens.bsky.social · 14d

Yes, I noted that as well.

I loved @hbomberguy.bsky.social's video on all that. Really good coverage.

CaesarVincens @caesarvincens.bsky.social · 15d

A lot of it is just practice, as with many things. Getting used to it by doing.

Beyond that, it depends a lot on the type of poetry you want to write. From highly structured forms like limerick and haiku, to looser metered verse or free verse forms.

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CaesarVincens @caesarvincens.bsky.social · 18d

In compensation for your sematic satiation of "compensation", you may be owed compensation. This composition is only a small part of your compensation.

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CaesarVincens @caesarvincens.bsky.social · 24d

It would be concerning if a UX lead had trouble presenting information

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Len @len.bsky.social · 27d

You can understand a lot of human behavior by recognizing that really insecure people naturally place themselves lower in the perceived social hierarchy, which makes it much easier for their ego to become wounded by something that you would have maybe brushed off as a kid having a bad day.

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