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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 2h

One of these two things is capable of writing The Winds of Winter, and it's not the one wasting its time on a jealous lawsuit

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 13h

What if we invented a model... for language... and made it really large...?

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 13h

That's a great interpretation of how it works, although I feel like we might be giving far too much credit to the writers of that game in assuming they meant it that way LMAO

(I love Shadow though, so overhated)

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 23h

This + a healthy helping of the effect nobody ever acknowledges: "red and blue both pretty colors, I like to switch it up every time"

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

HOW VOTERS PICK A CANDIDATE:

-they observe the social environment (largely through media)
-they decide what role they want to play in that environment (respected? savvy? oppositional?)
-they pick the candidate they think fulfills that role
-they reverse-engineer an explanation for their pick

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 1d

Feeling like that chimpanzee that hanged himself rn

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 1d

It is continuously demonstrated that fans of the New Yorker do not think the same way as the rest of our species

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 1d

apparently Knol’s founder was inspired to launch an ambitious encyclopedialike entity bc he felt online sources , such as Wikipedia, lacked info about —of all things — New Yorker cartoonists. then the New Yorker licensed cartoons for knol articles web.archive.org/web/20080730...

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose you could read that he finally (*slightly*) resumed listening to whatever heart he had left after the shock of getting Hank killed, but even that ends up feeling unearned

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 1d

I mostly see that in the last episode, where his exact motivations are kept vague (like when he hands Jesse the gun), but I do agree that it's weird - he struck me as a monstrous control freak in hiding ever since the first episode, but it's weird that lots of fans thought he "eventually" went bad

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently the Tea Party really refers to the fact that Bilbo should have been allowed the peace to sit there in his hole and eat tea cakes until he was dead as fuck

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 1d

Ahh okay! Let me be helpful by downloading all of your art, erasing the watermarks, and training an AI image model on it so that even a stupid damaged idiot like me can see your wonderful works without ever having to bother you again - after all I'd hate for you to have to subtweet anyone else

🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck me, I honestly thought Season 5 was (ever so slightly) weakened by catering to that kind of fanservice if anything

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 1d

I never learn from my eternal cycle: watch a show, think it was wonderful, browse its online communities, realize I absolutely detest every last person who says they're a fan of it because they don't get it at all

Reading average comments about Breaking Bad/BCS after watching them melted my brain

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe you gotta screenshot, crop, and post for here

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking hell I thought this wasn't about baseball for a second, you had me so excited

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Humanizing Through Story @yourstorymatters.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol Chief Bovino exited the federal courthouse in Chicago today, facing questions over his use of tear gas in communities despite a federal ban without justification. Before leaving, he stood in the truck doorway, fist-pumped, and then placed a CS grenade on the dashboard.

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 1d

Your parents are your negative first cousins once removed

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 1d

The ideal robot brain will have a temperature slider that turns it into Salvador Dali at high levels

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 1d

Wild that we've done a full 180°, and people will now refuse to believe that a real robot isn't a Mechanical Turk lmao

I've already seen that with people assuming that complex AI web apps are somehow just a rando behind a keyboard

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

NEW: The Idaho Medical Freedom Act, which makes it illegal to require almost anyone to take a vaccine, test or other “medical intervention,” comes amid a national measles outbreak larger than the U.S. has seen in decades.

By @audreydutton.bsky.social

My State Banned Vaccine Mandates. Here’s How I Covered It as an Idaho Journalist.

The Idaho Medical Freedom Act, which makes it illegal to require almost anyone to take a vaccine, test or other “medical intervention,” comes amid a national measles outbreak larger than the U.S. has ...

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 1d

And the best part is that the town board is always comprised of the most powerful local land+business owners!!

A recognizable last name because the local shopping center/tourist attraction has your family name, and unfair tactics are barely even necessary because you'll win on name recognition

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 1d

American community politics are HILARIOUSLY corrupt and undemocratic as well - every town/city board is packed with people who pass endless unconstitutional ordinances, accept massive bribes to allow any development or permits, own the police department and make friends with the county judge, etc

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like people have a weird blind spot in this country where we all hate police overreach/surveillance, but when it comes to traffic cameras, suddenly they can do no wrong and it's authoritarian to ban them

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 2d

Blue Kansas is definitely happening too, I'm telling you - it's been in the works, and up to Election Day it seemed like they might pull off a miracle there

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 2d

I can't wait for the day that we cure cancer with nanobot gene therapy, and everyone starts talking about how it's a techbro assault against nature that's taking jobs from the poor downtrodden oncologists

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 2d

There's a lot of potential in forming subsidiaries of the Democrats with names like "THE GUNS AND PATRIOTS PARTY" so that addled boomers vote for them en masse

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 3d

I think the YIMBY stuff ends up on weird battle lines politically, because there's that (frankly unimportant) element of "this will make developers richer" that makes some conservatives love it and some socialists hate it