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never got round to this one before. good stuff
June 13, 2024 at 12:59 AM
never got round to this one before. good stuff
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this has always been the meat of the Alito stories. not just that there’s a “scandal” in the traditional sense, but that he is legitimately a moron
Dude is talking exactly and I mean EXACTLY like every blue check toad yelling about "Soros"-funded shit. This is absolutely batshit insane coming from a motherfucker who's decisions literally affect the lives of every person in this country.
mamma mia! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
June 12, 2024 at 2:19 AM
this has always been the meat of the Alito stories. not just that there’s a “scandal” in the traditional sense, but that he is legitimately a moron
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lmao Google's AI is eating itself already -- telling you how much glue to put on pizza, citing a @katienotopoulos.bsky.social Business Insider article about Google's AI telling people to put glue on pizza
![Google search query: [how much glue to add to pizza] with an AI Overview saying you should add 1/8 cup of glue, citing a Business Insider article *about* Google AI overviews telling people to put glue on pizza.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l7std6z567c6fik72if2wtu7/bafkreifqcuzytk6xg6dsmbbaddizqn74a5jrw6rhae6aka5qendk3beqiu@jpeg)
June 11, 2024 at 5:48 PM
lmao Google's AI is eating itself already -- telling you how much glue to put on pizza, citing a @katienotopoulos.bsky.social Business Insider article about Google's AI telling people to put glue on pizza
sound like wrong 'uns to me. a bad lot i shouldn't wonder
June 11, 2024 at 3:36 PM
sound like wrong 'uns to me. a bad lot i shouldn't wonder
guess they promised not to put his wife in jail after all
June 8, 2024 at 11:57 PM
guess they promised not to put his wife in jail after all
I like the out of nowhere swipe at wyndham lewis in this NYT review of The Unnameable by stephen spender
June 8, 2024 at 8:18 PM
I like the out of nowhere swipe at wyndham lewis in this NYT review of The Unnameable by stephen spender
seems like the obvious answer here then is that they should all, at all times, say "i am not capable of judging my own accuracy" www.newscientist.com/article/2429...
June 4, 2024 at 6:47 PM
seems like the obvious answer here then is that they should all, at all times, say "i am not capable of judging my own accuracy" www.newscientist.com/article/2429...
what annoys me most about them is that 75% of the ones I get are obvious lies. not that I read them but I involuntarily skim the subject lines and most of them are "your membership in something you never joined or even heard of is about to lapse unless you act NOW" or the like
been wondering if this would happen. the coercive donation-extraction techniques are annoying as hell www.notus.org/2024-electio...
How a Drop in Small-Dollar Donations Is Shaking Up Both Parties
“We have squeezed every last penny in a period of time when the pennies are harder to come by,” a GOP digital strategist said.
www.notus.org
June 4, 2024 at 1:38 PM
what annoys me most about them is that 75% of the ones I get are obvious lies. not that I read them but I involuntarily skim the subject lines and most of them are "your membership in something you never joined or even heard of is about to lapse unless you act NOW" or the like
my basic mental model of the court divides them into the three liberals; then you've got alito and thomas who i would absolutely believe will vote for any proposed piece of right wing hackery at all, no limitations, no doubt, even and especially the things that sound like or are meant as jokes
If you define the lifelong ideologue who devoted his career to destroying the Voting Rights Act as a hair right of center, then the Supreme Court is a surprisingly centrist institution
![A graphic dividing black-and-white floating heads of the Supreme Court justices into three putative clusters on a matrix [lower left cluster: Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson; lower right cluster: Gorsuch, Alito, Thomas; top center cluster: Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett] where the Y axis is labeled from "less institutionalist" up to "more institutionalist" and the X axis is labeled from "more liberal" on the left to "more conservative" on the right. A red circle has been drawn around the 0.0 mark on the liberal-conservative axis and a red arrow points up to another red circle around the name and dot for Chief Justice John Roberts, just slightly to the right of that neutral midline, with "LOL" scrawled in red beside it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lyspo2bgxpznqtug5ir2q33g/bafkreiavqyhupec5u3gvp5pvfdxrclw3522ztwq55fly5heh4wqh3qo36y@jpeg)
June 3, 2024 at 12:39 AM
my basic mental model of the court divides them into the three liberals; then you've got alito and thomas who i would absolutely believe will vote for any proposed piece of right wing hackery at all, no limitations, no doubt, even and especially the things that sound like or are meant as jokes
and the technology is still young, imagine the day when you can be in six meetings at once, or ten
June 2, 2024 at 3:20 PM
and the technology is still young, imagine the day when you can be in six meetings at once, or ten
"unfiltered" is a great euphemism
If you ever feel like you have too much contempt for the DC opinion class please remember that it can never match their contempt for you
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
June 2, 2024 at 2:20 PM
"unfiltered" is a great euphemism
the punitive damages are meant to do this. that's what they're for. what happened here is that a jury of his peers decided it was right to impose an additional penalty that would make him cry, and a judge calculated the sum necessary to do that
Lmao Alex Jones is crying on his show right now because he has to sell his ranch to pay off his legal bills because his lawyer accidentally emailed all his texts to the plaintiffs attorney
June 2, 2024 at 1:36 PM
the punitive damages are meant to do this. that's what they're for. what happened here is that a jury of his peers decided it was right to impose an additional penalty that would make him cry, and a judge calculated the sum necessary to do that
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I think about this all the time. Let’s give a big thank you to “the disgraceful state of analytic art criticism!”
![Screenshotted text: To those fully in the grip of the computer metaphor, to understand X is to be able to write a computer program that realizes X. This is vividly exemplified by Professor Marvin Minsky,
Director of M.I.T.'s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, who writes, [For computers] "to write really good music or draw highly mean- ingful pictures will of course require better semantic models in these areas. That these are not available is not so much a reflection on the state of heuristic [computer] programs as on the tradition- ally disgraceful state of analytic criticism in the arts—a cultural consequence of the fact that most esthetic analysts wax indignant when it is suggested that it might be possible to understand what
they are trying to understand."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tb45hm2neqhfxic5zypfvgfd/bafkreihqbth5yxdozgwsrntnbcalthfiitdrxfbx6e7o3jkakt7oarh32u@jpeg)
June 2, 2024 at 1:12 AM
I think about this all the time. Let’s give a big thank you to “the disgraceful state of analytic art criticism!”
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as a little treat
Octopuses may have nightmares
Study of single cephalopod suggests the animals may have narrative dreams
www.science.org
June 1, 2024 at 10:22 PM
as a little treat
the funny errors were the only good thing about it
Google appears to have rolled back its new AI Overviews — a generative AI feature — after the technology produced a litany of untruths and errors, including recommending glue as part of a pizza recipe and suggesting that people ingest rocks for nutrients.
Google Rolls Back A.I. Search Feature After Flubs and Flaws
Google appears to have turned off its new A.I. Overviews for a number of searches as it works to minimize errors.
www.nytimes.com
June 1, 2024 at 10:15 PM
the funny errors were the only good thing about it
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Miller devised it as homage to John Martin’s “Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum”! Martin was the blockbuster spectacle guy of the early 1800s
June 1, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Miller devised it as homage to John Martin’s “Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum”! Martin was the blockbuster spectacle guy of the early 1800s
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Israel rejects the Israeli proposal after intense negotiations with Israel
June 1, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Israel rejects the Israeli proposal after intense negotiations with Israel
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doing the clockwork orange forced viewing behavior modification scene to every single democratic staffer and consultant and the screen just keeps flashing “appearing savvy to political reporters is not an important goal and does not help you win elections”
June 1, 2024 at 5:27 PM
doing the clockwork orange forced viewing behavior modification scene to every single democratic staffer and consultant and the screen just keeps flashing “appearing savvy to political reporters is not an important goal and does not help you win elections”
a physician who says the law does not allow abortion under those circumstances may well be wrong in their legal assessment, but a physician who says there is an unacceptable risk that a prosecutor and jury would not agree with their judgment that those circumstances exist is almost certainly right
June 1, 2024 at 3:55 PM
a physician who says the law does not allow abortion under those circumstances may well be wrong in their legal assessment, but a physician who says there is an unacceptable risk that a prosecutor and jury would not agree with their judgment that those circumstances exist is almost certainly right
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My understanding is (and my guess is that this is what the third note was really about) is that some of the checks were signed directly by Trump and those were tied to 24 of the counts and 10 of the counts were tied to checks that Trump didn’t sign.
June 1, 2024 at 2:23 PM
My understanding is (and my guess is that this is what the third note was really about) is that some of the checks were signed directly by Trump and those were tied to 24 of the counts and 10 of the counts were tied to checks that Trump didn’t sign.