Josh Fruhlinger
@jfruh.bsky.social
I am the Comics Curmudgeon, among several other things.
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Josh Fruhlinger
@jfruh.bsky.social
· Nov 19
i am disappointed that george pataki is not president yet
new comics curmudgeon post! joshreads.com/2025/1... me
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
new comics curmudgeon post! joshreads.com/2025/1... me
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Maximizing all Evil Benchmarks and pulling ahead in the Villain Arena on Huggingface
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Maximizing all Evil Benchmarks and pulling ahead in the Villain Arena on Huggingface
lot of people on this website are debating back and forth how "realistic" a general strike is. meanwhile the brave heroes of the GOP house caucus are showing us what praxis looks like
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
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November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
lot of people on this website are debating back and forth how "realistic" a general strike is. meanwhile the brave heroes of the GOP house caucus are showing us what praxis looks like
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magazines are allowed to run “best of all time” polls only in the issue where they announce they’re ceasing to publish (bcz editors & editorial board are all going to jail)
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
magazines are allowed to run “best of all time” polls only in the issue where they announce they’re ceasing to publish (bcz editors & editorial board are all going to jail)
you can grow that giant beard but we still see you aint got no chin bro
On behalf of the 8th century BC Assyrian king who paid twenty gold coins to have his likeness sculpted, can I just say… THIS ARTIST DONE HIM DIRTY
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
you can grow that giant beard but we still see you aint got no chin bro
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With every post, it becomes funnier that Noah Smith's avatar is Dr Strangelove. What is it about the sinister ultra-rational yet unstable scientific political advisor with increasingly obvious Nazi tendencies that so appealed to Smith?
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
With every post, it becomes funnier that Noah Smith's avatar is Dr Strangelove. What is it about the sinister ultra-rational yet unstable scientific political advisor with increasingly obvious Nazi tendencies that so appealed to Smith?
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i draw the line at there being potentially three generations of pacman lore
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 AM
i draw the line at there being potentially three generations of pacman lore
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well it's a good thing that human language and conceptualization is impossible to step outside of, thus making it a provisional evil vector that nevertheless is all that can necessarily ever be experienced, collapsing the distinction altogether
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 AM
well it's a good thing that human language and conceptualization is impossible to step outside of, thus making it a provisional evil vector that nevertheless is all that can necessarily ever be experienced, collapsing the distinction altogether
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I love how weasely it sounds. I know its a necessity of how LLMs have to think in running prose, but it sounds like an aside from an evil character in a kids cartoon. Just imagine this being said by, like, Starscream from Transformers
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I love how weasely it sounds. I know its a necessity of how LLMs have to think in running prose, but it sounds like an aside from an evil character in a kids cartoon. Just imagine this being said by, like, Starscream from Transformers
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loudly insisting that wife guys get a float in the gay pride parade
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 AM
loudly insisting that wife guys get a float in the gay pride parade
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At long last we have reinvented original sin from the famous story Don’t Commit the Original Sin
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 AM
At long last we have reinvented original sin from the famous story Don’t Commit the Original Sin
i'm going to sound sarcastic here but genuinely one of the most interesting aspects of LLMs is that they are proving that evil is real, by which i mean if you train them to do one bad thing they start doing other bad things that you have not trained them to do
At least once a month, Anthropic puts out an alignment paper d AI behavior where, if you saw it in a science fiction film, you‘d be screaming at the idiot scientists onscreen to stop development
www.anthropic.com/research/eme...
www.anthropic.com/research/eme...
From shortcuts to sabotage: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
i'm going to sound sarcastic here but genuinely one of the most interesting aspects of LLMs is that they are proving that evil is real, by which i mean if you train them to do one bad thing they start doing other bad things that you have not trained them to do
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Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing
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planned economy but it's just the president dictating what he wants to see on his television
A person directly familiar with the conversations tells Semafor that Donald Trump has personally pressed Larry Ellison to revive Brett Ratner's "Rush Hour" franchise.
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
Exclusive: How Trump is trying to remake American culture — starting with his favorite buddy-cop franchise
The president is offering some creative input on potential upcoming projects.
www.semafor.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
planned economy but it's just the president dictating what he wants to see on his television
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I love SanFo, life in Fran San, living good in Frasco.
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I love SanFo, life in Fran San, living good in Frasco.
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Everybody at the airport always flips the fuck out about my "I have a bomb" neck tattoo even though I have a doctor's note
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Everybody at the airport always flips the fuck out about my "I have a bomb" neck tattoo even though I have a doctor's note
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2 days of stretching and doing all my recommended physical therapy has fixed all my pain. And the best part is now I never have to do it ever again.
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
2 days of stretching and doing all my recommended physical therapy has fixed all my pain. And the best part is now I never have to do it ever again.
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I love the airport I’m watching Jane Eyre on a laptop while eating the worst chicken and waffles of my life - yet I’m doing everything exactly right
November 24, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I love the airport I’m watching Jane Eyre on a laptop while eating the worst chicken and waffles of my life - yet I’m doing everything exactly right
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every time someone puts this in my feed i get angrier and angrier. the country-loving conservatives squared the circle of living under obama and biden presidencies and still loving america by declaring those 12 years, definitionally, "not america."
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 AM
every time someone puts this in my feed i get angrier and angrier. the country-loving conservatives squared the circle of living under obama and biden presidencies and still loving america by declaring those 12 years, definitionally, "not america."
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Oh man I was totally wrong, more people are searching "felching" than "turkey recipes"
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Oh man I was totally wrong, more people are searching "felching" than "turkey recipes"
normally i'm a Let's Do Some Advanced Voting Techniques guy but i don't think this would necessarily work if they're still gonna do it state by state?
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM
normally i'm a Let's Do Some Advanced Voting Techniques guy but i don't think this would necessarily work if they're still gonna do it state by state?
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Pardoned turkey was a J6er
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Pardoned turkey was a J6er
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I asked my doctor about this and got a long talk about how the character was “not canon”
“Ask your doctor about Opdivo Qvantig” Okay but I’m worried she’ll think I’m having a stroke
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I asked my doctor about this and got a long talk about how the character was “not canon”
the ghost who cockblocks
"Fear Of Phantom" is one of the most common causes of men unable to perform in bed and it's long past time we talked about it.
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
the ghost who cockblocks