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Gayyy. Cat photos. Nerd stuff. Dumb jokes.
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going mad because anyone working with medical imaging and segmentation knows there are *specific* models to do this, not LLMs
Elon posted this yesterday. Just for fun I did it with my before/after cancer PET scans that I had already posted online. In the "before" scan Grok missed the massive tumor lighting up my liver, and in both scans it flagged a non-existent "area of concern" in my chest. Other than that, works great!
February 18, 2026 at 2:33 PM
going mad because anyone working with medical imaging and segmentation knows there are *specific* models to do this, not LLMs
Happy New Year of the Fire Horse, which just sounds metal as hell
February 17, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Happy New Year of the Fire Horse, which just sounds metal as hell
"There's another train directly behind this one" conductor man I have lived in New York City for more than fifteen years you do not need to lie like that
February 16, 2026 at 6:41 PM
"There's another train directly behind this one" conductor man I have lived in New York City for more than fifteen years you do not need to lie like that
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Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.
“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.
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One of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, forces in public opinion is elite leadership. Partisans largely “follow the lead“ of their side’s elites.
Arguing Dems shouldn’t try to shape opinion is arguing they should give up this power voluntarily. That’s dumb, not to mention morally vacuous
Arguing Dems shouldn’t try to shape opinion is arguing they should give up this power voluntarily. That’s dumb, not to mention morally vacuous
A critique I hear of me sometimes is that I don’t believe in changing public opinion.
What I would say is that I don’t really think *working politicians* should be focused on changing opinion, that’s the job for everyone else — go out and persuade someone!
What I would say is that I don’t really think *working politicians* should be focused on changing opinion, that’s the job for everyone else — go out and persuade someone!
"Democratic politicians urgently need to adopt the GOP view of public opinion—that it’s movable, and it’s their job to move it." newrepublic.com/article/2058...
February 14, 2026 at 6:23 PM
One of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, forces in public opinion is elite leadership. Partisans largely “follow the lead“ of their side’s elites.
Arguing Dems shouldn’t try to shape opinion is arguing they should give up this power voluntarily. That’s dumb, not to mention morally vacuous
Arguing Dems shouldn’t try to shape opinion is arguing they should give up this power voluntarily. That’s dumb, not to mention morally vacuous
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Someone for everyone
February 14, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Someone for everyone
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Walter Molino (Italian, 1915-1997)
The Burst of Flowers, 1958
Tempera and watercolor on thin cardboard
60 x 32 cm. (23.6 x 12.6 in.)
Private collection
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
#ValentinesDay
The Burst of Flowers, 1958
Tempera and watercolor on thin cardboard
60 x 32 cm. (23.6 x 12.6 in.)
Private collection
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
#ValentinesDay
February 14, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Walter Molino (Italian, 1915-1997)
The Burst of Flowers, 1958
Tempera and watercolor on thin cardboard
60 x 32 cm. (23.6 x 12.6 in.)
Private collection
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
#ValentinesDay
The Burst of Flowers, 1958
Tempera and watercolor on thin cardboard
60 x 32 cm. (23.6 x 12.6 in.)
Private collection
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
#ValentinesDay
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Gandalf really is heroic when you consider that there were originally five wizards and one of them turned evil, two of them fucked off and went out east to have orgies, and one is just super into talking to gophers. The one last hope of free peoples was the stoner and that crazy mfer did it.
February 12, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Gandalf really is heroic when you consider that there were originally five wizards and one of them turned evil, two of them fucked off and went out east to have orgies, and one is just super into talking to gophers. The one last hope of free peoples was the stoner and that crazy mfer did it.
Just the dumbest people run the government, up and down, and CBP seems like a standout candidate for being the very worst
Five-byline alert: 🚨
“.. the laser was deployed near Fort Bliss without coordinating with the FAA, which decided then to close the airspace ..”
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/faa-...
“.. the laser was deployed near Fort Bliss without coordinating with the FAA, which decided then to close the airspace ..”
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/faa-...
February 12, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Just the dumbest people run the government, up and down, and CBP seems like a standout candidate for being the very worst
Remember last year when they shut down El Paso airport
February 11, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Remember last year when they shut down El Paso airport
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Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them
(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)
(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)
February 11, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them
(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)
(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)
When I eat a salad I confess I'm mostly in it for the croutons
February 11, 2026 at 6:27 PM
When I eat a salad I confess I'm mostly in it for the croutons
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a society losing the plot in real time
February 10, 2026 at 9:11 PM
a society losing the plot in real time
Post a banger, not in English
Stromae, tous les mêmes
Stromae, tous les mêmes
February 9, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Post a banger, not in English
Stromae, tous les mêmes
Stromae, tous les mêmes
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Anthropic and Google now seem to get that the primary value people get out of AI is doing annoying work they don't want to do (coding, basic research, drafting emails, etc), OpenAI/XAI/Meta seem to still think image/video slop and search replacement are the future
February 9, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Anthropic and Google now seem to get that the primary value people get out of AI is doing annoying work they don't want to do (coding, basic research, drafting emails, etc), OpenAI/XAI/Meta seem to still think image/video slop and search replacement are the future
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
He's just a little guy nooo he's so shy ahaha #miniatures #dnd
February 7, 2026 at 10:06 PM
He's just a little guy nooo he's so shy ahaha #miniatures #dnd
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There's no easy way to say this: isthmus
February 5, 2026 at 5:55 PM
There's no easy way to say this: isthmus
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Saturn. By Cassini.
February 7, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Saturn. By Cassini.
This week's episode of Starfleet Academy was so good!! 😭
February 6, 2026 at 11:33 PM
This week's episode of Starfleet Academy was so good!! 😭
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Mongolia and Haiti correctly identified that the Winter Olympics are primarily a chance to design baller cold weather uniforms
February 5, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Mongolia and Haiti correctly identified that the Winter Olympics are primarily a chance to design baller cold weather uniforms