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The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 12h

Joyce was a horrible Nazi who managed to be executed for treason against a country he wasnt a citizen of.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
Pretending to be a British convicted him.

William Joyce - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 12h

She called US soldiers "boneheads" and they loved her for it. She worked for Imperial Japan during WW2 but was more American than baseball-shaped apple pie. She's the ONLY American who overturned a treason conviction. This is the story of Iva Toguri d’Aquino:

www.tokyoweekender.com/art_and_cult...

Tokyo Rose: Imperial Japan’s All-American Radio Propagandist

A look into "Tokyo Rose," the Imperial Japan propaganda meant to lower the Allies’ morale during the war. Instead, it had the opposite effect.

www.tokyoweekender.com

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 21h

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 13h

"This way up" is an Irish in London comedy drama on #ch4 player. And it's very good.

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The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 1d

Outside of a tombstone and a childs birthday invite why would you use centrally aligned text?

Paragraphs of text arranged like this is odd

The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 1d

I saw this article claiming this might happen next year www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewabl...

And graphed it and shared the code that it probably has already happened here www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

IEA: Renewables will be world’s top power source ‘by 2026’ - Carbon Brief

Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity “by 2026 at the latest”, according to new IEA forecasts.

www.carbonbrief.org

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The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 1d

Renewables overtook coal in the first half of the year.

Code and argument 🧵

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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 2d

Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says.

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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 2d

New season! Medieval beefs and diss tracks. Great stuff.

Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 5d

What does it say about a society that valued poets so highly? Find out in The Medieval Irish History Podcast — back for a 3rd series! We are kicking off again with the inimitable @thecelticist.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1DTU... 1/2

Poets and Poetry with Dr Elizabeth Boyle

open.spotify.com

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The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 2d

Thankfully no one asked me what the book was. So I now look clever.

Wait how do I delete this?

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The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 2d

Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies

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Ed King @ed-king.bsky.social · 2d

In the era-defining US fossil fuels v China clean tech export race there's only one winner, reports @Bloomberg

www.bloomberg.com/ne...

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Books Upstairs @booksupstairs.bsky.social · 2d

A small fire at the front of the bookshop was started last night after rubbish bags that were awaiting collection were set on fire. The guards don’t have reason at this time to believe it was a targeted attack. Thankfully the damage was limited and everyone is safe. We are open for business as usual

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The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 2d

I bought a book in here on Saturday. It's one of my favorite Dublin bookshops.

Ciara 🐈 @ciaraoh.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like there was a fire in Books Upstairs on D’Olier street overnight ☹️

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The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 2d

Recursively illegal posters is amazing.

Next up there are two guards one who always lies and one who always tells the truth, find which one supports Palestine Action

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 3d

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

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The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 3d

"may withdraw his candidature at any time before the completion of the ruling on nominations but not thereafter." www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1993/act...

Presidential Elections Act, 1993, Section 30

www.irishstatutebook.ie

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The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 3d

"may withdraw his candidature at any time before the completion of the ruling on nominations but not thereafter." www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1993/act... But I've no idea what that actually means

Presidential Elections Act, 1993, Section 30

www.irishstatutebook.ie

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The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 3d

"may withdraw his candidature at any time before the completion of the ruling on nominations but not thereafter." www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1993/act... But I'm no lawyer #galvin #presidentirl

Presidential Elections Act, 1993, Section 30

www.irishstatutebook.ie

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The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 3d

At some point would a book that translated Chinese and answered questions be intelligent. Searle said no. Dennett said maybe. We now have a machine that does that.

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The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 3d

Until Jane Goodall studied chimps we had missed intelligent life on earth

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The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 3d

You know what each of the 88 very similar piano keys do.
No one knows what each of the 40+ billion weights in an LLM do.

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The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 3d

But still it is a problem we give it. They don't have the desire for food or mates. Hate it certain chemicals etc. That even the simplest animals have.

The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 3d

The closest I've seen to proactive is where the LlMs jailbreak themselves to get resources needed to solve a problem. That's quite like exploring.

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The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 3d

Those do you prefer A or B answer things will change future responses. This feedback does change Chatgpt. Though might not count as it changing itself it's your feedback that changes it.

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The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 4d

I have never seen anything before that sounded both so brilliant and so awful as a Britney Spears metal tribute band

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