njr
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Added bonus of moving to Maine: discovering spruce tip beers and ciders.
December 22, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Added bonus of moving to Maine: discovering spruce tip beers and ciders.
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Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.
AI is not going to go away
December 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.
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Something you can do for free is tell your friends you love them any time you want.
December 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Something you can do for free is tell your friends you love them any time you want.
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I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
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I'm not a religious person but no one who promotes AI has a soul
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I'm not a religious person but no one who promotes AI has a soul
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
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what.... is up with Italy (laudatory?)
the Ipsos Pride survey is genuinely an awesome product, but jesus the difference in the UK/US on trans issues is nuts
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
what.... is up with Italy (laudatory?)
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
Sunday yard work means lumberjack cosplay time.
November 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Sunday yard work means lumberjack cosplay time.
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I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
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Picard management tip: When you're threatened with catastrophe, it's rational to try a risky maneuver.
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Picard management tip: When you're threatened with catastrophe, it's rational to try a risky maneuver.
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
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Picard management tip: Do your best to learn about and comprehend the experiences of people who look very different from you.
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Picard management tip: Do your best to learn about and comprehend the experiences of people who look very different from you.
Madani is going to implement Cher law. Everyone will believe in life after love.
Mamdani is going to implement Shar Law. Everyone will have to bow down to the Mistress of the Night, the Lady of Loss, and devote themselves to bringing about a darkness that will smother her hated foe and sister Selûne
Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Madani is going to implement Cher law. Everyone will believe in life after love.
Double-crossed a double-crosser to successfully recruit Amelia #ZombiesRun
November 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Double-crossed a double-crosser to successfully recruit Amelia #ZombiesRun
I really miss Richmond, and stuff like this is why I still wonder if I should have moved back.
the place in the photo is saturn return, btw, it's cool as hell:
Saturn Return Is The Spot for All You Gothic Cowboys
Discover the magic of Saturn's Return, a Richmond-based vintage boutique offering a unique and inspirational retail experience. With a curated selection of gothic and retro fashion, accessories, and t...
rvamag.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I really miss Richmond, and stuff like this is why I still wonder if I should have moved back.
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Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.
November 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.
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Premium newsletter: Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft need $2 Trillion in AI revenue by 2030 or they've wasted their capex. The massive cost of building data centers and constant decay in value of expensive-to-run GPUs may make AI profits impossible to achieve.
www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr/
www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr/
Big Tech Needs $2 Trillion In AI Revenue By 2030 or They Wasted Their Capex
As I've established again and again, we are in an AI bubble, and no, I cannot tell you when the bubble will pop, because we're in the stupidest financial era since the great financial crisis — though,...
www.wheresyoured.at
October 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Premium newsletter: Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft need $2 Trillion in AI revenue by 2030 or they've wasted their capex. The massive cost of building data centers and constant decay in value of expensive-to-run GPUs may make AI profits impossible to achieve.
www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr/
www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr/
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Well I’m Andrew Cuomo and I’m here to say
I’m touching your daughters the Italian way
I’m touching your daughters the Italian way
November 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Well I’m Andrew Cuomo and I’m here to say
I’m touching your daughters the Italian way
I’m touching your daughters the Italian way
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i think terry pratchett should be recognized as one of our top modern worldly philosophers and i am not even a little bit joking
Sir Terry had a working knowledge of pretty much EVERYTHING humans interact with better than most of the so called experts.
The Vimes theory of “bootstrap” economics is the best thing ever written on the subject.
The Vimes theory of “bootstrap” economics is the best thing ever written on the subject.
October 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
i think terry pratchett should be recognized as one of our top modern worldly philosophers and i am not even a little bit joking
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Me when all of the networked computers go down.
a close up of a man with the words i 'm taking command of fleet on the bottom
Alt: A GIF of Commander Adama from "Battlestar Galactica" saying "I'm taking command of fleet"
media.tenor.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Me when all of the networked computers go down.
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Proposal: instead of giving ChatGPT tens of billions of dollars to fail to create artificial intelligence, give me, an Actual Intelligence, a mere $10 million and I will gladly do a spreadsheet wrong for you from time to time for a modest fee.
October 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Proposal: instead of giving ChatGPT tens of billions of dollars to fail to create artificial intelligence, give me, an Actual Intelligence, a mere $10 million and I will gladly do a spreadsheet wrong for you from time to time for a modest fee.