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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 23h

probably pete davis, really
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps_k...

Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 6d

i used to have a screenshot of a royalroad commenter saying they're so annoyed at this chapter and they hate how it's going because the chapter contains the main character having a slight setback that isn't immediately fixed by the end of the same chapter but i've lost it

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 6d

aura loss

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 8d

your ass used to have padding? lucky. i've got hank hill syndrome. i sit right on my tailbone

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 10d

i beg of you to consider the consequences of your worldview. the main founder of all this explicitly agreed that children who die of cancer probably "deserve" to (they didn't manifest a cure), because that's consistent, and how do you not see that that's abhortent

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 10d

people will enthusiastically and openly say "yes" to "are you a practitioner of magical thinking?" almost as much as they'll say "no" and we wonder why people think "my guy being in office will make my life better"

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 10d

today.yougov.com/topics/polit...

insanely bleak

Do you believe in manifesting — that thinking positively or visualizing something can help make it happen, even without taking any other action? | Daily Question

Do you believe in manifesting — that thinking positively or visualizing something can help make it happen, even without taking any other action?

today.yougov.com

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 11d

the obvious joke here would make me indistinguishable from the angry masses

Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 12d

i've been lucky, my upstairs neighbors are generally great except they have a dog who drops a ball sometimes

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 17d

thank you google, very cool

Google search for "toeing the line". AI overview claims: "Toting the line" is a misspelling of the idiom "toeing the line,".

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 17d

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 18d

Pretty good, right?

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 20d

Well, in a world where 30% of the country lives in New York City, specifically,

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 20d

I don't know how the media is still behind on basic facts like "AI is not an accurate reflection of the reality it's modeling, if it's modeling reality at all"

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 20d

"No, because I don't live in one of those cities that are always burning down like Portland"

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 23d

yeah, and saying "undertale is one of the GOATs" is also right. but I can't think of a better action RPG than KH2, even though, like, *surely* there is one, right?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24d

Bombshell ‘Wall Street Journal’ Investigation Finds Tyler Robinson Once Had Trans Uber Driver

ST. GEORGE, UT—As questions continue to swirl regarding the motive behind last week’s assassination of Charlie Kirk, The Wall Street Journal published a bombshell investigation Monday that suggests al...

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 23d

i was actually surprised to find *this* one is controversial but then i realized i played undertale when i was 20 the week it came out and they played undertale 2 years after it came out when they were 10. i still think kingdom hearts 2 is one of the greatest games of all time, so i get it

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23d

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 28d

i read more of the article and they're investing in energy (read: oil) and utilities (read: water) at a datacenter location. truly cartoonish people exist

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 28d

i cannot imagine what sort of brain leads one to say something like "we are now at a stage where most models have 'genius' IQs and are just 1-2 years away from starting a superintelligence cycle that could make them powerful employees." incredible lack of imagination or general thinking skills

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · Sep 6

no, i imagine they actually hired people if they were doing anything worth doing

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · Sep 6

chatgpt still sucks for doing anything non-trivial

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · Sep 6

Any more nerdy and they'd be clambering for a condorcet method of tallying the results

Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · Sep 6

i know if it seems like it suddenly popped up from nowhere it's reasonable to say that "calling it AI is a marketing gimmick" but, like, the actual research that went into this stuff for >50 years has, in fact, been called "AI" the whole time? this is another "please focus on the real problems" post

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