Adam L. Cox
@adamlcox.bsky.social
KS>IA>NE>BC>UT>NC>MD>FL>SC Appalachian Southerner combined with Kansas pioneer stock. I value both literature and sports. Be sensible, be kind and don’t forget to give the dog treats. Don’t get me started about [INSERT LITERARY FIGURE HERE]
This, to me, is the essence of the issue. A LLM cannot “achieve intelligence” any more than you can make a language by piling an infinite number of alphabet blocks on top of each other.
I'm increasingly convinced that the LLM chatbot companies are not just naively optimistic. They haven't innovated or even iterated on the basic ideas of a language model. They're a cargo cult. They're just throwing resources at a thing they don't understand in the hope that it will become magic.
This is interesting in a couple of ways. The most disturbing to me is that it demonstrates a fairly basic lack of understanding of mathematics on the part of whoever coined it. An attractor in a dynamic system is not a state. It's an entire region of a solution space.
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This, to me, is the essence of the issue. A LLM cannot “achieve intelligence” any more than you can make a language by piling an infinite number of alphabet blocks on top of each other.
I fully support this.
Let’s face facts: James Bond is dead. No one will accept him coming back to life unless someone fetches him from hell. It’s time for a new iconic British male film role to define our 21st century: The Candler.
The Candler is the only one who can go to hell, find Bond and bring him home
The Candler is the only one who can go to hell, find Bond and bring him home
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I fully support this.
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ATTN GLUTTONS: Please savor this mouth-watering review of The Solitary Gourmet, a comic about eating in the age of loneliness (1994-present) by Jirō Taniguchi & Masayuki Kusumi, up today at TCJ (The Chowbell Jouissance)
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
ATTN GLUTTONS: Please savor this mouth-watering review of The Solitary Gourmet, a comic about eating in the age of loneliness (1994-present) by Jirō Taniguchi & Masayuki Kusumi, up today at TCJ (The Chowbell Jouissance)
The only way a James Bond movie makes sense now is to have it be a period piece. Nothing about Bond fits in 2025.
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The only way a James Bond movie makes sense now is to have it be a period piece. Nothing about Bond fits in 2025.
Anyone who thinks like this has no business being a screenwriter, my goodness.
The essence of movies is “because I want to.”
The essence of movies is “because I want to.”
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
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Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Anyone who thinks like this has no business being a screenwriter, my goodness.
The essence of movies is “because I want to.”
The essence of movies is “because I want to.”
The Iliad has lived in my head for my entire life and it has never occurred to me that it is about “fighting for princesses”
Perhaps due to that NOT AT ALL BEING WHAT IT’S ABOUT
I will cut Elon Musk I swear
Perhaps due to that NOT AT ALL BEING WHAT IT’S ABOUT
I will cut Elon Musk I swear
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The Iliad has lived in my head for my entire life and it has never occurred to me that it is about “fighting for princesses”
Perhaps due to that NOT AT ALL BEING WHAT IT’S ABOUT
I will cut Elon Musk I swear
Perhaps due to that NOT AT ALL BEING WHAT IT’S ABOUT
I will cut Elon Musk I swear
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Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
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football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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Say what you will about Tom Brady, but there is a non-zero chance he also would do this
According to Tony Romo, the Patriots are "DTF."
DETAILS. TOUGHNESS. And they FINISH.
Why, what else do you think he meant?
DETAILS. TOUGHNESS. And they FINISH.
Why, what else do you think he meant?
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Say what you will about Tom Brady, but there is a non-zero chance he also would do this
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wild how they’re both right
November 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
wild how they’re both right
In all seriousness why would you put tariffs on things which cannot be produced domestically? I’d say this is economic policy written in crayon by a third-grader, but that would be selling third graders short.
Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.
Grocery prices have jumped up, and there's no relief in sight
Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
In all seriousness why would you put tariffs on things which cannot be produced domestically? I’d say this is economic policy written in crayon by a third-grader, but that would be selling third graders short.
Reminder: this is all happening because Republicans are dying to raise people’s health insurance premiums.
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Military officials tell troops 168 commissaries could close next month
Officials say commissaries will be open through Thanksgiving, but many stateside stores could close soon after due to the government shutdown.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Reminder: this is all happening because Republicans are dying to raise people’s health insurance premiums.
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They panic about fertility rates, say families need to be having more children, then they starve the kids and ensure health insurance is impossible to afford. Plus all the other things that would dissuade people from having kids: houses impossible to buy, diminishing middle class, ICE everywhere.
Breaking News: The Trump administration told states to undo any steps to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, threatening financial penalties if the states do not comply. It was unclear how that would affect the program.
Trump Live Updates: Airport and SNAP Benefit Disruptions Amid Shutdown
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November 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
They panic about fertility rates, say families need to be having more children, then they starve the kids and ensure health insurance is impossible to afford. Plus all the other things that would dissuade people from having kids: houses impossible to buy, diminishing middle class, ICE everywhere.
This is truly outrageous and in a just world the Heritage Foundation would be destroyed much like USAID was, never to darken anyone’s life again.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This is truly outrageous and in a just world the Heritage Foundation would be destroyed much like USAID was, never to darken anyone’s life again.
Overall, I found FRANKENSTEIN to be beautifully designed, well executed and just all right. I did enjoy the moment where Victor’s brother tells him “YOU’RE the monster.” GDT taking zero chances on subtext.
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Overall, I found FRANKENSTEIN to be beautifully designed, well executed and just all right. I did enjoy the moment where Victor’s brother tells him “YOU’RE the monster.” GDT taking zero chances on subtext.
Watching GDT’s FRANKENSTEIN and my initial impression is that it’s gorgeously designed and a little boring.
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Watching GDT’s FRANKENSTEIN and my initial impression is that it’s gorgeously designed and a little boring.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
Talarico follows almost 4,000 people and is almost certainly not in charge of his own Instagram account, just to make this all the more absurd.
James Talarico, a Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate who has put his faith at the forefront of his campaign, follows several adult film performers, escorts and OnlyFans models on Instagram, according to an Axios review.
Faith-forward Texas Senate candidate follows porn actors, escorts online
James Talarico has become a sensation in Texas politics by talking about how his Christianity is the basis for his progressive politics.
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November 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Talarico follows almost 4,000 people and is almost certainly not in charge of his own Instagram account, just to make this all the more absurd.
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the only time the filibuster has ever been used to protect a particular interest of a set of states is to kill anti-lynching and civil rights legislation. that's it.
November 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
the only time the filibuster has ever been used to protect a particular interest of a set of states is to kill anti-lynching and civil rights legislation. that's it.
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries
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Fox goes with real-world math over WH gaslight.
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Fox goes with real-world math over WH gaslight.
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Lynda Carter's "Wonder Woman" premiered 50 years ago, on November 7, 1975. (This was the pilot movie, with the first season of the weekly series premiering the next April.) @lyndacarter.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Lynda Carter's "Wonder Woman" premiered 50 years ago, on November 7, 1975. (This was the pilot movie, with the first season of the weekly series premiering the next April.) @lyndacarter.bsky.social