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You've noticed this with search results.
You search for something, and Google helpfully answers as if you searched for something entirely different that just happens to use some of the same words.
Try it, search for stuff about *hypo*tension
You've noticed this with search results.
You search for something, and Google helpfully answers as if you searched for something entirely different that just happens to use some of the same words.
Try it, search for stuff about *hypo*tension
When it first appeared, there was a really good example of this:
The internet is chock full of equations for converting Fahrenheit to Celsius and vice versa.
Chatgpt stole all of this, and trained on it
It'd give you the wrong answer about an equation that only looked similar to a C-F conversion
The internet is chock full of equations for converting Fahrenheit to Celsius and vice versa.
Chatgpt stole all of this, and trained on it
It'd give you the wrong answer about an equation that only looked similar to a C-F conversion
January 6, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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You've noticed this with search results.
You search for something, and Google helpfully answers as if you searched for something entirely different that just happens to use some of the same words.
Try it, search for stuff about *hypo*tension
You've noticed this with search results.
You search for something, and Google helpfully answers as if you searched for something entirely different that just happens to use some of the same words.
Try it, search for stuff about *hypo*tension
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The Trump admin is what happens when you run the Bush admin through AI.
January 3, 2026 at 5:04 PM
The Trump admin is what happens when you run the Bush admin through AI.
No cheating. Reskeet with the most recent picture of your pet.
January 2, 2026 at 1:12 AM
No cheating. Reskeet with the most recent picture of your pet.
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
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something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
December 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
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Another dozen or so authors could request a correction like this. "In Covid's Wake" egregiously misrepresents research and ignores the scientific consensus throughout. Embarrassing that it's being praised by credible outlets.
Requested a correction from @princetonupress.bsky.social. Let's see what happens.
December 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Another dozen or so authors could request a correction like this. "In Covid's Wake" egregiously misrepresents research and ignores the scientific consensus throughout. Embarrassing that it's being praised by credible outlets.
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Still unreported, should be investigated:
ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”
ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”
Huge win for Richard Noticias LA, TikTok journalist shot by ICE. Criminal charges dismissed with prejudice, meaning can’t be refiled.
ICE did him DIRTY. Repeatedly. Inhumane treatment, basically medical torture.
Still in ICE custody on immigration case. They owe him unconditional release.
ICE did him DIRTY. Repeatedly. Inhumane treatment, basically medical torture.
Still in ICE custody on immigration case. They owe him unconditional release.
Federal judge dismisses indictment against TikToker shot by ICE, citing constitutional violations
Days before Carlitos Ricardo Parias was set to to go to trial for assault on a federal officer, a federal judge dismissed the case against him. The judge cited the deprivation of Parias' access to cou...
www.latimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Still unreported, should be investigated:
ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”
ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”
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Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.
December 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.
This is the dream; but in practice, companies that are too stupid and short-sighted to insist on good code are also too stupid and short-sighted to fix their code to be more maintainable later.
Later, those people who *didn't* gleefully lobotomize the part of their brain that does programming, will be hired back as consultants at many many times their yearly salaries to do what for several generations was considered to be a minimum baseline of competency, to fix that unmaintainable code.
December 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This is the dream; but in practice, companies that are too stupid and short-sighted to insist on good code are also too stupid and short-sighted to fix their code to be more maintainable later.
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The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't.
Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure
Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure
"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat."
www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry
The Agriculture Department says it is withdrawing a plan to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products.
www.seattletimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't.
Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure
Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure
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look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
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people should ABSOLUTELY act now and call both the committee's office as well as their own reps [ www.badinternetbills.com ] but please do not get it twisted and think that its all coming down to the wire and there is going to be a final vote on ANY of these bills tomorrow
Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
www.badinternetbills.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
people should ABSOLUTELY act now and call both the committee's office as well as their own reps [ www.badinternetbills.com ] but please do not get it twisted and think that its all coming down to the wire and there is going to be a final vote on ANY of these bills tomorrow
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the inexplicable reality of Gorsuch has always been that he has a deep well of empathy for the victims of atrocities as long as those atrocities are at least 150 years old and no interest in stopping exactly the same behavior if it’s happening currently.
He still seems weirdly correct about big natives cases (Brackeen, San Carlos Apache, Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, Herrera v. Wyoming, Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians)
December 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
the inexplicable reality of Gorsuch has always been that he has a deep well of empathy for the victims of atrocities as long as those atrocities are at least 150 years old and no interest in stopping exactly the same behavior if it’s happening currently.
The solstice charity stream starts in just over an hour.
I'm doing my solstice charity stream again this year, this time for World Central Kitchen @wck.org .
The stream will be from 4:20 PM CST (nice) on Sunday Dec 21 to 7:15 AM CST on Monday Dec 22 at www.twitch.tv/boombutton .
The stream will be from 4:20 PM CST (nice) on Sunday Dec 21 to 7:15 AM CST on Monday Dec 22 at www.twitch.tv/boombutton .
Twitch
Twitch is the world
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December 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The solstice charity stream starts in just over an hour.
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This is something i have wanted to write about for a while. The PR around the term AI defining it as LLMs has obscured all of the technologies like Machine Learning that were called AI not that long ago and actually have changed numerous production processes.
Here's another way the intentional PR conflation of the term AI with all ML is undermining academic work:
I'm collab'ing on an archive management project that involves developing an ML tool to analyze texts.
The answer to asks for funding/resources has often been, "Just use chatgpt/copilot/etc.!"
I'm collab'ing on an archive management project that involves developing an ML tool to analyze texts.
The answer to asks for funding/resources has often been, "Just use chatgpt/copilot/etc.!"
I agree that the LLM makers are at fault for confusion around the term "AI," and I think it's entirely intentional. I think they want to be able to equivocate around the term, and say things like, "We're curing cancer," when their chatbot is clearly not.
December 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This is something i have wanted to write about for a while. The PR around the term AI defining it as LLMs has obscured all of the technologies like Machine Learning that were called AI not that long ago and actually have changed numerous production processes.
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From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.
December 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.
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On a meta level, feels like we need a way for an excellent piece by a sitting congressman to get more eyes than the trolling dreck he’s responding to.
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
On a meta level, feels like we need a way for an excellent piece by a sitting congressman to get more eyes than the trolling dreck he’s responding to.
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Folks can submit comments opposing these transphobic proposed rules here:
The Department of Health and Human Services has proposed a new set of rules attempting to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth nationwide.
Take action and tell HHS: No bans on gender-affirming care.
Take action and tell HHS: No bans on gender-affirming care.
Tell HHS: Hands Off Our Care
Take action with ACLU People Power!
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December 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Folks can submit comments opposing these transphobic proposed rules here:
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they will burn the world to ash before they blame capitalism even when they literally mention “profits over people”
Children are being exploited and abused because Big Tech consistently prioritizes profits over people.
Enough is enough. Time to sunset Section 230.
Enough is enough. Time to sunset Section 230.
December 19, 2025 at 3:54 AM
they will burn the world to ash before they blame capitalism even when they literally mention “profits over people”
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if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
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“call your congresspeople and beg them not to sentence trans people to death” is a regular feature of our politics now and it fucking sucks
December 18, 2025 at 4:05 AM
“call your congresspeople and beg them not to sentence trans people to death” is a regular feature of our politics now and it fucking sucks
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Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.