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here's a Sora generated video of gymnastics
December 11, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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in computer news: lol, lmao

github.com/ultralytics/...

it looks like github actions got tricked into running bash through a malicious branch name

which was used to ship mining malware inside python packages

incredible
Discrepancy between what's in GitHub and what's been published to PyPI for v8.3.41 · Issue #18027 · ultralytics/ultralytics
Bug Code in the published wheel 8.3.41 is not what's in GitHub and appears to invoke mining. Users of ultralytics who install 8.3.41 will unknowingly execute an xmrig miner. Examining the file util...
github.com
December 6, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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i can see about a dozen ways in which it can go south, but i am enjoying the first season of FROM
November 30, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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Love that the LBJ museum is commemorating the ninth anniversary of George Costanza visiting
November 21, 2024 at 12:53 AM
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in Season One Episode Seventeen of "7th Heaven," the antagonist is a man who sells ferrets on the black market
September 13, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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US Patent 12064695 (Sony)
August 29, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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I wrote a new post: Generative AI is a hammer and no one knows what is and isn't a nail

It's a long one so I'll post the cliffsnotes below.

Generative AI systems are marketed as universal problem solvers, hammers for which problem in the world is a nail.

I don't think that's a correct view.

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Generative AI is a hammer and no one knows what is and isn’t a nail
This analogy is going to seem a bit tortured but bear with me. Imagine a world without hammers. You’re driving nails into the wall with…
medium.com
February 22, 2024 at 6:16 PM
!jazbot whereami
November 10, 2023 at 7:18 AM
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Oldie, but goodie:

Isaac Chotiner interviewed Rep. Mike Johnson, now candidate for Speaker of the House, about efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Why Representative Mike Johnson Thinks That the Election Isn’t Over
The Louisiana congressman explains why so many House Republicans still won’t accept Joe Biden’s victory, and what he believes he’s learned about Donald Trump’s dedication to the Constitution.
www.newyorker.com
October 25, 2023 at 2:01 PM
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There are much bigger things out there but for me it’s these local “Insane Man Now In Charge Of County Mosquito Control Instead Of Epidemiologist” type stories that really drive home the feeling that the wheels are coming off
California county abuzz after far-right figure appointed for mosquito control
Store owner in Shasta county who has elevated conspiracy theories about mosquitoes and vaccines gets seat on local board
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2023 at 3:19 AM
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i hate using new apps
September 19, 2023 at 9:10 PM
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these lotr pins from 1960 are making me cry lmfaoooo
August 26, 2023 at 10:17 AM