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The thing to understand is that an LLM is not in any sense reading and understanding your words. It is not interpreting and producing “factual claims”; it is interpreting and producing “completions that are possible.”
April 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The thing to understand is that an LLM is not in any sense reading and understanding your words. It is not interpreting and producing “factual claims”; it is interpreting and producing “completions that are possible.”
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“The trip was intended to serve as grist for Burke’s comic work, which has often revolved around the artist’s travels across 🇺🇸… This wasn’t Burke’s first trip to the U.S., [but when she] attempted to cross the 🇨🇦 border[, she was] incarcerated by immigration authorities for the next 19 days.”
U.K. cartoonist Rebecca Burke on her ICE detainment: 'No one should be here' - The Comics Journal
On Feb. 26, 2025, Rebecca Burke became a prisoner of the United States immigration system. Burke, a 28-year-old comic artist from Wales, had come to the U.S. on a tourist visa on Jan. 7, in the waning...
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April 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
“The trip was intended to serve as grist for Burke’s comic work, which has often revolved around the artist’s travels across 🇺🇸… This wasn’t Burke’s first trip to the U.S., [but when she] attempted to cross the 🇨🇦 border[, she was] incarcerated by immigration authorities for the next 19 days.”
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Interlibrary loan looks like magic and works off of the labor of dedicated library employees. Now under attack by boring people who don't read.
Re: new EO ✂️ the Institute for Museum + Library Services to its “statutory functions”: public libraries are mostly locally funded, but state libraries, tribal libraries, interlibrary loan, etc, rely heavily on IMLS
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March 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Interlibrary loan looks like magic and works off of the labor of dedicated library employees. Now under attack by boring people who don't read.
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A D&D villain for early in your campaign: local businessman that everyone thinks has 20 INT AND 20 WIS but actually only has a massive hoard of gold pieces
February 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A D&D villain for early in your campaign: local businessman that everyone thinks has 20 INT AND 20 WIS but actually only has a massive hoard of gold pieces
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before tiktok,
before bluesky,
before twitter,
before meta,
before it all,
there were sewers.
after all, there will be sewers.
before bluesky,
before twitter,
before meta,
before it all,
there were sewers.
after all, there will be sewers.
January 19, 2025 at 3:44 AM
before tiktok,
before bluesky,
before twitter,
before meta,
before it all,
there were sewers.
after all, there will be sewers.
before bluesky,
before twitter,
before meta,
before it all,
there were sewers.
after all, there will be sewers.