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Como todos los hombres de Babilonia, he sido procónsul; como todos, esclavo; también he conocido la omnipotencia, el oprobio, las cárceles.

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this is fundamentally accurate but it is actually kind of easy to meet this bar
Also, anytime you are thinking about calling the cops, ask yourself, "will this situation be improved by (more) guns?" If the answer is no, don't call them.
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
a brief timeline
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
thread. interesting research

but also, they named their french LLM Baguettotron

i hope it sticks. i hope Baguettotron is the best LLM out there and everyone has to say its name
Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
new theory is that elon musk is actually a low parameter llm
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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“An Autocomplete Psychotherapist with no duty of care”
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
in trying to fathom how he runs his companies more or less successfully I basically decided he was a clout demon who could smell good nerd vibes and walk towards them.

he knows blade runner is cool but has never seen Blade Runner. he knows Diablo is cool but does not play diablo
so joyce carol oates owned elon so hard he's been taking out ads on X saying he has in fact read a book and watched a movie and he's clearly spiraling and unable to recover from such a vicious own i say to my wife as she frantically pulls out of the driveway
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
one of the major uses of LLMs is as an unlicensed, cheap therapist. the people who sell them largely don't think about this fact at all.
Roon's trolley problem
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
if she gets him again maybe she can get him to do this about books and video games
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
does anyone have preferred LLM coding or mcp setups? available tooling is an absolute zoo, i am not even planning to use this to code i am just fiddling mcp servers and wondering what a good baseline setup would be
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
i have given myself some kind of shin splint adjacent problem that runs halfway down the top of my foot
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
discourse on certain subjects is a fucking no-man's-land full of unexploded ordinance where everyone is twitchy and i should probably be more mindful of that
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
i would like everyone who thinks chuck schumer was not coordinating this to explain why they think that is plausible
KILMEADE: Schumer says he's voting no. Did you do this outside leadership?

SHAHEEN: No. We kept leadership informed throughout.
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
still de facto in charge
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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i think ezra is basically on the money here
Opinion | What Were Democrats Thinking?
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
this is a terrifying development and should be opposed as much as possible
lmfao he knows he's unpopular so he's trying to hit the affordability button by sending out checks with his name on it again
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
a long spoon
Wait did...they not get what they wanted last night? What is happening?

*TRUMP OFFICIALS SAY SUPREME COURT SHOULD KEEP FOOD AID ON HOLD

*TRUMP: ALL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS MUST GET BACK TO WORK, NOW
*TRUMP: AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS NOT WORKING WILL BE 'DOCKED'
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
america basically has an old timey freudian psychological complex about israel and is incapable of being remotely fucking normal about it
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
you actually have to end the American republic to end the senate. it is literally the only institution which is explicitly impossible to reform even by amendment

you can however create as many states as you like
Part of me thinks “yeah, primary every last one of these fuckers!!!”

And the other part of me thinks “eh, fuck it. We’re gonna need wholesale constitutional reform anyway. Just abolish the damn Senate.”
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Van Hollen Senate Minority Leader vote when
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
senate candidate passing the test
Senator Schumer has failed to lead this party in one of its most critical moments, and Americans will pay the price. It’s time for him to step down from leadership and make way for a new generation willing to fight for the people instead of the powerful.
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week

Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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i suspect there’s some truth to this and also why we should be EXTREMELY skeptical that senate dems as currently constituted would ditch the filibuster should they ever have a trifecta again
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
speaking of sinema, you might notice that zero republican senators have basically swapped parties because they're just in it for the clout.

the primaries are not vicious enough
Everyone compares Fetterman to Manchin. The better comparison is Sinema. Manchin, as much as he annoyed Democrats, focused entirely on West Virginia-related issues.
john fetterman campaigned on not being the next joe manchin, duping a lot of people in the process, when the reality is and always has been that joe manchin was always a reliable healthcare vote in the senate
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM