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Americans are accustomed to peace, coupled with slowly-expanding justice; the fascists at the helm today are promising (perverse) justice, but without peace. A society without peace is not a society.
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When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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The president needs your help! He's collecting diarrhea for his plane. He has a plane that's 99% toilet with other people's diarrhea in it and he wears a little crown when he drives it around. Brave patriots please send your loose stool to your favorite diarrhea president for his diarrhea plane.
October 19, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The president needs your help! He's collecting diarrhea for his plane. He has a plane that's 99% toilet with other people's diarrhea in it and he wears a little crown when he drives it around. Brave patriots please send your loose stool to your favorite diarrhea president for his diarrhea plane.
Broch Taurok Makto
September 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Broch Taurok Makto
Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality—another technology that has entered zombie mode in the hype cycle - it’s going nowhere, and the venture capital has moved on, but it shuffles along as if it is still alive and still looking for purpose
“A lot of the time you’re around other people, so it’s good to just be able to type without anyone seeing.”
September 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality—another technology that has entered zombie mode in the hype cycle - it’s going nowhere, and the venture capital has moved on, but it shuffles along as if it is still alive and still looking for purpose
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In a society, survival is collectivized
There’s no society without that
There’s no society without that
September 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
In a society, survival is collectivized
There’s no society without that
There’s no society without that
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"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
April 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
Americans are accustomed to peace, coupled with slowly-expanding justice; the fascists at the helm today are promising (perverse) justice, but without peace. A society without peace is not a society.
August 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Americans are accustomed to peace, coupled with slowly-expanding justice; the fascists at the helm today are promising (perverse) justice, but without peace. A society without peace is not a society.
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I wonder if the federal patrols descending on DC will be including white-collar crime in their crackdown. You know, like pulling over fancy cars and auditing their taxes.
That could have a real impact.
That could have a real impact.
August 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I wonder if the federal patrols descending on DC will be including white-collar crime in their crackdown. You know, like pulling over fancy cars and auditing their taxes.
That could have a real impact.
That could have a real impact.
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[extremely on-mushrooms voice] hear me out. what if we destroy capitalism by feminizing having money
August 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
[extremely on-mushrooms voice] hear me out. what if we destroy capitalism by feminizing having money
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Pointing out how safe DC by showing the low crime rates isn’t going to convince conservatives because “people breaking the actual law” isn’t what they mean by “crime”. To them, “crime” includes merely seeing black people, unhoused people, and anyone else the bigots clutch pearls about as “crime”
August 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Pointing out how safe DC by showing the low crime rates isn’t going to convince conservatives because “people breaking the actual law” isn’t what they mean by “crime”. To them, “crime” includes merely seeing black people, unhoused people, and anyone else the bigots clutch pearls about as “crime”
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Long-Time Employee Will Always Be Remembered For Sticking Around Too Long theonion.com/long-ti...
July 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Long-Time Employee Will Always Be Remembered For Sticking Around Too Long theonion.com/long-ti...
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A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”
July 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”
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He has refused his Assent to Laws…
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world…
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury…
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences…
A Tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world…
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury…
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences…
A Tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
July 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
He has refused his Assent to Laws…
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world…
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury…
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences…
A Tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world…
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury…
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences…
A Tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
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Medicaid is the primary payer for 63% of nursing home residents. That's your mom, dad, grandma and grandpa.
So when the Senate Republicans cut nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid this weekend, think: are YOU going to be paying those nursing home bills, or are you going to be changing dad's bedpans?
So when the Senate Republicans cut nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid this weekend, think: are YOU going to be paying those nursing home bills, or are you going to be changing dad's bedpans?
June 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Medicaid is the primary payer for 63% of nursing home residents. That's your mom, dad, grandma and grandpa.
So when the Senate Republicans cut nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid this weekend, think: are YOU going to be paying those nursing home bills, or are you going to be changing dad's bedpans?
So when the Senate Republicans cut nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid this weekend, think: are YOU going to be paying those nursing home bills, or are you going to be changing dad's bedpans?
That phrase the US prez uses - “thank you for your attention to this matter” - demonstrates perfectly the malignant narcissist mindset. Most view as appreciation for work generated by the communication and audience willingness to add to the routine. He simply observes the attention you gave him.
June 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
That phrase the US prez uses - “thank you for your attention to this matter” - demonstrates perfectly the malignant narcissist mindset. Most view as appreciation for work generated by the communication and audience willingness to add to the routine. He simply observes the attention you gave him.
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they hired me to edit your stories
June 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
they hired me to edit your stories
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During a Friday morning town hall in Parkersburg, Iowa, Republican Sen. Joni Ernst sarcastically responded to members of the audience concerned about the Trump administration's potential cuts to Medicaid.
May 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
During a Friday morning town hall in Parkersburg, Iowa, Republican Sen. Joni Ernst sarcastically responded to members of the audience concerned about the Trump administration's potential cuts to Medicaid.
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As an anthropologist, if the only thing I ever did all day was remind people that before the privatization and commodification of land humans had way more free time and peace of mind, it would still not do a dent in how deep this myth has burrowed into people's colonized minds like a parasite
Liberalism is pretty good actually, it's why we have the time and peace of mind enough to even be having these discussions. Every tangible step towards civil rights is founded on the stability brought about under liberalism
April 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM
As an anthropologist, if the only thing I ever did all day was remind people that before the privatization and commodification of land humans had way more free time and peace of mind, it would still not do a dent in how deep this myth has burrowed into people's colonized minds like a parasite
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People sometimes ask "what are the crimes" and let me tell y'all, as a lawyer, that intentionally copying, altering, destroying, or disrupting government computer systems is super-duper illegal if you don't have a spotless paper trail authorizing it, which none of these DOGE people do.
my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison
This is insane and everyone involved needs to be sued into oblivion and then go directly to jail
April 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
People sometimes ask "what are the crimes" and let me tell y'all, as a lawyer, that intentionally copying, altering, destroying, or disrupting government computer systems is super-duper illegal if you don't have a spotless paper trail authorizing it, which none of these DOGE people do.
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SCOOP: DOGE is getting audited.
Elon Musk's DOGE Is Getting Audited
The General Accountability Office's audit examines DOGE’s handling of data at a number of federal agencies, according to sources and records reviewed by WIRED.
www.wired.com
April 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
SCOOP: DOGE is getting audited.