Tom Fornander
@tom4nander.bsky.social
Midwestern business goof. ;D since 1923.
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Conflating machine learning tools with GenAI and LLMs are such a favorite of these bad faith arguments, too. Like, machines studying X-rays to better understand cancer is not the same thing as Open AI swallowing all my books via piracy to regurgitate sentences that sound similar. It's just not.
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Conflating machine learning tools with GenAI and LLMs are such a favorite of these bad faith arguments, too. Like, machines studying X-rays to better understand cancer is not the same thing as Open AI swallowing all my books via piracy to regurgitate sentences that sound similar. It's just not.
YES this is perfect because I keep thinking that he was in Season 1 of American Vandal anyway, the connection finally makes sense!
Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda will write, executive produce and showrun the #Superman movie TV spinoff to star Skyler Gisondo, who played Daily Planet photographer and unlikely ladies’ man Jimmy Olsen: bit.ly/4hSZvnR
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
YES this is perfect because I keep thinking that he was in Season 1 of American Vandal anyway, the connection finally makes sense!
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Everything about making video games is harder than you think.
November 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Everything about making video games is harder than you think.
Depressing end to the FlyQuest season. That second game was a jungler's nightmare! Interested to see who sticks around for next year.
October 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Depressing end to the FlyQuest season. That second game was a jungler's nightmare! Interested to see who sticks around for next year.
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Vaccines are safe and effective.
Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.
When you want information, ask your doctor.
It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.
Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.
When you want information, ask your doctor.
It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.
October 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Vaccines are safe and effective.
Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.
When you want information, ask your doctor.
It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.
Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.
When you want information, ask your doctor.
It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.
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I don’t care if its name is Marill and has been for 25+ years, it will always be Pikablu in my heart.
October 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I don’t care if its name is Marill and has been for 25+ years, it will always be Pikablu in my heart.
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This bodes well.
My colleagues at Bloomberg report that the $20 billion debt in the EA deal is expected to be rated single-B — meaning it is considered a "junk" loan, or one that is high-risk and speculative, typically offering high interest rates. Which the new EA will have to pay
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
September 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This bodes well.
Would you believe...it's still pretty funny even today? Some canned bits get stale across episodes but Smart's such a good buffoon.
“Get Smart” premieres 60 years ago tonight, on NBC.
“I was sick of looking at all those nice, sensible situation comedies,” Mel Brooks said. “They were such distortions of life. .. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first.”
“I was sick of looking at all those nice, sensible situation comedies,” Mel Brooks said. “They were such distortions of life. .. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first.”
September 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Would you believe...it's still pretty funny even today? Some canned bits get stale across episodes but Smart's such a good buffoon.
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“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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This is in the replies and it demonstrates a real issue which is if you find profundity from an AI, you’re responding to something profound a human being wrote that was vacuumed up and what ends up happening is you thank AI and not only don’t thank the person, you have no idea they were involved
August 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is in the replies and it demonstrates a real issue which is if you find profundity from an AI, you’re responding to something profound a human being wrote that was vacuumed up and what ends up happening is you thank AI and not only don’t thank the person, you have no idea they were involved
I guess the Orange Box didn't count since I got it physically? I paid $5 for BG&E and it was still too much. Wish the PA games finished in the same style, but oh well!
August 16, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I guess the Orange Box didn't count since I got it physically? I paid $5 for BG&E and it was still too much. Wish the PA games finished in the same style, but oh well!
Got 2nd in a 64 person TFT tournament yippee! This set has been pretty fun so far, love the different vertical options.
August 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Got 2nd in a 64 person TFT tournament yippee! This set has been pretty fun so far, love the different vertical options.
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The order of science:
1.) Discover there’s a deadly problem
2.) Work for years to solve it
3.) The problem may not be gone forever, but we’ve won
4.) People forget the deadly problem actually existed
5.) People decide this must mean the science to solve it was a hoax
6.) The deadly problem returns
1.) Discover there’s a deadly problem
2.) Work for years to solve it
3.) The problem may not be gone forever, but we’ve won
4.) People forget the deadly problem actually existed
5.) People decide this must mean the science to solve it was a hoax
6.) The deadly problem returns
Yeah. In 2013 I door-to-door canvass to get my city to fluoridate the water. Conversations went like this:
Me: I used to be an environmental chemist.
Them: 😀
Me: I used to test drinking and wastewater.
Them: So you’re against fluoride?
Me: No, I support it!
Them: 😡 (woo jibberish)
Me: I used to be an environmental chemist.
Them: 😀
Me: I used to test drinking and wastewater.
Them: So you’re against fluoride?
Me: No, I support it!
Them: 😡 (woo jibberish)
August 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The order of science:
1.) Discover there’s a deadly problem
2.) Work for years to solve it
3.) The problem may not be gone forever, but we’ve won
4.) People forget the deadly problem actually existed
5.) People decide this must mean the science to solve it was a hoax
6.) The deadly problem returns
1.) Discover there’s a deadly problem
2.) Work for years to solve it
3.) The problem may not be gone forever, but we’ve won
4.) People forget the deadly problem actually existed
5.) People decide this must mean the science to solve it was a hoax
6.) The deadly problem returns
Even with some level weirdness, The Megas concert on the GDQ stream was awesome. Such a great band, still gotta see them live someday...
July 12, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Even with some level weirdness, The Megas concert on the GDQ stream was awesome. Such a great band, still gotta see them live someday...
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The internet should have more echo chambers. I never logged onto point and click adventure game fan forums in the early 2000s thinking “I sure hope someone on here hates point and click adventure games, for balance.”
July 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The internet should have more echo chambers. I never logged onto point and click adventure game fan forums in the early 2000s thinking “I sure hope someone on here hates point and click adventure games, for balance.”
This guy stays in his lane (economics) and we respect him for that. Also a savant in keeping the word "no" fresh for an entire interview.
June 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This guy stays in his lane (economics) and we respect him for that. Also a savant in keeping the word "no" fresh for an entire interview.
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play killer7!!!!!
it’s often only $5 on steam and it’s one of the greatest and most unique games ever made
it’s often only $5 on steam and it’s one of the greatest and most unique games ever made
Happy 20th anniversary to killer7!
Originally released in Japan on the GameCube and PS2, June 9, 2005.
In the name of Harman… 🤫
Originally released in Japan on the GameCube and PS2, June 9, 2005.
In the name of Harman… 🤫
June 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
play killer7!!!!!
it’s often only $5 on steam and it’s one of the greatest and most unique games ever made
it’s often only $5 on steam and it’s one of the greatest and most unique games ever made
Every time I read a news story about them, I'm glad I chose OSU as my nemesis. They're constantly making some bad choices!
Paying thousands of dollars every year to learn how to get dumber every day of your life
“‘Through AI Fluency, Ohio State students will be ‘bilingual’ — fluent in both their major field of study and the application of AI in that area,’ Ravi V. Bellamkonda, executive vice president and provost, said.” 😵
June 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Every time I read a news story about them, I'm glad I chose OSU as my nemesis. They're constantly making some bad choices!
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May 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM