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Jeremy Kahn
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NLP (the nerdy kind). Wrong-half Jew. Privilege-traitor.
Linguist. Empiricist. Rager against machines. formerly #indymedia
Also, #comics, #SFF #scifi […]

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Oof the AI world is eating its own here

Somehow Google's AI got the wrong end of the stick about Meta's AI and Murati's AI and who is getting hired by whom

everybody's grifting all the time forever
SCREENSHOT Al Overview The user's information is incorrect; the reverse is true. A co-founder of Mira Murati's startup, Andrew Tulloch, was recently hired by Meta, not the other way around. Meta has, in fact, been actively attempting to poach talent from Murati's company, Thinking Machines Lab, but most of those offers were initially rejected. (FOLLOWED BY) BI Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com Meta's Soumith Chintala Joins Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab 4 days ago - Soumith Chintala, the creator of PyTorch, has joined Mira Murati's Al startup Thinking Machines Lab. Chintala's move comes amid major ...
November 23, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Just so you can guess where the "AI" thing is headed, look at this listing from a local community college

"AI made simple for everyday life"

... And look at what comes next:

"Flaggers certification"

The exciting thing (for bosses) is the idea that […]

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> PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT /// Al Made Simple for Everyday Life Think Al is just for techies? Think again! This fun and accessible course breaks down the basics of ChatGPT and shows how anyone can use it to simplify tasks, get inspired, or learn new things. No jargon, no pressure-just practical, creative ways to bring Al into your world. This online (self-paced) class is on our Canvas learning platform and it includes a 1-hour, one on one tutoring session to address your specific questions/needs. Instructor: (scribbled out to protect the poor bastard) 1/5-3/20, Online (self-paced) & 1-hr tutoring, $99 Flaggers Certification Earn your WA State DOT flagging card (valid 3 years in WA, OR, ID, MT) and an American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA) card (valid 4 years in 48 states) in one day! Must be 18+ with
November 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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[the billionaires are making more billions from building bullshit engines, so I am going to claim in the face of all possible evidence that]

the Peter Principle was named after Peter III

born Karl Peter Ulrich von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp
Duke of […]

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Portrait of Peter III of Russia. He is an eighteenth century man (wig and lace collar and all) with a dopey look on his face and is holding a scepter. Portrait by Lucas Conrad Pfandzelt, c. 1761
November 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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My friend — who *works* for King County — asked Google, back in September, which Council members are up for re-election this November.

Google told her that the election in November 2025 had ALREADY TAKEN PLACE.
Screenshot google.com Al Overview W+7 Five King County Council seats were up for election in 2025: Districts 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. All King County Council members serve four-year terms. The general election was held on November 4, 2025. 2025 King County Council races District 1: Incumbent Rod Dembowski ran unopposed and was re-elected. District 3: Incumbent Sarah Perry faced challenger Rob Wotton, a Snoqualmie City Council member, and was re-elected. District 5: With incumbent Dave Upthegrove having resigned to become State Lands Commissioner, this was an open seat. In the August primary, the race was led by SeaTac City Council member Peter Kwon and lawyer Steffanie Fain. District 7: Incumbent Pete von Reichbauer was re-elected. District 9: Incumbent Reagan Dunn was re-elected. King County Executive In addition to the council races, there was also an election for King County Executive, in 2025. With...
October 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Always reassuring 😬 when you see a misspelling in the kid's athletics login page

come on soccer dads, don't roll your own crypto
Your password has been sucessfully updated. [sic on the number of "c"s in "sucessfully"
September 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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New band name just dropped

and bonus eponymous album cover

…in my rental car paperwork
A folded piece of paper with the words "Intentionally Blank" in two places.
September 22, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Two things of note
(1) The men's room at SeaTac offers free menstrual products, good for them
(2) #facesinthings
A stainless steel dispenser on a tile wall. It appears to have two eyes (buttons, marked FREE) looking audience right, and the dispenser real looks like a mouth. If you zoom in you can see that the thing in the dispenser tray is a box of menstrual pads
September 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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My kid made this for me at camp

He says "this is what a real #wug looks like, dad."
#linguistics
A beaded keychain in the form of a lizard or gecko But all the beads are small square letter-cubes. It looks like a crossword puzzle origami-ed itself into a lizard
September 12, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Jobs at https://alignmentalignment.ai/jobs

CAAAC is an open, dynamic, inclusive environment, where all perspectives are welcomed as long as you believe AGI will annihilate all humans in the next six months. We offer competitive salaries and generous […]

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Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers Jobs About our team CAAAC is an open, dynamic, inclusive environment, where all perspectives are welcomed as long as you believe AGI will annihilate all humans in the next six months. We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits, including no performance management because we have no way to assess whether the work you do is at all useful. We are currently actively hiring for the following roles: (Page ends, because they're not actually hiring)
September 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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This list of Unicode character name errata feels like back-matter for some SF novel

https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn27/

Via @quat
Screen capture U+0F0A TIBETAN MARK BKA- SHOG YIG MGO This character is used to indicate that a document is addressed to a superior (the "petition honorific"), but the Tibetan name actually indicates a superior addressing an inferior ("starting flourish for giving a command"). U+0F0B TIBETAN MARK INTERSYLLABIC TSHEG The tsheg mark is not restricted to intersyllabic usage, and would have been better named Tibetan mark tsheg. U+0F0C TIBETAN MARK DELIMITER TSHEG BSTAR This character is not a delimiter, but is a non-breaking version of the tsheg mark (U+0F0B) that is used exclusively between the letter NGA (U+0F44) and the shad mark (U+0F0D)
September 3, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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At least I know he comes to me for wisdom, when he hits the important questions of adolescence
An SMS conversation Dad, who is the Looney Tunes character you were telling me about Wat Gotta give me more details than that you know the rooster? He says, I say, I say Foghorn Leghorn!
August 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Oh HELL no this isn't me

A friend saw this in a bookstore and sent it to me

I'm gonna have to talk to Naomi Klein about dealing with pernicious doppelgangers
A book cover on a bookshelf in a shop Supertitle "A survival guide to our superpowered future" Main title Mastering AI author Jeremy Kahn IT AIN'T ME, Y'ALL
August 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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I sent this message to a recently departed-involuntarily work colleague

It reads like the @mountain_goats lyrics, and I'm kinda proud of that
A Signal message ---- And all that is to say I am getting out of here one day And you're on my short list when I set something up on the outside --- There's a single heart attached as a reaction
August 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Never really realized before, but Kubrick was pretty clearly a Klingon in shallow cover

Via @AkaSci
https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/114919463758619281
Director Stanley Kubrick on the set of the Warner Bros movie 'The Shining' in 1980. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty (Kubrick's prominent forehead is super obvious here, and he resembles a ST:TNG Klingon with slightly less forehead ridging.)
July 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Spouse always wins

Words With Friends gets it.
[Words with Friends final score banner] 300 Jeremy 164 Dorothy "Dorothy won the game"
July 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Out at The Gorge with my sweetie tonight
A warning sign saying "Moshing & Stage Diving is Not Advised" In the background, THE GORGE amphitheater sign rises behind
July 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Haha, Gmail has gotten dumber

I ordered a pizza (for takeout !)

and Gmail offered to "track your packages"
Screen capture. [[[Things in brackets]]] are circled instead ------- ocred screenshot begins -------- Your Order Has Been Received Inbox Order from [[[Zeeks West Seattle]]] Expected today Order placed Estimate from Zeeks West Seattle # Order number [[[Track your packages in mail]]] Google can show you updates from shipping carriers.
July 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Seen on a street sign post in #westseattle

#luigi
A two inch sticker of a mock California license plate The license number is LUUUIGI
July 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Hanging out on #alki Beach with my kid, who's ... sorta getting stood up on his first thing-that-looks-like-a-date

(Long story, but a lot of it revolves around twelve year olds not communicating well with each other or their respective driving adults)

#seattle
The Statue of Liberty, on Alki Beach, seen from one-quarter profile (slightly behind Lady Liberty, on her left). In the distance you can see the Seattle Space Needle across Elliott Bay. The sky and bay are a deep blue.
July 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Preparing a Western hemisphere indigenous vegetable for a holiday that is problematic today.

Distress flag seems right.
A circular steel colander in a steel sink, with a bunch of potatoes in it. The colors of the potatoes are assorted dark purple, light red, and a yellowish white The same potatoes, arranged to look vaguely like the American flag upside down; the Distress flag. The blue square is made of the dark purple potatoes, and the red and white stripes are made from red and white potatoes
July 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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I found this magical but f*cked-up thing at Georgetown Music

This is not what a "double bass" usually means
The body of a four string electric bass which seems to be attached to *another* four string electric bass pointing in the other direction
June 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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I get a kick out of talking to experienced software engineers just after they have encountered ML research scientists for the first time
June 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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For my next modern culture and media studies work, I'd like to use "THE SIMPLE NEW SOCIO-ECONOMICGEOPOLITICALBIO-HISTORICAL APPROACH" (TSR 1987)

(The eighties were a very weird time, y'all.)

(I found this in WCA #26, ZODIAC ATTACK)
A yellowed page from a 1987 comic book Page reads (via Google OCR) gaz-ə-'ti(ə)r\n: THE SIMPLE NEW SOCIO-ECONOMICGEOPOLITICALBIO-HISTORICAL APPROACH TO D&D GAMEPLAY. Even if you've been to the Grand Duchy of Karameikos before, you probably didn't know their vampires could walk under the sun and that sheep are not the only things that are sheared ..Thanks to the Gazetteer, an exciting new con-cept in gaming aids, now there's nothing you won't know about the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS world. The Gazetteer is a fascinat-ing encyclopedia of knowledge. It lays out a complete histori-cal, economical, geographi-cal and sociological overview of each country in the D&D gaming sys-tem. Places you may have visited in the past but never knew much about. Dungeon Mas ters and players alike will now have access to a rich tapes-try of background material in this series, which will eventually cover every country in the D&D world. And each 64-page sourcebook includes a full-size four-color map of the surrounding territories. As well as several ready-to-play adventures for any character level. The Gazetteer is bound to revolutionize the way you play your DUNGEONS & DRAGONS game. It's history in the making. Available at most toy, hobby and bookstores. DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, D&D and the 15kogu are trademarks of TSR. Inc 1587 TSR, Inc. All Rights Reserved. GAZ I DUNGEONS & DRAGONS GAZETTEER OFFCUE GAME ACCESSORY The Grand Duchy of Karameikos The cover of West Coast Avengers #26 Subtitle ZODIAC ATTACK! A man dressed in orange chainmail and a half cowl mask stands on a table? with legs spread apart in the Marvel power stance. In one hand he brandishes a vaguely Prince-symbol-shaped thing which is emitting rings of Kirby dots. In the background, facing us, are silhouettes of various other supervillains (presumably zodiac) and in the foreground facing this guy and away from us are the assembled West Coast Avengers Of note: iron Man is in his red and silver suit, which was a thing briefly in the late eighties. Hawkeye and Mockingbird are here, in canon still married. Also present: Hank Pym, Wonder Man, Moon Knight, and Tigra
June 12, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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I know I shouldn't still be using this curséd website

but what is happening here with your lesson planning, Duo

Employ humans to write QA validations to keep these questions from being this silly

And stop using LLMs. Please.
A Duolingo puzzle page The question reads Choisis l'option qui veut dire « parfait » [Pick the option that means "parfait"] The words below are available for selection: Un chien parfait. Je l'ai vu en ligne, papa. [A perfect dog. I saw it on line, dad?…] Both instances of the word "parfait" are circled in blue
June 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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@catandgirl is so brilliant.

https://socel.net/@catandgirl/114189949826454819

took me like three tries to get the punchline here
Girl: "We just wanted jobs and homes" Cat: "Well your first mistake was naming them after dipshits in turtlenecks"
June 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM