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Today, Google told me that no woman has ever been Secretary of the Treasury. Which is interesting because Janet Yellen held that job just last year.
Thing is, I'm not even sure this is an LLM hallucination. It may be that Google just scraped an outdated page.
But regardless, think dor yourself
Thing is, I'm not even sure this is an LLM hallucination. It may be that Google just scraped an outdated page.
But regardless, think dor yourself
November 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Today, Google told me that no woman has ever been Secretary of the Treasury. Which is interesting because Janet Yellen held that job just last year.
Thing is, I'm not even sure this is an LLM hallucination. It may be that Google just scraped an outdated page.
But regardless, think dor yourself
Thing is, I'm not even sure this is an LLM hallucination. It may be that Google just scraped an outdated page.
But regardless, think dor yourself
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Ok, Aeneid discourse time because the statement below is correct, but also, I think, significantly incomplete in ways that understate how good Vergil is as an author (he is very good).
Aeneas is supposed to be a self-righteous prig because Vergil is deeply ambivalent about the Augustan project.
Aeneas is supposed to be a self-righteous prig because Vergil is deeply ambivalent about the Augustan project.
Virgil wrote FanFic.
And while parts of his epic are very good, Aeneas himself comes across as a self-righteous prig.
#ISaidWhatISaid
And while parts of his epic are very good, Aeneas himself comes across as a self-righteous prig.
#ISaidWhatISaid
September 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Ok, Aeneid discourse time because the statement below is correct, but also, I think, significantly incomplete in ways that understate how good Vergil is as an author (he is very good).
Aeneas is supposed to be a self-righteous prig because Vergil is deeply ambivalent about the Augustan project.
Aeneas is supposed to be a self-righteous prig because Vergil is deeply ambivalent about the Augustan project.
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Political violence is bad because civil conflict is absolutely fucking terrible for everyone. It empowers the worst people within a society and feeds into endless cycles of escalating violence that get harder and harder to stop.
September 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Political violence is bad because civil conflict is absolutely fucking terrible for everyone. It empowers the worst people within a society and feeds into endless cycles of escalating violence that get harder and harder to stop.
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Rising political violence is bad, even when it happens to someone I do not like, whose views I find reprehensible.
The road of endless escalation leads nowhere good for society.
The road of endless escalation leads nowhere good for society.
September 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Rising political violence is bad, even when it happens to someone I do not like, whose views I find reprehensible.
The road of endless escalation leads nowhere good for society.
The road of endless escalation leads nowhere good for society.