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I think I need to take an indefinite break from on here. I think it’s really doing a number on my executive function and attention span

Take care of yourselves, folks

18.08.2025 04:24 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
Paul Musgrave Jul 16

One side says that LLMs lack knowledge of the world because they're extensively trained on text and have no model of the real world, the other side says LLMs have PhD-level intelligence. Guys, guysβ€”you're both right

Paul Musgrave Jul 16 One side says that LLMs lack knowledge of the world because they're extensively trained on text and have no model of the real world, the other side says LLMs have PhD-level intelligence. Guys, guysβ€”you're both right

17.08.2025 14:21 πŸ‘ 144 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

This is gross hyperbole but goddangit it's gets the feel of this day and age perfectly.

17.08.2025 15:49 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Too many people on the Right have way too much free time on their hands. Learn a new language. By a fucking jigsaw puzzle.

16.08.2025 20:04 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

One thing I did not include in my profile of Trump's BLS nominee, E.J. Antoni, is his boosting anti-Churchill far-right histories!

16.08.2025 20:01 πŸ‘ 1159 πŸ” 293 πŸ’¬ 58 πŸ“Œ 56

one of the smart things that Newsom is doing here is implicitly calling out the insanity of how much Trump has been normalized by media by forcing them to think about what it looks like when somebody else does it

17.08.2025 15:56 πŸ‘ 2841 πŸ” 567 πŸ’¬ 61 πŸ“Œ 25

I can pretty much guarantee all this is because WH people have been driving around and noticing that it doesn't look like every street corner is crawling with troops and is getting very mad about that and is now drawing up every single friendly NG

17.08.2025 01:49 πŸ‘ 113 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

I don’t keep track

If one or both sides want to mute/unfollow/block me for because they question my commitment to Sparklemotion, so be it

17.08.2025 15:28 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Trump administration out there creating massive new job opportunities in a long-neglected industry.

17.08.2025 11:05 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Third Amendment enthusiasts it is OUR MOMENT

17.08.2025 02:56 πŸ‘ 984 πŸ” 133 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 12

crimes trump was an outlier and should not have been counted

17.08.2025 05:57 πŸ‘ 188 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The Appalachian Trail. You invented the Appalachian Trail

17.08.2025 11:25 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œHow would you solve this non-linear differential equation?”

β€œThat’s a linear differential equation, specifically Bessel’s Equation…?”

17.08.2025 15:12 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

FWIW this has been going on for at least 20 years!

17.08.2025 15:10 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Conservatives are the aggressors in the war against the United States let's get make sure this is an absolute established fact. They've turned against everything.

17.08.2025 06:39 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Just got back from my closest brush with American patriotism of the year (the county fair) and man two things stand out

- the GWoT warped our sense of patriotism so it’s indistinguishable from jingoism
-US Christians’ Persecution complex is so, so grim

17.08.2025 04:37 πŸ‘ 255 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 3

Because the message we want Dem electeds to internalize is, β€œHey, if a total asshole like Newsom can get all this praise for fighting Trump, just thing what it could do for me.”

17.08.2025 14:19 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Can we at least wait until after the midterms to start the Dem primary Doscourse?

17.08.2025 14:16 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a woman is looking at her phone and the word blocked is behind her ALT: a woman is looking at her phone and the word blocked is behind her
17.08.2025 14:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Depends on if it’s a girl snake duh

17.08.2025 14:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yup

Also major media orgs are heavily concentrated in urban areas, and even minor ones (like local TV stations) tend to be in the local metros so urban crimes get way more media traction

17.08.2025 14:15 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Punctuating β€œstraight” correctly would exhaust the Strategic Scare Quotes Reserve

17.08.2025 14:13 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

iirc at about this time in 2017 people were getting hot and bothered for Avenatti 2020

17.08.2025 13:29 πŸ‘ 771 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 9

We all owe Cathrine the Great’s horse an apology for mocking its trauma.

17.08.2025 13:38 πŸ‘ 82 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I hate when I think I’m taking TUMS and it’s really surprise sildenafil and now I have heartburn and a boner than can cut glass

17.08.2025 14:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A chum ad with the text "Walgreens Hides This $1 Generic Viagra - Here's The Aisle It's Really in" with a picture of an old guy in a mustache grimacing with rage and crossing his fingers

A chum ad with the text "Walgreens Hides This $1 Generic Viagra - Here's The Aisle It's Really in" with a picture of an old guy in a mustache grimacing with rage and crossing his fingers

Particularly bleak chum ad

17.08.2025 13:51 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

I think Yglesias may have a point about Dems being out of touch on the death penalty, and think we should consider it for government officials committing treason and crimes against humanity

17.08.2025 14:06 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The further down this road we go, the more likely it is that the *moderate* position will be lifetime prison terms for Adminstration members and senior DHS personnel

17.08.2025 14:05 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

And he openly admired similar brutality by Saddam Hussein.

He just loves despots, and desperately wants to be one himself.

16.08.2025 19:22 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0