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man, whoever came up with "vale of tears" really nailed it

08.03.2026 04:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I know the feeling. I've spent a couple of years slowly curating my RSS feed to contain [almost entirely] indie and nonprofit news sources, although I do still have a couple of oligarch-owned ones (mostly in tech because it's hard to find good indie tech news).

08.03.2026 02:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i've been on a crusade for the last year to foreground the ownership of media outlets; oligarchs do not want a well-informed populace, and the news sites they own pursue that end.

unrelated, Patch is owned by private equity ghouls Hale Global Capital

07.03.2026 22:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

2 placards: can park at any curb and in front of driveways
3: can double park
4: can park in intersections
5: can use car to push other cars out of good spaces
6+: can park on top of other cars (use placards to build ramp)

07.03.2026 19:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"AI guy asks disingenuous pro-AI question, film at eleven"

07.03.2026 19:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Roman salute - Wikipedia

and it's not even actually a Roman salute, the depiction of that salute was invented by a French artist in 1784 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_s...

07.03.2026 18:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the space of "useful" cases is FAR smaller than it seems because it's really only the cases with truly valuable output (meaning no hidden flaws like unknown bias and lies) *and no evil externalities*. all the big LLMs fail this on every count.

07.03.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"useful" is the load bearing word here. in the rare use cases where LLMs seem like they're producing output that isn't obviously worthless, there's still problems: training bias, anodyne output, lies, mass copyright theft, high power usage, enabling the oligarchs, etc.

07.03.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

you'll probably be replaced by a touchscreen

07.03.2026 15:12 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man is sitting on a couch with the words `` that 's a shame '' written on the screen . ALT: a man is sitting on a couch with the words `` that 's a shame '' written on the screen .
07.03.2026 04:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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i mean

07.03.2026 02:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i'm just like, isn't there a straight-shootin' blue-collar dude we could nominate who *never* had any nazi tattoos

06.03.2026 20:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i too, am undefeated in MMA! my 0-0 record means i have a DIVIDE_BY_ZERO_ERROR win percentage

05.03.2026 21:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i will give fifty bucks to any GOP senator who questions MWM in a way that makes him lose his shit during a live broadcast of his confirmation hearings

05.03.2026 21:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
"Oh no! Anyway" meme

"Oh no! Anyway" meme

news: gas prices skyrocketing

ev drivers:

05.03.2026 21:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

lousy Smarch smeetings

05.03.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

if you think that's bad, i know of a person named Bruce Wayne Campbell, and no i am not joking

05.03.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

[Frank Wilhoit has entered the chat]

05.03.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

[2055. I'm on my deathbed, shaking with Parkinson's, demented from Alzheimer's]

ME: *chuckles* this was a triumph

05.03.2026 17:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

so, he's a horse loose in a Barnes & Noble

05.03.2026 16:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Diner owner, music teacher

05.03.2026 02:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

rcv doesn't present fields like that, you end up with several from each party plus a bunch of other parties

04.03.2026 23:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

oh, so that's what the extra $500 billion was for

04.03.2026 23:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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04.03.2026 21:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

and the world indeed will end, just like it did the thousands of other times that prominent Christian leaders assured everyone that the world was going to end any day now

04.03.2026 21:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

John Carpenter's Romeo + Juliet

04.03.2026 21:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ranked-Choice Voting eliminates the need for primaries.

04.03.2026 21:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

iddqdidkfaidspispopd

04.03.2026 17:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

now I'm wondering if enhanced penalties should attach not to the crime committed, but to the office held while committing it

04.03.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

we need the Butlerian Jihad, but just for algorithmic feeds

04.03.2026 03:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0