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Colton Lott misses his big weight takeout badly, but then—

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“If a word can heal, a word can wound,” the witch said. “If a hand can kill, a hand can cure.”

Noem is out largely due to massive public activism, especially in MN, Democrats expressing increasing interest in impeachment and investigations, and resulting media coverage.

Keep pushing. These people are not invincible or immune from public opinion.

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

BTW it is EXTREMELY common for academic papers to declare Lara Croft the first playable female game character (a very easy fact to debunk). As a grad student I wrote a paper that traced every appearance of this "fact" to a single paper, which is why you don't only engage with academic texts!!

As part of an AI committee at my university, I spent this weekend trying out Claude (Opus 4.6) for writing, and I have to say, far beyond its hallucinations and the usual complaints, it is a baffling experience cognitively. I want to be more precise in my evaluation here than I usually am about AI.

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I mean calling dead soldiers “fake news” is something that would immediately end any other administration. A democrat would never say this but if they did Fox News would never talk about anything else ever again.

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

NEW: Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to use AI to translate existing Wikipedia articles into other languages after they discovered these AI translations added AI “hallucinations,” or errors, to the resulting article.

okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

‘The Believer’ and Me “None of us is innocent,” I wrote in my diary at age 19 and a half. I had just left Israel’s Holocaust memorial/museum, Yad Vashem. “I want to cry, but that is pornography. Rich Jews. Rich fucking Jew...

"None of us is innocent. But the answer to suffering is not to inflict more suffering, on others or yourself. You cannot suffer your way to innocence. You cannot make a better world by acting like those who would destroy it."

ICE under Trump 2.0 built an unprecedented media operation - deploying videographers to raids, pumping out edgy social posts, swiping pop music for hype videos - and the main metric for evaluating its impact shows that Americans now hate ICE more than ever

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

Uh huh, OK, so, is there like a manager or someone more in charge we can speak to?

If they make a movie of the third book in 2032, and my projections are accurate, the cast list for that film will just be a giant sticker that says "Oops! All Sorbos!"

I can't recall a single instance in my life when a US military operation was this unpopular at the *beginning* of it.

Even if an operation wasn't necessarily popular, a large number of people were at least willing to "wait and see".

Screenshot of news article printed in Yahoo from Jewish Insider: “Platner faced blowback this week for boosting a social media comment about a looming war with Iran by Stew Peters, a neo-Nazi influencer who has frequently espoused antisemitic tropes and engaged in Holocaust denial. Platner's team said the post was made in error and "immediately" removed it after learning it elevated a "despicable account." In late January, however, Platner sat for a lengthy online interview with Nate Cornacchia, a retired Green Beret who has also promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories. Near the end of their hour-long conversation, Platner, a fellow military veteran, called himself "a longtime fan" of Cornacchia's YouTube channel, "Valhalla VFT," and said it was "an absolute pleasure being" on the show.”

Screenshots of the Valhalla VFT YouTube channel thumbnails include vile racist images of the “Somali fraud scandal” and “robberies and looting” due to SNAP benefits being cut, depicting black people robbing stores

Graham Platner, the guy who had to cover his Nazi tattoo to save his senate campaign in Maine, went on the YouTube channel “Valhalla VFT” in January where he said he’s a “longtime fan of the show.” Check out these vile racist thumbnails from the channel & reporting on the antisemitic host.

Folks are naming many classic examples. The first one I thought of that I've not seen yet in the replies is A Midnight Clear, which I had never watched before viewing it for my "holiday" movie blog this year - definitely a heavy, serious take on war and the ways it burdens combatants.

Meteorological winter is done. It was top 5. Maybe top 3 warmest when the numbers are finalized. You wouldn’t know it or even believe it if you live in the East.
We heard lots about the cold and snow in the East, but the West BAKED as the warmest winter on record… 1/

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

WE HAVE CROWD SINGING, ACTUAL FULL-THROATED SINGING, MY FAVORITE THING IN THE WORLD

Lit's "My Own Worst Enemy" last period and Blink-182's "All the Small Things" in the third period.

This is all I've ever wanted.

Torrent games are SO MUCH FUN. 🥰

We have the first SELLOUT in @pwhltorrent.bsky.social history! @climatepledgearena.com is packed to the brim tonight, with just over 17,000 fans excitedly welcoming back their team.

#SeattleTorrent #PWHL #SeattleSports

Kate Wilhelm's The Killer Thing (1967)? Or by stories do you mean just short fiction?

Ban "A.i." from all government service.

This is hilarious and also deeply insulting racist bullshit.

To hell with these wicked companies and their substandard, racist products.

Tweet from Ashton Pittman • @ashtonpittman.bsky.social Americans who can't afford beef a year into President Donald Trump's second term "have so many proteins to choose from,"U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Mississippi Republican, said in response to a question about steep food costs. www.mississippifreepress.org/americans-wh...

Tweet from FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. .. You can buy liver or the cheap cuts."

The Republican midterms platform: "here's what you can eat now that you can't afford hamburger"

Dept. of Defense shoots down Customs and Border Protection drone near El Paso: Officials Ranking members of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure released a statement on the incident on Thursday.

This is how screwed up everything is. The DOD shot down a CBP drone which cause the FAA to shut down the airspace around El Paso. We have stupid idiots in all levels of all agencies thanks to this Regime.
If we go to war, GOD help us.
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So all of this is in a thread about a Claude tool someone built to link to NLRB opinions, and it's just such a massive misunderstanding of how law works.

Ignore the clowns who come on here periodically to say Bluesky's irrelevant. Just this week I saw @katelynburns.com @ziibiing.com and @posters-madness.bsky.social raise tens of thousands of dollars for mutual aid for trans people and immigrants through this website for dorks.

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the rent fund for students at my alma mater has $36,000 in rent requests for tomorrow and only $7,500 in the bank

if we raised $10,600 with a crystal shrek what kind of crazy thing do i need to do to raise $28,500?

Your picks all make sense, but if you're right, it's a bummer there's no room for Ron Hextall, an aggressive, hostile, creative presence in goal for the Flyers for a decade. The guy's skill combined with boisterous hostility to anybody getting near his net sure feels like Philly athlete, to me.