Shuey

I got fooled by someone who is famous for being a conman until it was too late. Here’s why that’s actually smarter than seeing it coming:

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

Every damn day

Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen. Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again: When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?" If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing! But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else. It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

Watched all three LotR films with my partner’s family today. Life is good! Merry crimbas everyone

dumping the epstein files right before christmas is incredible news for cousins

Asses to asses,
Butts to butts

Unfamiliar

We devoured this season! This guy sucked. Can’t get enough of Orna!

It sucks so much even to READ the gibberish he dribbles out much less hear his voice, it’s just so tedious

How far into andor did you get?! It’s my favorite show of the year and I want to talllllk about it.

I haven’t seen The Pitt yet, so I can’t comment on that show. But compared to Severance S2, I’d argue Andor S2 was far more deserving.

I think they got Severance exactly right this year by honoring Tramell Tillman and Britt Lower (both incredible performances!) and nothing else :)

Meee

A series of tweets from Politico senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney: BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored. YOUNG: "I am hesitant to draw this conclusion, but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it – that this represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out." MORE YOUNG: "It is palpably clear that these directives and the set of terminated grants here also are designed to frustrate, to stop, research that may bear on the health – we’re talking about health here, the health of Americans, of our LGBTQ community. That’s appalling." YOUNG still going: "I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable. I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this ... I ask myself, how can this be?" "I have the protection that the founders wrote into the constitution, along with imposing upon me a duty to speak the truth in every case. I try to do that. What if I didn’t have those protections. What if my job was on the line, my profession... Would I have stood up against all this? Would I have said, 'you can’t do this?' You are bearing down on people of color because of their color. The constitution will not permit that." "Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?"

Spitting FIRE holy shit 🔥

Ahyuk

Seeds and Dear Science are my favs 🥹

Carolyn is the greatest. 🥹

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

Literal Steve Bannon???? I thought this was a joke. Shameful

Earthquake huge rise up!

Great list!

Kendrick’s performance was amazing

Kendrick certainly just made all the worst people in this country mad, so that’s some nice icing on the cake

Who are the top thinkers on the absolute terror of modern phone-based sports betting?

What is the discourse around this? Haven’t seen it

We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨

Are gamers Bluesky? Who’s talking gaming here

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2024

A video countdown

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