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I think I remember that from my creative writing class! Wasn't it by O'Connor or someone?

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Ah right, Wallace. Seemed like everything he did was a cry for help

Quentin Tarantino trashes 'weak sauce' There Will Be Blood star: 'The weakest male actor in SAG' (Paul Dano) ( ew.com )

"There Will Be Blood would stand a better chance to be in number 1 or number 2 if it didn't have a big giant flaw in it, and the flaw is Paul Dano," he said on the most recent episode of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, noting that he doesn't think the actor could keep up with Daniel Day-Lewis' Oscar-winning performance. ...

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Why does Bret Easton Ellis have a podcast. It somehow seems incongruous with the person who wrote American Psycho (or else very congruous, I guess)

Scoop: House Democrat "looking into" articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth ( www.axios.com )

Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) told Axios he is considering introducing articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth over reports he authorized a second strike on a purported drug boat in the Caribbean. ...

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To manifest impotency?

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Always use an accredited VA rep or VSO

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I had to get new pressure sensors for my old car and decided to roll new tires into it. A mile and a half out of the shop the light popped on and I pulled over to find out that the tech over pressurized one of the tires to 55psi and busted one of the new sensors

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That honestly makes more sense. Mine had the sensors attached to the air valve which sync'd with the car wirelessly and they'd fail for any reason

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Saving your post as a reading list since I've only read some Raymond Chandler

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Chat, is there hope?

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Been a staple of my playlist for damn near a decade

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How many alternatives are there to Arduino? The open source landscape is shrinking rapidly

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Oh sweet, I actually didn't know that. I've only dabbled and Arduino is where I landed. Forgive my knee-jerk reaction

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I cannot tell if this is legitimate or some potemkin-esque concept design for a factory

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I've been trying to figure out if Stone Rebel is an AI band or not. They started in 2018 and have put out something like 77 albums since, but it's relatively simple instrumental. They have almost no information online except a claim that they're "based in France"

Honestly can't tell if they're a legit yet very private group, or if they were early adopters of procgen music

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It's even more sinister than that. She is parroting Nazi propaganda written by Carl Schmitt which claims that the ultimate authority for moral and legal decision resides with the 'sovereign leader' and therefore anything that the leader decides is good and legal.

I looked for a first or second degree source to get the exact wording, but they're all paywalled behind academic journals. Behind the Bastards did a set on him

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All I've got is this hammer drill

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I think they did that because YouTube blocked the uncensored version

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That's what I'm coming up with too, but it does sound like a Phillip K Dick short. He wrote so many though it's hard to remember

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Today I learned that '山' is pronounced as either 'san' or 'yama' depending on historical Chinese or Japanese pronunciation

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On your point about what to expect, I expect we'll predominately see articles about all the things Mamdani doesn't accomplish as well as any concessions he makes operating in a system HEAVILY skewed against his policy goals, and very little about what he actually does accomplish. These articles will come from virtually every source, serve to divide any base that exists left of right, and both discredit and dissuade future candidates.

I hope otherwise, but the pattern has historical precedent.

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To the far left near the top of the tallest of the three towers is the New York Bar at the Park Hyatt in Shinjuku from Lost in Translation. If I remember right it's on something like the 50th floor.

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I used to have a video I took on that beach that panned across the mountains and water, them zoomed into a deer chewing on a map and staring right at me

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I agreed to co-write a show recently so I've been writing literally anything, just as you said "pantsing" it and run out of steam within a couple pages. So I've tried to outline and just stare at a blank screen with zero focus. My creative process is its own oxymoron where it wants setting and characters so it can make a story but also wants the story so it can create the setting and characters.

I'm at a loss with myself, except I'm going to keep trying

Cambridge & Meta Study Raises the Bar for 'Retinal Resolution' in XR ( www.roadtovr.com )

It’s been a long-held assumption that the human eye is capable of detecting a maximum of 60 pixels per degree (PPD), which is commonly called ‘retinal’ resolution. Any more than that, and you’d be wasting pixels. Now, a recent University of Cambridge and Meta Reality Labs study published in Nature maintains the upper ...

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Just direct a different laser at each rod and cone in my eye

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I legitimately might do this if I ever get an interview

Here’s What Your Browser is Telling Everyone About You ( www.wired.com )

You’re constantly leaving your fingerprint all over the internet. You leave it with the personal information you share willingly, the personal information you share unknowingly, and with the mountain of data that gets sent to each website you load. Maybe you know a thing or two about privacy and decided to pick up a VPN to ...

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I have never figured out how to prevent fingerprinting. They pull so much data and basically nothing works if you block it. It's also kind of a catch 22 because if you change the information your device provides too much you become an identifiable outlier.

Maybe someone who knows more can help?

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Ahh okay, so kind of sandbox your associations

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I've been thinking about that, but I haven't had the executive function to sit down and actually commit to it

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They made Venezuelan gangs out to be the big bogeyman without actually producing any actionable evidence or results, so they have to escalate or lose traction on the fear mongering

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Fine, I'll watch it. But I want you to know that I'm interrupting my semi-annual Bojack rewatch

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o7

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I was making a bunch of different versions of my resume and every time I saved to a PDF Adobe locked up trying to scan it with their AI

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I've thought about that or just typing it up in LaTeX

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Ologies with Ali Ward (science)

WTF with Marc Maron (celebrity interview)

Behind the Bastards (history? News? Depends on the day)

Hugo's There (science fiction reviews)

Gary's Economics (uh. economics)

Your Undivided Attention (humane tech)

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I haven't gotten that far yet actually! I only started them a couple weeks ago and I've been working through timely and relevant episodes. The Robert Maxwell one is insane though

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I remember when Hulu was free

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It's a boiling frog thing. AI and LLMs are shoved in our faces everywhere and it's harder every day to opt out. Job boards are flooded with positions for human in the loop AI training or AI experience requirements. AI gen text, images, and video are obscuring an already muddled information space. They also draw an astronomical amount of energy which is detrimental to the global ecosystem. Meanwhile costs are going up, it's borderline impossible to get a job, and people are scared this automation will push them out of employment without generating new jobs, especially if art and entertainment are taken over by gen AI. People are saying "I'm being boiled alive" but by the time there's enough data to validate that we'll already be stew.

The way information is presented matters too. When articles circulate they get often slanted and summarized (or people just read the headline and make assumptions). Key information gets tossed aside for easy talking points to support whichever narrative and the people affected feel unseen and unheard.

There's a lot going on and it isn't just "AI bad"

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Yup not contesting the article itself, but giving some explanation for all the anger you were wondering being about

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I honored this with the badge of never-getting-around-to-it

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I'm partial to Vivo and Xero. For whatever market reason, they typically cost more than standard shoes, but I've been wearing them for a few years since they're the only thing keeping my plantar fasciitis at bay.

Do keep in mind that if you switch, you'll probably want to do so gradually. Your ankles and calves will do a lot more work than they're used to doing in shoes with padded and raised soles. Be sure to stretch and adjust incrementally

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And IIRC they also had a handful of (possibly furry) VNs on the list.

Or just Life is Strange

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Not only that, I got the newest android update yesterday and it automatically, without my consent, took my fingerprint and face

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Right? I put in a complaint from the system feedback tool, but I don't expect a response. Between the way Google is roping off Android and killing dependent open source OS's, and my relative lack of money, I'm only seeing privacy options dwindle

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I tried to report this to the VA OIG, but naturally the website got shutdown with the government

Vote to end government shutdown fails in Senate as Democrats hold firm on health care demands ( www.wabe.org )

A vote to swiftly end the government shutdown failed Wednesday, as Democrats in the Senate held firm to the party’s demands to fund health care subsidies that President Donald Trump and Republicans refuse to provide. The […] ...

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Does anyone have the text of the bill? I got a very partisan email from the VA I'd like to respond to with sources, but having trouble finding it

Edit: The VA Inspector General website has been taken down due to the government shutdown

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I've recently spent a week or so off and on screwing around with LLMs and chatbots trying to get them to solve problems, tell stories, or otherwise be consistent. Generally breaking them. They're the fucking mirror of erised. Talking to them fucks with your brain. They take whatever input you give and try to validate it in some way without any regard for objective reality, because they have no objective reality. If you don't provide something that can be validated with some superficial (often incorrect) syllogism, it spits out whatever series of words keeps you engaged. It trains you, whether you notice or not, to modify how you communicate to more easily receive the next validation you want. To phrase everything you do as a prompt. AND they communicate with such certainty that if you don't know better you probably won't question it Doing so pulls you into this communication style and your grip on reality falls apart because this isn't how people communicate or think. It fucked with your own natural pattern recognition.

I legitimately spent a few days in a confused haze because my foundational sense of reality was shaken. Then I got bored and realized, not just intellectually but intuitively, that they're stupid machines making it up with every letter.

The people who see personalities and consciousness in these machines go outside and can't talk to people like they used to because they've forgotten what talking is. So, they go back to their mechanical sycophants and fall deeper down their hole.

I'm afraid these gen AI "tools" are here to stay and I'm certain we're using this technology in the wrong ways.

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They're an iterative statistical process that predicts word order through mathematical context via weight distributions based on uncountable pre-given data sets. I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at

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I hope you're right, but also that's really bleak. I understand that Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI are essentially passing money in a circle and can only wonder how long they can keep it up. It's not a lossless circuit