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I love this https://crankgpt.com/?utm_source=Robin_Sloan_sent_me Crank GPT

Marjane Satrapi is no more. That comic changed so many lives.

any of youse know what happened to @[email protected] their account seems to be suspended.

Who wanna lend me their couch in stockholm in august

[I promise you will not regret looking at this ant] One more "look at this ant" I promise you will not regret. Cataulacus latissimus. This is similar to the turtle ants of North America, but look at this tiny creature. Made to be flat. The flat body may help […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

Real praxis is buying two in one copy of quran and Bhagavad Gita

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My name is Maximus Grumpus. Commander of the Armies of “For Heaven’s Sake,” General of the Legions of “Not This Again,” loyal servant to peace and quiet. Disturber of naps, destroyer of small talk. And I will have my complaints, in this life or the next.

People commit when commitment lowers their anxiety. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-costco-theory-of-the-internet/?ref=westenberg-newsletter The costco theory of the internet by @joanwestenberg | I like this idea, a lot.

Kierkegaard says obedience is important because tomorrow is so different from today and bewildering, that if we dont obey from yesterday, we get lost making new decisions daily.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sushubh/116660294564344593 what in the

So, you know when they say there's no such thing as too much garlic, or if the recipe calls for 3 cloves of garlic use at least 5, etc. well, #til that that only applies to food you cook, in salads, there's definitely such a thing as too much garlic. Also, unrelated, do not try garlic […]

whale humpers were the people who realized that some whales humpback

this one hurt

birds are a form of winged lizard with specialized flying equipment.

do you visually rehearse stuff? like seeing your self standing in the board room, making a presentation etc.? or does it happen as a monolog in your head, how often do you do this?

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"And a'n't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm!. I have ploughed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And a'n't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man—when I could get it—and bear de lash as well! And a'n't, I a woman? I have borne thirteen chilern […]

Stopping the system fans to heat up the system to shift clock phase by a few femtoseconds is one of the less hinged ideas I’ve seen come out of CERN lol. (AFAIU this was an experiment for a software retrofit to hardware otherwise incapable of such adjustments)

I've seen a lot of think tanks. are there also do tanks? or act tanks. or think-and-act tanks? (serious question)

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116553395984214488 “Summary: A compromised dependency in the JavaScript ecosystem led to credential theft, which enabled a supply chain attack on a Rust compression library, which was vendored into a Python build tool, which shipped malware to approximately 4 […]

Lots of people talking about buying solar panels. Alas if you look online there's a lot of retailers with all sorts of panels for sale, not all of which are honest. Want an easy way to check if the listed power output is plausible? Example using a 50w panel listed on Amazon. It's 370x820mm. Step […]

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https://www.philosophybench.com/ Philosophy bench categorizes and quantitatively describes the different ethical approaches encoded in language models. It's pretty fun and kinda concerning. but then almost all of ethics is. #aiethics

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is a dictionary and embedding?

i find the world wondrous, nature unbelievably beautiful and the sound of music a miracle but above all what astounds me is just how fucking stupid i can be.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ZachWeinersmith/116528370611748484 I swear to god I'll pistol whip the next guy who says shenanigans

Six environmental activists from around the world have been awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize. For the first time, all six winners are women. One of them is Yuvelis Morales Blanco, who helped stop fracking along Colombia’s Magdalena river. Yuvelis grew up in Puerto Wilches, where “dark […]

i'd be warmer to discovery if it didnt contain diarrhea like this

today i met PI who wanted to know why we are doing this thing on a new expensive server instead of the one that they have and i was unprepared and decided that the place to begin explaining would be what embarrassingly parallel problems are and after about 3 minutes of me doing that my friend […]

RE: https://plush.city/@bengesko/116520839380101133 be weird, friends.

when i sat down on the system i had 5 tabs open. now i have 30. they breed so fast.

RE: https://social.coop/@ntns/116498662020141884 So so proud that we’re doing this on May Day amidst endsem week. It’s going to be NTNS Film Club’s third movie after Voice of Hind Rajab and Die is Caste!! Also we need a name. Ritwik Ghatak film club is already taken by an adjacent group 🤪

Bottou, Léon, and Bernhard Schölkopf. "Borges and AI." arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.01425 (2023). https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.01425 #philosophy #ai

she watches me sweating straining huffing through it and i see that glint in her eyes and i know that next time I'm gonna be doing this one legged.

Watched Hail Mary in theater and it was sooo cute.

how are your gradient-trained hierarchical mappings between normed vector spaces doing today?

My #book #thewildheartofindia is now out in #paperback! A revised edition, with some new #essays and a lovely new cover by Sartaj Ghuman. Do take a look! Available in a number of #indiebookstores like #Higginbothams (photo) and #Champaca (link) […] [Original post on biodiversity.social]

the kind of ai accelerationism i can get behind is the bubble popping. since some of you know economics and stuff, would the bubble pop faster if everyone used these big4 LLMs more and more and more or will it pop faster if there's lower usage?

I Believe Nothing by Kathleen Raine. #poem

it's a little weird that we call failure to respond to a drug/regime "treatment resistance" and not "therapeutic failure" or something like that isn't it?

is it possible to wake up weighing more than you did when you went to sleep? No right? so does all weight-gain happen during the day? is that why vampires are so skinny?

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