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Nothing could honor the memory of Alfred Nobel more than letting folks know what everyone else will say about them when they pass away.
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1 day ago
Y’know, it occurs to me that chatbots are like an advanced mirror test for humans. For those unfamiliar, a mirror test is when they put a sticker on an animal and put them in front of a mirror. If the animal removes the sticker, that means they have the awareness that the mirror is a reflection.
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Azure Emerald Empire
13 days ago
At Dark Home Depot buying Bar Keepers Enemy
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 16 hours ago
I'm literally writing about a set of Tennessee segregationists in the 1960s at the moment. I swear to God, they were not *this* comically and overtly racist.
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Devonian Stone
2 days ago
hey they just invented the jcpoa
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The River Hills Theatre, where it was shown in 70 MILLIMETER and FULL DOLBY SURROUND SOUND. Eventually it was moved to the Riviera next door where it would be HELD OVER AGAIN & AGAIN & AGAIN.
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Karl Bode
3 days ago
your software is not conscious, you absolute weirdo
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Your Software Is Not Sentient
Software simulacrum is not true consciousness, the stripper at the strip club doesn't actually love you, and nearly all of the biggest problems with "AI" have very ordinary human origins.
https://karlbode.com/your-software-is-not-sentient/
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Erin Biba
3 days ago
Fuck yes!!! Disabled people on the Met carpet this is representation!!
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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew
3 days ago
I have seen the Madame X looks and as a foremost Madame X scholar* my response is 😑 *I want to make a movie about the woman Sargent painted, Amelie Gautreau
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mtsw
4 days ago
George Lucas explicitly linked development of STAR WARS to this bit — he wanted the future technology to feel like the car enthusiasts he portrayed in AMERICAN GRAFFITI. It was a briliant insight to how to make a fantastical future full of fake sets and wacky props feel lived-in and thus real.
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Flying Mezerkis
4 days ago
Who is aware of the vessel?
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This year, The Puma got scratched from the race at the last minute. Seems like they’ll do anything to clear the field for the horses.
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5 days ago
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Kevin Morris
8 days ago
First of all, the most recent of these elections was SIXTEEN years ago. 2008 and 2012 were: * When Obama was on the ballot * Before Shelby County
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Doll Tearsheet
12 days ago
Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.
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David M. Perry
12 days ago
The raylan givens rule: If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.
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Tom
13 days ago
Some say space oceans will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted from the fish fryer, I hold with those that prefer fire. But if they were not battered twice I think I know enough of space To say for sublimation ice Is also great And would suffice.
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Quinta Jurecic
14 days ago
I had not realized that Werner Herzog was a WWE fan
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Helen Kennedy
15 days ago
So two things. Didn’t he announce a cease-fire? And didn’t he just abruptly fire his Navy secretary for unspecified reasons?
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WSJ AI-Powered Office Fish Vending Machine
15 days ago
It’s giving
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Lord Businessman II
15 days ago
Walk through the fucking store and look at what's locked up and tell me poor people are stealing that to survive the cold tonight
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News
17 days ago
They changed the headline from "There is a Contest Trump is Winning" to "‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’".
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Jay Kirell
19 days ago
It’s pretty cool to live in a place where things happen, where important people visit, that’s historical and modern and also surprisingly affordable and, oh yeah, is the most important city in any swing state so it’s guaranteed to close out election night for Dems. Philly is cool, y’all.
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jesse
20 days ago
I don't have a podcast
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Faine Greenwood
21 days ago
And once again, I'm in the category of people who do think LLMs have a lot of genuine potential - but I also think that from a cost-benefit perspective, slowing our roll and thinking through how we integrate them into society costs us little, while the current YOLO approach is far more dangerous.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
21 days ago
If this is the post that gets me cancelled IDC I said what I said.
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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root
21 days ago
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
22 days ago
one of my fav educational activities is to go to the Natural History museum and visit the dinosaur exhibit and remind them that we beat them
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He’ll cheer himself up by tearing down the West Wing.
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25 days ago
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Josh Marshall
26 days ago
www.counteroffensive.news/p/for-hungar...
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For Hungarian minorities, no good election choice
Although Péter Magyar can be a better option as a Hungarian Prime Minister for Kyiv, Hungarian minorities do not expect fundamental shifts in human rights if he wins.
https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/for-hungarian-minorities-no-good?utm_campaign=post
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emptywheel
26 days ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is only reference to ANY women in entire piece: "Representatives Ro Khanna and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez already had. Senators Cory Booker, Ruben Gallego and Elissa Slotkin said they wouldn’t." 2200 words, even the sentences MENTIONING 2 women make up 20 words.
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darth™️
27 days ago
wait why are they climbing back into the capsule come back
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That’s ridiculous. It’s clearly a threat to confiscate church property and install Sam Alito as the new antipope.
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29 days ago
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)
29 days ago
Colby gives off big "women cover their drinks near him" energy
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Command.Control.Coffee
29 days ago
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David Roberts
30 days ago
"This is what you get when you elect Republicans." Every Dem within 100 feet of a camera needs to be saying this repeatedly. Every time we elect Republicans, we get dumbass wars, tax cuts for rich people, and financial crises. Every time. Fucking say it!
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Sarah Taber
30 days ago
It's been wild watching fancy political soothsayers insist "The next war will be fought over water, not oil!" for the last 20 years because they thought it was obvious that renewable energy would become cheaper than fossil fuels. They really underestimated how stupid world leaders are.
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Sarah Taber
30 days ago
Wind & solar have been the cheapest energy for over a decade, we have ways to store it for nighttime & calm conditions, & we're still fighting wars over oil. It is what it is folks
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post malone ergo propter malone
about 1 month ago
the funniest outcome here is that Iran insists on tolls and we have to figure out a way to backchannel payment to them to let ships through for the next two weeks to pretend they agreed to the ceasefire
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Erin Biba
about 1 month ago
In light of the conversation about how hard it is to promote your own book: Post a link to buy your book here and I’ll boost it cause you destroyed yourself to get it done, your publisher won’t help you sell it, and you deserve cheers and admiration for your accomplishment.
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Adam Serwer
about 1 month ago
Trump advisers think the age of imperialism ended because of wokeness, not because 1) colonized peoples made colonialism untenable 2) technology made territorial empire unnecessary. They thought mere brutality and perceived genetic superiority would make wars against countries like Iran easy.
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Adam Serwer
about 1 month ago
Facing the reality that brutality and cruelty also have tradeoffs and are not a secret weapon that facilitates an easy victory, they are furious at being embarrassed by their lessers and seeing their theory of the world publicly discredited (not that they would ever acknowledge that)
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Adam Serwer
about 1 month ago
Remember all this nonsense about the supposed inferiority of “third world” immigration? They really believed that and applied their theory to international relations and it failed. Racism makes you stupid.
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𝐓𝐨𝐦 𝐇𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬 - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐝
about 1 month ago
“If Trump were a Democrat would you still hate him?” Trump WAS a Democrat, and I hated him then, too. I don’t GAF what party someone claims to be. Nobody hates Trump because he’s a Republican. We hate him because he's a shitty President and possibly the shittiest human being who has ever lived.
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about 1 month ago
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Adam Serwer
about 1 month ago
Bears repeating that he is threatening Iran over something that wasn’t a problem until he bombed Iran. In this sense it’s very much like many other problems he’s promised to “fix”
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Adam Serwer
about 1 month ago
Seems to me if you think you have divine sanction for your warmongering when it goes badly you have to consider the opposite proposition but they never seem to!
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Cheryl Rofer
about 1 month ago
Good morning team! Happy birthday to NATO!
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Urban
about 1 month ago
how the fuck do you work with a guy who changes trade and foreign policy based on current mood?
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Keith
about 1 month ago
We struggled to hold presidents accountable even before this. And then SCOTUS smashed the one lever we found, and the voters fucking completely failed their end of the bargain. And now we're just stuck watching as he goes on the world's greatest crime spree and livestreams it while bragging.
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Katie Mack
about 1 month ago
Reminder that the moon that orbits the Earth has a name in English and that name is the Moon. There are lots of nicknames and names in other languages (Luna, for instance) but technically in English it is just the Moon. The concept of a moon is uncapitalized; our moon is the Moon.
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