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@shoq When have these chuds ever shut up for even a moment, let alone "be silent"?

EVERYBODY IN LOS ANGELES!!
SHARE HOW YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD IS BURNING!!

Quiet residential street in Los Angeles.

@natematias "copy" covers a lot of ground when you realize it would have been a 698 year old "copy" vs a 725 year old original! How did Harvard *only* pay $27 for even a 698 year old document?

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#ShitIFind

When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which is grows, not the flower.

hergand16

My fiance played the clarinet when he was in school. When he was first learning to play, he rented an instrument from the school to learn on. He was the last chair clarinet, had been for years, because he could not make notes that required the register key. For years, they kept making him do embrature exercises and he started to get a few notes, with lots of effort. Eventually he had to get private lessons to stay in band.

Every time he tells me this story, his frustration by this point in the story, years later, is evident. He still sounds frustrated by it, despite all the time that passed. Teachers had been giving him crap for years because he hadn't been making much progress with the instrument.

When he got to the private instructor, she acknowledged his frustration, and asked him to try to play for her. He did, and she saw all he was doing. She then did something no one else had done before. She asked him to put his mouthpiece on a different clarinet and try to play the same notes. Like magic, it worked. She looked at the clarinet he had been using and found that the school's clarinet needed it's pads replaced.

He went from last chair to first chair nearly overnight, having been taught far more techniques than typically taught at that age just to overcome the broken instrument preventing him from making noise. Sometimes you don't need to brute force a problem. Sometimes your clarinet is just broken.

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#ShitIFind #WaitWhatAreWeTalkingAbout #Tattoos #PeteHegseth #KilmarAbregoGarcia #Immigration #Deportation #DueProcess #14thAmendment #MAGA #TrumpDidThis

patrickjhamiltondesigns 11h

Hey, remember when we were told to ignore
Pete Hegseth's tattoos because “tattoos don't
always mean the things we think they do"?

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https://www.outfrontmagazine.com/an-unsettling-silence-denver-community-rallying-to-find-missing-trans-woman-jax-gratton/

An Unsettling Silence: Denver Community Rallying to Find Missing Trans Woman Jax Gratton
April 29, 2025

#LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Trans #Transgender #Denver #Colorado

@mmasnick.bsky.social If I had money to invest and only two options: an AI VC or Marc...
... I'd stuff it in a pillowcase.

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THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH SUPPORTED THE RIGHT TO ABORTION UNTIL 1978. THE ONLY REASON THEY CHANGED WAS FOR POLITICS. SO THE BIBLICAL CLAIM AGAINST ABORTION IS A BUNCH OF CRAP!!!

https://www.facebook.com/reel/302727149602555

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this. is. perfect.

A guillotine and the text:
I think, every year, the richest person in the world should be sacrificed and their wealth distributed to the poorest among us. The rest of the year would be billionaires scrambling to distribute their wealth in an attempt to ensure they aren't the one to pushed out into the ocean next
year.
Is that radical enough for you?

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@rbreich
#DOGE #ElonMusk #Tesla #TeslaTakedown #DumpYourTesla #SpaceX #Starlink #Twitter #BoringCompany #CyberTruck #TrumpEconomy #TrumpRegime #NASA #SpaceForce

Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract
with the Pentagon for Space Force
rocket launches — the largest contract
among the three firms who secured
deals to send satellites into orbit.

While DOGE cuts essential services for
you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded
windfall.

Hello?

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Recent data suggests that the world really did (start to) end in 2012. But instead of an asteroid or a super-volcano, it's a slower process that I'd like to call "The Stupiding." https://skepchick.org/2025/04/the-data-that-says-were-getting-stupider/

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Per the court filing in this case: "Liebb said when he asked why they were being detained, an officer tightened his handcuffs and responded: 'This isn’t county or state. We are [H]omeland. You have no rights here.'”

Whether as a visitor or as a citizen, you now have rights under the law exactly up to the point where fascist goons serving an authoritarian regime decide you don't.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/22/united-pilot-attacks-passenger

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Lack of evidence of treason is evidence of treason.

https://abovethelaw.com/2025/03/trump-admin-unveils-new-legal-standard-we-have-no-proof-which-actually-proves-our-case/

#ttrpg #trump #law

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Secret policy shift could overwhelm #SocialSecurity offices

On Wed, the #SocialSecurity Admin (#SSA) enacted a new policy that could impose massive demands on the agency's overburdened network of field offices, acc/to an internal SSA message…. Although the new policy will impact millions annually, it was not publicly announced. "The havoc & destruction they’re causing is no doubt going to break the agency & hurt the public," an SSA source familiar w/the new policy said.

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This man is deeply unwell.

A tweet from Elon Musk (@elonmusk) that reads:
**"My companies make great products that people love and I’ve never physically hurt anyone.

So why the hate and violence against me?

Because I am a deadly threat to the woke mind parasite and the humans it controls."**

@Wileymiller
And yep, that's exactly what they answered in their motion. "We declare we are right, and we declare you are wrong, and we declare you a poopyhead. Sssspppbbbbbt"

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You don’t have to look an further than Google Docs to see enshitification at work. After all these years, it’s formatting tools are beyond awful. Yes, it’s free. So what? WIth Google’s $trillions, and a billion users, to not correct 15 years of fail is inexcusable.

@jeffjarvis

LLMs fundamentally WORK by statistically combining "tokens" built up by analyzing massive amounts of text. Sometimes the results LOOK like reality to an observer.

Clouds fundamentally work by collections of random patterns of water vapor in the air. Sometimes the results LOOK like a puppy to an observer.

Clouds ain't puppies, and LLMs ain't truth.

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"LLMs are trained on texts, not truths. Each text bears traces of its context, including its genre, voice, audience and the history and local politics of its place of origin.... Texts are ‘true’ only in the right context."
AI hallucinations are a feature of LLM design, not a bug https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00662-7

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