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[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

It’s kind of like how all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are the increasingly fast-paced dissolution of our society under the pressure of looting by narcissistic oligarchs. Or something.

[SallyM]

The Law Doesn't Always Suck

Shall i throw in my standard parenting advice? The job of any parent is to make themselves unnecessary. Hopefully not unwanted, but unneeded. If you still feel the need to control your kids past probably middle school, something has gone very wrong. I absolutely agree with you. The boomers (spoken as a borderline boomer/Xer) need to let go.

[MerelyGifted]

Any discussion re: any type of encabulator deserves The Likes, but this is an exceptional post:

Random Silly Grins

And, as usual, there is no mention whatsoever that no type of encabulator would even be possible without the cavity toggle floggle. First developed as a theoretical concept by Ernest Rutherford in the 1920ies who thought it wouldn’t be possible to build with the technology available at the time and didn’t pursue the idea any further. But then Tommy Flowers succeeded in building a, admittedly somewhat crude, prototype as proof of concept in the 1930ies during his time at the Post Office Researc…

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The preceding post is also deserving of much love - look at all that research! Just look at it!

Random Silly Grins

Incidentally, for those who may not know, the encabulator has a long and storied history. In particular: Circa 1977: ["Turbo Encabulator" the Original] 1962: The original original is an article from 1944, published in Students’ Quarterly Journal. Somewhat shockingly, it’s paywalled: Quick, J. (1944). The turbo-encabulator in industry. Students’ Quarterly Journal, 15(58). doi:10.1049/sqj.1944.0033. [image]

[Millie_Fink]

The goddamn Trump Administration

They could refuse to vote in favor of Trump’s picks for the Cabinet and top offices. They could vote no on everything, slowing down or stopping progress until demands are met. They could pull out every obstructionist tactic in the book as a form of resistance-- filibusters☆, point of procedure, anything and everything. They can join the many, many protests☆ taking place to show solidarity and support for the common citizen. Hell, they can not show up for work, which means no quorum and no a…

[SallyM]

C'mon Guys (Toxic Masculinity)

Yes, and to add to that, the specific notion of male/female romantic relationships we’re sold in the US is pretty harmful. We’re taught from a pretty young age that serial monogamy is the only “respectable” way to grow into the world of sexuality. At least us wimmins are. It can be quite damaging. I went to Europe after Highschool (mid-nineties) and was really surprised how the people my age there thought about sex and romance. They were much more likely to think of it as a time of exploration …

[SallyM]

You can call me AI

Even when participants were told which advice came from a lawyer and which was AI-generated, we found they were willing to follow ChatGPT just as much as the lawyer. One reason LLMs may be favoured, as we found in our study, is that they use more complex language. On the other hand, real lawyers tended to use simpler language but use more words in their answers. Another reason might be that the LLMs veer towards generating the answer the asker expects (or even the answer they want to hear). W…

[SallyM]

You can call me AI

Looks like the position AI can fill best is “idiot coworker whose best contribution to overall productivity is to call in sick”.

[MerelyGifted]

Somewhere in the World There's Always a Sportsballs

Just ‘Glas’ will do nicely. Trinkgeschirr isn’t technically wrong, but not in the Wörterbuch1) as such. People will know what you mean, but it’ll blow your cover. Think getting on the bus in The Great Escape, but in a restaurant. Or a Haushaltswarengeschäft. Trinkgefäß if we want to fail at pretending being posh or maybe write something legally binding or official or whatever. Trinkglas to avoid any confusion with Fensterglas, but usually this should be clear in any context. At least any cont…

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

It strikes me that totally incoherent demands - to which the recipient simply cannot respond - is a hallmark of this administration. It’s true across the board, from things like this to trade negotiations (where they end because the other country realizes negotiation is literally impossible). The combination of the punitive and the performative… it’s the absolute rejection of basic governance and the principles under which this country was founded. You cannot operate a functional government t…

[SallyM]

Thinking about history

You know, I just had a knee-jerk reaction to the title of that video, because of the whole problem with modern headlines now a days (SEE SHOCKING CLAPBACK FROM THE ONE PERSON YOU’D NEVER EXPECT IT FROM or SEE MAGA POL GET SILENCED)… But it’s an accurate headline, of course. Because it was legitimately shocking. I sort of feel like we’re not really shocked by this sorts of mass crimes anymore, and have become shockingly desensitized to it.

[chgoliz]

Thinking about history

Sometimes, not often, I answer people who downplay or make light of the holocaust online that I want them to sit down, and just think through what happened. To just physically sit down and stare into space and imagine. To think through what it meant for everyday people, shopkeepers and accountants, housewives and craftsmen, who were like you and me. Not something alien. Not invaders. Just citizens and neighbours living ordinary lives in the villages and towns where their parents and their paren…

[SallyM]

Speaking of Faith: discussions on religion (broadly defined)

Deep dish is characterized by the pan in which the pizza is prepared. The crust lines the bottom and sides of the pan and then filled with the ingredients. A thick-ish pizza is still prepared flat. The deep-dish vs casserole boundary is roughly defined by a radius of 100 miles from downtown Chicago.

[SallyM]

Political Cartoons

I don’t know enough about actual surveillance hardware to even speculate. My knowledge comes exclusively from tv and the movies, and I’m guessing that’s not entirely realistic. If it is, then all we have to do is find Abby from NCIS and she’ll be able to detect any hidden bugs in about a minute, once we fill her up with enough Caf-Pow!

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

I’ve been a federal grand juror. It’s a lottery. Everyone who gets called has to show up and then they pull random names and assign them to a panel. There is no vetting and if your name is randomly pulled, you will be assigned to a panel. There are no exemptions for ANY professions, including lawyers, judges, and law enforcement from federal, state or local government. We even had a DEA agent serving on our panel.

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[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

It’s deliberate gaslighting. Hypocrisy is a win for them- personal integrity and dignity means nothing, only owning the libs. Being a hypocritical person with double standards and no internal consistency is a win because you have to follow the rules and they don’t. Raising a son to be a school shooter is a win because the libs are the ones who care about gun control. Dying of COVID is a win because refusing to wear a mask made the libs mad. Morality, honor, honesty, compassion, are all for loser…

[MerelyGifted]

Random Silly Grins

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[SallyM]

You can call me AI

Update: I’ve spent a significant portion of the afternoon with ChatGPT trying to gaslight me about what it sees in a clock face and it is amazing. This alone should indict the whole concept of generative AI making decisions based on input and model.

Highlights

[image] Based on direct visual analysis of the uploaded image: Clock Hands Interpretation Main Clock Face (Outer Dial) Hour Hand (shorter): Pointing almost exactly at X (10) Minute Hand (longer): Pointing exactl…

[MerelyGifted]

Thank you, SallyM. That entire subthread? which got started by my post re: ai’s being moronic about time and calendars is incredible. I wanted to put all of Waz’s posts here, couldn’t decide what to do, so in true ADHD form, I “walked away” from it.

Thank you once again.

[wazroth]

The first thing I did when my work gave me a ChatGPT license was to see how badly I could fuck with it. As far as I’m concerned, this is well within my remit, since one of my roles is to support information literacy instruction.