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[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.

[MerelyGifted]

…and thank you so V much for those great posts. They should have ahem like 5000 likes each.

[SallyM]

Climate change and climate justice

We already have a mechanism for widespread and efficient direct air capture. It takes the atmospheric CO₂ and locks it into a stable, useful even, solid matrix. It even frees up oxygen as a byproduct of the process. They’re called “trees”.

[SallyM]

Something, something, billionaires

Everyone should be able to afford their own senator.

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

I’m guessing it will be a quantum parade, simultaneously for Trump and not for Trump, sometimes even within the same unintelligible statement.

[SallyM]

Fall of the Fourth Estate: A Critique of Mass Media

Again, I’d have much less problem with people thinking there’s a right and a wrong if they didn’t somehow decide the concentration-camps-for-kids guy is in the right. The problem with Trump supporters isn’t simply that they don’t see shades of gray, it’s that they have made cruelty into their morality.

[MerelyGifted]

"Motors" - revving up again

Teslas do not fail; they can only be failed! /s

[MagicFox]

Unicorn Chasers

If all the achievements of our species disappear completely and only this video remains and if an alien archaeologist finds it, the entire universe will mourn our end.

[SallyM]

It's perfectly cromulent to say font

My wife was a legal secretary (and later a paralegal) for many years. Her law office used WordPerfect, but she had to use Office for some city- and county-mandated things. After a particularly frustrating struggle with an Office document, she summed up the problem pretty well, I thought: “WordPerfect lets you do what you want to do; Office lets you do what it wants you to do.”

[Murgatroyd]

[mindysan33]

The problems of the Democratic party

I’m a day ot two late responding to this… but “normal” is a pet peeve of mine, for a long time now. What’s “normal”? It depends largely on who defines it. “Normal” for neurotypical folks isn’t the same as “normal” for neurodivergent types. “Normal” for color-blind people wouldn’t be the same as “normal” for average-sighted people, which is again going to differ from those of us who are near-sighted, far-sighted, astigmatic, or a combination of two or more… While certain standards (like 20/20 …

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

In my list of right-wing fools not understanding that work doesn’t happen unless someone does it, I should probably have added centrist Democrats not realizing democratic safeguards do nothing if they aren’t applied.