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Sage 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Sage 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)'s avatar Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
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Listen, I know it's hard getting eyeballs on things, but when you have so many pop-ups and ads on your page that I can barely read the article, I'm just closing the tab.

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SaintPeter's avatar SaintPeter @saintpeter74.bsky.social
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And they have those teeny tiny xes to close when that are impossible to hit with my fat thumbs... There has never, ever, in the history of the world, been a time when I wanted to watch a tiny ass video in a window when I'm trying to read an article.

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Luke's avatar Luke @llobrow.bsky.social
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WERNER HERZOG: cast into the wilderness by an uncaring mother, the child must choose a companion, a beast of unnatural capabilities through which to channel his will. they will not rest until every gymnasium lies in ruin. ASH: where's professor oak HERZOG: this lizard is on fire

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I feel like there's some kind of metaphor or life lesson here for our current political situation, but I'm not sure what it is.

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✪ Shin Megami Jonathan H. Gray: VENGEANCE! ✪'s avatar ✪ Shin Megami Jonathan H. Gray: VENGEANCE! ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social
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Have you heard the joke about Orion's belt? It's a giant waist of space. … Sorry, that was a terrible pun. I give it 3 stars. But I’m sure the follow up will be stellar.

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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Oh boy, $150,000!

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SaintPeter's avatar SaintPeter @saintpeter74.bsky.social
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In related news, ChatGPT proves P=NP Complete 😉

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The Onion's avatar The Onion @theonion.com
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The landmark reversal nullifies all previously lawful forms of right and makes it very difficult for Americans to make ethical decisions or be generally decent human beings without facing criminal charges.

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SaintPeter's avatar SaintPeter @saintpeter74.bsky.social
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I always wanted to say "if you're hiring me to write quicksort, something has gone horribly wrong". It is extremely rare for developers to be called upon to write novel algorithms. Farting around on leetcode for tech interviews is about the same as studying for the SATs. Same energy.

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I know this quote isn't new, but today it got me thinking about the divide between Silicon Valley Tech Bros pushing AI and the rest of us - they don't do the chores. And they aren't talented artists, so they want AI to do art for them, because their mom, spouse, or maid is already doing the chores.

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Matty Cat 🐈‍⬛'s avatar Matty Cat 🐈‍⬛ @catcreature.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Double Entendre Society reports huge growth in members

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Elle's avatar Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social
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a ruthless predator, alligators will sometimes use jazz hands to lure musical theatre people to their deaths

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Q. Pheevr's avatar Q. Pheevr @qpheevr.bsky.social
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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

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Hart Pearson Sebastian Cunningham 's avatar Hart Pearson Sebastian Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social
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Jerry Chen's avatar Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social
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me: i need a delicious source of potassium banana: i'm here for you me: i am also an avid fan of slapstick comedy banana: ok you're not gonna believe this

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SaintPeter's avatar SaintPeter @saintpeter74.bsky.social
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OMG, "Super natural national reserves" is such a great story hook. Park Ranger for the fae reserve...

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Tyger tyger burning bright Rising up; thrill of the fight What immortal hand or eye Could trade your passion for glory

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Emily L. Hauser's avatar Emily L. Hauser @emilylhauser.bsky.social
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What if it's not so much doom scrolling as it is the desperate hope that one more scroll will bring good news, like we're all at a very sad slot machine in a very, very sad Vegas

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Veronica Roth's avatar Veronica Roth @veronicaroth.bsky.social
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A couple years ago my spouse was ill and so, though it isn't usually my task to take the kitchen trash out to the garage trash can, I did so. I opened the lid, threw the trash bag in...and then abruptly released the lid when I realized the entire trash can was covered in maggots.

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Jason Sullivan's avatar Jason Sullivan @jason0x21.bsky.social
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One of the toughest problems Microsoft has to solve is that Windows has to serve two very different types of users: business users who don't want this at all, and home users who don't want this at all.

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[hospital] SURGEON: [lowers mask] I'm sorry, we were unable to separate the art from the artist ME: are they S: yes, they’re still an asshole

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SaintPeter's avatar SaintPeter @saintpeter74.bsky.social
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When I was a teen we ran into some German tourists in San Francisco who were planning to head down to LA that day. We disabused them otff that notion.

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SaintPeter's avatar SaintPeter @saintpeter74.bsky.social
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These are a delight! A mashup of 2D animation and puppetry.

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SaintPeter's avatar SaintPeter @saintpeter74.bsky.social
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It was pretty funny watching the two teams bid pretty high until they realized that they were both improbable winners. I want to say that we had another double family in the same tourney. We were pretty hardcore for a while. Good times!

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SaintPeter's avatar SaintPeter @saintpeter74.bsky.social
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And yet, somehow, in our family pinochle tourney years ago, both teams were dealt double families. One is rare enough, two was amazing.

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SaintPeter's avatar SaintPeter @saintpeter74.bsky.social
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Love this series! So much fun - YA with superpowers. Nicely subversive.

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"I wish to complain about the quality of your copper, sir"

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I bought this a few months ago based on the title alone, then proceeded to buy the rest of the series and several other titles from the same author. It lives up to the title! It's awesome!

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Gretchen McCulloch 's avatar Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social
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Person at the end of a party, in tones of pleased surprise: it was great meeting you, now I suddenly feel like linguistics is really interesting!

Me: ...this is an effect I have been known to have on people, yes

[A greatest hits #linguistics communication slash #scicomm thread from the other site]

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Mary Gillis's avatar Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social
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MYSTERIOUS STRANGER: *hands woman box* If you press this button, someone you don't know dies WOMAN: Ok *presses button* STRANGER: Whoa, I didn't even tell you about the money WOMAN: I can't afford to pay much STRANGER: No, you don't pay WOMAN: Oh good *presses button again* STRANGER: Jesus Christ

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SaintPeter's avatar SaintPeter @saintpeter74.bsky.social
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Let's go serfing now, everybody's learning how!

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JL Kaufmann's avatar JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social
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My brother, as a teenager, had a tank full of terrapins and one softshell turtle that shared the snapping variety's extremely extendable neck. When he went to uni we had to rehome them and picking up the softshell was like trying to grab a booby-trapped bar of homicidal soap. What a day.

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Anil Dash's avatar Anil Dash @anildash.com
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The top seven problems that AI solves perfectly can all be counted on one hand.

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David_j_roth's avatar David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social
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It is both funny and instructive how eager so many powerful individuals and institutions with massively grandiose understandings of their own significance have been to discard every value they've ever professed or pretended to in order to protect the dumbest, shittiest rich guy of his generation.

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George Penney 's avatar George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social
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(A Thread) A bit ago we discovered a quince tree in the front garden of our New Zealand rental. Last Sunday I was enjoying an early morning cup of tea by the living room window only to spot an elderly lady sneaking up to the tree, looking like she was casing the thing for a diamond heist. (1)

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SaintPeter's avatar SaintPeter @saintpeter74.bsky.social
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Me too! I figured it was part of a joke I hadn't scrolled down to yet.

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SaintPeter's avatar SaintPeter @saintpeter74.bsky.social
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As Cory Doctorow points out, the same grifters who were peddling crypto and NFTs last year are now lining up to peddle "AI" now. I don't believe that what we have now is completely without value, but just like any new invention, it'll just be another tool in the toolbox.

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SaintPeter's avatar SaintPeter @saintpeter74.bsky.social
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Right there with you. I do software development and also help new developers. I've been having to explain pretty regularly that, no, an LLM is not going to be able to do a programmer's job. Not now, not in 20 years. I even had to explain it to my young (and talented) coworker.

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SaintPeter's avatar SaintPeter @saintpeter74.bsky.social
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Cool! I think I'll read up to the end of Act 1 in the comic, then finish all the books, then I can read the rest of the comic. You might want to add that to the FAQ. Also, it wasn't super clear from the FAQ what "Act 1" was, until I looked at the super spoiler summary.

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