aptlyasked.bsky.social
Wielder of the arcane sword of SQL.
Slayer of data demons.
Sometimes.
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The Christian "right" want to induce their end-time prophecy (ETP), burn the world to do it, and kill everyone.
They'll claim eveything and anything as heralds of ETP.
It's sick, delluded, dangerous.
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Hand out salute to 88' flagpoles.
I did nazi that coming.
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Is emperor Litte Boots Bonespurs going to gather the army together, march to the sea to collect sea shells?
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No, but I'm weird and so is my reality.
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Those who survive this cruelty will have emnity for the US and all Americans. The world will be a far less safe and hospitable place for the US for generations.
But hey, at least they owned the libs.
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Like fine wine. 🍷
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She's an idiot.
Just waching the news...
Iran's foreign minister is going to Geneva on Friday to meet with EU3 counterparts (🇩🇪, 🇫🇷, 🇬🇧) Eurotroika still includes the UK because ... geography, and an established diplomatic relationship).
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Canadians talk about weather all the time. If's cultural. Climate affects weather so they go hand in hand.
I'm not surprised that an American would be culturally insensitive to that.
See what I did? A subersive Canadian applied turnabout is fair play, or something about geese and ganders.
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Follow the money.
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To me LLMs are a modern day representation of a Victorian automaton. Instead of gears, rods, cams, etc; it uses layered probability matrices.
It's a simulcrum without existential essence.
Language is an expression of thought, not the other way around. Without context an LLM can't determine reality.
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Some days I don't think I can pass a Turing Test.
If LLM's switch to using elipses ... I'm screwed.
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From one of my favourite youtube videos.
Rollin' Wild Safari
youtu.be/yltlJEdSAHw?...
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He dog whistled so much misanthropy that they took what they liked (homophobia, transphobia, even reported antisemitism) and ignored the rest of the racism, the cyncial embracing of christofascism, islamophobia, etc.
They voted for a leopard seeing half the spots.
Leopard ... face ... nom.
Repeat.
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A question rhetorical: would this be allegorical or metaphorical.
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It's plausible with older inverters but modern utility inverters adjust voltage to maintain frequency.
What officially happened is an "overvoltage".
Why it happened may take a bit longer - lol.
I found this series on AC power during the pandemic.
youtu.be/RGPCIypib5Q?...
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I'll be interested to see the answers too.
It may be as simple as late term abortions are still criminal offenses but women obtaining them are completely shielded from any action by the police and the Crown.
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Yesterday Al Jazeera did a 3 decades of Bibi saying Iran was only days/weeks/months away from one or several nukes. It was amusing in it's absurdity.
The Daily Show must have picked up on it - which is what they do.
youtu.be/Mzmtdwsef8s?...
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They should have all those Mega MAGA preachers do it, they have oodles of money.
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You are NOT going insane.
People are happily handing their thinking over to a language model that has no concept or context. It's a hugely complex probability machine that uses linguistic references.
It's a simulation of how language is constructed, not thought.
It can be poisoned and exploited.
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Thank you very much!!!
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It's not absent from anyone's portfolio it's Minister of Jobs and Families. Easier to say than "Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour; Families, Children and Social Development; Seniors, Citizens' Services; and Diversity, Inclusion, and Persons with Disabilities"
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I bet he's got someone lined up to privatize jails, because his form of "bail reform" will be to either deny everyone or order minimum bails so high that it's unaffordable.
Break something and then privatize it so someone else profits.
It's the ReformiCon Way
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How can a convicted felon be an officer of the court????
Then again it's Trumpistan.
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Schumer only got half of it.
Republican attacks on trans kids are guided by malignant misanthropy. They're also whipping up outrage to distract their base from what they're really doing.
I hope most can see the dual aspect of this, ignore the outrage, and try to protect the most vulnerable.
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Al Jazeera was running clips of Bibi repeating the "Iran is going to have a nuke in [insert short period of time]" for the past 30 years. It was unintentionally amusing.
Their reporting tends to be good but some of their analysts need geography lessons and others are heavily biased.
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I'm going with Occam's razor (simplest is most likely) BIL fancies her.
All three are plausible separately, in any combination, or all at once.
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That's how conspiracy theory works in general. Believing in one ungrounds a person enough to believe in more. The cycle repeats.
It's like an accumulative psychological toxin: the brainwashing doesn't happen instantly, it's a slow progressive decline.
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I haven't noticed, but my "echo chamber" tends to be progressive, scientific, factual, and artistic; left of centre.
If there are more neoliberals here jumping from Xitter. The remnant over there are slipping farther and farther right.
Someone else mentioned influence bots.
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There was no single fatal shot, just a lot of critical missteps he exploited.
Ironically Republicans are revisiting the 2020 election conspiracies. That's an own goal waiting to happen.
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Not exactly but remarkably close.
It relies falsely on two related axioms as hooks:
"every accusation is an admission",
"accuse your opponent of what you intend to do."
Why Trump won was he influcted a demographic "death of a thousand cuts" to Harris' campaign. 1/
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The substack is an interesting hypothesis, an entertaining conjecture only.
At the moment, Rockland County's issues are isolated, neither related nor relatable.
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Lloyd who?
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Dewormer roulette:
Look at the list of WHO essential medicines (below), then go into your local animal supply store and buy one NOT on this this. 'Cuz WHO iz teh ebil.
Albendazole
Diethylcarbamazine
Ivermectin
Levamisole
Mebendazole
Niclosamide
Oxamniquine
Praziquantel
Pyrantel
Triclabendazole
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TACO
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TACO couldn't handle other world leaders.
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Another snitch-line for Americans to shut down.
The deliberate shooting of an Australian reported by a DHS agent and DHS/Fed agents assaulting a US Senator would be a great place to start.
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Before Trump was elected he said that anyone who gave him a billion dollars could write whatever executive order they wanted and he would sign it.
(Or the Autopen.)
Now that he's president the price will be higher.
Art of the grift.
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I wouldn't use "juxtaposition"; instead the phrase "talking out both sides of one's mouth" comes first to mind.
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It doesn't look like she was shot in the head with a rubber bullet, but hit multiple times with lathies (long sticks used commonly by Indian police). They are brutal and can cause death if hit in the head.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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The crowd sounds about as enthusiastic as they would be getting a root canal.
Even the crowd fluffer sounds demoralized.
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Another reason to suspend Hungary's EU privileges. They are the only country in the EU to not be part of the Rome accords. Hungary has disagreed or refused too many EU policies. What's the reason to keep her in?
The voters have the right to select the leaders of their choice... but... consequences.
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Thanks for explaining.
The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine.
(We hope.)
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In the world of normal politics, this could possibly happen.
BUT
This is MAGA-land. She will never resign. She'll double-down and go on the attack.
She'll have Senator Padilla arrested on some trumped up charges and sent to GTMO or Diego Garcia.
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Her voting is the canary in the coal mine, an indicator.
The ghost of Antonin Scalia stands behind her. As a textualist and an originalist the cases are going beyond her limits.
She's not swinging to the liberal side, the conservative side is going farther away from a reasonable centre.
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Tornado or hurricane?
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It's not tariffs.
Trump said two words: "kill switch".
US arms are now worthless.
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This is something that certain AI systems can unravel fairly quickly.
The problem is proving the methodology in any court case.
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It took WW2 and the deaths of 10% of the German population to get there.
Any hot world war now will inevitably result in a nuclear exchange at some level.
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No wonder the Republicans crash the economy every time they're in power. They can't even f@#king count.
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What would Braxton Bragg say? "Retreat!!!"