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Michelangelo had his Sistine Chapel, I have my dinosaur mural.

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new york democrat: corruption is BAD. we should RID the city of these VENAL LIARS and make PROGRESS new york democrat after encountering one hundred US dollars: today i would like to announce my support for corruption

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They've really gone above and beyond with their order-status emails. Thank you, AI.

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People wouldn’t use the tool if it didn’t work—you dipshit, people only find out it didn’t work well after the fact when someone actually checks the sources, which may not happen until the damage is already done.

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Don’t use Generative AI to analyze documents!!! Don’t use it for summaries!!! Don’t use it for anything where accuracy is required!!! What the fuck are you all thinking???

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Ok bsky, I need distributed research assistance. I'm looking for evidence of the existence of a book entitled THE ORIGINS OF TREE WORSHIP, author unknown, circa 1888. I don't need a copy, I just want any evidence it exists. Please repost for more spread, and read downthread for details.

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attenborough voice like the mighty salmon, elon musk can already sense that his end is near... and so now begins his last great journey, swimming relentlessly upstream to the garbage centrist democrat spawning grounds where his lifecycle began

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I forget who I first saw name the problem, but New York City is a place where Republican constituencies—bosses, landlords, developers, financiers—pursue their right-wing self-interest within the Democratic Party, and often even think of themselves as "liberals," and that's who Cuomo services

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no shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

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Way too many people were tacitly on Yglesias’ side on this! bsky.app/profile/gell...

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I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: it absolutely sucks that revising your writing can make it significantly better. Like this is torment.

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I swear, i wasn't prepared for how susceptible literally everyone would be to conspiracy theories as an adult.

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This is an absolutely maddening thing to have to add to your workflow

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four. different. ampersands. !!!! & they all illustrate the origin of the ampersand in the ligature of the latin conjunction “et” (“and”). 222050 • @folger.edu

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People say they want personalized medicine and a carer who listens and responds to their needs but when they get it they get mad smh

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This is because he wants to pass state bills that appear to rein in AI to mollify critics but are actually license to turbocharge it.

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Sun and moon

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AI is Getting Worse, but It's Getting Worse

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Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya. Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.

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Yglesias and Jain and so on seem to be asking "will my anti union anti trans anti arab anti immigrant anti woke anti dei party win?" and i guess my answer is, well, if just did last year. go join it.

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why would "popularists" keep bringing up coalition-splitting issues. could it be that they have sincere political beliefs they want to impose and are hiding behind a facade of just-the-facts empiricism? couldn't be

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Matt Yglesias is a white nationalist; "popularism" is white nationalism for liberals who don't want to be shut out of the fascist state

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Businessman at this airport bar: Know how to make a Bloody Mary? Bartender: Yes. Businessman: Know how to make a GOOD Bloody Mary? Bartender: Yes. Businessman: I’d like to order one GOOD Bloody Mary. walks back to his seat Me to the lady next him: I hope she poisons him.

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The way nobody can drive well anymore because of GPS — not just atrophied turn-by-turn navigation, but the way ppl no longer know the layouts of their town or the names of roads or what to do when the map doesn’t match the terrain — that’s what genAI is doing to communication skills and literacy

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lord, I've seen what you've done for others,

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Moody blues (and pinks and purples)

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That little cloud looks like a scoop of ice cream.

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Yes let’s PLEASE make James Frey the poster child for generative AI in creative writing, it’s perfect beyond what we could have hoped

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The problem is not that not enough code is written—the problem is that not enough good code is written. Writing bad code faster will not, just as in any other enterprise, deliver the imagined benefits, except maybe for executives who can bounce after a few years to a more lucrative gig.

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Somehow the "We need to support policies that are popular" crowd never land on the very popular polices like "taxing big corporation more," "making health care more affordable," or "paying teachers more." It's always just "be 10% more racist."

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A regular thing is media outlets respond to the latest right wing outrage of the day about their coverage in groveling terms and condescendingly dismiss any left wing critics. This is not because they are scared of the right

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A true delight to show how well my media training is paying off in @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social’s excellent newsletter. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-eq...

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So you’re telling me that we let Trump be president once, and then, four years later, after everything, we let him be president again?

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One thing all philosophers agree on is that the human body is basically a car and the brain is a little guy driving it around

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seriously, I know this is a crazy radical idea in these extremely normal times but what if democrats stopped voting for trump nominees

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Please do not take a Roman emperor - ANY Roman emperor -as a hero of any sort. Each and every one of them was the worst person alive and did horrific things; you don't got to hand it to them for anything. Also Hadrian and Antinous is not a love story. It really isn't.

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They're literally doing the meme

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[trump nukes detroit] dem consultant: don't take the bait!!!

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elon, this is your financial adviser and all around personal guru speaking, please keep insulting Trump's agenda, every day, all the time, just go for it man

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