davelf.bsky.social
Lead UX Designer, Author of various "... for Dummies" books, globetrotting professor, started as a newspaper reporter back when that was still a thing. Still cantankerous, mostly funny.
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Down deep amidst the flames
of Acheron, Boss Tweed briefly smiles
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Left over from Suck Magazine in the late 90s?
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Way long ago, when I was working as a reporter and editor in Venezuela, I ran into a guy who used techniques like this to identify Jews.
In 1942. In Poland.
He was German Abwehr, and a war criminal
But these days, lists like this have no chance of being used for evil purposes. Right?
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Hoarders wrap themselves all over Chesterton‘s fatality
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The fence vertical seems duplicated with both Occam and Chesterton saying basically the same thing
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Jesus. What is it with the Cuomos and their lust for power? Losing, and then running as an indie spoiler is psychopathic
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"Elon Musk was just doing a hand gesture nobody knows what it means" but somehow Mamdani represents an existential threat to Judaism lol you absolute fucking clowns
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*raises hand*
Here!
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Anyone who has ever had to design a research survey finds this. It’s one of the reasons why personality exams like MMPI ask the same question three or four different ways.
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Great. Now you’ve added to my “thinking about Roman history“ daily quota.
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Video games are in amazing test bed if you allow humans to interact in them. What we found is that with economics, if you make changes to taxes or incentives, players behave in the game, exactly the same way in the real world.
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Damn. I wish I had a better solution; this rugpull is a horrible way for the rest of the world to learn about over-reliance on a single funder
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The clinical name for this is the Einstellung Effect - users have come to trust the results that come back at them from search engines. Unfortunately, what LLM‘s do, is not as reliable as what search was.
Cloudflare is trying to block the worst of this, but there is an absolute tsunami online
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“DOGE Castrated, as Big Balls forcefully removed”
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This thread cried out for a couple of these images
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This is outrageous and depressing
I know that everyone says the United Nations is so hidebound and inefficient, but is there no capacity to step into the gap that was left?
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I find this amazing; did nobody in the echo chamber ever think to actually talk to the voters?
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Avoid the rides that date back to the 50s and 60s. They are empty experiences, where you are strapped into a little rail car and driven through painted scenery while the soundtrack from an animated movie of that era plays.
The more modern rides give you agency, a chance to interact
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Underrated comment
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Scene hits a bit differently now
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Because as we all know, AI is famously good at the original boots-on-ground research needed to correct factual errors
I mean, it’s not like AI just makes shit up? #grok #hallucination
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Hard way is actually super valuable long term
Sucks in the short, I know
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Like a chump
(aaay)
Like a chump
(aaay)
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I'd love to believe that millions can be swayed off the nihilistic path they've found themselves on, but the history of the post-reconstruction South kinda argues against this vain hope.
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Big "Khajit has wares" energy
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If you are trying to work off a Karmic Burden from a previous existence, I would say that you may be overdoing things a bit
Please don't say you're having to integrate AI into your research methods, so you can multi-query infinite numbers of made-up users ...
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“We super-glued the bacon to the plate instead of using maple syrup. Also enjoy the orange juice and gasoline cocktail.”
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Back when I was covering the Guatemalan Civil War in 1990, I was approached by a museum, curator, sobbing, who begged me to take pieces out of the country because otherwise they would just be looted and sold by the army and govt
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I see that you have experience at the enterprise level
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That was actually more out of Michigan (Terry Nichols et al.) than Arizona.
The idiots out in the desert fought with each other – to deadly effect, sometimes – more than they actually fought with anything that could be termed establishment.
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Dang. That thing is starting to look like a replicator from Star Trek.
Does it print in more than plastic?