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hmallow.bsky.social
Former conman. Climber, skier, kinkster, inventor of the high-speed, detachable rope tow. Left-of-center skeptical grouch.
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submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Asking "Is AI real intelligence or not?" really misses the point badly. Rather ask whether AI has useful applications. * LLMs are the only halfway decent approach to machine translation; Google Translate can be pretty horrible. * Vector embeddings can be incredibly useful for search. And so on.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Mike Lindell texts @rollingstone.com just now: “Awesome win ! MyPillow 100% innocent !!!!”

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

I'm no expert but making a martyr out of the ayatollah seems possibly mistaken

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Repealing Section 230 without a plan to replace it is a bipartisan idea—and a terribly reckless one. www.wsj.com/articles/buy... @wyden.senate.gov ilysm and need u to know i have an ungodly amount of s230 jewelry

submitted 397 days ago • 2 comments

That paper's been generating some buzz lately but there's already a published rebuttal. Fundamental flaws are not as fundamental as they seem. arxiv.org/html/2506.09...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

"[T]he parade" feels like Trump-style phrasing to me, has it rubbed off on everyone? Oh well, this is one of those rare occasions that Rand is right.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

From The Archives: ICE Agents Hurl Pregnant Immigrant Over Mexican Border To Prevent Birth On U.S. Soil

submitted 11 days ago • 65 comments

One thing I haven't seen much comment on is how *petty* the majority of these cultural erasure actions are. They reveal a gang which operates on the emotional level of young children.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Yes, yes he does 🤮

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Internet rando argues that murdering people based on their nationality is somehow not antisemitic. Film at 11.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Unintended consequences

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Alright who needs a lawyer… perhaps you got a glove that does not fit? Kim K. “finally” got her J.D. after 6 long, hard years

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I have questions. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/s...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

cis-hetero-white-guy tourist spotted up in Watkins Glen, September 2022. I took this photo entirely because of @mistresssnowphd.bsky.social

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

I found the most incredible graph on the other site

submitted 70 days ago • 77 comments