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I have a PhD in philosophy and now I work in a library. He/him. michaelbenchcapon.blogspot.com
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Apparently some of Congress is having a go thehill.com/homenews/hou...

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saw Ballerina last night. it's a jumble of preposterous action carnage and overserious, vaguely Catholic-tinged Secret Organization nonsense that doesn't hold up if you think about it more than ten seconds. Keanu Reeves talks like he's in slow motion underwater. Five stars

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Could this be why I have so few discourse takes

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@alexsobel.co.uk Hi, you're my MP so I'd just like to ask you to do what you can to make sure we don't go to war with Iran please

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Is Congress expected to get any say over whether the US goes to war with Iran

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I don't suppose anyone in a similar position knows a good free HTML editor to use on a Chromebook that does what Caret does and isn't about to die on me

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Woke up to find something called NotebookLM on my Chromebook, which seems to be an AI writing thing; to their credit they said as soon as I opened it saying that humans might read the stuff I write in it so probably don't put anything too juicy in there. Also they let me uninstall it so that's cool

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I'm trying to find examples for each of these types of science fiction. I can think of three--although more recommendations would be welcome! But I can't figure out anything for entry (b)

submitted 5 hours ago • 23 comments

One month apart.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Has the business model where you grow your user base by giving them something they want and then foist a load of crap on them always existed or is it a recent innovation

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

oh, this is good.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

not a lot of people know that Return of the Mack is about bringing back library books on time

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

This is the one off-ramp I see to things before LLMs and GenAI cement themselves into every digital information system in catastrophic ways: they're wildly expensive to run, are popular now because they're essentially subsidized to the point of being free, and the bills are coming due.

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