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“After the full destruction of the Nazi tyranny, they hope to see established a peace which will afford to all nations the means of dwelling in safety within their own boundaries…”

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I grew up in Michigan watching the CBC, including the early years of the “war on terror”. The US has known no better ally than Canada, and I am So Angry at those who don’t recognize that.

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I admit to being a bad person. But when I was at Michigan Tech, a favorite sport was watching cars that couldn’t handle snow, slide down the hill on Macinnes Drive. The schadenfreude from this video compares nicely to that.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Reading the news

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This would be horrible. NSF-funded REUs were a huge part of my journey, and that of most working American scientists I’ve known

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

For a break from the news, check out this lovely article on an ugly-but-fascinating font with a long history: aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Jim Kirk was far from perfect, but the only prejudice he had was against Klingons.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

As someone who used to work at a nuke lab (as a contractor like almost everyone) — All the regular NNSA folks I interacted with were smart, excellent people absolutely dedicated to the mission. This is absolutely going to degrade that mission and make us all less safe.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Every single time we’ve tried to get rid of the penny, it has run face first into Big Lincoln, AKA people who will scream “YOU DISHONOR THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR!” Which is why he never should’ve gone on the penny in the first place. And it took an act of Congress. www.funraniumlabs.com/2016/05/the-...

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

The most realistic depiction of an encounter with a ghost:

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

I’ve overused em dashes, semicolons, and parentheses for a long time and I’m not about to stop now

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Oh no I’m stuck under a cat

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Caveat that I’m not a model developer, I’m a cluster guy. But this was a good talk, and made concrete suggestions on useful steps to take for model development and ethics. Mitchell’s talk starts at ~0:59 in the linked video.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Sitting by the fire pit in our back yard, sipping whiskey and throwing a ball for the dog. We’re both staying entertained.

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Feature request for @bsky.app (or anyone who knows if it does exist!)… Feeds which mute words in your regular timeline. There are a whole swath of words/topics I want to exclude some of the time, but not as a default. But still following the same folks.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Btw; just to break toxic fanboys brains: here is Gene Roddenberry literally saying he wished he had gay sex and wishing that he was nonbinary.

submitted 16 days ago • 133 comments

This is big news if you’re into secure distributed file systems: IBM relicensed the original OpenAFS source code from IBM Public License 1.0 to GPL v2.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Everyone loves to blame the Seattle Freeze, no one considers that they may just be assholes.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

The Palestinians and their supporters didn't create our current predicament. It's a convenient, counterproductive deflection to lay the blame at their feet, and given the degree of destruction and suffering they've endured, it's also sadistic.

submitted 18 days ago • 247 comments

Excellent article that clearly explains the I/O workflow of a training run, as well as making the storage argument well.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

This is not how you treat your closest ally.

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Just spent 6+ hours building a presentation for work on the weekend On the one hand: this is absolutely a sign that I'm overloaded and need to fix that On the other hand... I think I made some very pretty slides!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

It's late, and I don't have the mental energy to write my own thread, but this thread contains the basics. Nothing will happen quickly. All of us can provide harassment actions. There will be some things. More lawsuits next week. Massive confusion this weekend if they try to put tariffs in place.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

i have written about this before but i have become extremely civic republican virtue pilled as a result of all of this. democracy will not work without an active effort to cultivate virtue among ordinary people!

submitted 23 days ago • 111 comments

We’re at this point

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Ok folks, what are your favorite purely-cheerful accounts that are not content-stealing click farms? I.e. cool science, cute animals, science fiction ships, beautiful vistas, etc I do plan to keep up on the news here, but uh… I may also need a custom “feed of cheer” for when it’s too much

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

hey pals we can condemn the use of ableist (or any kind) slurs without posting screenshots of them being used by evil people on the timeline, thanks all ♥️

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

the “C” in “CPU” stands for the C Programming Language. CPUs are called that because they are a hardware implementation of the C Abstract Machine as specified by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 14.

submitted 28 days ago • 45 comments

This is absolutely something AI service providers are going to have to have clear answers to. Preferably in contracts/TOS. Like, I can think of multiple ways a RAG system could be built doc search/autocomplete, and not all would provide the protection the lawyers in this thread are looking for.

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