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I will never ever forgive Biden for this. Ever.

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Canada elections thread!

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In 1771, historian Catherine Macaulay burned herself out so badly writing the fifth volume of her recent history of England that she spent four months eating ice cream and bathing in the sea to recuperate. Writers, I present to you your role model.

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""Two weeks ago, the right-wing Israeli journalist Yinon Magal posted the following on X: “This time, the IDF intends to evacuate all residents of the Gaza Strip to a new humanitarian zone that will be arranged for long-term stay, will be enclosed 1/2 www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...

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It's hard for a lot of Americans to wrap their minds around but denoting what has been done to Gaza as genocide is actually fairly mainstream outside of the Anglsophere and it's a perfectly legitimate and increasingly mainstream one inside of it, especially among experts of human rights law.

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may flowers 💐✨ #beadwork

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Note that the only two ultimately charged were both pro-Israel counter-demonstrators who instigated violence. The anti-genocide demonstrators who were arrested by the hundreds were not charged due to lack of evidence.

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For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel. Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare. Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.

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If y'all didn't understand what "defund the police" meant, how pray tell were you able to "wrap your brains" [I despise this term] around Joe Biden's very hard to understand slogan "FUND THE POLICE."

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I do genuinely wonder how many people think what happened with Wikipedia is that “society accepted it” rather than that they put a ton of work into making it reliable, something that is not going to make AI reliable because no technology to actually understand meaning has been or can be invented.

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You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

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So sad to hear about the tragedy at the Lapu Lapu festival tonight in Vancouver Some emergency response resources organized by the mabuhay house docs.google.com/document/d/e...

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Apple Cramps

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some people will be brave

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Can we not misuse the term Luddite? The Luddites were not ignorant of technology or against its use. They were against the use of exploitative technology. LLMs are an exploitative technology, so the parallel works, to some extent, just not in the way OP seems to think.

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People forget that the Luddites weren't principled technophobes, they were fighting back in class warfare. Also, the question isn't just "LLMs replacing human labour", it's replacing human labour BADLY. Capitalism is allergic to quality and sees no difference between AI slop and actual art.

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Americas starter Pokémon

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Good night from a folded Crouton 😴

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Imagine trying to convince the world that these bloodthirsty bigots are the victims of pro Palestine protests, and the reason universities have to decimate students human rights.

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US Citizens living abroad being denied passport renewals www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjr4h5cv/

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Need an excuse to buy more books? Now you have one! Saturday is Indie Bookstore Day! Show your favorite indie some love.

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Every now and again someone ends up splattered against the wall here because they assume they are talking to a dilettante and not an expert, and it's beautiful

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Fuck AI. AI is trash. Never use AI.

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You can tell that a thread is undergoing intense geekification when the first and last post look like this.

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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I think a lot about how COVID-19 was sold as an "individual responsibility," an approach which got over a million people killed but that the culture still accepted. Following that P.R. success, they're eager to say every illness is your fault.

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Way too many people hear “language model” and think the algorithm understands language. It does not. It reduces letters to numbers and looks for patterns in the numbers. That’s all it does. That’s all it can do. It does not derive meaning; it does not extrapolate consequences.

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World Central Kitchen in Gaza are having to burn shipping pallets because there's no fuel to cook with. Now their supplies are running out due to the blockade preventing delivery of aid and supplies.

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LLMs as they currently exist, represent a capitalist enclosure of the internet that we all made together For the benefit of billionaire parasites who are blowing up an AI bubble that will crash the economy again. If you don't care about that... I don't know how to explain that you should

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Gov. Tim Walz State Address: "We have university students shoved into unmarked vans and fathers being tossed into Salvadorian gulags without a hint of due process. If you say you love freedom, but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn't freedom, it's privilege."

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THE BAD NEWS: One of the feral cats had kittens. THE GOOD NEWS:

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I recall someone trying to tell me that it wasn't so bad because there was "no evidence it was done point blank" well, oops

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This week, it's can i offer you a nice egg in this trying time, originally published in Uncanny Magazine. It's an absolutely beautiful story that hit me with some unexpected twists in the very best way.

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Six of the seven dialysis centers in Gaza have been destroyed during the war, the World Health Organization said earlier this year, citing the territory’s Health Ministry.

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Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

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Tbh Worldcon cannot be held in the US right now and be Worldcon since it is not currently safe for anyone to travel here from another country

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It's the 5 year anniversary of the best photo of Freida ever.

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No, I’m sorry, if you’re telling people posting cat photos is a distraction from the real issues, you’re a Fed and you’re trying to make the movement eat itself.

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This person is a former Biden official.

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