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Warcraft 2 🄹
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Judge stayed his ruling until tomorrow at noon. Trump admin will get a stay from the 9th Circuit, and it will take weeks to resolve there. Or they might go straight to SCOTUS with an emergency application, also stayed pending resolution. So the status quo will remain for some time.
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Elon and Rubio have quite a head start with the USAID deletion
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MAGA republicans are working to close these discrepancies between their claims and reality www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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I agree the NPIs likely saved lives, although there are other notable population differences aside from age:
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AI is going to turn "nonprofessional" opinion columnists into original thinkers?
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EN BANC’D
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As a business user, I can confidently report that Microsoft customer service has surpassed the DMV and linear cable providers as the worst, most feckless, most understaffed customer service experience in recorded history
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@thelouvreof.bsky.social
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Ok
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Stock futures about to do what SpaceX can’t and leave Earth
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I am simply too talented a driver to travel at speeds below arbitrary limits the woke elites have imposed
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FACT CHECK: Needs context
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The 2019 primary exposed that she can’t persuade people she stands for anything beyond her own political career.
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iT's nOt cRaZy iF tHe hEarTLaNd vOtEd fOr HiM
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Mechanically following poll tests on every issue is, in fact, the distilled essence of what people dislike about politicians. People want a politician who has convictions—admittedly, which largely align with their own. Harris shows us it’s pretty damn hard to have convictions about polling memos.
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The argument doesn’t even seem correct. Obama at least created the appearance of having independent convictions, while Harris was a walking strategy memo. 2008 Obama appeared unscripted and sold a vision, 2024 Harris was always filming a commercial and seemed to reflect what she was told voters want
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Looking at American history alone, Matt’s argument is actually kind of reprehensible. There are periods where public opinion has been wrong and immoral. A good politician should lead public opinion—not promise to maintain a status quo that (eg) subjugates the disfavored minority of the day.
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Don't get me wrong: Super Castlevania is virtually unplayable after you've spent 100 hours playing Dead Cells. Physics, depth, imagination, games have improved--or evolved--in countless ways beyond the single vector of polygon count.
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Spider-Man 2 was an incredible technological feat that I put down about 15 hours in because the story was inane and the gameplay extremely repetitive.
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There's a reason Balatro was among the most successful games last year. Graphics and realism are impressive technology but they don't make a "fun" game. The wide majority of "best' games in my library in recent years are indie titles that could have run on a PS1.
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Literally who are these guys and why are they always wearing masks? Seems under-appreciated that we literally have a secret police of deputized nationalists roaming around and abducting people with no judicial process.
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"Sir, I'm getting Ketamine readings in here that are .... it's not possible, sir"
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New business unit to be called Smoke & Mirrors
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šŸŽÆ
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Perhaps it’s boredom, perhaps it’s some journalists’ pathological craving to stay ā€˜balanced’ by scolding both sides—even if one is bulldozing laws and norms while the other just tried to run for office after his body failed him.
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šŸŽÆ
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Eyeliner Man has no firm principles, only a thirst for power.
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"Forbearance"? "Implied consensus"? Someone arrest this nerd.
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What? He didn’t run for President.
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Are you kidding me?
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Agencies are scrambling to implement the governor’s decree with insufficient space to fit everyone. People are being reassigned to alternate offices, losing hours of their days to longer commutes, and sharing desks to implement the governor’s vision (of running for President).
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The RTO order is a senseless political and policy mistake. So many knowledge workers whose jobs can be performed 100% remote needlessly pulled from their families and put through hours of weekly commutes for no work-related reasons.
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Just reported you to the Bar
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Our models estimate the percentage is high
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With this and tariffs, inflation numbers gonna be running wild at some point
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It’s got a decent grasp of future estates if you don’t mind changing your area of practice entirely.
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Kick? Bobcat?
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If you're so innocent, why are you in jail?
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"We've cut our healthcare by 50 to 90 percent" What?
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Does CBP/DHS have a "routine" policy of stopping brown people for questioning at airports? How many white executives did they "routinely" stop at Global Entry for questioning during the same day?
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ā€œas we approach superintelligenceā€ šŸ™„
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The thing that gets me is how he delivers easily disproven claims with such haughty disdain for the straw man who believes otherwise.
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Seems like there’s a growing market for ā€œfirewalledā€ software that keeps the user in a word processing app and prevents opening or pasting text from other apps. In law school we used Examsoft; I recall it being pretty janky.
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Making America Healthy Again by tripling the cost of staple generic medicines from Ireland and India
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Making America Healthy Again by constructing pharmaceutical manufacturing plants near our towns and waterways
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šŸ“‰
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Maybe some form of AI will be able to practice law some day, but I don’t think LLMs ever will. LLMs predict the next word in a sequence; they don’t and can’t exercise judgment. LLMs can outperform 90% of bar exam takers and underperform 100% of litigators.
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Fictional cases are described with a level of detail and plausibility such that they sound like actual precedents on a superficial reading—leading particularly lazy attorneys to file raw GPT output in briefs and get sanctioned. There’s no sign of progress in reducing the hallucination problem.