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On the other hand, pro-AI people talk about it like they’re trying to unload a shitty used car. “Does it always work right? Absolutely not! Do you need to take extra annoying steps to receive worse results? Of course! But that’s the real beauty of it…”

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It's explicitly not "information" though, it's AUTOCORRECT, it offers algorithmically determined averages of what an answer to your prompt may look like, meaning that even when AI offers correct information it is entirely by chance. Which is NOT comparable to Wikipedia editors' deliberate writing.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Finally, an easy way to explain the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek: One has Werner Herzog demanding a magic baby The other has David Cronenberg explaining cosmic science politics

submitted 9 days ago • 27 comments

CAL FIRE, with the USDA Forest Service, has launched a new interactive tool to visualize California’s urban tree canopy and track changes between 2018 and 2022. This platform provides high-resolution data for all urban areas across the state. #UrbanForestry #TreeCanopy #ClimateAction

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison

submitted 6 days ago • 363 comments

If we make it out of this we have to agree that we are all going to stop pretending that MBAs have any special skills whatsoever

submitted 7 days ago • 99 comments

Greenblatt's French dip on a La Brea roll. One of the best sandwiches ever. 💔

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

How I arrived on Bluesky

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Don’t let them inside. Don’t take their money. Don’t listen to their pleas for “fellowship” or “politeness.” Or the next thing you know you won’t be able to recognize your own friends & family. Some vampire stories hitting a little harder in 2025 for everybody or just me?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Holy shit this is an incredible deal. GET ON THIS, folks.

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submitted 9 days ago • 50 comments

Excellent info that will only become more relevant.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

It's time to start reminding people: LILIES ARE DEADLY FOR CATS. The leaves, the petals, the stem, even drinking a bit of vase water or licking a few grains of pollen from their fur can cause fatal kidney failure. ⚠️ www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

submitted 25 days ago • 193 comments

Guess what! America is now a country where you have to carry papers if you're not white!

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

We shouldn't human traffic guilty people to foreign death camps, either, actually.

submitted 13 days ago • 75 comments

some of the most inspired lyrics i’ve ever heard “it’s it, what is it. it’s it, what is it” genuinely top tier shit

submitted 13 days ago • 38 comments

A lot of valuable advice in this thread on how to navigate food safety when the government has given up on doing it for you.

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submitted 15 days ago • 143 comments

Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

submitted 16 days ago • 92 comments

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

submitted 16 days ago • 340 comments

Dr. Thirst was big player in 90s sleepovers at my house.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Reposting with alt text

submitted 16 days ago • 31 comments

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

submitted 20 days ago • 836 comments

BREAKING: The House will vote on the SAVE Act today. If this bill becomes law, millions of American citizens could be blocked from voting. 1/

submitted 21 days ago • 45 comments

This is a 12 alarm fire for the economy. If being friends with the president and giving him kickbacks makes you exempt from large import taxes Vs your competitors, it will stratify the whole economy and push corruption and loyalty and political controls deep into the private sector

submitted 21 days ago • 97 comments

Louder, for all the would-be capitulating university presidents at other institutions in the back

submitted 21 days ago • 56 comments

There has NEVER been a #UBI study that doesn't show good, or great results

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

see, this is exactly what I’m talking about

submitted 22 days ago • 51 comments

This is fascinating: On the pod, @kedseconomist.com cites the example of a US manufacturer of board games to explain what's wrong with Trump's tariffs and why unleashing so much pain and turmoil to restore manufacturing is an incoherent goal. Transcript here: newrepublic.com/article/1937...

submitted 22 days ago • 58 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 24 days ago • 1113 comments

why did i check my 401k. what is wrong with me. lol. it's like when a server brings you a plate and they warn you that it's really hot and you reach out your dumb little finger and touch it anyway

submitted 23 days ago • 45 comments

The horror movie trope of the killer phoning the house could end with the call. He doesn’t need to be hiding in a closet. He doesn’t need to be stalking through the garage. A person you’ve never spoken to before calling you? Absolutely terrifying.

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

No cheating. The last saved celebrity pic on your phone is your therapist.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Ugh. End of the world is so depressing. Geez.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

If you haven’t read this thread about making microchips in the United States (because all the manufacturing is going to magically start up in the US now that Trump has turned on the magic tariff tap), you really should.

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

If you're protesting this weekend, know your rights when interacting with law enforcement, including immigration agents.

submitted 26 days ago • 40 comments

Dictators of all stripes hate solidarity. They’d prefer that we cower alone. They want us to feel powerless. This is why I encourage you to participate in the peaceful demonstrations planned for today across America. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/april-5-hands-off-our-healthcare

submitted 25 days ago • 470 comments

Why did I spend so much time in High School learning about Checks And Balances? I was promised Checks. And Balances even!

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Aside from limited materials, corporations manufacture abroad because of child labor and worker rights laws, as well as OSHA and the federal minimum wage. As poorly conceived as it is, the tariff plan would never have been proposed at all if it didn't also include a plan to repeal those protections.

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

I read so many stories like this every day, we live in a completely insane time in tech history. Generative AI is the thing that has revealed how many useless managers are in charge

submitted 26 days ago • 36 comments

Being a billionaire in the United States feels basically identical whether you have $10B or $100B, but feels very different if you can sexually harass your au pair and she can quit and get a different job vs if she is desperate to keep her job and has to put up with it because the economy is shit.

submitted 26 days ago • 43 comments

it is because they want to impoverish the country! they don’t want high end manufacturing. they want americans working subsistence wages making t shirts and clothes hangers

submitted 26 days ago • 229 comments