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Got an ADHD person in your life? Wonder why they lose their shit when interrupted whilst hyperfocused on a task? It’s called monotropic split, and it’s horrible. Painful horrible. (The link is about autism but monotropism is a key ADHD feature too) emergentdivergence.com/2022/07/14/g...

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"The world's richest man logs onto the platform he bought to yell at the AI he had built for fact-checking conservative mega-influencer Catturd2" is a sentence so stupid that future history books may just skip this decade.

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You know what’s more American than installing 88 foot flag poles at the White House? Following the Constitution.

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Over the past few days I've had cause to think a lot about The (English) Beat song "Save It For Later," and what its primary writer Dave Wakeling said to me about it In a 2012 AV Club interview. 1/2

submitted 8 hours ago • 11 comments

Getting into a physical fight with my own ventriloquist dummy in front of a baffled crowd because I can't get it to say what I want

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New York City (and state) have both expressed interest in mask bans. These discriminatory ugly laws put lives at risk. They exclude disabled people from public spaces while increasing police harassment of marginalized individuals. Everyone deserves the legal right to mask up!

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Trump: They should give me the Nobel prize for Rwanda and have you looked at the Congo? You could say Serbia. You could say a lot of them. The big one is India and Pakistan. I should have gotten it four or five times. They won't give it because they only give it to liberals.

submitted 17 hours ago • 985 comments

‘This is for the kids who die, Black and white, For kids will die certainly. The old and rich will live on awhile, As always, Eating blood and gold, Letting kids die.’ Langston Hughes

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When even your whips won’t whip or vote for a Bill, you must surely pause and rethink. The Welfare Bill is cruel. It is morally wrong, economically illiterate and politically naive. Bravo this woman, that’s what leadership looks like 👇

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I don't know about you...but I'm disturbed by the amount of hell NOT being raised by leadership about masked individuals jumping out of unmarked vans, refusing to identify themselves...and just shoving people into a Goddamn vehicle and whisking them away.

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I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

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Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

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it's a great thing that trans people exist. they make the world a better place for everyone. attacks on trans people are attacks on everyone, and on the concept of human dignity and possibility.

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I’m convinced this is how a bay leaf would talk

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Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

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If Harris had been elected instead of Trump, there would be hundreds of thousands of children who hadn’t starved to death or died of treatable AIDS and we wouldn’t be on the verge of war with Iran. Anybody who doesn’t acknowledge this as a starting point has nothing to say worth hearing.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

Fucking do something!!!!

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The answer is in ICE's selection of targets: * Democratic politicians in public * Immigrants attending court hearings, at work, or at schools None of those people will be armed. On the flipside, ICE is scrupulously avoiding raids on cartel affiliates, drug dealing sites, etc. They might be armed.

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I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.

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Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

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✨👏🏾STANDING OVATION👏🏾✨

submitted 4 days ago • 46 comments

Political violence must always be condemned.

submitted 4 days ago • 467 comments

So much of the “promise” of AI right now is saving time creating. Let me say it from my chest: all I want is to spend more time creating. I’m not making content. I’m engaging in my vocation, my calling, my literal reason for existing.

submitted 5 days ago • 52 comments

There's a thread on AskReddit asking, "People who have had to drain their life’s savings on a single event, what happened?" 99% of the answers are depressing American stories about medical bills, 1% is an Australian who found a wombat burrowing under their house.

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If an obscure scientist in a tiny foreign land likes a No Kings post and flies to the U.S. 8 months later for a professional conference, they will be denied entry and detained. But if you assassinate a Democratic lawmaker in the Midwest, you can apparently disappear without a trace.

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I stole this from TikTok of the protest in San Antonio yesterday and I’m blown away. I had no idea there were that many people. I knew there were a lot, but this really puts into perspective just how many people showed up.

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It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

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(🧵) I’ve never—in 30 years in journalism—published a report like this: one that could genuinely bring hope. I spent the last 15 hours curating and labeling photos from hundreds of No Kings Day protests. It’s the largest archive of its kind and it has lots of Easter eggs (memes, an essay and more).

submitted 6 days ago • 156 comments

This is how LAPD treats our elders. Never forget.

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EPIC response.

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President Macron’s lightning visit to Greenland today marks a significant shift in his cautiously friendly dealings with Donald Trump since he returned to power. From the moment he landed in Nuuk, the first French president ever to do so, Macron was trolling Trump. 1/ youtu.be/P3cKxMXC-ms?...

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I dreamt that I was writing an article on the effects that Socrates' journey with Bill and Ted had on western philosophy. I don't remember anything about the paper beyond the title: "The Lost City of San Dimas: Uncovering the Impact of Excellence and Adventure when the Cave was a Phone Booth"

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Me: take hours to read a book You: have your super hot ChatGPT girlfriend download a million books, read them, then summarize them all to you in a barrage of lies that you can't even tell are lies because you don't read books; also you have the critical thinking skills of a shovel-struck donkey

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“No Kings Day”: A compilation

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In case anybody knows, I'm still looking for a fantasy novel I read in the 1980s. All I recall is there was a man who woke with some kind of memory loss. Nobody could look at him for long because it hurt the eyes. Some kind of obscuring spell. There was a quest to find a notorious wizard. 1/

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hahaha

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Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

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Fortunate Son! An anti-war song about rich kids dodging military service!

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America showed up, folks! Showed up. Stood up. Spoke up. And resisted. By the millions. THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE.

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