toddrowell.bsky.social
Not only a man of science—a man of hope. Software primate and UI designer at the Toyota Research Institute. I fight for the users. More fox than hedgehog.
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I show up a minute late to miss that ritual
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Let’s be fair: Biloxi *with* Lyme disease and EEE
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Who knows how long hey think this works
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In good old Arlington, car brain worms make people argue that we have to let people die in crashes because it’s good for the economy
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Thinking of everything as a “deal” is also a pretty crummy way to be in the world
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I got that, I was just explaining where the portmanteau came from
I also heard the “stalker fan” explanation and it also helped me make more sense of the usage from the song
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Not wrong. Lied.
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static fire = explode and stand still, great success
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I think the portmanteau was a retcon
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Given who mainly uses that term I think it may not have a coherent meaning
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Oh, is this what “static fire” means?
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Well, they did say it was a “static fire” test and that fire isn’t going to space so… appears to check out
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Giving the word “problem” a heckuva workout
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They’re just “killing abductees” away from being SSand I’m pretty sure the GOP has that on the agenda
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Don’t forget, though, that the MO of conservatives who are proven wrong is to double and triple down being wrong.
Didn’t get raptured in 2012? It was a test of your faith. Trump does what he said he wouldn’t do? It’s 4D chess.
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Yeah: their biases get amplified and exaggerated, and the hallucinations create new patterns that get amplified.
The “AI” grifters don’t care, of course.
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I haven’t heard how they plan to prevent #2 either, and I suspect the answer is “magic”. Plus companies are trying to use LLMs to generate more input for newer LLMs, somehow imagining they’ll create something better than AI slop I guess?
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They did that with Katrina too, and the crazy gas prices in 2008
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It’s not even programming determining the merits, they’re just aping what they found on the internet plus some randomness and prompting (which isn’t very reliable as we’ve seen)
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I mean I actually assume the terror and uncertainty are a feature to them and not a bug, but the sane people in our society know those are bad, actually
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I was just thinking we needed a “police should not look like kidnappers” bill
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An elegant music video for a more civilized age
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Papieren, bitte
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My office has a water fountain that can add caffeine. Win-win
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And worse, there is a lot more RW extremism in the military now … I think they might relish the chance.
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I think that’s the goal, actually
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Well it’s one thing he wasn’t allowed to write!
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No kidding?! I totally thought it was French, I think based on the name … shows what I know.
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Loved those computers, mine had the crazy ring magnets for speed sensors that worked even in the rain (unlike the Hall-effect ones IIRC). Super annoying to mount though. So French!
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4. Their goals are an authoritarian uniparty system, free from the constraints of the rule of law.
5. This is their Reichstag fire.
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Is this the kind with the tiny scroll nubbin on top? I may have one …
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I’m too stuffed up to tell if that’s awesome or if just the video is awesome
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This is going to blow the minds of people who use wireless headphones but: they work just fine if you only wear one, and if you do that you can hear pretty well
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*raises hand from a tech sector filled with comp sci PhDs*