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tyler.britten.us
Computers for work, beer, snowboards, and airplanes for fun. Penn State alumnus.
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Large Language Models are architecturally incapable of reasoning or understanding. @GaryMarcus and I told everyone this, consistently, relentlessly, and from their very start. machinelearning.apple.com/research/ill...

submitted 1 hour ago • 8 comments

My husband’s cell was getting calls from people thinking they were phoning a certain city’s police number. He was puzzled—his number doesn’t appear on any web page. Then he learned that if you Google “[city name] non-emergency police”, the AI overview hallucinates his number. Thanks, Google!

submitted 2 hours ago • 5 comments

By god is that Ben Wikler’s music??!?

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

National Guard is paid by the federal government but controlled by the Governor so if they do show up then we know Newsom allowed it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 88 comments

The Trump administration would love to use war-style brutality and violence to attack all protestors. About 35% of the country would cheer it. Remind me why I should feel any community, any common humanity, any need to connect with those people.

submitted 1 day ago • 83 comments

What the fuck is the point of paying money to a police department if they won’t protect people from hostile masked kidnappers?

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

if you're not tuned into US politics you may see "LA County Sheriffs Department" and think that's just what they call their normal police but they are actually a network of violent organized white supremacist gangs with tattoos, a code of silence, initiation rites that require police brutality, etc

submitted 22 hours ago • 13 comments

These Alf hog-related charges are an abomination

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

So are we just teaching our kids they have to obey anyone with a mask and an unmarked car and an oddly-fitting vest and zip ties now and go with them? Is this where we’re at?

submitted 2 days ago • 605 comments

IMO this is an underrated factor in Cuomo’s favour. A lot of not particularly politically engaged New Yorkers have clear memories of Cuomo providing them reassurance and clarity in a really miserable, scary moment

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

you can't tell at first because this is written in the exonerative tense, but she was shot *by another police officer*

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

The richest man in the world said he bought Congress for the GOP and that should give him the ability to set policy. If you think this is just gawking/schadenfreude, you're really missing a ton of what's going on here.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Happy ANTIFA Day to those who celebrate.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

In case you need a supporting exhibit when you explain to students why it’s important to avoid the passive voice

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

what, and I cannot emphasize this enough, the fuck

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

New polling shows that for the first time in our lifetimes, Americans want the federal government to "do more" to "solve the country's problems." Folks are hungry for a government that makes life slightly less difficult. I wrote about it for Bad Faith Times: badfaithtimes.com/for-the-firs...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

In 1936, FDR closed out his re-election campaign by bragging to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that “organized money” hated him “and I welcome their hatred.” He took 60% of the vote in a 523-8 electoral college landslide. FDR knew having the right enemies could be a useful thing.

submitted 2 days ago • 184 comments

in any normal world that would be the end of SpaceX. We paid for it. Nationalize it. apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

If I hear one of you motherfuckers say that Mark Cuban is a good billionaire or Mark Cuban should run for President,

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

once again I must tap my own sign

submitted 2 days ago • 234 comments

oh is this just a distraction? is that it? a distraction? for rubes? are you the smartest little birthday boy in the whole applebees? is that it? are you three steps ahead? with your mind chess? in your little birthday boy suit? do you have it all figured out? are you mommy’s special buddy?

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

It’s the happiest day of Elon Musk’s life because he finally posted something people actually want to read

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

Twitter right now

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

Trump should nationalize SpaceX that would show him

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

There we go.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

why not decommission it the usual way: launching it into a million pieces over protected wetlands

submitted 3 days ago • 76 comments

"We cannot build bananas in America" is an all timer

submitted 3 days ago • 273 comments

Hi! I specialize in medication toxicity. All available, real-world data has proven mifepristone is actually even safer than many over the counter medicines. Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K)

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments