@brx0

The anti-aging guy is having a normal one

Flávio, these are all really good ideas

it is odd in retrospect how easy it was for the “but trump ended his friendship with epstein” narrative to be accepted as fact

Hexagonal growth in a black olive tree.

@johnbourscheid.bsky.social

Kind of funny, in an Ancient Greek Hell kind of way, that this guy handed Trump the presidency in 2016, and as a reward Trump is kicking him in the teeth forever. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Also for what it is worth, it DIDN'T actually label them as illustrative — and the deception was only apparent because I know the data well. That's scary, because if you use AI for everything, you wouldn't know the data well enough to catch its deceptions.

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

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My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

He claims here that other states have a law saying "somebody with the same name can't run." That is false. In no state is that the law, and it would be unconstitutional. You can have rules about how the ballot is disambiguated, you can't say nobody else with a similar name is allowed to run at all.

Thirty years ago I was on a high-volume high-aggro mailing list, and when someone lost it like this the tradition was for someone to take the text of the message, alphabetize it, paste it into a reply, and say “these words didn’t appear to be in any particular order so I alphabetized them for you”

YES BRING BACK SERIF FONT PACKAGING THAT LOOKS LIKE WHO’S THE BOSS

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

I (Rahab) wrote an article about one of the worst and most influential Christian fascist figures in American history, Tim LaHaye. This is also my first ever publication under my real name. Pretty fucking cool!

Echidna!

Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. @latimes.com (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*.

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

More on the 25 years the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, having arrived on 24 October 2001, has been operating in Mars orbit:

Mission Control at JPL. On the right of the top screen is a list of missions and how long they've been supported by the Deep Space Network. Odyssey (M010) is second only to the Voyagers.

Trump says Alaska’s ballot is illegal because people don’t know what “incumbent” means

Trump claims bump after pumping slumping schlump's plum rump

I'm sorry but banning non-English speakers because machine translation is unclean is more fascist than anything in the AI space except maybe Palantir's XAI enterprise account

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

People making lame Liberace jokes today just showing they suffer from pianist envy.

This 19th c lady’s multitool was found in the pocket(!) of an antique (1872) garment donated to the historic clothing archive at my employer. It features a button hook for fitted gloves and a tiny corkscrew. The corkscrew is too small for wine & was probably intended to open apothecary bottles.

Middle age is finding that all sorts of things you didn't value at the time--zines traded for, discography deep cuts downloaded from now-defunct mp3 blogs, hand-burned DVDs of gray market US releases with funsubs, master's degrees in 19th C American fiction--rapidly became One of the Only Ones Left.

I-5 over the Siskiyous was a nailbiter every single time back then, wondering if whatever vehicle you were in would make it up & over without overheating or worse, and then down without brake trouble

a 25 year old could not comprehend how bad the dining options were in the median American town in 1996

Republicans are going all in on AI-generated ads. Democrats, meanwhile, are shunning them and suggesting the ad campaigns are emblematic of a party that doesn’t care about the truth and can’t be trusted.

Even if this were viable as a concept (that there's an afterlife; that it allows conversations with others; that enslavers are going the same place as you), who cares? Oh, are you mad at me, Ben Franklin? Tough shit.

Ford Ranger WildMac

Explains a lot.

Nimesh Patel said this about Vivek Ramaswamy in 2023, and its more relevant then ever

Security through obscurity is a terrible principle but in practice a lot of things didn't get hacked bc people ignored them, or didn't know they existed, or just generally got missed. AI makes it easy to probe all of these things at scale + makes it easier to find/develop exploits

wrote about "Black October," the PHP vulnerability, and the AI-fueled dread and panic I'm seeing among almost all of the cybersecurity experts I've ever known. I think people w/ LLMs are brute forcing software the same way they brute forced social media w/ slop www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.