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How will I possibly trust any other site now that I've seen this?
Insurance companies acting like mafia mob bosses if you don’t follow through after getting a quote
Newest member of the family, rescued from my dad before he could send it off to the monsters at carvana.
@jacobgeller.com You nailed it with this latest video. Absolutely loved it. Thank you for making videos like this. 🙏
The world is complicated and frustrating, and there's quite a few things my employer did that I don't agree with (and I let them know!) but honestly, this is one thing I really, really appreciate about Meta. It's why I work there. It is unmitigated good […]
Original post on social.coop
social.coop
there is a temptation to simply "fight the evil organization", and there are definitely times that you need to do that. but those fights are always short-term. most fights, and _all_ of the long-term fights, are fights to change the rules that the organization operates under so that the good […]
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mastodon.social
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116926043515471504 This is the beginning of a thread. And you should read the whole thing.
hachyderm.io
Reviewing conference talk proposals is wild in the age of LLMs, and exhausting in ways that it never was in the past. Never knowing if what you read was directly from the mind of a human, “touched up” by an LLM, or fabricated whole cloth by a stochastic lying machine. Low effort proposals in […]
Original post on toots.n7.gg
toots.n7.gg
Worst day of the year to have to wake up early the next morning
The thing about training an #LLM on human culture and then renting that culture back isn't that it's "Intellectual Property Theft." There's nothing wrong with sharing. There is something wrong with framing LLMs as piracy. That's a completely different concept. When a powerful group of people […]
Original post on kolektiva.social
kolektiva.social
there isn't a problem with the game's industry. there's a problem with every industry and every publicly traded company. getting a "nice CEO who cares" or whatever won't fix anything until things are addressed at a more fundamental societal level. the system will always drive towards this behavior.
Ofc the only lottery I ever win is the one where the prize is spending more money 😹
I guess I’ll be sticking with my M1 Macs a little bit longer now 🫠
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jalefkowit/116806769305794831 They want to literally steal the election.
hachyderm.io
Of course, I got a rejection email this morning from the one company that had actually given me an interview 🤪
[gerrymandle day 34 solution] This one was legitimately tough to figure out.
Interesting^W Depressing new daily game to play https://gerrymandle.cc/day/39 Day 39 - Won the election! 💎 Flawless victory · 🏆 Optimal map
Gerrymandle
Draw districts and win the election. A new puzzle every day.
gerrymandle.cc
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