Like when the code is largely an expression of intent, you don't want to hand over coding to the LLM, in the same way that you don't want to have an LLM write your paper
this is the clearest thing I've read about republicans in this political moment defector.com/vivek-ramasw...
Vivek Ramaswamy Is Going After The Abusive Parent Vote | Defector
This is not to discredit the existence of some underlying tactical or strategic calculations, and it is absolutely not extending credit to the shockingly vile creatures doing it, but when you see a re...
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John Williams wrote a fanfare for Mike Dukakis. I had to hear it. - The Boston Globe
The composer once wrote music for Dukakis’s presidential campaign. Finding it took me eight years, a university library, and a favor from the former governor himself.
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First teaser for "Common Side Effects" Season 2. Coming January 24 on Adult Swim & HBO Max.
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
🚨 Urban Stats 32.4.0 🚨 I've added population weighted median density as suggested by many, as well as absolute decade over decade changes in density Additionally Luke has added the ability to combine multiple kinds of region / universe in the custom table Also new juxtastat results page!
🚨 Urban Stats 32.3.0 🚨 OK now that I think all the districts are set in stone (thank you SCOTMO), I've updated them in Urban Stats, to help baseline polling & election results! You can access the previous ones by clicking "Include Historical Districts"
my friends were too busy summering in greece to fund influence op campaigns to defeat mamdani and i think that says a lot about our society and general disengagement with the civic process
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🚨 Urban Stats 32.2.0 🚨 Luke has made several improvements! - Plot multiple geography kinds together in mapper - Ability to filter by string matches - Ability to add in Boolean and string columns to tables - improved search performance I also finally fixed unit computation on the mapper
I'm sorry to sound so bitter and shitty about this but I'm just like. I'm despondent. This remake looks SO expensive. I can't imagine all the money, hours, blood, sweat and tears that went into it. Nintendo could have taken all those resources and unparalleled artistry and made a new game instead.
Tbh Chicago, philadelphia, Atlanta all being overrepresented and Miami being buried really tracks lol. This might be the skeleton key urbanstats.org/statistic.ht...
Population [US Census] × Only English at Home %, Population [US Census]
Population [US Census] × Only English at Home %, Population [US Census] rankings on Urban Stats.
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🚨 Urban Stats 32.1.0 🚨 Luke has added two great new features! First off, we have embeds actually working now, so you can link an urbanstats page and it'll have a link preview, as so: urbanstats.org/comparison.h...
California vs Nevada
Comparing California, USA, Nevada, USA on Urban Stats.
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Point: If the chef thinks this looks like good food, he can't be a good chef Counterpoint: The chef hates everyone, Man and God, and the good food is purely a byproduct of his intense loathing for the inferior people he sees around him
fool that you are, for your favorite video games were all made under material conditions. that which you value in them and perceive as artistic intent was mere happenstance, shaped by economic and technological limitation. unlike my favorite games, which were made purely idealistically, with magic.
The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.
Kent Lind@camasonian.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe have data on this. The blue is all the non-ag human use:
Uh oh! You forgot your legally distinct lactase pills, and now someone's coming to say hi! this one goes out to Draz, thanks for suggesting this be art :) tagging @onsta.bsky.social very bravely... #FanArt #Onsta #dilfosaur #ChilchucksInferno #DigitalArt #NoAI
Marlow Moss, Composition in Black and White Number 4, 1949 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135948
🚨 Urban Stats 32.0.0 🚨 @spudwaffle.bsky.social just moved the check boxes to the article/comparison page itself, for easier access! Also in this update - you can now see friends' juxtastat board from yesterday - you can now enter a percentile and jump to that point - bug fixes
