Fun fact: trusting a random news article's summary of the abstract of a study because you really want to be true is also a form of cognitive surrender
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 16h agoIn our course and book _Calling Bullshit_, we posit that If something seems too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. Now as a college professor I'm pretty confident that overreliance can AI can harm our thinking ability, but just ten minutes of use? Let's dig into this this study a bit.
Australopithecus 3 million years ago:
josh (oldfriend99)@oldfriend99.bsky.social · yesterdayYou guys should check out Tool
I unironically like virtue names, for actual human beans. Not quite to the level of, like, If-He-Had-Not-Died-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned, but, like, Charity, Hope, Justice, Harmony, etc.
I mean, just think about it. For the rest of your life you will never be able to communicate with another entity and be sure if it’s person or machine based on what it says. Until 2022 this was practically inconceivable. This is not a trivial change. It is not a big trick.
The modal Democratic federal legislator is a lawyer who would be making 5x-10x as a partner at a law firm
Both parties are the same. That's why one party is trying to put LGBT and Muslim people in Congress, and the other one is trying to put them in camps.
none of these people care about disabled people any more than they care about trans people, Palestinian people, or any other cause used as an excuse to cause harm. they're just medieval peasants convinced by social media that their pathetic lives mean anything
Magic creative just said Cruelclaw is bi as part of the trans lifeline fundraiser when asked about some of their favorite lgbtq+ mtg characters and I'm taking it. He's ours now.
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Patrick Monahan@pattymo.com · 2d agoIt’s cool, and not incredibly demoralizing, that the last ~25 years (? more?) have been an increasingly flagrant demonstration that The Rules, as we were brought up to understand them, just do not apply to a lot of people
The Democratic Party is a huge tent in a huge country. And it has a dark and convoluted pre-Civil Rights Era past. But in the modern age, it has been one of the most progressive governing parties in the Western world.
Honest to god a DCCC text saying "[Name], we are going to crush these motherfuckers in November. I know we've been sometimes desperate sounding in these texts before but right now I'm telling you if everyone kicks in $30 we can rip their still-beating heart out before their eyes" would work on me rn
it's not even close! when I was growing up they didn't even HAVE Avatar: The Last Airbender
This is literally the best time to be a child in all of human history
what i don't care for is movies set in the mid '00s as being period pieces now. that's not cool
I'm legitimately surprised that none of these agents have been shot by someone with a concealed carry yet. Like, literally nothing about this situation tells someone it's Feds
Now he’s been fucking illegally disappeared because he panicked when armed unidentified men started smashing his car windows when he had a child in the vehicle. What the fuck are we DOING HERE
A Stark, a Lannister, a Baratheon, and a Targaryen walk into a bar. And then everyone you love dies.
Lemme go back in time and tell my suburban ass that I will one day be able to get delicious Indian food delivered to my house like it's pizza.
Dan@handackett.bsky.social · 2mo agoOccasionally I'll be standing in the grocery store and will suddenly be overwhelmed with awe and wonder at what a miracle it is that the global food distribution system can bring us all these incredible things from across the world, and it works so well that it's become completely mundane
imagine writing an argument so ironclad that the central factual claim being wrong has no effect on the validity of any part of it. must be strong logic.
"I will probably get caught and spend 10 years in prison" is likely to be a better deterrent than "I have a good chance of getting away with thus but might get executed if I don't"
I need Resist Accounts to stop responding to good court rulings with "No Shit" or the like Have you people not processed by now that laws in the USA are not self-executing, and that we *do* need judges to reiterate them when they're broken?
As the poet "Weird Al" sang, in his ode about these sorts of people: 🎵 Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight! Oh, I'm prayin' somebody tries to break in here tonight! 🎶
Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 3d agoif you shoot guns enough (I do), you quickly meet this type of guy, who will tell you just how Excited he is for someone to break into his house so he finally has the excuse he needs to dump a mag into them [and this type of guy is unfortunately quite dominant in US gun culture]
Day of the Dead Poets Society Honey I Blew Up Air Force One Attack of the 50-Foot Joker Titanic Cats How to Train Your Guy in Ten Days
ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact · 3d agoCoyote vs. ACME vs. Kramer (vs. Predator) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and All the Gifts The Last Mohican Boy Scout Jedi Se7en Samurai
I think it should be normalized to dress like a Jedi
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
i am seethingly offended by the white unwashed shitbags with dreads in NYC *from the perspective of someone who cares a lot about Palestinian sovereignty* these are not... serious people, they're not people who give a SINGLE fuck about Palestine
Read a post by some guy (it's always a guy) saying "if a junior coded like AI does, I'd fire them" and now I'm thinking about how tech is full of fundamentally icky people nobody's going to miss once they've finally moved to the woods or whatever
