Video: Trump and Allies Demand Mistrial Based on Debunked Post by Facebook Troll

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Judge Juan Merchan sent a letter on Friday asking prosecutors and Trump’s defense team about a Facebook post that appeared to preview the outcome of the former president’s hush money trial. The post has since been debunked. MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin is joined by Renato Mariotti, former federal prosecutor, and Tara Setmayer, former GOP communications director, to discuss.

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Unabogie  Jun 10, 2024 • 11:13:27am

If his lawyers submit filings based on easily debunked shitposts on Facebook, can they be sanctioned? At some point the courts have to defend themselves from the Bullshit Factory, don’t they?

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Dangerman  Jun 10, 2024 • 11:14:04am
Hours before Donald Trump was expected to make a virtual address to a Christian advocacy organization that wants to ban all abortions and calls the procedure ‘child sacrifice,’ the former president’s campaign said Monday that he would only give a pre-recorded welcome message lasting less than two minutes — in which he does not say the word ‘abortion’ at all,” Politico reports.

Chickened out

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Dangerman  Jun 10, 2024 • 11:17:11am

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Dangerman  Jun 10, 2024 • 11:20:31am

TIL

In the federal system, a person is not technically a felon or a convict until sentencing. But Trump was convicted in New York, and that state imposes this designation at the time of the jury verdict.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 10, 2024 • 11:23:27am

Ars chats with Precision, the brain-chip maker taking the road less invasive

Ars spoke with Ben Rapoport, who is a neurosurgeon, electrical engineer, and co-founder of the brain-computer interface (BCI) company Precision Neuroscience. Precision is at the forefront of the field, having placed its BCI on the brains of 14 human patients so far, with two more scheduled this month. Rapoport says he hopes to at least double that number of human participants by the end of this year. In fact, the 3-year-old company expects to have its first BCI on the market next year.

arstechnica.com

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DodgerFan1988  Jun 10, 2024 • 11:27:53am


No wonder MAGA & QAnon loves Russia.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 10, 2024 • 11:32:03am

Strangely, several threads on Freep basically dismiss the troll-based juror tweet. There are eager exceptions, but most commenters back away from it.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jun 10, 2024 • 11:34:40am

re: #4 Dangerman

TIL

In the federal system, a person is not technically a felon or a convict until sentencing. But Trump was convicted in New York, and that state imposes this designation at the time of the jury verdict.

You are not convicted until the judge enters that judgment of guilt.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 10, 2024 • 11:38:54am

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nines09  Jun 10, 2024 • 11:41:12am

Had to roll through Shamokin. Snapped this.

Ukrainian Catholic Church.
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Charles Johnson  Jun 10, 2024 • 11:41:16am

Been watching the Apple event and now they’re singing the praises of ChatGPT, without a single mention of its tendency to “hallucinate” (aka, make shit up).

I don’t have a good feeling about this.

Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-10T18:40:19.000Z

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 10, 2024 • 11:44:17am

re: #11 Charles Johnson

I’m calling it now: Within the next several years, some system will be turned over to AI and a MASSIVE FUCK-UP will ensue, possibly a fuck up that gets people killed.

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dat_said  Jun 10, 2024 • 11:45:38am
Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi reiterated Tesla as underperform today and believes Musk will not get his pay package approved. He said the stock “would likely be down (potentially 5%+)” due to fears the chief executive may choose to leave the company.

I’ve seen reports that giving Musk his “incentive” package would create a dilution effect of 9%. You would think that not giving Musk his package coupled with getting rid of an executive whose current reputation is tarnishing the company’s image would be viewed as positives.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 10, 2024 • 11:45:52am

re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m calling it now: Within the next several years, some system will be turned over to AI and a MASSIVE FUCK-UP will ensue, possibly almost assuredly a fuck up that gets people killed.

FTFY

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Nojay UK  Jun 10, 2024 • 11:46:36am

re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m calling it now: Within the next several years, some system will be turned over to AI and a MASSIVE FUCK-UP will ensue, possibly a fuck up that gets people killed.

You have a touching faith in the ability of people to not fuck things up even without the assistance of large-language models. Programmers not excluded.

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wrenchwench  Jun 10, 2024 • 11:54:13am

It’s finals week at the local U, so the DJs on their radio station are going nuts: Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Bruce Cockburn. I feel like I’m back in college, but OH, NO! I didn’t study!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 10, 2024 • 11:56:03am

re: #15 Nojay UK

You have a touching faith in the ability of people to not fuck things up even without the assistance of large-language models. Programmers not excluded.

It looks like one of my credit cards went to some sort of AI as it’s default on-line customer service chat. It at least does tell me immediately that it’s not human. Beyond that it’s pretty damn useless since I am not interested in playing keyword games with it.

And further confirms my general impression that most feedback systems for websites are completely not interested in handling or getting feedback on shortcomings with the website itself. Plus I often see “refer to XXX YYY if you have a complaint” or “refer to schedule of fees” and then there are zip/zero/nada links to either of them. And search functions within most of these systems either have very simplified result systems or will give you a hit for 50+ pages inside the website that happen to have the words you entered. (Like I said, it’s keyword games at that point.)

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Shropshire Slasher  Jun 10, 2024 • 11:56:22am

I still have dreams of missing the school bus.

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KGxvi  Jun 10, 2024 • 11:56:48am

re: #7 Decatur Deb

Strangely, several threads on Freep basically dismiss the troll-based juror tweet. There are eager exceptions, but most commenters back away from it.

Game Recognizes Game

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Charles Johnson  Jun 10, 2024 • 11:57:24am

Nice to know some of them have regrets, but it would also be nice if they weren’t just repeating the same damned mistakes now.

Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-10T18:54:56.000Z

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wrenchwench  Jun 10, 2024 • 11:58:25am

re: #18 Shropshire Slasher

I still have dreams of missing the school bus.

I got into bicycles because I couldn’t catch a bus.

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Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:00:10pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

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It would be nicer still had any of them faced any consequences for their journalistic malpractice greater than embarrassment that they’d facilitated Trump’s BS to begin with.

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wrenchwench  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:03:40pm
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wrenchwench  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:07:10pm

re: #23 wrenchwench

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He does not present a high risk of re-offending,” his attorney continued. “The Court should grant diversion under a strict set of terms so that he can be ordered to pay his debt to Mr, Koehler’s family, and to society at large, without the stigma of a formal criminal conviction.”

Just to be sure, take his fucking license forever.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:13:46pm

re: #23 wrenchwench

Oh! oh! oh!

Can I guess his skin color?

/

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:14:38pm

re: #13 dat_said

I’ve seen reports that giving Musk his “incentive” package would create a dilution effect of 9%. You would think that not giving Musk his package coupled with getting rid of an executive whose current reputation is tarnishing the company’s image would be viewed as positives.

Non-large language model computer systems have gotten people killed, notably GPS (usually from blindly following a cell phone app into a deadly area with no cell phone service). There’s a reason (aside from no cell service here in a deadly area with no water) that I only use paper maps, even on ten thousand mile car trips.

Since the only thing that matters to software corporations is “line goes up” and their entire industry is allowed to ship knowingly-defective software with some vague promise to fix it in the future (wink), I guarantee you someone (or a lot of someones) will die. The large language model will not be held responsible if someone sues (caveat emptor).

I’ve been asked in the past on-line how I could drive around Yukon without a cell phone; people are seemingly clueless about paper maps (or that you can write Yukon’s government and get one in the mail).

Death by GPS (Wikipedia)

Death by GPS refers to the death of people attributable, in part, to following GPS directions or GPS maps. Death by GPS has been noted in several deaths in Death Valley, California, a lost hiker at Joshua Tree National Park in southeastern California, and incidents in Washington State, Australia, England, Italy and Brazil.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:14:57pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

I too think the idea of making chatGPT output optional is Apple’s way of saying that they are just making the user decide if chatGPT is worth their time.

Also, Apple said there are going to be other models they will interface, though they added no specifics.

Wall Street was expecting “AI” so I guess Apple had to do something.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:18:55pm

Every day, the same two people walk the same two dogs past each other outside my office window, and every day the dogs totally freak out barking at each other in a frenzy. You’d think by now they’d be like, “What’s up, Spot?” “Not much, what’s up with you, Rex?”

Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-10T19:17:24.000Z

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BeachDem  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:19:34pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

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So, basically…

Regrets, I’ve had a few
But then again, too few to mention
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption
I planned each charted course
Each careful step along the byway
And more, much more than this
I did it my way

Fuck. Them.

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gocart mozart  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:20:35pm
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jaunte  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:20:52pm

390 km north of St. Petersburg.

10 pm, Joensuu

Dr. SkySkull (@drskyskull.bsky.social) 2024-06-10T19:01:21.137Z

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jaunte  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:24:32pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

If they were off the leash somewhere, they would have worked out who was boss by now.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:24:39pm

re: #30 gocart mozart

Thank heaven she has a sense of humor.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:24:52pm

re: #27 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I too think the idea of making chatGPT output optional is Apple’s way of saying that they are just making the user decide if chatGPT is worth their time.

Also, Apple said there are going to be other models they will interface, though they added no specifics.

Wall Street was expecting “AI” so I guess Apple had to do something.

I’d be happy with a button labeled “Skip this and go into a queue to talk to a human”.

Except for the fact that I know most help desk call centers are simply going to have a human on the other end who is going to simply run through their script with you as they type search stuff into their keyboard. Which I guess is fine with 90% of the queries which are perhaps general in nature and are roughly speaking FAQ-level stuff or fairly easily then shunted to the next level and hopefully proper bucket. All too often I have already known whose bucket the query should go to and still have to spend 10+ minutes on hold and then 5-10 minutes steering the person through the script questions to get to a spot I could have pointed in within a few seconds. (I have yet to come across a call center person who believed me when I told them to skip the script and just send my ticket to the bucket group I already knew the name of.)

//
Goes off to yell at cloud. (Yes I mean the IT one.)

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Charles Johnson  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:25:41pm

We could have been at this point 40 years ago if not for the Republican Party.

Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-10T19:25:05.000Z

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:27:03pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:28:02pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

If anyone needs a refresher course on GOP Stenography go to Bob Somerby’s Daily Howler and review the full blown Presstitution that put Dumbya in the White House. The total character assassination of Al Gore is documented in detail at Bob’s site.

They got away with it in 2000 so they did it again in 2016 and they’re still doing it now.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:29:24pm

put my cat on the cover of CRIME Magazine, where he belongs #art

Alex Plante 🐀👑 (@aplante.com) 2024-03-26T16:48:44.794Z

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:29:51pm

I have little use for tablet computers, but watching how Apple integrated the long-suffering Mac Graph app into the new iPad calculator made me think about school days decades ago.

Such a graphing calculator would have been very useful in studying some subjects.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:31:25pm

re: #18 Shropshire Slasher

I still have dreams of missing the school bus.

Most of my gradeschool and highschool life I slept within 100 indoor yards of my desk.

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jaunte  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:31:40pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

Innocent!

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BeachDem  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:33:38pm

So, I guess the creepy orange guy likes Taylor Swift’s looks in his creepy orange way…

“I think she’s beautiful — very beautiful! I find her very beautiful,” Trump told author Ramin Setoodeh in an excerpt shared by Variety. “I think she’s liberal. She probably doesn’t like Trump. I hear she’s very talented. I think she’s very beautiful, actually — unusually beautiful!”

But not so much her politics…

“She is liberal, or is that just an act?” Trump asked during his interview with Setoodeh. “She’s legitimately liberal? It’s not an act?…Back in February, he claimed Swift should be grateful to him for making her “so much money,” and said she would be “disloyal” if she supported Biden again. He also has argued to members of his camp that he is more popular than the singer.

That last line truly made me laugh—talk about delusional. (and just how did he make her so much money?? Inquiring minds want to know)

He is a moron.

huffpost.com

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nines09  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:38:06pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:39:11pm

re: #34 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I’d be happy with a button labeled “Skip this and go into a queue to talk to a human”.

Except for the fact that I know most help desk call centers are simply going to have a human on the other end who is going to simply run through their script with you as they type search stuff into their keyboard. Which I guess is fine with 90% of the queries which are perhaps general in nature and are roughly speaking FAQ-level stuff or fairly easily then shunted to the next level and hopefully proper bucket. All too often I have already known whose bucket the query should go to and still have to spend 10+ minutes on hold and then 5-10 minutes steering the person through the script questions to get to a spot I could have pointed in within a few seconds. (I have yet to come across a call center person who believed me when I told them to skip the script and just send my ticket to the bucket group I already knew the name of.)

//
Goes off to yell at cloud. (Yes I mean the IT one.)

That’s me calling CenturyLink when my Internet service goes out. (Plus the automated message which goes on for minutes you can’t skip which says you can use their cell phone app or Website to make complaints or find answers to common problems).

When you finally get to a person, their script tells them to give you the same annoying information.

Without fail, does not believe you when you say you have no cell phone number when they can send you text messages on system status updates.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:43:09pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

Narrator: It wasn’t mistakes. Les Moonves admitted as much.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:45:10pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

Every day, the same two people walk the same two dogs past each other outside my office window, and every day the dogs totally freak out barking at each other in a frenzy. You’d think by now they’d be like, “What’s up, Spot?” “Not much, what’s up with you, Rex?”

Some dog owners have no social skills, and their dog acts accordingly.

In our neighborhood fellow dog walkers allow interaction between socialized dogs, and restrain - with no drama - dogs which are not.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:46:37pm

From CBS: Sen John Fetterman and his wife Gisele were involved in an auto crash in Maryland. They were treated at local hospital and released. The Fettermans are back at home in Braddock. There were no citations issued and the crash investigation is active.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:48:49pm

Mealy-mouthed, fake silver-haired right wing sycophant Hugh Hewitt is one of the main reasons I cancelled my subscription.

Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-10T19:47:31.195Z

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:50:35pm

re: #37 Joe Bacon ✅

If anyone needs a refresher course on GOP Stenography go to Bob Somerby’s Daily Howler and review the full blown Presstitution that put Dumbya in the White House. The total character assassination of Al Gore is documented in detail at Bob’s site.

They got away with it in 2000 so they did it again in 2016 and they’re still doing it now.

Yup. Today he has a blog post up on Mika Bryzynski describing to NBC News’s Katy Tur what she saw on FOX News Channel (gotta make sure the rest of the media reports FOX’s madness uncritically).

dailyhowler.blogspot.com

His Al Gore reporting is on a whole Website by itself.

How He Got There

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jaunte  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:52:10pm

re: #48 Charles Johnson

I’m sure Hugh Hewitt has no problem with the political involvements of conservative SCOTUS justices.

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A Cranky One  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:52:35pm

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wrenchwench  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:56:08pm
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sagehen  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:56:16pm

re: #18 Shropshire Slasher

I still have dreams of missing the school bus.

were you naked and the whole class laughed at you?

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A Cranky One  Jun 10, 2024 • 12:57:20pm

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sagehen  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:01:41pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

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there’s a couple in my building that got married because their mid-week dogwalkers had a flirtation, which led to the dogs being friends, which led the dogs to introduce their owners to each other…

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Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:05:40pm

re: #48 Charles Johnson

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Yeah, it’s ridiculous that a judge with a lifetime appointment is overseeing the trial of the man who appointed her to that seat…oh wait…

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cat-tikvah  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:09:20pm

re: #48 Charles Johnson

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The Philadelphia Inquirer mercifully stopped carrying Hewitt and Marc Thiessen. I wrote again and again that a reputable news source must distinguish between opinion and propaganda - and stop publishing the latter.

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A Cranky One  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:10:04pm

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Charles Johnson  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:15:02pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:15:40pm

re: #1 Unabogie

If his lawyers submit filings based on easily debunked shitposts on Facebook, can they be sanctioned? At some point the courts have to defend themselves from the Bullshit Factory, don’t they?

They are trying to get away in the Courts with what is common practice in the media: somebody posts a bullshit story, it starts to develop legs and gets picked up by the mainstream media and discussed as if it actually had any merit.

We can’t let them get away with it or we are truly fucked.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:18:13pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

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There can be only one.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:18:20pm

re: #16 wrenchwench

It’s finals week at the local U, so the DJs on their radio station are going nuts: Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Bruce Cockburn. I feel like I’m back in college, but OH, NO! I didn’t study!

…I never cracked a book, heck, I don’t even know where the classroom is and the exam is tomorrow!!!

(wakes up in a cold sweat)

Still happens even 40 years after my last exam.

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gocart mozart  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:19:10pm
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steve_davis  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:19:46pm

re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m calling it now: Within the next several years, some system will be turned over to AI and a MASSIVE FUCK-UP will ensue, possibly a fuck up that gets people killed.

You want a massive AI inspired fuckup? I got a task back from a reviewer. The prompt from the user asked if a sentence was grammatical. The sentence was grammatical. I know this because I am literally a master in the field of English. Says so right on the diploma. “The answer should have been that the sentence was ungrammatical.” Uhm no. “You can use Quillbot to check grammar.” Yes, thanks, but there’s a reason why I’m writing responses and not quillbot. So the reviewer wants me to provide an incorrect answer because an AI system, which we are working to do better than, is telling the person with 35 years of experience in the field that he’s wrong. Got it.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:21:06pm

re: #63 gocart mozart

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As I put it to a friend, who has no intention of having children: Kids are wonderful and amazing. They are also a metric fuck-ton of work. It is indisputable that people who have kids are infinitely more stressed than people who do not. Even my parents, who have two adult children who are firmly established in life, are more stressed than most childless people.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:24:16pm

re: #65 Nerdy Fish

I must admit that my (ex) wife really had to talk me into having kids, but now they are here I cannot imagine being happy in any world that did not contain them.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:26:02pm

re: #66 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I must admit that my (ex) wife really had to talk me into having kids, but now they are here I cannot imagine being happy in any world that did not contain them.

I agree, but to say that I am happier than a person who does not have kids would be incorrect. I have so many more worries and stresses than I would without kids. But, I also have so many more joys and wonders than a person without kids. In my life, those balance out, but that is not going to be true for everyone.

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jaunte  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:29:03pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

We can all look forward to the veepstakes crime spree.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:30:39pm

And I seriously doubt “replication crisis” is sitting there at the top of anyone’s concern list regarding children while they are working out whether to have any and how to raise them once they have some.

Well, maybe Peterson himself. But he’s pretty much a boob anyways.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:31:27pm

Happy Monday afternoon!

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wrenchwench  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:34:34pm

re: #67 Nerdy Fish

I agree, but to say that I am happier than a person who does not have kids would be incorrect. I have so many more worries and stresses than I would without kids. But, I also have so many more joys and wonders than a person without kids. In my life, those balance out, but that is not going to be true for everyone.

The right to choose (whether or not, and, if so how many) makes the discussion possible.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:40:15pm

re: #71 wrenchwench

The right to choose (whether or not, and, if so how many) makes the discussion possible.

Remember, the people who are the most vehemently against Planned Parenthood are the ones who are against the very idea of planning parenthood in the first place.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:41:50pm

Watching the Apple State of the Union it strikes me that software development has come so far in the past 4 decades that it is hard to imagine what S/W will be like in 4 more decades.

Also, I wonder what will happen when developers become dependent upon language models to do all the coding.

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wrenchwench  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:42:01pm

re: #72 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Remember, the people who are the most vehemently against Planned Parenthood are the ones who are against the very idea of planning parenthood in the first place.

Exactly. Get the science outta here! Medical care is for white men!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:44:03pm

re: #73 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Watching the Apple State of the Union it strikes me that software development has come so far in the past 4 decades that it is hard to imagine what S/W will be like in 4 more decades.

Also, I wonder what will happen when developers become dependent upon language models to do all the coding.

Kafka’s Castle and Trial are going to small beer compared to the brain-melting labyrinth that AI is going to create for us.

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Vicious Babushka  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:52:17pm

re: #63 gocart mozart

I’m happy that all my kids are happy, productive adults. Now they are taking care of me. I like that. But don’t fucking take away my Social Security!

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danarchy  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:53:57pm

re: #46 BeenHereAwhile

Some dog owners have no social skills, and their dog acts accordingly.

In our neighborhood fellow dog walkers allow interaction between socialized dogs, and restrain - with no drama - dogs which are not.

My dog gets along with most other dogs, she went to doggy day care for most of her life so was surrounded by other dogs all day, but the day I was moving into my new house 13 years ago I brought her into the house and then went out to the car to grab some stuff. When I did, my new neighbors dog came running up to me in my driveway, she was friendly and just wanted to see the new person. Not being familiar with the new house I didn’t realize the screen door didn’t always latch on the way out and when my dog saw Charlotte(my neighbors dog) come up to me she came blasting out the screen door and chased Charlotte all the way back to her yard. That was it, from then until Charlotte passed away last year they never got along. My neighbors got a new dog a couple months ago and she gets along just fine with her.

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Dangerman  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:54:07pm

re: #8 Shropshire Slasher

You are not convicted until the judge enters that judgment of guilt.

ianal
i read this in two different stories - Time and The Atlantic

a quick search of nycourts.gov finds:

Conviction - When the court enters a plea of guilty or a finding of guilt by a jury or the Court.

i have no idea what’s applicable

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:54:57pm

re: #76 Vicious Babushka

I’m happy that all my kids are happy, productive adults. Now they are taking care of me. I like that. But don’t fucking take away my Social Security!

My youngest son turned 18 in April. He has just been accepted into the same international Political Science program that his oldest sister completed, two years in Lille, France and two years in Münster, Germany.

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bratwurst  Jun 10, 2024 • 1:58:14pm

If I were in the business of consumer electronics, I would make the ABSENCE of the current half-baked versions of artificial intelligence on my devices a major selling point.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:00:22pm

re: #80 bratwurst

In today’s presentations, Apple is emphasizing the user control over the integrated AI tools. Also emphasizing security.

So I suppose the corporate office told everyone to position the announcements against the recent announcements by others (e.g. Microsoft.)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:02:19pm

I will say this about the Apple presentations: their scriptwriters and voice coaches work hard at uniformity.

Including making some people sound like Tim Cook. The emphasizing of certain syllables, the timing of paues, the cadence… it’s all a bit much.

And the makeup artists are at work too.

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wrenchwench  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:02:32pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:05:11pm

re: #46 BeenHereAwhile

Around here, it’s the owners I don’t necessarily trust to help the dogs have proper introductions. Letting them just run up to one another on their useless retractable leashes is not at all ideal, and nobody really knows how to ease in intros. Pony Boy is ok with most other dogs but he’s also ok with not meeting them. He’s non-reactive on the leash during walks too, and that’s good enough for me. Also, given that he’s a pitbull, he’d be the one to suffer any consequences no matter who was at fault, should there be a fight. So I don’t let him meet other dogs. But he’s totally free and eager to meet any willing humans.

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Jay C  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:05:19pm

re: #83 wrenchwench

Good for Tom!
Didn’t he sign off his composers’ rights for his whole oeuvre to the public domain a couple of years back, in anticipation of kicking the bucket? And yet still has had some time to contemplate the free publicity and kudos…??

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Dr. Matt  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:07:17pm

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:09:18pm

re: #80 bratwurst

Here’s the Apple one-sheet to sell their new AI gizmos:

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Vicious Babushka  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:10:55pm
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bratwurst  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:17:04pm

re: #87 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

After the Microsoft backlash, it sure seems like it would have been wise to take this back to the drawing board. It smacks of a company that has become more about following trends than setting them.

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sizzzzlerz  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:18:20pm

re: #83 wrenchwench

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Harvard? MIT? Pfft! He taught math at U.C. Santa Cruz!

Go, Banana Slugs!

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LadyBehir  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:21:09pm

re: #10 nines09

Shamokin is a sad little town with some amazing architecture. And some nice restaurants.

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sizzzzlerz  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:28:39pm

re: #82 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I will say this about the Apple presentations: their scriptwriters and voice coaches work hard at uniformity.

Including making some people sound like Tim Cook. The emphasizing of certain syllables, the timing of paues, the cadence… it’s all a bit much.

And the makeup artists are at work too.

That’s because they’re all products of the Apple iReplicator thus insuring all the speakers look and sound alike with their almost human-like presence.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:30:56pm
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Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:32:42pm

re: #63 gocart mozart

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“Meaning and happiness are not the same thing but…”

No offense, but this sounds like confirmation bias. That your life has to have meaning to have happiness, and the only meaning to life is having kids. How about I put the money I’d otherwise spend to having and raising a single kid in modern America and instead spend that on creating and building a charity that can help hundreds or thousands of kids at once? Is my life still meaningless because, at the end of the day, none of those kids are biologically related to me?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:33:42pm

re: #89 bratwurst

After the Microsoft backlash, it sure seems like it would have been wise to take this back to the drawing board. It smacks of a company that has become more about following trends than setting them.

It’s not just Microsoft. There’s an insane AI arms race going on right now where all the major tech companies are tripping over themselves to rush AI products out and try to cash in on the hype.

It’s reckless.

And it’s dangerous.

But because the Tech Bros and VC firms are pouring money into this stuff, that’s where everyone goes consequences be damned.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:34:09pm

re: #63 gocart mozart

I dare that motherfather Jordan Peterson to ask how a Gold Star Father feels…

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Dangerman  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:34:59pm

re: #94 Targetpractice

No offense, but this sounds like confirmation bias. That your life has to have meaning to have happiness, and the only meaning to life is having kids. How about I put the money I’d otherwise spend to having and raising a single kid in modern America and instead spend that on creating and building a charity that can help hundreds or thousands of kids at once? Is my life still meaningless because, at the end of the day, none of those kids are biologically related to me?

once you’ve used the word ‘but’, you’ve lost (him not you)

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Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:37:03pm

re: #95 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s not just Microsoft. There’s an insane AI arms race going on right now where all the major tech companies are tripping over themselves to rush AI products out and try to cash in on the hype.

It’s reckless.

And it’s dangerous.

But because the Tech Bros and VC firms are pouring money into this stuff, that’s where everyone goes consequences be damned.

Because never has this led to a bad end. *couDotComBustgh* Damn dust in here.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:37:48pm

re: #98 Targetpractice

See also: NFTs

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bratwurst  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:40:08pm

re: #95 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s not just Microsoft. There’s an insane AI arms race going on right now where all the major tech companies are tripping over themselves to rush AI products out and try to cash in on the hype.

It’s reckless.

And it’s dangerous.

But because the Tech Bros and VC firms are pouring money into this stuff, that’s where everyone goes consequences be damned.

Totally agree.

I just watched The History Channel’s treatment of Jobs vs Gates as part of their “Mega-Brands That Built America” series last night. Surprisingly, the portrayal of Jobs was more than good enough for me to suggest that people seek this out. Anyway, much time was spent on Jobs’ perfectionism…how he insisted the Apple II look like something you’d WANT to have on your desk, and how he nearly brought the whole company down in the long process of birthing the Macintosh.

I am pretty sure he would not be rushing AI products into the marketplace right now in their present state of development.

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Mike Lamb  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:43:26pm

re: #68 jaunte

We can all look forward to the veepstakes crime spree.

Just go “Hunger Games” with the selection process and get it over with.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:44:07pm

re: #89 bratwurst

After the Microsoft backlash, it sure seems like it would have been wise to take this back to the drawing board. It smacks of a company that has become more about following trends than setting them.

I get how it may seem to some people, but watching the developer stuff it is clear that a lot of work has gone on at the system level, and in the development environment.

Apple introduced Swift a decade ago and are taking their development environment in directions that people are following. Apple have their hands on the whole development community, including those who are making stuff for non-Apple products.

The marketing moguls have the world clamoring for “AI”.

At least the investor community thinks their next big thing is “AI”.

Apple has to play to that audience.

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darthstar  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:46:55pm

I hope he was demanding a mistrial throughout his interview with the sentencing admin.

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Dangerman  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:47:01pm

Convicted felon and presidential candidate meets with his parole officer today.

wtf has happened that this is a real sentence?

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wrenchwench  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:51:53pm
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Dangerman  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:52:10pm

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Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:58:38pm

re: #100 bratwurst

Totally agree.

I just watched The History Channel’s treatment of Jobs vs Gates as part of their “Mega-Brands That Built America” series last night. Surprisingly, the portrayal of Jobs was more than good enough for me to suggest that people seek this out. Anyway, much time was spent on Jobs’ perfectionism…how he insisted the Apple II look like something you’d WANT to have on your desk, and how he nearly brought the whole company down in the long process of birthing the Macintosh.

I am pretty sure he would not be rushing AI products into the marketplace right now in their present state of development.

What nearly brought down the company was two words: Apple Lisa. That was his baby, his big attempt to show up IBM and other big boys in the industry by producing a GUI-capable business computer that was smaller and cheaper than a mainframe/miniframe computer. Instead, he pushed the technology so far past its comfort zone that the entire project flopped. And then, still smarting from that personal failure and with no Woz in sight to curb his micromanaging personality traits, he glomped onto the Mac project and nearly drug it down into the same shallow grave the Lisa project had been buried in. The only thing that saved it (and the company) was that it was so far along that the damage he could do was limited.

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allegro  Jun 10, 2024 • 2:59:47pm

re: #94 Targetpractice

No offense, but this sounds like confirmation bias. That your life has to have meaning to have happiness, and the only meaning to life is having kids. How about I put the money I’d otherwise spend to having and raising a single kid in modern America and instead spend that on creating and building a charity that can help hundreds or thousands of kids at once? Is my life still meaningless because, at the end of the day, none of those kids are biologically related to me?

Childfree people subsidize people with children every day. We cover the child tax breaks, often pay exhorbitant school taxes and fund bonds. We fund parks and municipal programs, daycares and educational programs. So much more. Not complaining. I’m happy to do it so I can live in a healthy, educated society even though I don’t directly benefit from any of it.

What we don’t do is add any more children to the world who have parents who don’t want to be parents. Somehow we manage to fill our time.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:00:15pm

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nines09  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:00:43pm

re: #91 LadyBehir

Shamokin is a sad little town with some amazing architecture. And some nice restaurants.

It had some life left in the 70’s when I moved to the area. But it’s in that region that time passed by. So much strip mine and shaft mine abandoned. Culm hills and mountains. Iron runoff and acid runoff. Either the water is crystal clear and acidic or rust red and poison. Pirate mines killed a bunch of folks years back.
I’ve had the tour repeatedly. Home prices are rock bottom, and jobs are a good drive away.
Shamokin had good clubs and a vibrant nightlife. Once.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:02:12pm

Rudy Giuliani’s Arizona mugshot.

AAAAAHHHHHH

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Charles Johnson  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:03:49pm

He looks like a Dick Tracy or Batman villain.

Woj (@swojack.bsky.social) 2024-06-10T22:03:11.116Z

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EstebanTornado1963  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:05:00pm

stocks.apple.com
Space boy says apple products will be banned at his companies. I am 100% apple and own 2 teslas (yeah, whatever), but I will never invest in anything elon again.

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Florida Panhandler  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:05:43pm

re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I have little use for tablet computers, but watching how Apple integrated the long-suffering Mac Graph app into the new iPad calculator made me think about school days decades ago.

Such a graphing calculator would have been very useful in studying some subjects.

My Math schooling would have much different had we had access to current technology.

This particular vid should be a requirement for all Trig classrooms. It was a revelation the first time I saw it and plan to use it with my son who will be taking Trig as a HS Freshman. He is in the Super-Advanced STEM track.

All 6 Trig Functions on the Unit Circle

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Charles Johnson  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:10:13pm

At its current rate the AI boom is unsustainable. The natural resources it’s consuming are utterly outrageous, and the resulting “intelligence” is something that’s only useful in certain limited situations, and outright dangerous in many others. If it doesn’t have a ready answer to a question, it “hallucinates” one and pronounces it with seemingly the same authority as anything else.

By the time Apple’s partnership with ChatGPT actually produces something the boom may have already turned into an epic crash.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:11:02pm

re: #111 Charles Johnson

Make Hair Plugs Great Again

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:12:40pm

re: #115 Charles Johnson

Charles I’m just waiting to see how the AI/Crypto resource battle resolves. Both are going to be fighting for capacity maximization!

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Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:14:30pm

re: #115 Charles Johnson

At its current rate the AI boom is unsustainable. The natural resources it’s consuming are utterly outrageous, and the resulting “intelligence” is something that’s only useful in certain limited situations, and outright dangerous in many others. If it doesn’t have a ready answer to a question, it “hallucinates” one and pronounces it with seemingly the same authority as anything else.

By the time Apple’s partnership with ChatGPT actually produces something the boom may have already turned into an epic crash.

There are SO MANY ill-thought-through AI implementations about to hit the market, starting this fall. Last year, so many companies backed up the dump truck ‘o cash on the Magic AI Fairy, and this spring, there were many arched eyebrows in conference rooms, as CFOs and CEOs started asking “Where’s the R in the ROI on this turkey?”

I just quit a project for a city that I cannot name that is going to try to replace police dispatchers with AI chatbots to more efficiently direct cop cars to the scenes of accidents and home invasions.

Don’t want my fingerprints anywhere near that trainwreck-to-be.

Next year is going to see absolutely massive product-liability suits.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:15:27pm

Federalist Society right-winger smacked with brutal fact-check for election conspiracies

A key figure in the right-wing Federalist Society is out with a new article trying to legitimize “Stop the Steal” conspiracy theories — but a Washington Post analyst quickly debunked it.

Steven Calabresi, who called for Trump’s impeachment in 2020 for suggesting the election be delayed, pushed talking points this week in an article for the libertarian-leaning Reason magazine, accusing Democrats of manipulating voting rules to rig the election in 2020.

It’s all nonsense, wrote Bump.

“His essay begins by declaring that ‘the Left in 2020 massively changed the way presidential elections are held in this country’ because of the pandemic,” wrote Bump. “He then juxtaposes numbers in Pennsylvania: that ‘Donald Trump exceeded Barack Obama’s 2008 vote total in Pennsylvania by 101,311 votes’ but still — scare quotes! — ‘lost’ the ‘counted vote’ because of the ‘astonishing’ 3.5 million votes Biden received in the state.”

First of all, noted Bump, the expansion of absentee and mail-in voting in Pennsylvania had “nothing to do with the pandemic.”

“It was signed into law in October 2019, and passed by the state House and Senate on the strength of Republican votes,” Bump wrote. “It wasn’t the capital-L left sneaking around in their face masks. It was Republican legislators acting months before covid arrived in the U.S.”

Additionally, Pennsylvania’s results were “not ‘astonishing’ or even particularly weird” when you consider the state had 900,000 more registered voters in 2020 than it did in 2008.

Ultimately, Bump argued, Calabresi’s consternation that Trump could beat Obama’s vote total in 2008 but still lose, is “a bit like being confused that you beat the 1996 100-meter Olympic record but somehow still lost to Usain Bolt in 2012.”

“As it turns out, there were changes over time,” he said.

“At its heart, Calabresi’s argument is a familiar one: that Biden supporters are dull sheep who were not sincere in their support,” concluded Bump. “Since he can’t imagine that Biden could have gotten so many votes, it must be that Biden didn’t get so many votes. So the election was necessarily illegitimate, for reasons that he cobbled together after the fact. Some ‘argument.’”

rawstory.com

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Rightwingconspirator  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:17:31pm

re: #104 Dangerman

Convicted felon and presidential candidate meets with his parole officer today.

wtf has happened that this is a real sentence?

Watch. He is gonna claim the officer cried and promised to vote for him

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Charles Johnson  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:17:53pm

Somebody should ask Mark Zuckerberg how that metaverse thing is going. You know, the thing he renamed the company after because it was going to be so enormous?

Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-10T22:13:38.000Z

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:19:53pm

re: #113 EstebanTornado1963

Elmo just needed more attention today.

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wrenchwench  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:20:19pm

I sometimes say I’m made out of peanut butter because I’ve eaten so much of it over the years. I just realized my cat is made out of birds.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:21:28pm

re: #118 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)

“is going to try to replace police dispatchers with AI chatbots to more efficiently direct cop cars to the scenes of accidents and home invasions.”

JFC. And as soon as the cops show up at the wrong house and shoot someone…

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bratwurst  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:21:46pm

re: #118 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)

Next year is going to see absolutely massive product-liability suits.

The AirCanada chatbot which invented a refund policy that the airline was forced to honor earlier this year is going to seem quaint by comparison.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:22:59pm

re: #126 bratwurst

The AirCanada chatbot which invented a refund policy that the airline was forced to honor earlier this year

Hahahahhahaha. Now that’s a great example of getting hoisted by your own petard.

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EPR-radar  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:23:32pm

re: #114 Florida Panhandler

That is a nice video, although it could be simplified by omitting secant, cosecant and cotangent as not really adding anything. But high school trig is probably not yet ready to make this reform.

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Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:25:38pm

re: #115 Charles Johnson

At its current rate the AI boom is unsustainable. The natural resources it’s consuming are utterly outrageous, and the resulting “intelligence” is something that’s only useful in certain limited situations, and outright dangerous in many others. If it doesn’t have a ready answer to a question, it “hallucinates” one and pronounces it with seemingly the same authority as anything else.

By the time Apple’s partnership with ChatGPT actually produces something the boom may have already turned into an epic crash.

I keep mentioning the Dot Com Boom/Bust, but history’s replete with cases of the next “big technology” sputtering out. Once upon a time, everything was going to be atomic-powered and we’d never need fossil fuels again. Or robots were going to replace all the workers and we’d lead lives of luxury free from drudgery of physical labor. Bioengineering was going to solve all the world’s problems in our lifetimes and eventually lead to immortality. And so many other industries that boomed and busted in our lifetimes.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:25:38pm

re: #115 Charles Johnson

Speaking of which:

How Taiwan’s green power deficit threatens tech industry’s bid for net zero

Taiwan makes 60% of world’s chips but process uses a lot of energy; TSMC consumed 6.4% of Taiwan’s power in 2021

Digital economy’s energy demands rising; IEA predicts data centers will use 4% of global electricity by 2026

Companies such as Microsoft pushing for low-carbon chip production as supply chain emissions rise

Semiconductor firms’ net zero targets beset by geographical limitations and regulatory challenges

Nuclear power an option being pushed in Taiwan and in companies like Microsoft and Amazon

It’s been noted by many that no matter how quickly renewable electricity generation has grown, global demand for electricity is rising just as fast, meaning there is not the big draw down in fossil fuels (coal mainly.)

And if we look at the entire globe, less than half the people on this planet are driving this demand.

What do we do when the other half demand their share?

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Dangerman  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:26:09pm

re: #119 Joe Bacon ✅

“At its heart, Calabresi’s argument is a familiar one: that Biden supporters are dull sheep who were not sincere in their support,” concluded Bump. “Since he can’t imagine that Biden could have gotten so many votes, it must be that Biden didn’t get so many votes. So the election was necessarily illegitimate, for reasons that he cobbled together after the fact. Some ‘argument.’”

this, again is their problem in a nutshell

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Dangerman  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:27:10pm

re: #121 Rightwingconspirator

Watch. He is gonna claim the officer cried and promised to vote for him

he should be careful
it was a zoom call
lordy, there’s tapes

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Romantic Heretic  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:27:15pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

The money’s rolling in and this is fun.

That should go on America’s headstone.

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Dangerman  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:27:38pm

re: #123 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Elmo just needed more attention today.

misplaced his binky?

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EstebanTornado1963  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:29:15pm

re: #123 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Elmo just needed more attention today.

Like babies do.

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BeachDem  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:29:27pm

re: #121 Rightwingconspirator

Watch. He is gonna claim the officer cried and promised to vote for him

Or that the officer asked him about sharks and electrocution by battery, because his MIT affiliation is a mitigating factor in sentencing for sure. (I feel stupider for having written that sentence.)

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Dangerman  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:29:28pm

re: #129 Targetpractice

I keep mentioning the Dot Com Boom/Bust, but history’s replete with cases of the next “big technology” sputtering out. Once upon a time, everything was going to be atomic-powered and we’d never need fossil fuels again. Or robots were going to replace all the workers and we’d lead lives of luxury free from drudgery of physical labor. Bioengineering was going to solve all the world’s problems in our lifetimes and eventually lead to immortality. And so many other industries that boomed and busted in our lifetimes.

hype always precedes reality

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Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:30:30pm

re: #137 Dangerman

hype always precedes reality

Hype is easy to see. Reality never sticks to timetables.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:30:37pm

re: #131 Dangerman

The clown who claimed Biden’s voters are “dull sheep” thinks these folks are PhD’s!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:34:45pm

CBS News: Hungary’s Viktor Orbán seized control of universities rewrote the Constitution and neutered the courts. Is that what you’re advocating for in the US?

J Dickhead Vance: I think Orbán made smart decisions that we could learn from in the US.

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Romantic Heretic  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:35:01pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

And unlike in most job interviews the correct answer to either is, “Yes.”

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Belafon  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:35:05pm

re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I have little use for tablet computers, but watching how Apple integrated the long-suffering Mac Graph app into the new iPad calculator made me think about school days decades ago.

Such a graphing calculator would have been very useful in studying some subjects.

The Windows 11 calculator has a graphing mode.

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KGxvi  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:38:08pm

re: #50 jaunte

I’m sure Hugh Hewitt has no problem with the political involvements of conservative SCOTUS justices.

Hewitt is one of those people that treats politics like sports. Republican vs Democrat; Liberal vs Conservative, it might as well be Yankees-Red Sox, Browns-Steelers. And however swarmy you think he is, add about 25%.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:38:19pm

re: #126 bratwurst

According to Air Canada, Moffatt never should have trusted the chatbot and the airline should not be liable for the chatbot’s misleading information because, Air Canada essentially argued, “the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions,” a court order said.

Jesus fucking tap dancing Christ!

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Belafon  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:38:49pm

This happened an hour ago here in Rockwall:

I dont know the status of the occupants.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:39:52pm

re: #142 Belafon

The Windows 11 calculator has a graphing mode.

“Graph” is the name of an OSX app that Apple has carried forward since the move onto NeXT. macOS continues keeping it around.

It’s neat, nifty, and most Mac buyers have no clue it exists even though it comes with the OS.

Anyway, the new iPadOS calculator incorporates the capabilities of Graph in an interactive manner that is empowered by an Apple Pencil.

So one writes (as in, handwriting) on the iPad your math ditty, say an equation, and the calculator not only does the calculation but you can ask for a graph, then you can change variable values by using the pencil which will do so via sliders if you want.

So you can see the graph change as you fiddle with the variables, etc.

It all would have helped way back when I was in high school.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:43:48pm

re: #146 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

If you mean Grapher, I’ve played with that a few times. Apple puts it in the Utilities folder.

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bratwurst  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:43:50pm

re: #144 Eclectic Cyborg

According to Air Canada, Moffatt never should have trusted the chatbot and the airline should not be liable for the chatbot’s misleading information because, Air Canada essentially argued, “the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions,” a court order said.

Jesus fucking tap dancing Christ!

That is the part I am still shaking my head over months later…the idea that the chatbot on the Air Canada site was only speaking for itself, not for Air Canada!

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wrenchwench  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:45:27pm

re: #148 bratwurst

That is the part I am still shaking my head over months later…the idea that the chatbot on the Air Canada site was only speaking for itself, not for Air Canada!

Air Canada should sue their chatbot.

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EstebanTornado1963  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:47:53pm
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Dangerman  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:51:18pm

re: #145 Belafon

This happened an hour ago here in Rockwall:

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I dont know the status of the occupants.

they’re gonna need the LGF image library rotating tool

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A Three Hour Tour  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:51:24pm

re: #143 KGxvi

Hewitt is one of those people that treats politics like sports. Republican vs Democrat; Liberal vs Conservative, it might as well be Yankees-Red Sox, Browns-Steelers. And however swarmy you think he is, add about 25%.

GOOOOOO TEAM!!!

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Dangerman  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:52:06pm

re: #148 bratwurst

That is the part I am still shaking my head over months later…the idea that the chatbot on the Air Canada site was only speaking for itself, not for Air Canada!

you’d think that would require a WARNING BANNER across the top of the screen

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:53:03pm

re: #150 EstebanTornado1963

That was sooo funny. I loved the ending.

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TarHellion  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:55:51pm

re: #18 Shropshire Slasher

I still have dreams where I am back in college and have a paper due for a book I haven’t read yet.

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wrenchwench  Jun 10, 2024 • 3:59:28pm
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austin_blue  Jun 10, 2024 • 4:01:46pm

re: #51 A Cranky One

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Acreage doesn’t vote. Humans do.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 10, 2024 • 4:03:13pm

re: #157 austin_blue

Acreage doesn’t vote. Humans do.

Republicans are working on that!

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darthstar  Jun 10, 2024 • 4:03:17pm

So apparently New Jersey has a policy about convicted felons owning liquor licenses. They could, and should but probably won’t, ban Trump from serving alcohol at any of his three New Jersey golf clubs.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 10, 2024 • 4:03:40pm

re: #84 GlutenFreeJesus

Around here, it’s the owners I don’t necessarily trust to help the dogs have proper introductions. Letting them just run up to one another on their useless retractable leashes is not at all ideal, and nobody really knows how to ease in intros. Pony Boy is ok with most other dogs but he’s also ok with not meeting them. He’s non-reactive on the leash during walks too, and that’s good enough for me. Also, given that he’s a pitbull, he’d be the one to suffer any consequences no matter who was at fault, should there be a fight. So I don’t let him meet other dogs. But he’s totally free and eager to meet any willing humans.

FWIW, the neighborhood dog walkers use short leases, which means better control, and prevents a quick dog dash & dump into an unappreciative home owner’s lawn.

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austin_blue  Jun 10, 2024 • 4:06:52pm

re: #145 Belafon

This happened an hour ago here in Rockwall:

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I dont know the status of the occupants.

That’s eastbound on the “Motor Mile”, innit? I know that intersection. Hope they’re okay.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 10, 2024 • 4:09:07pm

re: #147 Charles Johnson

If you mean Grapher, I’ve played with that a few times. Apple puts it in the Utilities folder.

Yup.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 10, 2024 • 4:10:13pm

re: #100 bratwurst

Totally agree.

I just watched The History Channel’s treatment of Jobs vs Gates as part of their “Mega-Brands That Built America” series last night. Surprisingly, the portrayal of Jobs was more than good enough for me to suggest that people seek this out. Anyway, much time was spent on Jobs’ perfectionism…how he insisted the Apple II look like something you’d WANT to have on your desk, and how he nearly brought the whole company down in the long process of birthing the Macintosh.

I am pretty sure he would not be rushing AI products into the marketplace right now in their present state of development.

And in addition to being a tech breakthrough, the iPhone 3 design is a pleasure to hold in your hand.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 10, 2024 • 4:12:36pm

re: #111 Charles Johnson

Rudy Giuliani’s Arizona mugshot.

AAAAAHHHHHH

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To think that at one time he was “America’s Mayor.”

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KGxvi  Jun 10, 2024 • 4:13:14pm

re: #111 Charles Johnson

Rudy Giuliani’s Arizona mugshot.

AAAAAHHHHHH

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worst Addams Family reboot ever

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 10, 2024 • 4:15:38pm

Something like this would have helped to envision what a vector field is:

macOS Grapher example
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TarHellion  Jun 10, 2024 • 4:19:58pm

re: #65 Nerdy Fish

Given my family background, I feel like I made the right decision not to have children. Would I have been a good parent? No doubt. And I’ll always regret not cheering on Little TarH at the soccer/softball/baseball/basketball game. Then again, I’m basically taking care of a 5-year-old as my dad continues his inexorable decline.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Jun 10, 2024 • 4:21:36pm

Whoa!

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 10, 2024 • 4:23:13pm

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darthstar  Jun 10, 2024 • 4:23:38pm

Find out continues for some of Trump’s co-defendants in Georgia.

Mastodon

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 10, 2024 • 4:26:18pm

For those just checking in there’s decent odds that the Judge and the prosecutor in the Young Thug RICO trial end up getting heavily sanctioned. I’m not quite sure about how ex parte exemptions work in Georgia but if they aren’t wildly different from the rest of the country then the judge here doing some absolutely insane shit that probably necessitates removal from the bench and a mistrial with prejudice.

This is amazing. The judge holds attorney in criminal contempt to force him to reveal what the attorney asserts is privileged information. Immediately the judge faces pushback on the law on this, calls for a 5 minute recess to “think about it”, and has now been off the bench for 40 minutes.

Col. Boozy Badger (@boozybadger.bsky.social) 2024-06-10T23:09:24.994Z

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 10, 2024 • 4:29:21pm

re: #168 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

She sounds like a fucking Karen.

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darthstar  Jun 10, 2024 • 4:36:29pm

re: #171 goddamnedfrank

For those just checking in there’s decent odds that the Judge and the prosecutor in the Young Thug RICO trial end up getting heavily sanctioned. I’m not quite sure about how ex parte exemptions work in Georgia but if they aren’t wildly different from the rest of the country then the judge here doing some absolutely insane shit that probably necessitates removal from the bench and a mistrial with prejudice.

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I hope Aileen Cannon’s taking notes.

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Dangerman  Jun 10, 2024 • 4:42:03pm

re: #167 TarHellion

Given my family background, I feel like I made the right decision not to have children. Would I have been a good parent? No doubt. And I’ll always regret not cheering on Little TarH at the soccer/softball/baseball/basketball game. Then again, I’m basically taking care of a 5-year-old as my dad continues his inexorable decline.

Mrsdm and i, our timing…it just wasnt in the cards
Things happen the way they do

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 11, 2024 • 6:12:36am

re: #144 Eclectic Cyborg

According to Air Canada, Moffatt never should have trusted the chatbot and the airline should not be liable for the chatbot’s misleading information because, Air Canada essentially argued, “the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions,” a court order said.

Jesus fucking tap dancing Christ!

So now corporations AND chatbots are people, my friend.


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