This is going to be like that Tom Holland Umbrella video where if it shows up on my timeline I am honor bound to retweet it. twitter.com/AliceAvizandum
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Shout-out to the person who thought, "How can I illustrate an elderly deer?" and came up with this:
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Seriously. Hero, companion and K-9... er.. Grogu land on planet with One Funny Quirk and One Mystery. They are immediately captured and taken to Brian Blessed... er... Jack Black. To escape they must solve the mystery. There's another named guest star and you'll never guess...
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- Knock, knock!
- Who’s there?
- Mansplainer - and now you say: ‘Mansplainer who?’
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This week's Mandalorian felt like it desperately wanted to be Doctor Who. Which was at least a step up from the rest of the season.
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Asked for examples of sexual harassment at law schools, ChatGPT named a GW prof accused of touching a student on a class trip to Alaska, citing a WashPost story.
The prof is real. The rest was made up.
We wrote about what happens when AIs lie about you:
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An Australian whistleblower is threatening to sue ChatGPT for falsely claiming he was a criminal.
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Always wondered where this trope came from.
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Watermelon originated in NE Africa and brought to the Americas by slaves. After emancipation, free BP grew and sold watermelons, making the fruit a symbol of their freedom. Southern Whites, threatened by this, responded by making the fruit a symbol of BP’s perceived laziness.
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"Hallucitation" is a most excellent neologism for hallucinated citations produced by LLMs such as ChatGPT
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Guess we could start calling this a 'hallucitation'? 
If you're curious about the article, it's here. cc @mjnblack
businessinsider.com/lex-fridman-po?
If you're curious about the article, it's here. cc @mjnblack
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I have reinstalled Twitter to respond to this story and make sure my voice is fully heard. I am Casey.
My real name is Alex but my mom decided it would be best to hide it for anonymity. But this is my story, not hers. This is not the free press’s story.
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Caroline was told that a puberty blocker would relieve her child's psychological distress. That's not what happened.
More reporting from inside Washington University's Transgender Center by @EmilyYoffe :
thefp.com/p/i-felt-bulli
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rustc makes you answer the questions about your program that you were hoping none of your reviewers asked when you wrote it in C. just wild shit like "how are you sure this is still alive?" and "did you fuck up data races again?" inexcusable hostility and pedantry
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This chart of Sydney rental costs is astounding, disturbing and deeply sad in equal measure.
Even a household on a median household income is on the cusp of rental stress for a unit. In decades past they could have just bought a house...
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1. Services Australia are monitoring metadata to determine whether you're in a relationship.
2. If you are the subject of *suspected* fraud, they & AFP can raid your home, take you & your family's phones, crack the passcodes & read your private messages.
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This investigation by @topbloke148 on @iTnews_au is really something: how Centrelink uses telco metadata and Cellebrite to determine relationship status. itnews.com.au/news/password-
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Story of police killing a little girl's goat is really sticking with me.
As such, I read the actual lawsuit. If anything, some of the details therein make it even worse.
If there is any justice, their needs to be a large punitive judgment in this case.
Details follow. 🧵
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A young girl didn’t want to slaughter the goat she raised for 4H. The state senator who bought the goat at auction agreed to let it live out its days eating weeds. But sheriff’s deputies drove 500 miles to kill the goat and teach a 9-year-old a lesson.
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24-hour news coverage going into exquisite detail of what processes might occur when he’s taken into custody, delivered as breathless lib erotica.
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they are treating this like he's on the first flight from Mars or something
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Sir Keir Starmer has denied he was ever a friend of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, despite previously describing him as one bit.ly/3zreAaV
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I still use Twitter because the following feed is a useful current events filter. Without retweet attribution I can't trust the filter isn't being bypassed, and I can't remove people who no longer contribute positively to it. Would make the site finally useless to me.
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Oh wait, it seems like on the web UI they've just removed attribution for retweets. Is it a bug, is it a joke, or is it the future? Who knows?
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I guess it's "being two days late for April Fools" day on Twitter. What a jape. twitter.com/InternetHippo/
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Reminder that "exodus of the blue checks" was part of the plan all along.
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In those Musk texts, the redacted senders and recipients lay the groundwork for a "war" and "battle" after Musk takes over Twitter — a "coordinated pressure campaign" that will lead to deplatforming of political enemies.
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If i was going through a resident evil phase transition into a huge monster and I saw a massive eye open up on some exposed part of my new form I would be so fucking mad
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Things I never expected to see: a D&D-branded movie getting generally good word of mouth.
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Back from the Dungeons & Dragons movie, which outperformed my expectations. It was fun and hummed along at a sprightly clip, and I was never bored. Plus I laughed consistently which was a plus. The movie didn't take itself seriously, but not at the cost of insulting its audience.
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"this person is either the real Taylor Swift or someone who has $8 there's no way to be certain"
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Based Robert Smith
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7,000 scalped tickets to The Cure have been canceled and will be resold, Robert Smith says bit.ly/40xF5aH
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A reminder that you can't do April Fools gags after midday, the Internet is global, and it is already 1pm in Auckland.
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thought i'd enjoy Tim Urban's new book cause I loved his articles back when I was a teen... oh no
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Worked on games for LucasArts, EA, THQ, 2K and they all said the average age of the AAA customer is ~32.
Every time we heard this, folks rejected it in favor of the folklore than video games are for teenagers.
My brothers in Christ, teenagers ain't got that kinda money.
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Hell, I paid for Livejournal even though I had one of those legacy early adopter accounts that got half the paid features for free, just because I got value from the site and wanted it to continue to exist.
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The funny part is that a year ago, if Twitter asked me to pay $5-10/year for a couple of random features and a little badge saying I was a supporter, I would have, just like I did 20 years ago with Livejournal.
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Somewhat appropriate that the only thing Blizzard did to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the release of Starcraft was a single tweet where they said it was 24 years, almost immediately deleted in embarrassment.
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I just used chatGPT to generate a Chrome extension to turn the blue verified checkmark into a poop emoji on twitter.com
I can't code and I've never made a Chrome extension. It took about 3 minutes. It works.
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R.I.P. publisher Peter Usborne. I've held onto these books for longer than any others—probably over 35 years!—and I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that they changed my life.
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You're telling me the cops STOLE THE KID'S PET GOAT WITHOUT A WARRANT so a STATE SENATOR could KILL IT AND EAT IT AT A BARBECUE
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