Looks like we need a separate thread on trump's hate-post about Taylor Swift.
trump has stirred up a hornet's nest.
It's got Swifties energized.
The Sunday pundits are in a tizzy, some are questioning his mental status.
It's even got some trump supporters quaking in this boots.
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Ronald Reagan's former staff back Harris-Walz ticket: "Today is a choice between integrity and demagoguery."
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Family Therapy and the Autism Spectrum: Autism Conversations in Narrative Practice by Marilyn J. Monteiro, 2016
The autism spectrum presents a range of communication, social, and sensory differences that are challenging for clinicians to address. Family Therapy and the Autism Spectrum provides a guide to conceptualizing those differences and ways to discuss them with clients and their families.
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Opportunity to steal!
GOP lawmaker: Making it harder to vote 'is our opportunity to win'
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Ab 9:50 nimmt @maithink die offizielle! Darstellung der Kriminalstatistik auseinander mit dem Ergebnis, dass diese offiziellen Darstellungen nicht nur "missverständlich" sind sondern extrem manipulativ. Und man muss da von Absicht ausgehen, denn die Anstrengung, die in so eine Darstellung der Zahlen einfließen muss um dermaßen manipulativ & falsche Assoziationen hervorrufend zu sein ist so immens, dass man nicht von Zufall oder "Fehler" ausgehen kann.
![Using LLMs and AI to generate a reflection on the week’s readings will not help you think through the materials. You can create text and meet the suggested word count and finish the assignment, but the text will be meaningless. There’s an official philosophical term for this kind of writing: bullshit (Hicks, Humphries, and Slater 2024; Frankfurt 2005).
Philosophical bullshit is “speech or text produced without concern for its truth” (Hicks, Humphries, and Slater 2024, 2). Bullshit isn’t truth, but it’s also not lies (i.e. the opposite of truth). It’s text that exists to make the author sound like they know what they’re talking about. A bullshitter doesn’t care if the text is true or not—truth isn’t even part of the equation:
[A bullshitter] does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all (Frankfurt 2005, 61).
LLMs and AI systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and so on are bullshit machines. That might sound hyperbolic, but at a technological level, that’s literally what they do. LLMs use fancy statistics to take an initial prompt or starting phrase and then generate the most plausible words or phrases that are likely to follow. They don’t care whether the text it creates is true—they only care about whether it looks plausible.](https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/640/15789610 "Using LLMs and AI to generate a reflection on the week’s readings will not help you think through the materials. You can create text and meet the suggested word count and finish the assignment, but the text will be meaningless. There’s an official philosophical term for this kind of writing: bullshit (Hicks, Humphries, and Slater 2024; Frankfurt 2005).
Philosophical bullshit is “speech or text produced without concern for its truth” (Hicks, Humphries, and Slater 2024, 2). Bullshit isn’t truth, but it’s also not lies (i.e. the opposite of truth). It’s text that exists to make the author sound like they know what they’re talking about. A bullshitter doesn’t care if the text is true or not—truth isn’t even part of the equation:
[A bullshitter] does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all (Frankfurt 2005, 61).
LLMs and AI systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and so on are bullshit machines. That might sound hyperbolic, but at a technological level, that’s literally what they do. LLMs use fancy statistics to take an initial prompt or starting phrase and then generate the most plausible words or phrases that are likely to follow. They don’t care whether the text it creates is true—they only care about whether it looks plausible.")
#SCOTUS was hit by a flurry of damaging new leaks Sunday as a series of confidential memos written by the chief justice were revealed by The New York Times.
The court’s Chief Justice John Roberts was clear to his fellow justices in February: He wanted the court to take up a case weighing #Trump’s right to presidential immunity—and he seemed inclined to protect the former president.”
thedailybeast.com/john-roberts… ca.news.yahoo.com/john-roberts…
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" ... that liberal parties do not win back votes by shifting to the right."
Exactly. Most people understand that there's no reason to vote for Republican Lite when they can vote for the real thing.
Hyperparameter Tuning: Best Practices
Hyperparameter tuning is a crucial step in the process of training machine learning models. Unlike model parameters, which are learned during training, hyperparameters are set before the learning process begins and can significantly impact the performance and generalization of the model. Effective hyperparameter tuning involves systematic exploration and...
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-- "If Starmer is on a US charm offensive, he must meet Trump as well as Harris.
The former president remains the likelier winner of the election, and the UK needs a working relationship with whoever is in the White House"
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/s…
Europe: A Cultural History by Peter Rietbergen, 1998
'From about 13,000 BC it began to get warmer in Europe..' begins this all-encompassing survey of European cultural history. This book is a major and original contribution to the idea of Europe and its formation, from its Celtic and German origins, the influence of the Greeks and the Romans, the role of Christianity and the fruitful, if sometimes bloody, contacts with other cultures such as Islam.
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New article on the Exilian Articles section!
In the second part of "Apocalypse Now or Never?" @JubalBarca writes about why apocalyptic and world-ending threats are so common in modern fantasy and what drives their use.
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Take a look and do tell us what you think :)
#WorldBuilding #GameDev #CreativeToots #Writing #SFF
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Nice little set of articles with a good accounting of it. I look forward to the third. I like this line especially, not because it's true so much as it a drolly, "Of course it's true."
The essential reason why apocalypses keep getting used in modern SFF is that they are a very efficient plot driver.
Since I've written a few apocalyptic stories, don't miss one last common trope. An apocalypse serves as a way to reset humanity, to wipe the slate clean as they say, so a story can better contrast the reader's understanding of modernity against an otherwise impossible society. "What people could become" stories, or how "humans will always act like humans" stories. As a bonus, you can drive the plot with the mystery of "what did actually happen?" or "Is the threat that what caused the singularity actually passed?"
@sfwrtr Thank you! Yes, the focus of the parts so far has more been on the pre-apocalypse and threat of apocalypse, but there's definitely much more to be said on the apocalypse as precursor to post-apocalypse (which may need a dedicated part 4 if this series gets that far, we'll see!) :)
I also keep finding bits I should have added in: there's a bunch to say re apocalyptic threat in the Epic of Gilgamesh that I should have included in part 1 but didn't think about until much later.
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in reply to AkaSci 🛰️ • • •Ana Navarro:
"Donald Trump has lost what little sanity he had left.
Taylor Swift broke him."
Kamala Harris broke him first. Then Taylor Swift.
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in reply to AkaSci 🛰️ • • •Have you heard or read anyone claiming that this was a good idea?
Actually, we do. Please proceed, Mr. trump.
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