Nonprofits partner to restore over 200 acres of critical wetlands: 'Putting it back to the way it was'.
The conservation expansion will boost water quality and provide communities with an extra layer of protection against the impacts of extreme weather. #ClimateChange
Game: Dead Rising 2: Off The Record (Xbox 360) (gamerip) (2011)
Song: 2
#music #videogames #gaming #gamemusic
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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#books
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#autism
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Opportunity to steal!
GOP lawmaker: Making it harder to vote 'is our opportunity to win'
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#RepublicansCheat #NoRepublicansEverAgain #GOP #VoteBlueUpAndDown
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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I keep wondering what “core responsibilities” Biden could leverage, or threaten to leverage, so as to expedite some serious court reform and revocation of the immunity ruling. It seems dangerous to have as “good law” regardless of who’s president. It also seems that an actual threat to use it in a way that scares the bejezus out of the GOP will be the only way to motivate action.
BTW - I’m not advocating any kind of violence.
These MFers have too much tolerance built up to disgrace to even know it exists.
Roberts has always been thus.
He's just allowing himself to be more brazen now in company of Aleako/Thomas cohort that has already come out from behind their curtains.
That's why there's been no Roberts "oversight" of the court...
He's been happy for others to do what he wished he could do as long as he could sit back and watch with plausible deniability.
Roberts is just as MAGAt as any on the court.
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must have forgotten what he said.
"I will remember that it's my job to call balls and strikes, and not to pitch or bat" (2005)
"We don't have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges." (2019)
AkaSci 🛰️
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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AkaSci 🛰️
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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