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  • Collection of Pinned Threads

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  • Funny Pics

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  • This week in lawfare

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    A deep investigation into a single screenshot. Agent 1: “Look, those shells spell out numbers!” Agent 2: “OMG you’re right!!!!” Agent 3: “Guys, you’re not gonna believe this.. Come look at this Urban Dictionary entry for 86!!!!” This FBI and our DOJ partners pursued a rigorous investigation that followed the facts - and now Mr. Comey will be held fully accountable for his actions. Thank you to our investigators, Acting AG Todd Blanche, and the Eastern District of NC for their diligent and professional work.”
  • How to Learn to Code in 2026

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    Coding with LLMs works amazingly well, I love it. But the one thing I'm not so certain about: LLMs are good at creating apps that use and combine the zoo of abstractions (libraries and frameworks etc) out there. What remains to be seen is whether LLMs will be good at abstracting. Could they ever come up with a good design of a collections library, for instance, if such libraries weren't part of their learning data? Could they recognize patterns such as structural recursion over an algebraic data type and come up with the abstraction of folds/catamorphisms? That's not so obvious.
  • Mildly interesting

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    bachophileB
    The 1st Indiana Jones film came out in 1981 and was set in 1936. If they remade it today with the same time gap, it would be set in 1981. Yeah, we really are that old.
  • Barney Frank - Entering Hospice

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    jon-nycJ
    Interesting.
  • Jesus God No

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    RenaudaR
    Seems self indulgent and untoward… Especially so since the celebratory year is almost half over.
  • Nature is Metal

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    taiwan_girlT
    Link to video Interesting video about whale falls (basically what happens when a whale dies and how it feeds an bottom ocean community for decades.)
  • Where do our exercisers work out and what do you do?

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    jon-nycJ
    I must confess I basically skipped leg day from 1980 until sometime last year. So I have some catching up to do.
  • What are you reading now?

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    Andrea BA
    [image: 1777426525733-81syd3wuf-l._sl1500_.jpg] About 1/5 of the way in. Tell me it gets better.
  • The Cocktail That Defines Every Decade Since Prohibition

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    89th8
    cock
  • A nice succinct explanation of why Marxism is wrong

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  • Glad the free speech folks are in charge

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    jon-nycJ
    https://x.com/brianstelter/status/2049145864606691578?s=46
  • Let Spirit die

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    jon-nycJ
    @Doctor-Phibes said: Privatisation of companies to serve the greater good. Isn't there a word for that? [image: 1777396164385-img_2131.jpeg]
  • White House Correspondent Dinner Memes

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    RenaudaR
    All the more reason to serve the cheapest plonk wine possible at such events.
  • Daddy can I PLEASE have a pardon?

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    89th8
    Same logic works for kids btw
  • Your first phone?

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    jon-nycJ
    Ceefax because ‘minitel’ was taken. BlackBerry integrated with corporate email systems it wasn’t just a standalone system.
  • The cost of NOT using AI

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    Doctor PhibesD
    @Horace said: @taiwan_girl said: I think most people, if given the choice, would chose remote, And those who enjoy/need the office social interactions convince themselves that those people just don't know what's best for themselves. Meanwhile, probably 90% of people, if given the choice to take or leave the whole in person office scene, would leave it. But the 10% are sure they're all simply ignorant of what is good in life. I think most people would prefer a bit of both. The main complaint I hear about office working is all the time wasted in commuting, rather than being in the actual office being awful.
  • The Pot Smokers Song

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  • Former Senator Ben Sasse

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    HoraceH
    It's pretty obscure and not quite as funny as people are saying (he's getting an impending mortality bump). Trump said that Pence needed the courage to not certify the 2020 election results, which in Trump's addled mind would have led to Trump retaining the presidency. (It wouldn't have.)