tingilinde

it's about controlling women

With a good deal of christian hate mixed in. 

But they claim they're not big government.

 

 

zero knowledge proofs - five levels of explanation

other popes

And a tip of the hat to Jim

Presidents as pope

British PMs as pope .. but scroll down for something even better.

 

 

walgreens caves to the right wing

This is how things fall apart.  Republicans threaten intimidation and companies react - even when they legally don't have to.  Republicans start for a far right white christian government with serious social control of the population. 

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Abortion remains legal right now in states like Alaska, Iowa, Montana, and Kansas, despite being led by Republicans seeking to ban the procedure. But residents of those states will nevertheless be unable to obtain abortion pills from Walgreens: The nation’s second-largest pharmacy said Thursday that it will not distribute the medication in those conservative-run states, seemingly bowing to pressure from 20 Republican state attorneys general who threatened to bring legal consequences against companies that provide mifepristone by mail.

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a tip of the hat to Xeni

 

 

wachter and topol on where we are

on stochastic parrots

ChatGPT is not a human...

 

 

a russian loss

Fools is the only word that comes to mind.

Lack of training and heavy losses are issues on both sides, but the Ukrainians appear to be more clever and are fighting for something tangible.

 

 

 

sweet spots for chatGPT

Someone asked where I thought LLM applications might be useful without a downside.

Horoscopes came to mind.. everything else seems problematic.

 

dart hit a bulls-eye

The asteroid re-direction mission was much more successful than anticipated.

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Although NASA has demonstrated this technique on only one asteroid, the results could be broadly applicable to future hazards, researchers say. “It means that we can quickly design a mission to deflect an asteroid if there is a threat, and we know that this has a very high chance of being effective,” says Franck Marchis, from the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California who is also chief scientific officer at the telescope manufacturer Unistellar in Marseille.

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rock music

The real thing, although it gets old quickly.

a tip of the hat to George