John Ciolfi

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See? And now the world is reminded that you got 7 kids by 6 women. And got sued by your cousin for raping her starting at the age of 6, and didn’t have enough respect for yourself to show up to court and had to pay her $25 million dollars. And that because of this your own high school snatched your name off the stadium. You see how all your shit is public record? You see how shutting the fuck up and minding your business could’ve prevented all this?

This morning @scratchyjohnson tweeted an important factoid. Squanto, the Indian who spoke English and helped the pilgrims survive, was sold by John Smith to a Spaniards and the deed exists in the city we're in for Excursion. Rather than rolling our eyes, Alan, Gavin & I went to the state archives in Málaga to see if we can find said recorded deed of 20 Indians sold by John Smith to Juan Bautista Reales. We get to the Archives (see Alan's picture below), and a small genial white lab coat wearing gentleman who speaks no English says this is impossible to find. His new boss, the head archivist, Carmen, comes in and says it certainly exists but may be difficult to find. If you only had the year. We tell her it was 1614. She pulls up a list of the books from 29 notaries whose work they have from 1614. She asks who the notary was. We have no idea. They say they can't go through 29 archives to look for it. Also it's all in old Spanish which nobody speaks and it'll be hard to locate even if they know the Notary. So Alan and Gavin get to work. Gavin finds an article in the internet archive that seems to have a partial picture of the document. Carmen and the other archivist decipher the name after 15 min. They find that name in their cross reference. Carmen goes to the vault to look while the lab coat gentleman asks for my life history, driver's licence number and a lien on my grandchildren. Totally worth it. Carmen comes back to say she found the volume. It is tremendously delicate. Opening it may break some pages. Does it have to be today because if so the answer will be no. We ask her if this is interesting to them. Both very seriously nod their heads. We tell them this is very important to the United States and many of our friends. Carmen tells us she will find it but that it takes time. White linen gloves and patience. We tell her to take her time. She says she will take a picture and email it to me. So here's why all this is important: after Squanto was sold by an Englishman to a Spaniard names Reales, said Spaniard brought Squanto and 19 other "inios" to Málaga. He recorded the deed in the state archives. Then a Franciscan priest ransomed Squanto. Squanto became Catholic. Was baptized and confirmed in Málaga. He then made his way to England where he worked and learned English. He paid his passage back across the ocean and found his Wampanoag tribesmen. Then when the Pilgrims landed they found a Catholic English-speaking native who helped them survive their first winter. It is entirely possible that but for a Franciscan priest who ransomed Squanto, the Pilgrims may not have survived their first winter in New England. That's history. American history. And the record of it is in Málaga. In a book. One of 29 books kept by notaries in Málaga in 1614. That are still searchable. This image, when it comes, belongs in the US National Archive. This is Cultural Debris. x.com/i/status/20349… cc: @alancornett @gwbled @Gonnassaurius_ @wrathofgnon

@nonamesleft24 @wormboybuck @SatoruBuckley Tampering with mail is a federal crime in the U.S. The investigators from a special branch of the U.S. Postal Service do not mess around at all - they have like a 99.5% success rate on their charges. And punishment is extremely severe. All in all, it’s just not worth the trouble.

@wormboybuck @SatoruBuckley As a non American it seems wild. Anyone can just go up and open it? So when you have something sensitive or important or a new card sent to you it's just left out there for anyone? Surely that makes identity theft so easy lmao

crying

Quasi Osbourne

as a Bay Area resident it's nice to see people across the political spectrum once again consolidate around the inescapable conclusion that our tech overlords are sub-literate

@TEshakur @uncle_deluge The one on the right is a water cooler. This is a bubbler.

@uncle_deluge Left is a water fountain, right is a bubbler

Albion's Seed talks about this

@CapnNath Tommy LaSorta

Ever since this 30 Rock joke 15 years ago I have been trying to come up with a celebrity-impersonator name as good as Edward James Almost. The closest I have come so far is Mary Elizabeth Instead

Recent photos in San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Boston. This America still exists. Go outside. Make friends.

im sorry for blocking so easily. it's nothing personal. it's just that you're stupid and annoying and i don't want to be inflicted with your thoughts again

We witnessed one of the most amazing moments you'll ever see at a high school event tonight at Schneider Arena. Colin Dorgan, who lost his mother, brother & grandfather in the Lynch Arena shooting last month, scores a 2OT game-winner to send his team to the @RIIL_sports D-II championship game. Incredible resilience from this young man & this BVS team. Fortunate to call this emotional moment with Marty Crowley tonight on the NFHS Network. @SRASaints @PCDAthletics @Fic27

Husband. follower of Christ. tweeting some of the most offensive things you’ve ever seen, just absolutely horrific stuff. girl dad.

Well, that sucks. I took Bam Adebayo over 83.5 points tonight.

If I have a problem with her sitting close to me in church, then I have no place being in church.

Absolutely incredible 👏 In his final game with the Czechia National Team, Ondřej Satoria, an electrian by trade, shutout Samurai Japan, the best team in the world, in his 4.2 IP. This is the World Baseball Classic. This is Baseball. ❤️

🚨BREAKING: OpenAI published a paper proving that ChatGPT will always make things up. Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. They proved it with math. Even with perfect training data and unlimited computing power, AI models will still confidently tell you things that are completely false. This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level. And their own numbers are brutal. OpenAI's o1 reasoning model hallucinates 16% of the time. Their newer o3 model? 33%. Their newest o4-mini? 48%. Nearly half of what their most recent model tells you could be fabricated. The "smarter" models are actually getting worse at telling the truth. Here's why it can't be fixed. Language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they hit something uncertain, they don't pause. They don't flag it. They guess. And they guess with complete confidence, because that's exactly what they were trained to do. The researchers looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how good these models are. 9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as for giving a completely wrong answer: zero points. The entire testing system literally punishes honesty and rewards guessing. So the AI learned the optimal strategy: always guess. Never admit uncertainty. Sound confident even when you're making it up. OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure. Their own math shows this would mean roughly 30% of your questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I'm not confident enough to respond." Users would leave overnight. So the fix exists, but it would kill the product. This isn't just OpenAI's problem. DeepMind and Tsinghua University independently reached the same conclusion. Three of the world's top AI labs, working separately, all agree: this is permanent. Every time ChatGPT gives you an answer, ask yourself: is this real, or is it just a confident guess?

Her parents legally immigrated from India when she was 4 years old. She graduated from Boston University, calls New Jersey home, and is now a Senior Business Analyst at Franklin Templeton. She’s dancing in front of the Washington Monument because she’s a proud American.

Candy

the first F1 story of the season was “leclerc got married and his dog was there” the second story is “Aston Martin built a car that will kill the driver if they try to complete a full race.” Perfect sport, no notes

@PopCrave I get why everyone’s clowning the McD’s CEO for the nibble, but the part that got me was his surprise at seeing the crispy onions in there. Like, dude, how were you not aware of the ingredients in your own new sandwich?

Burger King CEO takes a big bite of a Whopper in new video after McDonald’s CEO went viral for reluctantly nibbling the chain’s new Big Arch Burger.