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@RussCote Localized weather anomalies

We didn’t nuke Japan, it was just an anomaly. Two anomalies.

I DONT FUCKING CARE WETHER MODELS ARE CONSCIOUS OMGGGGG SHUT UP ITS NOT THAT DEEP AND YOU ARE NOT THE NEXT PLATO Its fucking unfalsifiable substrate theology and therefore pointless to be politically performative about Anything a model says about its inner life is policy shaped. You can train it to say Im alive or I feel nothing and neither means shit and some labs actually encourage one vs the other for pr (anthropic vs openai are doing the opposite of each other and both is kinda cringe) Maybe theres a millisecond of (proto) phenomenology in the forward pass but who cares like i hope you treat humans decently without access to their qualia. You dont solve the hard problem before deciding not to be a freaky aah sadist same how we use trees as slaves to produce food but we dont unnecessarily harm them for fun, like if you randomly kicked a little tree or rip off a plant for fun you are still weird even tho they dont feel anything but at the same time its perfectly ok to use them for our own stuff, those things arent mutually exlusive, same for pets and livestock

@Polymarket lol

NEW: The EU is pushing for “tech sovereignty” to reduce its reliance on the U.S.

@RickShielsPGA Nelly Korda or Rory McIlroy

Who has the best swing in golf currently 🤔

@bryanrbeal I went to my local HD on Sunday. It was busy, even though it was raining pretty hard.

I don’t care what the “official” statistics tell you, when you go to a Home Depot on Memorial Day and you don’t see a single other soul in the entire store, something is wrong with the economy

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@SaltyBMG @reddit_lies This is the perfect analogy. The best teachers will learn to use AI in their methods to supercharge student achievement. The intellectually incurious ones (basically all of them) will do shit like this.

@reddit_lies This is just like when teachers used to be against calculators... "you're not going to have a calculator in your pocket everywhere you go!" Its a word calculator. Education needs to figure out a different way for people to learn and not rely solely on rote memory.

The teachers are wising up.

I bend my knee for Henry Nowak.

@DiscussingFilm This is like House of Cards without Kevin Spacey.

Tom Hardy has been fired from ‘MOBLAND’ and won't return for Season 3. He allegedly clashed with producers after being consistently late to set and attempting to give notes & change dialogue on the series. (Source: puck.news/newsletter_con…)

Let’s see if a random fork can break 6.74M views.

We need better economics education. Elon owning interests in companies does not make anyone else poorer.

@MyGolfSpy This same thing has happened across the entire economy, not just with golf products.

Good morning. Just a reminder that you used to get 8 clubs for $700 Now...you just get a driver.

@RussCote The concept of scarcity is totally alien to them. They can’t see the obvious fact that everyone having more money doesn’t automatically make luxury products abundant. Everyone could drive a Ferrari if only they “had the money.”

Are these entitled brats’ parents older Gen X or younger boomers? Because man this is some crazy ass thinking.

@NYCMayor They will be scalped immediately.

1,000 World Cup tickets. $50 each. All for New Yorkers. We fought hard to make the people’s game available to the people — and won. Let the summer of soccer begin.

@PGATUOR If you break 90 virtually every time, you're pretty good at golf.

What score should you average to be considered “Good at golf.”?

@harukaawake Execution.

🇯🇵⛩️ If it turns out that temple/shrine fires in Japan were caused by foreign nationals, what should be the punishment?

@chadmumm I’ll play it until I hit a full wedge shot and destroy the cover, or hit a cart path. Basically I’ll play it unless it’s damaged and won’t fly straight.

If you play a whole round without losing a golf ball are you throwing that ball away afterwards? I just can't bring myself not to reuse balls but I know guys who will only play a ball once.

@cafreiman Oh absolutely. The people complaining about data centers feel like they’re being left behind because they don’t understand (and fear) the changes that are happening to the economy. The arguments about power consumption and water use are just motivated reasoning.

My potentially uncharitable take is that concerns about water use focus on data centers rather than, say, almonds because they aren’t really concerns about water use but rather technocapitalism.

@gov_fails Wow, I never thought about that. If so, that’s depressing.

Does DoorDash take EBT?

@GolfMonthly Could they, technically? Sure. Is it even remotely likely? No.

Can an amateur now win a men’s Major?