Gareth Barnard

@Smuckerdoodle6 @andreaberting But actually, I wonder if we could crank up the hallucinations in AI just for shits and giggles.

@Smuckerdoodle6 @andreaberting I've picked up just as many mistakes on websites. Lots of stuff that I thought I knew turned out to be wrong too. If it's really important I'll find a reliable source to double check.

One of many things I don't understand about using any AI to help write your screenplays is that it must take all the fun out of it. Why do it if you aren't the one doing the thinking? Problem-solving is a feature, not a bug.

@petewarbis @andreaberting It's still going to much more accurate than anything made by Hollywood.

@garethbarnard @andreaberting Except that it hallucinates…

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@fesshole Thought this was going to be a Limerick at first

My girlfriend's friend brought her pet rat round. It escaped & could not be found. She decided it was on an adventure, and for months would speculate about its happy travels. Couldn't bring myself to tell her my cat ate it: he left the tail in his food bowl that night.

LIVE FOOTAGE: After days of being trapped under the rubble, two Palestinian children were saved by First Responders. They were found hugging each other.

@maddenifico Except this is only vaguely similar to what Plato said

Plato was right. 😳👇

@StephanAJensen When you live in a shithole country you need something to give you hope.

To understand how utterly deranged the public debate in russia is, imagine if it was a normal opinion in Berlin anno 2026 that Poland and Czechia "belongs" to Germany or people in the UK seriously talked about "erasing" Ireland from the map. This is the real russia.

Israel has granted a perpetrator of war crimes in Gaza the honor of lighting a ceremonial torch on Independence Day. By choosing Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv to represent “the spirit of the nation,” Israel is making genocide part of its official national ethos. “There’s nothing for them to go back to in Rafah and Jabalya… Tens of thousands of families have no documents, childhood photos, ID cards, homes. Nothing.” This boast was made by Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv, an Israeli Rabbi who perpetrated war crimes who has been chosen to light a torch at Israel’s Independence Day ceremony, today, April 21. This is one of the highest accolades in the country, granted to “exemplary citizens” who represent “the spirit of the nation.” Rabbi Zarbiv served about 500 days as a military reservist in Gaza over the last two and a half years. As a bulldozer operator during the genocide, he carried out war crimes of which he has openly boasted in videos he filmed, media interviews and public talks. Bestowing one of the highest civilian honors in Israel on a citizen who committed war crimes illustrates how deeply the dehumanization of Palestinians has taken root in the Israeli mainstream. It is yet another terrifying signal that genocide has officially become part of the national ethos. Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv is a regional rabbinical court judge for the settlement of Ariel, and head the pre-military academy in the settlement of Beit El that educates hundreds of Israeli youth. Choosing him as an “exemplary citizen” represents a state-level endorsement of the complete de-humanization of Palestinians, systematic destruction of Palestinian life and the governing logic of annihilation and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Zarbiv is not ashamed of his actions, neither, clearly is the State of Israel. We’vecompiled some documentation here to mark the occasion.

Things are falling apart for Russia

🇮🇷🇺🇸 “None of the Iranian delegation has arrived or even flown to Islamabad for negotiations with the US at the moment” - Iranian State TV Iranian channels also posted the Mr. Bean meme with JD Vance edited in to mock the situation.

A single GPU can now calculate hundreds of global weather scenarios in under 60 seconds. The exact same task requires a supercomputer and hours of brute-force physics. Google DeepMind recently released WeatherNext 2. The model beats the previous state-of-the-art system on 99.9% of weather variables across a 15-day forecast window. It achieves this massive jump in accuracy using a new modelling approach called a Functional Generative Network. Meteorologists categorise weather data into two buckets: 1. Marginals are isolated data points, like the precise temperature at a specific location or the wind speed at a certain altitude. 2. Joints are the massive, interconnected systems that form when all those individual elements interact. The researchers hid the joint systems from the model during training. They only taught it the isolated marginals. When they turned it on, the model skillfully predicted the massive, complex systems anyway. The architecture forces an 87-million-dimensional output distribution through a 32-dimensional mathematical bottleneck. To survive this severe constraint and still produce accurate individual data points, the neural network has no choice but to learn the underlying physics linking everything together. It figures out the weather because that’s the most efficient way to solve the maths. The practical results are immediate. The model gives forecasters a full 24-hour advantage in tropical cyclone tracking compared to the previous leading system. It maps extreme wind speeds and heatwaves with unprecedented precision. We’re watching a pretty big shift in predictive capabilities. The machine is deducing the structural reality of planetary weather from isolated fragments of data.

The question is not if the US gov wants to align with russia, that's now established. The question is why anyone today would look at russia and see compelling reasons to move closer to it. There is only one explanation, and it involves corruption and personal gain.

Hello, my friends, Today’s Great Literary Quote comes from I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger—a story where one of the last remaining books sets everything in motion. “If you can bear it, I am suggesting that nothing is impossible.” A strange kind of hope in a world where even words are becoming rare. Full review of the book at Rite of Fancy dot Com! #TaketheBackRoads

Remembering the great Nina Simone, who passed away 23 years ago today.

We will never recover from the trauma Israel has made us document and bear witness to. It is wounding on a scale that I cannot find the words to describe. For the sake of the people who are in this hell every second of all their life, scared and terrified and hungry and dehydrated and trying to survive illnes and disability, we must do everything we can to end the genocide.

@churchtalkative A reminder of the words of Jesus churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist…

The Pope is not the head of the church, Jesus is.

@tosinovegano @SaltyGoat17 Where is the US military?

@SaltyGoat17 Busy visiting his boss

60 Christians were killed in an attack in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. They were murdered by Muslims for the crime of refusing to convert to Islam. Where's Pope Leo on this and the "religion of peace" that we should be less fearful of?

@TomAandTom1 Tony Stark is a billionaire who leverages technology to become a super hero. This is canonically perfect.

Again one has nothing to do w the other You just want to pillory someone bc you’re chronically unhappy