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@sue_creative me too dammit

trelloさんの反応がない…

@BenAetheling @EWess92 Just a matter of time before it's both.

@EWess92 This is one of the craziest cases I've ever read about, can't believe it's real life and not a movie.

A man stole William Woods's identity, then accused Woods of stealing his, had Woods prosecuted, jailed, and drugged in a mental ward. A dogged detective solved it. Is an above-guidelines sentence justified? Yes, explains Judge Gruender. Might be the craziest fact section yet!

@AlecStapp This takes the joy out of so many police procedurals.

Just remembered the story about a computer scientist who had his bike stolen and tried to explain binary search to a cop

@writerofscratch can't win em all

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@nocontextmemes The orange jumpsuit is too clean for it not to be fake

@JakeSherman yup

On iran talks —Iranians seem to want Congress involved: The Omani Foreign Ministry has confirmed talks with Iran about reopening the strait. Mr. Mousawi, who was briefed on the plan, added that it called for formally ending the war through an act approved by Congress, and that it called on the United States to offer war compensation that “must be approved by the U.S. Congress and the United Nations.” “These conditions would have to be approved by Congress, and ensuring their implementation must be guaranteed under an international-American umbrella, because they do not trust Trump and his administration,” he said. nytimes.com/2026/04/06/us/… via @NYTimes

@MrFoodies Every second is worse than the one before.

now i've seen it all... 😳

@danwilliamsphil Always get a lot out of Dan Williams' pieces as they seem to chart my own journey away from broadly leftist views and closer to the "center" however you define it. Sadly, can't access this piece — I'm already overcommitted on Substack subscriptions!

New essay at Conspicuous Cognition: conspicuouscognition.com/p/on-becoming-…

@WBCBaseball Great first performance!

An epic giveaway for an epic #WorldBaseballClassic moment 😮‍💨 Repost and reply for your chance to win this Shohei Ohtani Team Japan uniform!

@itsme_urstruly Fu Manchew

What would you name this cat 😂

@HistoryBoomer I dislike Bouie and Smith, for different reasons! But Noah has the better take in this case i think

I dislike NYTimes columnist Jamelle Bouie, and here's one more reason. Here, rather than criticizing Noah's views, he calls him a "loser." Besides being obviously untrue (Noah is making bank on Substack!), it epitomizes the mean-kid style of a common kind of progressive. "We're cool and you're a nerd loser!" Can we get more high school than this?

@hecubian_devil @threadreaderapp unroll please

Tbf there’s a weird problem with how Biden & Obama went about good trans policy. They tended to set policy quietly at the level of the administrative state, but then avoid messaging around it, and eschewed legislative means that require you to win a political/narrative battle. This really contributed to the sense that trans policy prescriptions “came out of nowhere” and were “shoved down our throats” for lots of regular people. In fact most strides for trans people in the last 20 years happened this way: court rulings on Title IX, private administrative bodies issuing rules, medical boards issuing guidance on care, ACA guidance on trans health coverage, etc. It came through an alphabet soup of acronym agencies and boards and bodies—NCAA, IOC, APA, AAP, AMA, etc—handing down rules that governed trans people’s rights to participate in public life and receive healthcare. The policy was good! And it was based on evidence and motivated by an effective elite-outreach activist strategy that lobbied rule makers, judges, and administrators. This is not at all, morally or empirically, bad. It was however *politically* vulnerable, because it didn’t entail building a broad coaliton that was actually persuaded of arguments in favor of trans people’s rights and interests. It wasn’t durable, and it remained open to be overruled by a popular coalition organized against it. And that’s exactly what the Right realized and executed.

@GaryMarcus @deanwball @grok what are hallucitations

Are LLM hallucinations basically solved, as a former Senior Policy Advisor at the White House, @deanwball, told me below, based pure on anecdotal experience and without data? No. Instead, his post is symptomatic of how subjective finger-in-the-wind evaluations of AI often get things wrong. Here are some actual data. • Law: Incidents in which lawyers have gotten busted for using fake cases are way up; @DamienCharlotin’s database listed around 100 cases less than a year ago, and now has over 900, with new incidents reported ever day. • Science: The situation is so bad that a team of Japanese reseachers just coined the term “hallucitation”, and showed quantitively that the problem is rapidly getting worse, not better. • Pharma: A forthcoming study on recent models from @blueguardrails on “challenging problems” shows hallucination rates of 26%-69%. • @AIMultiple’s January benchmark showed rates of 15%+ across a wide range of models. • OpenAI has started taking the problem so seriously they wrote a whole white paper about it last Fall, acknowledging that “even as models get more advanced, they can still hallucinate, confidently giving wrong answers instead of acknowledging uncertainty.” Meanwhile, indirect measures also seem to reflect serious ongoing reliability issues on the part of current generative AI: • the recent Remote Labor Index showed that AI could only do 2.5% of a sample of online human tasks. (Hallucinations were surely part of why many tasks were not completed accurately.) • Multiple studies (MIT, PwC, etc) have shown that the vast majority of companies have found little to no RoI for generative AI investments. Again, reliability is surely part of the problem. It’s easy to look superficially at LLMs and feel like they are doing fine. Most of the errors are subtle; you have to read carefully to see them. (A fake citation, for example, looks pretty much like a real citation.) But with careful inspection it is clear that loads of hallucinations remain, and those hallucinations remain a serious problem in the real world.

@LudwigAhgren That's it. Macbeth is finished

the bushes were people ????

@NoContextHumans Munich

Go👇

@tobiaschneider We sleep in the same room, laying out three futons on the tatami every night and packing them away again every morning. (Yes a different room.) When the older kid gets too old we'll shuffle him off to his own room. Maybe 13 or 14

Honestly, I've never spent much time at all thinking about it either way, but the logistics of co-sleeping still confuse me. Like, do you go to bed with them and then sneak out? Why couldn't you do that in their room? Do you still have sex - I suppose in a different room?

@NostalgiaFolder Never reached it, but that was my nirvana. That was my man cave that never was.

The absolute chokehold this corner computer desk setup had on us in the late 90s/2000s

@seanwalsh111 @adamtotscomix How did you know it was a flesh light?

@adamtotscomix The flesh light out in the open really tied this together lmao

@kittypurrzog Is it Naltrexone? I'm thinking it's probably Naltrexone

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