Jeff Timmer: "No one is mocking prayers. We are mocking the fools who consider it a legitimate policy action response to a shooting."
Michael Branda: "Why not replace Pres. Trump's Secret Service protection with thoughts and prayers? After all, if it's good enough for our children, it should be good enough for him."
#consistency #politics
Prophecies (and high knowledge characters) are a common pain point for a lot of players and GMs. Come explore methods performers, would-be prophets, and charlatans have used for centuries to create convincing insights and predictions.
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Mastering the Art of Illusion: GM & Play Tips for Prophecies - Thought Punks
In the world of tabletop role-playing games, creating the illusion of omniscience or crafting seemingly accurate predictions can elevate the storytellingRevCasey (Thought Punks)
Despite revealing Trump’s chronic-venous-insufficiency diagnosis, the White House explanation is still odd and incomplete. Here’s everything we know.
Psy, de 'Gangnam Style', é Investigado por Obtenção Ilegal de Remédios na Coreia do Sul - Gazeta
O rapper sul-coreano Psy, famoso mundialmente pelo hit viral “Gangnam Style”, está sendo investigado pela polícia da Coreia do Sul por suposta violação da LeiGazeta Brasil
New Strip Found: Ripley's Believe It or Not - 2025-08-31 gocomics.com/ripleysbelieveito…
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Read Ripley's Believe It or Not—a comic strip by creator Kieran Castaño & Kieran Castaño—for today, August 31, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!www.gocomics.com
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“Devono tornare indietro le nostre ragazze e i nostri ragazzi senza un graffio. Da questa regione escono 13-14mila container all’anno per Israele. Non faremo uscire più nemmeno un chiodo. Se perdiamo il contatto anche per soli 20 minuti, blocchiamo l'Europa”, hanno avvertito i portuali genovesi del #CALP in sostegno alla #GlobalSumudFlotilla per #gaza.
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Il sole bacia la Oetztaler: più di 4.000 eroi al via, trionfa l'austriaco Federspiel
https://www.gazzetta.it/Ciclismo/01-09-2025/ciclismo-oetztaler-per-piu-di-4000-amatori.shtml?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Il sole bacia la Oetztaler: più di 4.000 eroi al via, trionfa l'austriaco Federspiel
La Granfondo più dura al mondo ha visto 622 italiani al viaStefano Cantalupi (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
Reform accused of 'whipping up anger' over asylum seeker hotels
Previsioni meteo, settembre parte col piede sbagliato: ecco una nuova perturbazione
https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/09/01/news/previsioni_meteo_settembre_pioggia_nuova_perturbazione-424818572/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Cronache italiane - La Repubblica @cronache-italiane-la-repubblica-repubblica
Previsioni meteo, settembre parte col piede sbagliato: ecco una nuova perturbazione
Inizio di settimana turbolento, specie al Centro-Nordla Repubblica
Goffredo Fofi e la cultura come pratica trasformativa
Tra militanza intellettuale e impegno civile ha attraversato decenni di storia italiana. Ha animato diversi gruppi e riviste, intrecciando educazione, inchiesta e solidarietà. La sua impronta è nella memoria di chi lo ha incontrato o lettoNicola Villa (Altreconomia)
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Luin #HS:sta yhden tyhjänpäiväisen kolumnin, jonka julkaisua ihmettelen siksikin, että noi keikat olivat jo viikko sitten
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....ja yhden haastattelun, joka vajosi samaan kategoriaan, koska siinä ei ollut mitään uutta, ei mitään ihmeellistä; itsestään selvää vanhan toistoa. Voisiko #Hesari jo luopua tästä väkinäisestä dialogin hakemisestaan?
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Olympiastadionilla esiintynyt Ultra Bra tuntui nousukauden tuulahdukselta.Veli-Pekka Lehtonen HS (Helsingin Sanomat)
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ETA: I feel I should know this but is this a regular thing you do for a job now and if so are you looking for clients? I have people ask me about this sort of service on the regular.
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We are mocking the fools who consider it
a legitimate policy action response to a shooting."
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И даже "выражение лица" под сползшей на глаза шапочкой у этой розетки грустное...
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"If I truly am a murderer, I am not a very vicious one."
What does this even mean? Would these folks be okay w/ human sacrifice?
I’m a liberal who loves hunting. Allow me to change your mind
When I killed my first mule deer, I felt deep reverence for the animal. It showed me hunting can be more honest and sustainable than eating factory-farmed meatJessica Reed (The Guardian)
Comté – immer beliebtere Käsespezialität aus Frankreich
Der Comté, ein Hartkäse aus dem französischen Jura, war vor gar nicht so langer Zeit hierzulande noch kaum bekannt. Heute zählt er mit seinem nussigen, leicht süßen Aroma auch in Deutschland zu den beliebtesten Käsespezialitäten. Von Georg EtscheitNatalie Furjan (Tichys Einblick)
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Putin arrives in China for SCO summit and Victory Day (VIDEO)
The Russian president will meet with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, and Indian PM Narendra Modi during a four-day visitRT
Russia-India-China Trilateral: Game-Changer in Global Politics
The evolving trilateral Russia-India-China (RIC) format—with more alignment, more coordination—could have a “potentially huge impact on global affairs,” Robinder Sachdev, geopolitical analyst as well as founder and president of The Imagindia Institut…Sputnik International
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Rice Inflation Spurs Japan Sushi Chain to Rely on Growth Abroad
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Angels' Taylor Ward carted off field after crashing into scoreboard
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Bundesnetzagentur von Habeck-Vertrautem soll zentrale Rolle bei KI-Aufsicht übernehmen - Apollo News
Die vom Habeck-Vertrauten Klaus Müller geführte Bundesnetzagentur soll künftig für große Teile der KI-Regulierung in Deutschland zuständig sein.Redaktion (Apollo News)
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A new policy document authored by seven Chinese government departments outlines plans to create a globally competitive brain-computer interface industry by 2030 (Emily Mullin/Wired)
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A new policy document authored by seven Chinese government departments outlines plans to create a globally competitive brain-computer interface industry by 2030
By Emily Mullin / Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
Idf: “Colpiremo Hamas all’estero”. Gaza Riviera, il piano Trump: soldi ai palestinesi che vanno via
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Idf: “Colpiremo Hamas all’estero”. Gaza Riviera, il piano Trump: soldi ai palestinesi che vanno via
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When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire
Link: oikofuge.com/sun-sets-on-briti…
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The Oikofuge: The Sun Sets On The British Empire
A while ago I treated you to a dissertation entitled “Does The Sun Set On The British Empire?”, and concluded that it doesn’t. The UK’s widely scattered overseas territories, sparse tho…The Oikofuge
Israeli raids in major occupied West Bank cities lead to arrests, injuries
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Israeli raids in major occupied West Bank cities lead to arrests, injuries
More settler attacks also take place across the territory, with a Palestinian husband and wife hurt in the violence.Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)
Jeff Atwood
in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •maha
in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •and yet, there was no consent requested or followed when the SO data was used for training AIs...kinda strange?
If we are the company, then we should have a say in all decisions.
I'm sorry to bring this up, but you sound like an oxymoron when you say such things
Alex Feinman
in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •Jeff Atwood
in reply to Alex Feinman • • •Fennix
in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •how much did this summary cost to generate vs the alternatives?
"Free" only for narrow definitions of the word.
Jeff Atwood
in reply to Fennix • • •Fennix
in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •I think you're missing the obvious: the information is no longer free if it's shoved behind a paywall and it requires a few hundred households' worth of electricity to train and infer, not to mention to damage and theft of natural resources required to execute that query.
It's "Free" in the sense that these systems are training on it all and letting the site operators shoulder the expense for bandwidth and entire regions try to cope with the sudden water demand.
It's free in the same way sitting in the non-smoking section was "smoke-free".
What happens when SO disappears from online use because it's not profitable, and this CC-licensed knowledge is then only available via LLM? Is that still free?
It's such an awful take that means well but fails to conceive everything through to its logical conclusion.
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Unknown parent • • •maha
Unknown parent • • •@fennix this is the problem with you guys - you use every dirty trick in the book - deflecting, reframing, dodging - while you expect the world to be kind to you and claim that we are all in it together.
Why would we, when you are clearly not engaging in honest converesation?
If I were you, I'd reveal the costs involved in AI usage and prove that its reasonable instead of deflecting and redirecting the conversation towards something else
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in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •Shouldn’t there also be the provision that LLM output is licensed under the same terms as the training data, so it too remains usable by everyone.
Also, doesn’t that kind of imply an LLM trained on SO can *only* be trained on SO, as if it’s also trained on a million other sources, then any output would need to provide 1,000,001 attributions?
Jeff Atwood
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