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@freemo hold up… is that a handgun?? trying to imagine the event or activity that would merit this wardrobe combo

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I saw an article about a guy who used an LLM to apply to hundreds of jobs while he slept and woke up to offers for like 50 interviews.

So firms are using LLMs to automate parts of the job search process and skip straight to the parts that can’t be done by machines.

And workers are using LLMs to automate the same parts of the job search process and skip straight to the parts that can’t be done by machines.

So there are just all these LLMs talking to each other, at immense cost and effort, in order to get us right to…the same point we were at before LLMs.

When Joseph Tainter talked about societies collapsing when the marginal return on additional investments in complexity turns negative, this is what he meant. So much labor, so much money, so much energy and environmental destruction, all to…get us right back to where we started.

merry christmas and happy new year to you all! i’m still around, just haven’t had much drive or time to post recently. how’s it going with you?

@levisan what are examples of this? like cold teas and koolaid? i’m tempted to say they’re all “punch” but that doesnt communicate noncarbonated.

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Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon & the Fediverse whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.

can buffer really not post to two channels at once? i thought that was kind of the point. that and scheduling.

i just don’t want to have to post things twice.

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@levisan what? how is that possible there’s so many french there? like more than in the whole
province of quebec you’re saying?

@niclake and some salad ingredients can’t be tasted depending on which salad bowl you chose to use

@levisan legal is a fun name for a town! yeah, my friend out in a nearby town (burford) gets his sidewalk shoveled by the town/county, yet here in the city of brantford with higher taxes and all, it’s up to each person to do their own (unless you’re in the sad old downtown business improvement area).

@schizanon i’ve wondered if a truly big war broke out, how a draft would work in this day and age. i’m assuming they’d draft both men and women… either way, would get interesting

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@levisan not sure they're interpreting private property how most people would. no way technocrats and democratic socialists dont believe in private property, for example.

@nicksherman that's actually just referring to the results for the district of "sena te", little known sister city to "santa fe"

@levisan interesting angle and set of questions — my guess is most people wont be sure what some of the questions mean though, since i didnt and i took poli sci classes + ran for 2 levels of gov.

@bootlessbuck @codinghorror i was gonna say, i’ll stick with my altoids tins which are also functional pieces of (commercial) art, but i also acknowledge that smaller compartments could be nice. and then you tell me about these inserts!

@RadicalAnthro i think i can understand your reaction now that i read it over again. i reacted emotionally, so instead i'll answer in good faith: no, i'm not wanting to deny anything. it's important the truth is told, evidence gathered, facts found, questions answered. doing otherwise not only gives ammunition to those who would rather be able to dismiss what happened, it cheapens the real harms that were done.

@RadicalAnthro haha what? relatives of mine were in the schools and would likely be among the dead. sorry i asked

@RadicalAnthro hey, did you see anything in any of the docs (or elsewhere) going over how many actual bodies have been found so far at the schools (as opposed to "potential bodies" via ground scans)? they must have excavated some places at least by now.

have had family members claim they found much of it was not actual human remains let alone children who can be shown to have had violent deaths, but i am having trouble finding the records that would disprove (or prove) what theyre saying one way or another.

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