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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 10m

And he's not that great at looking cool either, though I like the shirt.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 5h

Sea-Tac Airport won't air Kristi Noem's miserable propaganda, and that's a good thing.

Donald Trump is not a king, and dog killer Kristi Noem can't just force our airports to break the law on her behalf.

Sea-Tac won’t air Noem video blaming shutdown on Democrats

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport won’t broadcast a video of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem saying Democrats caused the federal government shutdown.

www.seattletimes.com

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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 15m

Looks like either they've blocked you or you've blocked them?

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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 17m

But LLMs don't have the sense impressions; they only have the words.

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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 19m

Because right now the Senate has a proposed House budget compromise bill to act on, and the Dems keep saying it's not yet good enough to hold a vote (which it's not.)
And the Senate GOP keep refusing to fix that. (Which would require going back to the House.)

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 11h

The annual Harvey's Harvest Festival in Lewes took place at the beginning of October and was a joyful affair | Ginny Foster
@ginnyfos.bsky.social @sussexbylines.co.uk

Harvest Festival – Harvey’s way

The annual Harvey's Harvest Festival in Lewes took place at the beginning of October and was a joyful affair

sussexbylines.co.uk

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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 23m

AI is owned by capitalists, as are self-driving cars.
Low-level knowledge workers and taxi drivers are labor and need to be paid wages and have their benefits paid.

But with immigrants, that's all about racism and greed,
mostly by workers and rich politicians; real capitalists like cheap labor.

Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 30m

But you have a place to look stuff up, and a knowledge that there are facts out there that might need to be looked up.
LLMs are only modeling the kinds of things people have said about the kinds of things they're being asked to talk about;
they don't have a separate model of facts or reality.

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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 33m

Excessively unlikely the Russians were responsible the TN munitions plant explosion. It's run by capitalists, and the people running it are responsible for their workers' safety.

Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 35m

Lisa Murkowski?

Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 36m

Oil company execs.

Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 36m

Somebody posted that Alaska National Guard are working on rescue.

Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 48m

US? DE? NL? :-)

Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 50m

PW;DR, but it looks like Trump's still proposing his 100% tariff on anything Chinese, until he chickens out again.
(If he's already chickened out, it hasn't hit Google News yet.)

Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 1h

Many of the same people and organizations funding Trump now
were hating on Socialized Medicine well before they tried to scare us about how Hillarycare would wreck American healthcare profits during Bill Clinton's term.

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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 1h

But just in case, he's trying to turn the world he's leaving behind into hell, because that way he thinks he still wins.

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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 1h

My wife once complained that all she'd been able to find for lunch in the vending machines was fritos and peanut M&M's,
and a friend replied "A grain and a legume, so at least it's a complete protein!"

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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 2h

I use areacode-555-1212 at the grocery instead.
Almost never bothered trying to use the gas-price points
(Mr. Lee got those :-), but it works for the discounts.

Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 2h

Amadeus and Spinal Tap came out the same year.

Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 2h

Odyssey worked ok as a YA cartoony story as well as having many deeper themes. I can't see touching Illiad in HS.
But Beowulf, definitely yeah.

The parts of Gilgamesh I've read have a lot of deeply weird stuff.

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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 2h

With a few exceptions, like Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, which should be cut by at least 2/3,
and way too many books which should be cut by 3/3.

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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 2h

Ow! We had to watch the movie version of Lord of the Flies once,
and that was once too many; fortunately didn't have to read it also.

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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 2h

My grandmother went to high school with him, thought he was a jerk.
They were also in Paris during the same years, but didn't run into each other; as grandfather said "probably we just hung out in different cafes"

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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 2h

Shut up and take my money!

fry from futurama is holding a bunch of money in his hand and says shut up and take my money

Alt: fry from futurama is holding a bunch of money in his hand and says shut up and take my money

media.tenor.com

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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 2h

You're always allowed to Save The Cat, or have Person1* meet Person2*,
or someone to come to town or leave town,
or even have Young Protagonist Grow Up if you don't steal TOO badly from Joseph Campbell.

* Optionally human, but certainly not required to be.