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William Holz @freewilliam.bsky.social · 1h

I am not asking for this with my out-loud voice.

There are so many horrible sounding sentences down that road.

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Meet the ‘Preditor’: The Hybrid Hero of Modern Media

As both producer and editor, these multitasking mavericks are reshaping the media landscape.

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William Holz @freewilliam.bsky.social · 2h

Just when I think CNN can't be less serious ...

William Holz @freewilliam.bsky.social · 5h

Blame the powerful politician, not the people she and her "close friends" threw under the bus.

She had the ability to win but she chose to run as a diet Republican. She had PLENTY OF TIME to be on the right side of history and beat Trump at the same time.

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William Holz @freewilliam.bsky.social · 5h

She should've given some "f*cks" when she was running.

All she had to do was listen to the people saying blindly backing Israel's genocide is going to depress the vote.

She was capable of winning the election. She chose to risk it appeasing her donors and hanging with the Cheneys.

William Holz @freewilliam.bsky.social · 15h

I bet it'll be pretty obvious.

a cartoon of a man standing in front of a house with a light on

Alt: Quagmire with one honkin' big arm.

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Miss Riss @missriss.bsky.social · 20h

Not many people realize they called it the PS5 because pspspspsps didn't fit on the box

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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William Holz @freewilliam.bsky.social · 1d

"And the award for best acting goes to..."

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Blackniss Everdeen @the-green-queen.bsky.social · 1d

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William Holz @freewilliam.bsky.social · 1d

We're going to need you to arrest some Gestapo thugs.

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William Holz @freewilliam.bsky.social · 1d

Every software application that uses data is bending over backwards to import whatever nonsense people are trying to give them.

It's barely worth the effort to have an LLM do it, and you have to be really bad at data not to be terrified by the idea of throwing a black box in there for funsies.

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William Holz @freewilliam.bsky.social · 1d

"Give me data that is stealthily wrong and will make me look very bad if someone audits it, please."

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 2d

If you gotta tell the lie machine not to lie, maybe there are more fundamental issues

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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William Holz @freewilliam.bsky.social · 1d

Learning that Yankee Doodle was not putting a feather in his hat and saying it was pasta was a genuinely jarring moment for me.

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William Holz @freewilliam.bsky.social · 1d

I love how the one guy with a gun fired one shot and then just bailed

William Holz @freewilliam.bsky.social · 1d

Given the state of the world, I think we can at least consider the possiblity that our specific brand of civilization might not have put us in the best timeline.

The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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William Holz @freewilliam.bsky.social · 1d

The people talking like this seem to often be the ones who never embraced the whole "Nobody should be okay with sacrificing a stranger's family" concept. Big red flag.

Next it'll be "Oh no, the left bullied me into defending a genocide! I must go on Rogan and Fox and lean into it now"

David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 2d

The extreme left’s weird soft treatment of Nick Fuentes is a reminder that if you go far enough in either direction, you loop back around

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William Holz @freewilliam.bsky.social · 1d

You don't respect consent so much you suddenly think Nick Fuentes embodies that. That's an insane take.

If you're willing to treat someone else's family like collateral damage then that's not a trustworthy person

It doesn't matter if it's trans kids or Palestinians, it about the lack of exceptions

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Alt: a cartoon of a man pointing up with the words " which side are you on "

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William Holz @freewilliam.bsky.social · 2d

The people who need to be locked up are the people who chose to be ICE agents.

They've proven they can't be trusted around people

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 3d

It's striking that even in the defenses of Bari Weiss's broader thing no one ever says that she or her website does good work. Even the people that admire the success she's had selling lite reactionary shit to rich old guys top out at "people do seem to like it." You could defend Jake Paul that way.

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William Holz @freewilliam.bsky.social · 3d

Still not hearing a reason to fire a pepper ball at someone from a rooftop.

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William Holz @freewilliam.bsky.social · 3d

Of course.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w1w...

Beautiful Mind - Tom Cardy & Brian David Gilbert

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William Holz @freewilliam.bsky.social · 3d

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ALT: a close up of a man 's face in a car with a woman behind him .

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William Holz @freewilliam.bsky.social · 3d

This person does not belong on a pedestal.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 3d

If any cops arrest ICE, then I will believe that the cops might be there to deescalate and preserve peace or whatever.

Let's see that happen first.

Otherwise they're just helping Nazis. And people who help Nazis are Nazi collaborators.

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