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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 19h

All jokes aside, it is really sad, but it does kind of explain a lot.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 20h

Is this as insane/dangerous as it sounds?

Also, dude, I was supposed to use that road that day.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 21h

This seems insane. Am I missing something that would make this seem less insane?

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22h

SF Chronicle joins the LA Times in confirming MeidasTouch’s reporting

gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 21h

Do you have an actually better idea? Because I'm just seeing whinging which is wrecker shit.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 21h

This is actually affecting me personally and I'm so mad about it, lol.

gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 21h

Incredible.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 21h

I genuinely think either of those or some strange fusion of them would literally be perfect. All I ask is that if you do do something inspired by my comment, tag me when you post images.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 21h

Totally makes sense. Horrible!

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 21h

Do you have someone you could do, like, an Addams family thing with? I feel like you might be a good Gomez to someone's Morticia.

Or, given your height, you could be Lurch.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 21h

Jokes aside, that dog sounds like a danger to the other animals and people around it. Hope you can report it to somebody!

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 22h

I have eaten the *exact* same thing for lunch every day (barring being away from home for traveling) for about three years now.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 22h

Here's a thread about it: bsky.app/profile/sky....

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

every once and a while talia jane [hi, ik you namesearch from an alt] starts some discourse again and I feel the need to remind everyone she wrote an article [trying to] explaining away her mom trying to cover up a spree killing. www.cracked.com/personal-exp...

"My mom was so desperate for friendship with these people that she agreed to be in a pornographic film, took Ecstasy, took her 10-year-old daughter with her to create an alibi for their unspecified (at the time) crimes, and even agreed to help them hide the murder weapon."

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 22h

Holy shit!

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 22h

Jesus, that's terrible! I'm glad your dog is relatively OK! What happened? Was the other dog off leash?

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Grace @gracekind.net · 23h

Note that because gradients flow back to previous positions, it's somewhat misleading to say LLMs are purely next-token predictors (even though they output one token at a time). Rather, they are sequence predictors.

Grace @gracekind.net · 9d

Ah, now I see the issue!

When processing token N, attention doesn’t just receive information from tokens (1…N), it also receives information from intermediate representations of (1…N) at prior layers. With autoregression, this allows a model to “set up” useful representations for future generations

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I think this is true, from personal experience.

gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 3d

I actually read Old Man's War first, and then Starship Troopers later when someone pointed out that I'd probably enjoy thinking about them together!

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 3d

i am going to try to give a framework of my own understanding which laypeople can understand.

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 3d

yeah - I was impressed by the token-prediction as being as powerful as it is, but there's more going on than that and I don't really follow it any more.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent thread highlighting the meaning of the Eucharistic procession and what it means. Absolutely worth a read.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 5d

It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 5d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 5d

And the exact moment they're turned away: bsky.app/profile/unra...

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

Request denied/unanswered.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 5d

For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 5d

What Fr Dowling is doing here was not just "offering communion to detainees". A full on Eucharistic Procession is a really fucking big deal. In Catholic theological framing, those folks were the honor guard with the very great privilege of escorting Jesus himself to the detention center.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 3d

Anyway, point is, it's also very serious to some protestants.

gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 3d

For those in the audience - basically the bread & wine are really the body and blood, regardless of the faith or status of the one consuming it - by the words of institution "this is my body" and "this is my blood." Think of it as a magical thing that happens in fulfillment of a divine promise.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 3d

I think you're probably painting with too wide a brush on protestants. Lutherans, for example, don't believe in transubstantiation but do believe in sacramental union.

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