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LLMs: the opposable thumb of computing
Amidst all the hype, all the skepticism, all the rending of clothes, I am here to tell you: the LLM is to computing what the thumb is to our hand.
networkgames.fyi
I argue that LLMs are the opposable thumb of computing:
fundamentally novel range of motion that, when combined with the error-correcting fingers of conventional computing, change what's possible altogether
networkgames.fyi/llms-the-opp...
fundamentally novel range of motion that, when combined with the error-correcting fingers of conventional computing, change what's possible altogether
networkgames.fyi/llms-the-opp...
you shouldn’t use chicken thigh for chicken sandwiches
it’s the wrong texture
it’s the wrong texture
December 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
you shouldn’t use chicken thigh for chicken sandwiches
it’s the wrong texture
it’s the wrong texture
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
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Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
I think about this, also in terms of vaccines, and really struggle with how you have a free society that doesn’t fall into this trap in one way or another. solved problems become invisible and the solutions become the source of conspiracy theories.
This seems logical but Dems solved* the whole problem of old-age health care costs in the mid-1960s and then they lost five of the next six presidential elections because by 1968 it was a solved problem and no one cared about it.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
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Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz
December 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz
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“I cannot afford to get sick.”
Doing a Tom Hanks is about planning. Identify high-risk moments. Reduce exposure. Protect the events you don’t want to miss.
Vaccinations work. Masks work. Preventing inhalation of viruses works.
Read the full guide → whn.global/doing-a-tom-...
Doing a Tom Hanks is about planning. Identify high-risk moments. Reduce exposure. Protect the events you don’t want to miss.
Vaccinations work. Masks work. Preventing inhalation of viruses works.
Read the full guide → whn.global/doing-a-tom-...
December 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“I cannot afford to get sick.”
Doing a Tom Hanks is about planning. Identify high-risk moments. Reduce exposure. Protect the events you don’t want to miss.
Vaccinations work. Masks work. Preventing inhalation of viruses works.
Read the full guide → whn.global/doing-a-tom-...
Doing a Tom Hanks is about planning. Identify high-risk moments. Reduce exposure. Protect the events you don’t want to miss.
Vaccinations work. Masks work. Preventing inhalation of viruses works.
Read the full guide → whn.global/doing-a-tom-...
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
very curious about the alternate universe here
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
very curious about the alternate universe here
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I was wondering when Elisa New would face some consequences for her own involvement with Epstein
“New and Epstein exchanged lengthy emails from 2013 to at least 2018 about potential funding for her personal projects, years after Harvard barred affiliates from taking contributions from him in 2008”
“New and Epstein exchanged lengthy emails from 2013 to at least 2018 about potential funding for her personal projects, years after Harvard barred affiliates from taking contributions from him in 2008”
PBS Cuts Ties With Former Harvard Professor Elisa New Following Epstein Email Release | News | The Harvard Crimson
PBS has stopped airing former Harvard English professor Elisa F. New’s show, “Poetry in America,” after emails released by the House Oversight Committee last month revealed close ties between New, her...
www.thecrimson.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I was wondering when Elisa New would face some consequences for her own involvement with Epstein
“New and Epstein exchanged lengthy emails from 2013 to at least 2018 about potential funding for her personal projects, years after Harvard barred affiliates from taking contributions from him in 2008”
“New and Epstein exchanged lengthy emails from 2013 to at least 2018 about potential funding for her personal projects, years after Harvard barred affiliates from taking contributions from him in 2008”
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In all, taxpayers have spent more than $300M so far in 2025 to resolve lawsuits alleging Chicago police officers committed a wide range of misconduct, according to an analysis of city data by WTTW News.
The city budgeted just $82.5M to cover the cost of police misconduct lawsuits.
The city budgeted just $82.5M to cover the cost of police misconduct lawsuits.
Since the start of the year, Chicago taxpayers spent $204.6 million to resolve lawsuits brought by 22 people wrongfully convicted based on evidence gathered by the Chicago Police Department, according to an analysis of city data by WTTW News.
https://to.wttw.com/48PCrlM
https://to.wttw.com/48PCrlM
Wrongful Convictions Cost Chicago Taxpayers $204.6M in 2025: Analysis
In the latest case to be settled, the Chicago City Council agreed Wednesday to pay $15.4 million to Robert Smith Jr., who spent 33 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of the 1987 double m...
to.wttw.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
In all, taxpayers have spent more than $300M so far in 2025 to resolve lawsuits alleging Chicago police officers committed a wide range of misconduct, according to an analysis of city data by WTTW News.
The city budgeted just $82.5M to cover the cost of police misconduct lawsuits.
The city budgeted just $82.5M to cover the cost of police misconduct lawsuits.
A compelling argument: with the system broken for so long, people fell out of practice for being part of the political process
This is what was so compelling about how Mamdani won election.
every fractal layer of the campaign was designed to reboot the civic engagement of individuals AND groups
This is what was so compelling about how Mamdani won election.
every fractal layer of the campaign was designed to reboot the civic engagement of individuals AND groups
December 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
A compelling argument: with the system broken for so long, people fell out of practice for being part of the political process
This is what was so compelling about how Mamdani won election.
every fractal layer of the campaign was designed to reboot the civic engagement of individuals AND groups
This is what was so compelling about how Mamdani won election.
every fractal layer of the campaign was designed to reboot the civic engagement of individuals AND groups
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there are pundits who will say that immigration is trump's strongest issue and that picking fights around immigration helps him on the margins. but i think this misunderstands the way public opinion works, as evidenced by trump's declining fortunes on his handling of immigration.
December 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
there are pundits who will say that immigration is trump's strongest issue and that picking fights around immigration helps him on the margins. but i think this misunderstands the way public opinion works, as evidenced by trump's declining fortunes on his handling of immigration.
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Anti-vaxxism is an ideology with maybe the dumbest combination of pointless and evil that has ever existed bsky.app/profile/nyti...
More than 250 people who were exposed to measles, including dozens of unvaccinated school-aged children, are quarantining in South Carolina as the state wrestles to contain an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people.
Hundreds Quarantined in South Carolina as Measles Outbreak Shows No Sign of Slowing
The outbreak shows no signs of slowing, likely because of the affected area’s “lower-than-hoped-for vaccination coverage,” a state health official said.
nyti.ms
December 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Anti-vaxxism is an ideology with maybe the dumbest combination of pointless and evil that has ever existed bsky.app/profile/nyti...
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The fuck is happening in this framed photo three feet away from Steve Bannon?
December 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The fuck is happening in this framed photo three feet away from Steve Bannon?
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I cannot wrap my head around this. Contempt. Sanctions. Discipline. All are warranted.
WOW; a DEEPLY corrupt move by the immigration courts; clear collaboration with Trump admin officials to produce a specific result with zero notice to the party and ALSO in a situation where the judge facially lacks jurisdiction; the judge had denied a motion to reopen and the case is on appeal.
Judge Xinis ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release in part bc ICE could not produce a final “order of removal” to deport him. So last night, they went out and got an immigration judge to issue one.
Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I cannot wrap my head around this. Contempt. Sanctions. Discipline. All are warranted.
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This is a longstanding means of murdering indigenous Canadians, where it was given the poetic name ”starlight tours.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskato...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskato...
December 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This is a longstanding means of murdering indigenous Canadians, where it was given the poetic name ”starlight tours.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskato...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskato...
pitch: prediction market for the first consumer brand to crack and inaugurate Woke 2 with a black-and-white, slow motion superbowl ad
December 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
pitch: prediction market for the first consumer brand to crack and inaugurate Woke 2 with a black-and-white, slow motion superbowl ad
when I’m sixty years old I want to teach history to high schoolers
all the children born this year will never know a world before… this
How would you even explain it
all the children born this year will never know a world before… this
How would you even explain it
December 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
when I’m sixty years old I want to teach history to high schoolers
all the children born this year will never know a world before… this
How would you even explain it
all the children born this year will never know a world before… this
How would you even explain it
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cannot stress enough how the leading quality i want in 2028 dem primary fronteunnwr is “vengeful”
One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.”
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
From the US Embassy in London today.
December 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
cannot stress enough how the leading quality i want in 2028 dem primary fronteunnwr is “vengeful”
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one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states
Trump Administration Scraps Plan to Mint Quarters Featuring Abolition, Suffrage
The move comes as a controversial $1 Trump coin for the nation’s 250th birthday is also being considered.
www.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states
you’re getting scammed on cling film, foil and parchment paper
Buy the restaurant versions
Buy the restaurant versions
December 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
you’re getting scammed on cling film, foil and parchment paper
Buy the restaurant versions
Buy the restaurant versions
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Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from federal immigration detention, his attorney's office says
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania following an order from a federal judge issued Thursday, according to his attorney’s office.
apnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...
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this website would have x100 more implosions from user drama if it had groupchats, it’s going to be insane whenever that feature lands lol
December 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
this website would have x100 more implosions from user drama if it had groupchats, it’s going to be insane whenever that feature lands lol
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BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc
December 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc
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BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released.
NEW: A federal judge ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the Maryland man who was wrongly removed from the U.S. and sent to El Salvador without due process by the Trump administration — to be released from an ICE detention center, ruling his detention unlawful.
Judge Orders Abrego Garcia's Immediate Release from Immigration Custody
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released.