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Elementary Penguin @elempeng.bsky.social · 1h

Mental status: singing El Fusilado to myself over and over

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KINDAFREE | IRI @denofsin.bsky.social · 5h

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 22h

how happy we’d all be if this was all the internet was for

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no earthquake (cultural tutor) @noearthquake.bsky.social · 15h

LLMs have convincingly demonstrated that coding is the easiest activity, maths is medium hard, and having taste is the hardest

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Elementary Penguin @elempeng.bsky.social · 17h

It is the same thing, and it’s also easy to kill in NG plus. ONE time I got close to killing it in a new game, I assume speedrunners have no problem

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 20h

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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Elementary Penguin @elempeng.bsky.social · 23h

Literally saying “RIP to Charlie Kirk but I’m built different.” The man is a true
Poster

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

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The Naming of Stats
June 19, 2023 • Obiter Dicta • R
The Naming of Stats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a stat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all are the names where usage is informal, Such as Median, Estimate, Average, or Range, Such as Variance, Quartile, or else Standard Normal All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fancier names that may be better-tasting, Some for the frequentists, some for the Bayes:
Such as Skew, or Kurtosis, Metropolis-Hastings-But all of them sensible everyday names.
But I tell you, a stat needs a name that's obscurer, A name that's misleading, and hard to construe,
Else how can it keep on confusing the reader, Or frustrate professors, or pass peer review?
Of names of this kind, there are many examples, Like Hierarchical, Robust, or Omega-hat,
Such as Marginal, Confidence, or just Weighted Sample, Names that always belong to more than one stat.
But above and beyond there's still one name left over, And that is the name that you never will guess;
The thing that no human research can discover-
But THE STAT MIGHT JUST KNOW, and be made to confess.
When you notice a stat getting quite widely cited, The reason, you see, is whatever its flaws, Its user's engaged, or enraged, or excited
At the prospect of pinning the root of all laws:
That inviolable, friable
Unidentifiable
Deep and inscrutable singular Cause.

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Elementary Penguin @elempeng.bsky.social · 1d

“Charismatic fauna” is a really good adaptation

Sexy Henry Kissinger Costume @mightygodking.com · 1d

reading how foxes are self-selecting now, on an evolutionary basis, for "sociable with humans" and then seeing a flood of "this fox decided to be fwiends with me" videos and it's like foxes finally decided that that one particular group of wolves had the right idea when they decided to become dogs

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Sexy Henry Kissinger Costume @mightygodking.com · 1d

reading how foxes are self-selecting now, on an evolutionary basis, for "sociable with humans" and then seeing a flood of "this fox decided to be fwiends with me" videos and it's like foxes finally decided that that one particular group of wolves had the right idea when they decided to become dogs

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

MILLENNIAL BLUESKY POSTER: you know, when I was a kid, I thought QUICKSAND would be a lot bigger of a probelm!!!! 🤣🤣

JOHNNY QUEST: *quote-tweeting* wow. okay. not even sure how im supposed to respond to this. I'm glad YOU didn't have that experience, I guess???

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

"The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion for sanctions"

Welcome to the Anslopocene

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Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI

The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion fo...

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

E.T. Adventure poster, 1990. I still have one of these hanging in my childhood bedroom.

Star Wars Special edition triptych, 1997. I remember seeing all of these in the paper as each film was re-released and just felt a burst of energy those mornings.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

BIB L I OGRAPH Y
STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO
(These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un-
fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.)
Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876.
Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky.
Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida.
Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic .
Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc·
tion.
Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee.
Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana.
Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama.
--, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907.
Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina.
Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 .
Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas .
Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850.
Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War.
Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas .
Studies in Southern History and Politics . Inscribed to William Archibald
Dunning.
Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson.
The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips.
Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith.
Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil-
liam K. Boyd.
Southern Legislation in Respect to Freedmen, 1 865- 1 866. By J. G. de
Roulhac Hamilton.
The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis.
The New South, Economic and Social . By Holland Thompson.
Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley.
Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction.
Thompson, Clara M., Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Po-
litical, l 805-1 872.
Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 1d

please tell me you've seen this

Kevin Pollak Shares His Favorite Walter Matthau & Jack Lemmon Stories | The Rich Eisen Show

YouTube video by The Rich Eisen Show

www.youtube.com

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2d

tron ares is not an unusual movie in the realm of being bad (endless info dumps, 0 subtlety or nuance, shiny visuals and DEAFENINGLY loud music) but i think it breaks new ground anyways because it's clearly made to be watched at home while using your phone. grim stuff for the future of movies

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Elementary Penguin @elempeng.bsky.social · 2d

Zoomers don’t know about answering the phone and saying “hello, $LASTNAME residence. May I ask who is calling?”

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Elementary Penguin @elempeng.bsky.social · 2d

Posted 11 seconds of me playing silksong on instagram and have been getting so much affirmation, it has been the highlight of my week

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Paul VanKoughnett @pvk.bsky.social · 3d

Best post I saw about this was like “You can make fun of Linux users all you want but they can’t hear you because their sound cards aren’t working.” (i use arch btw)

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3d

every linux person i know: you should try linux, it’s great and easy!

also every linux person i know:

Ed @ed3d.net · 3d

ed: I want to just install a Linux desktop and I prefer KDE

also ed: fedora doesn't have even nouveau out of the box and says "mess with rpmfusion"

also ed: "'nobara linux'? that has one developer"

also ed: "kubuntu's installer crashes making encrypted partitions"

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Elementary Penguin @elempeng.bsky.social · 3d

just saying it wasn't worth it

a domino meme. the small domino says "have sex with the mom of my dead childhood friend" and the large domino says "die alone in the wreck of a north korean space capsule on the surface of mars"

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Elementary Penguin @elempeng.bsky.social · 3d

*continuing my For All Mankind rewatch* dude that is your dead childhood friend's mom, what the hell

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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly I feel sorry for this guy. He isn’t the problem; the people that convinced him this was the right thing to do with his money are the problem.

onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

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Elementary Penguin @elempeng.bsky.social · 3d

Cozy is everywhere and the problem is that “cozy” only works if there’s something the characters are being cozy against.

I feel like the point of a lot of it rn is just escapism for the audience who are sick of *gestures vaguely at everything* but it can’t stand on its own

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Elementary Penguin @elempeng.bsky.social · 3d

Give Teddy Roosevelt Medicinal Cocaine

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