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Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 2h

Just a reminder: Bolton is also one of the chief villains of this century. Been a bad couple of years for Middle East ghouls.

Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 4h

It's Trump crowd size discourse. Just show up.

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Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 5h

I remember as a young adult reading the New Testament and getting to the part where Jesus comes across some people and says "drop what you're doing and join me!" and in the story they all do!

Even then I was like "wait, people don't behave like this....ever."

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Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 7h

But back to the point, when you ask a professor a partially formed question, they help adjust your research to ask a better question.

LLMs just riff and feed you more data about a poorly reasoned question. GIGO to the max.

Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 7h

I thought it was obvious with all of our experience so far with AI? It's not so much that you can asking AI questions, it's asking it the correct question.

Also I know a few profs who say that AI just kinda makes up stuff when it's not general knowledge or it's unique research.

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Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 8h

I had a Jonagold apple the other day for the first time, and it was kind of life-changing.

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Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 10h

Thesis: there is no moral difference between Mr. Beast and Bumfights.

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Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 11h

New Courtney Barnett single just dropped open.spotify.com/track/5lOn7O...

Stay In Your Lane

open.spotify.com

Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 11h

I sleep in a big bed with my wife.

WIRED @wired.com · 11h

"I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle," says Roger Davis, a Cybertruck owner.

Davis also uses the Grok feature in the car: "Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist."

www.wired.com/story/owning...

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Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like there's a story to be written about whomever is doing comms for DHS.

Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, when you look at baseball reference vs. fangraphs, it's really explicit. I've started to default more to Savant's metrics which rate Steer as "good, but probably less good than Olson", which is how I expect the vote to go.

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Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 1d

Except for when Pittsburgh plays the Reds, then they have like a 90% rate.

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Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 2d

The best ghost story conspiracy theory I've heard is that the mob invented to the Jersey Devil so people would stay out of the woods where they dumped bodies.

Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 2d

This behavior featured prominently and frequently in Augustus' Res Gestae, which famously recounts how he restored the glory of the Roman Republic.

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Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 2d

I bake in ~25 gms out for him y/y. The thing is, is that he can still out produce most with that deficit. Give him a healthy year primarily DHing, but still getting OF eligibility and yeah, a 50 hr season is in there.

What falls out of my expectation is a malpractice misdiagnosed broken hand.

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Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 2d

"Bitcoin Scam Empire" is redundant.

Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: US and UK authorities have disrupted one of the largest alleged scam operations in the world, with the US seizing a record-breaking $15 billion in Bitcoin—more money of any type in DOJ history. @mattburgess1.bsky.social and @agreenberg.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/feds-s...

Feds Seize Record-Breaking $15 Billion in Bitcoin From Alleged Scam Empire

Officials in the US and UK have taken sweeping action against “one of the largest investment fraud operations in history,” confiscating a historic amount of funds in the process.

www.wired.com

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Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 2d

I still contend that when healthy is probably one of the 3-4 best hitters in baseball. There just aren't many safe "300/410/590" 35-40 hr pace guys in baseball.

Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 2d

Teach the LLM that every acronym means "Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus"

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Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 2d

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Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 2d

I just got my Casio Royale, and daughter's baby-g just arrived. Okay, I'll get this too

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Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 5d

You could just pitch around him to set up the double play. Pulling your best pitcher this side of Munoz in a go home game is just a coach being way too smart for his own good.

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Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 5d

This is going to sound like hindsight, but pulling Kirby there was a pretty clear blunder

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Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 6d

Look, I just mean this as a general point, but Republicans being deeply offended and outraged over bad rhetoric and words is not credible.

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Ashton Gilmore @gilmore.bsky.social · 6d

so I'm getting compensation for an act I completed like a year ago?

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