As tear gas engulfed the protest witnesses recalled hearing six loud bangs;
a video posted on social media recorded eight,
as well as countless smaller pops.
At least eight arcs of smoke flew far over people’s heads,
as though aimed at the back of the crowd.
“I know they would do anything,
that they would hurt people,
that they’ve murdered people and shot them in the back 10 times,”
said Cassie Broeker, a Portland resident who came to protes…
Sam Altman says rushing the DOD deal was wrong as "the issues are super complex, and demand clear communication" but we were "trying to de-escalate things" (Katherine Li/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-ame
Someone posted this, perhaps in some other context. It is worth repeating here.
(I noticed a mild similarity to another short piece by Twain, his "Letter To the Earth", part of the Bernard de Voto assemblage "Letters From the Earth".)
The piece below is quite proper and relevant to the crazed faux "warriors" who have brought our nation into several illegal wars.
Mark Twain, “The War Prayer” (ca.1904-5)
every time I post about free items I put on the curb to Facebook someone anyways messages me "can I have it"?
my dude. You're asking a lot of questioned answered by the post I just posted.
I recently posted I am exploring how I'd improve the LLM usability for CLI tools, here's a follow up of claude using a LLM format enabled CLI, how it's using it and how it helped
https://youtu.be/llc0MKVH8ik
RE: #Longthread ausprobieren, das Tool funktioniert sehr gut und postet sogar alle…
Weirdly Thursday’s drop biscuits don’t seem to have posted successfully. We had a couple plays and a concert over the weekend, which was welcome. Snow continues to melt! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/jsTNQ1tNNLXzeG2o8
Worth listening to Paul Krugman. I've posted about the book 'On the Psychology of Military Incompetence' before and I'm glad Paul rediscovered it. https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/paul-krugman-podcast/id1877144831?l=en-GB&…
Pope Leo XIV condemned the “imperialist occupation of the world”
in a mass on Thursday, just days before Easter,
in a continuation of his anti-war preachings as the Catholic leader continues to advocate against the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran.
“The cross is part of the mission.
The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within;
the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked,”
the pope’s official X account posted on Thursday.
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