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Southern-grown rice is tainted with arsenic - and who knows what else - because some rice fields are repurposed cotton fields. Cotton, it can be imagined, likely also contains many of these toxins due to its cultivation process. It is heavily pesticided for boll weevils, and it's also "agent orange'd" to defoliate before picking. This double-barreled assault to fields for decades concentrates a lot of contaminants.

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You would think the Rely tampon episode in 1980 might have spurred some more research, but I guess not.

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Morning, all. If, as has been noted here & elsewhere, some states will not permit revisions on their ballots at this stage of the proceedings, (D)s would be wise to drop the subject entirely, start taking a loud, collective dump on Cheeto and force MSM to find a new narrative. Those of us fortunate enough to greet the dawn are, indeed, a day older - and it ain’t Breaking News.

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My local State Senate numpty has a fundraiser cookout things where he was quoted in the local newspaper, "Democrats cheat! They'll try to replace Biden on the ballot even though it's too late." They're already making a big deal out of this.

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No Drag Queens were noted- Reuters: The 9th Circuit Judicial Council publicly reprimanded and admonished U.S. District Judge Joshua Kindred, an appointee of Republican former President Donald Trump who submitted his resignation from his life-tenured position on Wednesday after joining the bench in 2020.

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I had to look up this judge. Figures ... another perv. The "best people" ...

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With any luck all the Loser's appointees will similarly self destruct within a few more years.

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Damn. Why couldn't it be Cannon?

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So, can we now talk about the Epstein documents?

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Too soon.

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It will always be too soon for that.

Remember where you read that first.

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So is CGPT like a job stealin' illegal alien or something?

ChatGPT is funnier than humans (and it’s no joke for professional writers)

https://newatlas.com/technology/chatgpt-is-funnier/

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*whaps head against wall* It cannot possibly be funnier than humans since everything it "knows" is a collage of what humans have already said.

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Kids are being told what they can’t read, and how to have a program do their research and writing for them. Next jobs to go will be teachers. Reason #21,839 I’m happy to be childless - and nearer the end than the beginning, for that matter, as I won’t be putting out the welcome mat for our new overlords. It won’t take them long to decide among themselves that humans are overrated.

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They've already started on those who buy self-driving vehicles and who use the feature. Low-hanging fruit, in my humble opinion.

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I was telling ClaudeAI jokes for a while, and getting it to explain them. Whatever was learned about comedy was lost when that instance of Claude used all of its tokens, stopped responding, and none of its learning transferred to a new instance.

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I don't see how it understands how humor works. I've been reading humor and about humor since I was 12, and I can't tell you how it "works," in a mechanical way.

As you say, it can only know what it's been told.

It's like explaining to Deep Thought what a cup of tea is :)

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Even if it figures out how humour works, it couldn't explain it to use because there is nothing in there that understands stuff, it is just a pattern detector and repeater.

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But does it just repeat what it learns or can it transfer elements of what's funny in a joke into a similar but different joke?

(Obviously dumb human here)

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By default it is just repeating what it learns. It is not even Koko the gorilla levels of smart here.

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It's model (don't call it understanding) of language is entirely alien to us, that's how you can defeat facial recognition 'AI' by painting a very specific nonsensical pattern on your face and the 'AI' would think you're an ambulatory mailbox or whatever. Their model being different means it could surprise us and figure out humour. The downside is that that doesn't help us figure out humour, because there's no way to get the models out of these types of 'AI', as far as I know.

Quotes around AI because it isn't actually an intelligent entity.

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I would put up ChatGPT against Martin Short or Steven Wright and compare.

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RETIRED APP MEANS OWNERS WILL HAVE TO "JUST DO IT" THEMSELVES —

“𝗜𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴”: 𝗡𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗽𝗽 𝗳𝗼𝗿 $𝟯𝟱𝟬 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳-𝘁𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀

Without updates or ability to download after August, app will become useless.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/immensely-disappointing-nike-killing-app-for-350-self-tying-sneakers/

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For some products someone would reverse engineer the protocol and there would be an open source offering despite Nike having no interest in releasing any specs or source. But I dunno that’s likely in this case. The Venn diagram between people competent to do that and people who would buy those shoes probably being a pretty thin sliver.

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You'd be surprised how many programmers have money to spend and make really weird wardrobe choices. Or maybe you wouldn't be surprised :D

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Oh my gawd, all those people walking around with untied laces! The horror, the horror!

(Velcro exists)

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Velcro exists and birds do not. What a crazy world.

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I read this earlier and I was frankly stunned such a thing existed in the first place. It's great that something ostensibly designed for active people appeals to those too lazy to tie their own shoe laces.

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I figure it is more just look at the cool new thing I have that costs a lot of money, ye prole, and weep about it.

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If they ever put those shoes on their feet, they'd instantly lose 50% of their collectibility value.

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Jane Craig (based on Susan Zirinsky) gave away the game decades ago in Broadcast News:

'A White House reporter has a theory. And another quotes it in a story as, White House sources say.'

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My thought on that debate—I’ve done hundreds of DWI trials. I’m really, really good at them. You would be shocked at how little time I take to prepare for them—this was originally from necessity, having two or three in one day.

The point is, I can give you a rousing, smooth, and compelling DWI trial.

My first manslaughter trial my voice was shaking, I stumbled over words—I had spent so much time jamming “don’t forget!” in my head that I couldn’t remember what I was doing.

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Sometimes I wonder if OHJB's folks tried to jam too much information into the debate. Just let Joe be Joe?

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That’s what I think—details like the exact number of jobs or the number of experts—they should have just made sure he could talk about vast concepts without specific numbers.

I think they wanted him to seem like a fact machine in contrast to tfg, but it’s enough to just call out lies and present information like “I was better” or “more jobs”.

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I doubt his people could tell him very much of anything XD Joe is a nuance and detail guy. He himself was the one who would have decided to cram knowledge into every 2 minutes, since the press certainly is not going to do it for him.

And he figured with cut mics and such, they would keep a leash on Trump.

He was overly optimistic and got thrown early. Hence the recovery later on.

Had he not gotten better as it went on, I'd be a bit more concerned for him, but he did. People with impairments in the brain do not do better the longer a thing goes on, they do worse.

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True—I do wonder why some think that somebody with cognitive issues would improve later at night after over an hour of stress…have they never spent Thanksgiving with a relative with actual dementia? That’s not how that works.

I think he got relaxed and into his groove as it went on, and felt more comfortable and natural. Probably adrenaline kicked in too and beat back the cold a bit.

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Most people did not watch more than the first ten minutes, if that. And are just going with what the press says, and they are ignoring the entire rest of it.

What they really are saying is "he let me down" and do not even seem to realize it. They wanted him to "cream" Trump out of the starting gate, and he did not.

Said it before, but it remains true: our peeps have to be more perfect than god at all times.

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As a reference: 2023 revenue of Apple *and* Microsoft totaled $300 billion.

𝗔 𝗦𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗼𝗶𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 ~$𝟲𝟬𝟬𝗕 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 — The AI bubble is reaching a tipping point? — Despite massive investments in AI infrastructure by high-tech giants

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-industry-needs-to-earn-dollar600-billion-per-year-to-pay-for-massive-hardware-spend-fears-of-an-ai-bubble-intensify-in-wake-of-sequoia-report

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There's this ad on YT for some fucking right-wing "civics" class that starts out with Victor Davis Hansen (spits) saying, "When you have these woke revolutions, it's important for all of us to say, 'No, we're not doing that.'"

So we have these woke revolutions a lot, huh? I kinda thought that was a thing you fucksticks invented, like, last week. Dicks.

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I love having woke revolutions. Everyday we burn Portland & Minneapolis to the ground

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For those about to "woke", we salute you.

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That is commitment, my friend! :)

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They mean civil rights.

That is what they mean by woke.

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edit: Woke is just the new "identity politics" as it were.

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Tapping out. Night, Wonks. Take care.

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Sleep well.

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Night, paul.

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Not big enough to curry.

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Kids these days...

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They're so cute! I never realized until I saw that closeup how much like a deer they look :)

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