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That's what I think, too, also. More power to her. May she have strength and support

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Marketing to men:

So I bought an impact wrench. An electric one - I've only really used air tools for this in the past, but this thing got great reviews, and having given it a go on Saturday, it really is good. The *torque* it can put out is really very impressive - I didn't think you could get that outside air tools, tbh, and I can't take a compressor to the paddock.

Anyway, marketing to men. On the packaging the Milwaukee M18 Fuel impact wrench exclaims loudly that it has "nut-busting power"

Seriously? Seriously. Sometimes you just sigh and get on with your life.

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You can peel my Dewalt cordless impact driver from the cold dead fingers of my right hand, and my Milwaukee cordless impact driver from my cold dead finger of my right hand.

TMI: And I hold my Dewalt cordless angle grinder in my teeth.

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I have a Dewalt corded impact I got along with a Dewalt 1/2" drill at a woman's yard sale. The marketing that worked for me, was something to the effect of, 'Yeah they're for sale. They're my ex's. Fuck that guy.' Something like $25 each. Haven't side by sided it with the Snap On pneumatic job, but my compressor is pretty wimpy. I still need a breaker bar with a long pipe cheater to break lug nuts that were put on at the shop with an impact with plenty of pressure to drive it. I used to be able to do the stand-on-the-4-way thing, but my knees really protest these days if I try that. I have seen some pretty impressive feats at the junkyard with late model cordless impact drill drivers.

If you sweet talk the Snap On truck guy, no telling what sockets he might have for 'nut busting'.

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Stud-snapping and thread-trashing didn't test as well in focus group.

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Neither did “rod twisting.”

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Trump told viewers, “Remember, Republicans eat their young. They really do, they eat their young. Terrible statement. But it’s true.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-republicans-eat-their-young_n_652c2e33e4b03b213b064da1

Oh my, that is terrible.

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Much as I love cannibalism, I can't imagine choking down a slice of DJTJ or even a morsel of Eric.

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Well, they want to starve the young and leave them ignorant. Maybe that makes them more tender or something.

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A diet of fava beans in a nice chianti suggests itself.

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{{{WHUMP!!!}}}

Sorry, my brain exploded. I'll be back after I clean up. okaybye

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Steady genius

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I am a very stable genius.

— Trump

I know words. I have the best words.

— Trump

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So, the arguments are about ball-gag versus duct tape?

𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝘂𝘁𝗸𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝗿𝗴𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗴𝗮𝗴 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽'𝘀 𝗨𝗦 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲

https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/judge-chutkan-to-hear-arguments-over-proposed-gag-18427784.php

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She will hear arguments and then promise to come back in about six months with a fucking decision. (I'm just being really cynical at the moment--but I earned the opportunity.)

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I think this judge may surprise you.

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I think my cynicism would surprise you.

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Surgically severing the vocal cords?

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With an executioners axe. Sorry, I'm fantasizing out loud.

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Tough but fair.

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Oh, and putting his hands into lockable bondage mittens so he can't text.

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Today's Promptoberfest word is 'sample:'

https://substack.com/profile/156971387-the-wanderer/note/c-41934097

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I haven’t found that door in my Costco😞.

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I know, right?

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Happy Monday!

𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘆𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱’𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝟰𝟬 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀

The misdiagnosis is a global problem that could worsen as malaria territory expands.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/10/in-the-us-malaria-can-easily-masquerade-as-an-endemic-parasite/

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Ironically, I'm currently in India (heading home in a few hours). I've been taking doxycycline for malaria prophylaxis, which is good because though they gave me a break the first few days, the mosquitos have been eating me alive the past few.

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The purveyors of horse-paste people queue up their mouth spewage in 3... 2... 1...

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I'm still struggling with why even have these models open to the public. This can't be profitable, and they really aren't serving any use that's positive.

"𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘓𝘔𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦-𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘧𝘦𝘸 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴," 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳.

"𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘸𝘦 𝘫𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘎𝘗𝘛-3.5 𝘛𝘶𝘳𝘣𝘰’𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦-𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 10 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 $0.20 𝘷𝘪𝘢 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘈𝘐’𝘴 𝘈𝘗𝘐𝘴, 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴."

𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝘄𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/12/chatbot_defenses_dissolve/

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> I'm still struggling with why even have these models open to the public.

These things "learn" not just from the datasets that are fed to them, but also from the queries that are given to them, and the feedback they receive for the answers to said queries.

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I understand the technical reasons. But there are better data sets to use as continual inputs to the model than rando MAGA chuds and pervs and chaos agents.

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They would have had to have paid their own people to break it this way, to find the flaws. This way, it's done for free, or people even pay them for the privilege of doing their QA for them.

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It also depends on *what* they are doing the QA for. LLMs will be near impossible to catch all the prompts that will cause the model to spit out bad shit. The best they can do is filter the prompts going in.

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Yes and no - they almost certainly paid their own people to beat on it looking for flaws, but the accepted norm regarding security has long been to let the broader field of researchers identify weaknesses, too.

No matter how good your team is, somebody else will think of an attack vector they didn't.

Now, in this case, we don't know whether the training examples were complex or something they should have thought of, but there are a finite number of tests you can run before you say "let's put it out there and see what other people find."

Ethical hacking has long been relied upon for just this sort of security vetting, and it's even more important with AI where we're only just beginning to understand the implications of the technology.

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True enough, but it's been a long trend for software companies to put out broken products expecting their flaws to be found by customers rather than by their own people. They're still business, after all, and this quarter's profits don't get higher than last quarter's by spending it on employees.

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You're not wrong, but as complexity goes up so, too, do the number of potential attack vectors.

I work on a large codebase that's been in mission-critical production for more than a decade, and in open source development for nearly twice that long. Literally thousands of well-qualified developers and researchers have had their eyes in this code, yet we still occasionally find new usage patterns that aren't handled properly.

The complexity of AI and ML (machine learning) up the ante over what we've been dealing with in the field by an order of magnitude to the point where I doubt it's even feasible to fund a large enough QA operation to find all the potential flaws - no matter how many people have pored through it, it's simply got to be put out for wider review.

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Oct 16, 2023·edited Oct 16, 2023

Watching Sir Keir Starmer , leader of labor party in Great Britain last night give a speech before the labor party convention. A fellow got on stage and poured glitter on him shouting demands. The guy was subdued by security. A woman securtiy agent escorted the glitter guy away. Certain it wasn't Gary Glitter. He has his own problems.

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Back in the day, my partner had had a saying we put in a sampler displayed on our desk:

"Goofy dumb stunts don't help your cause".

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I can't help but think about some famous SS officer whenever I hear the name "Keir Starmer."

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IIRC, he’s married to a Jewish woman. Sort of the opposite.

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Well, that's fine. I don't know that much about the man. But the name always makes me think about that for some reason.

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The US Louse Of Reprehensibles* is sure taking it's fucking time selecting a new speaker. What a bunch of incompetent yahoo chuds. Where the fuck is the outrage? That's right, Americans are too exhausted about this shit now. I don't blame them.

(*): No offense to the Dems stuck in that shitshow.

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The (R)s Really Don't Care.

Insert "I Really Don't Care, (Y) Do U?" meme here.

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I really don't care if (R)s fucked themselves, do U?

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I wouldn't, if they weren't fucking over everybody else in the process.

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That's because today's Republicans don't care about policy or governing - not even bad ones. All they care about is preening for the TV cameras and owning the libs on social media. Oh, and they have no courage, no brains and no heart. Where's the Lion, the Scarecrow and the Tin Man when you need them?

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The took the last train for the coast

The day...Limbaugh...died.

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Worst American Pie remake ever.

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The Lion, Scarecrow and Tin Man got fed up, threw in the towel, and moved to Costa Rica or something.

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and, just like in that scene from "Casino," Trump sent some goons down to Costa Rica to whack them.

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They should just elect Jeffries now and get it over with since he is going to have that title in 15 months anyway.

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Jordan's deficit has shrunk somewhat. There may be enough "moderates" who fold under the pressure of an actual floor vote, that he gets the gavel. Take nothing for granted.

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Insert 3 memes.

1) Make it so

2) So let it be written, so let it be done

3) Please, please, pretty please

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So say we all.

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Well, I don't think the carcass [sic] generally gives a shit. Maybe after the feral gumment shuts down or something. The traitors need to be {{{redacted}}} with extreme prejucide. [sic]

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Easy ones 2 days in a row. Just whiffed the population

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Yep. Tomorrow's is gonna be fun, and the hardest yet.

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A 'Star Wars' prop that had been missing for decades was found in a garage. It just sold for $3.13 million.

A 20-inch X-Wing starfighter model for the original 1977 "Star Wars" movie just sold for $3.13 million.

The prop, one of four special models used for close-ups in the film's final battle, was discovered in the home of Greg Jein, an Oscar-nominated visual effects artist who died in May 2022.

https://www.insider.com/star-wars-missing-prop-x-wing-garage-greg-jein-2023-10?_gl=1*pavew1*_ga*MTkwODM5NTk2OC4xNjg4MzgzODAy*_ga_E21CV80ZCZ*MTY5NzQ0OTUyMi4yNi4wLjE2OTc0NDk1MjYuNTYuMC4w

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If that doesn't make a case for taxing the wealthy more nothing does. Some people clearly have too much money.

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Especially the infants! He's much stronger than wimpy Muslim Ban Trump!

DeSantis says US shouldn’t take in Palestinian refugees from Gaza because they’re ‘all antisemitic’

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/article280571284.html#storylink=cpy

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After being greeted the refugees were put on busses to New York snd Chicago.

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You know who else is anti-semitic? "Christians" who only support Israel because they think that its existence will bring the Second Coming of Christ.

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Christains. My internal demon only allows me to use the correct spelling when I'm talking about the ones who actually walks the walk, you know, like Jimmy Carter.

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This is so very spot on.

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Well, he wouldn't be an international embarassment at all.

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The reptilian brain is very binary in it's thinking.

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Yeah, but the GQP brane is definitely anal-log.

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(facepalms)

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What do you do if you facepalm so hard that your hand has your face on it now?

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Jeebus fucking Crisco in a mixing bowl, every time I watch MSNBC, it seems the like the commercial/programming ratio continues to approach infinity. I think I'm going to dump my Google TV. I'm such a fool for paying for that shit.

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In the wee hours, I find I need to pour out my heart. with everyone's kind permission.

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So sorry for whatever you are going through.

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Thank you, Linda. I'm putting thoughts and facts and feelings together and trying to move forward for myself and my family. I'll be sorting out by writing some widely scattered non-coms.

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Just a brief outline, as soon as I can compose it.

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First things first. The pain of being lied to, and then finding out because the poo has hit the rotary blades.

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