The Ignorant Savage

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"Here's a thing I asked a chatbot to write" is the new "let me tell you about this weird dream I had last night."

I'd really rather you wouldn't.

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Goodhart's Law (of AI); and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/11/five-paragraph-essay/

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This man is a bona fide hero is what.

"He’s Saving 20,000 Tapes of Underground Music and Making it Free to All"

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13979518/sacramento-music-archive-shayne-stacy-punk-metal-cassettes-vhs-demos-concerts

#Music
#MusicArchives

He Saves Decades of Underground Music and Makes it Free to All

Shayne Stacy's Sacramento Music Archive is a goldmine of previously unseen punk, metal and indie shows in the Bay Area and beyond.

TIL, ubicloud is an open source alternative to AWS. Elastic compute, block storage (non replicated), firewall and load balancer, managed Postgres, K8s, AI inference, and IAM services https://github.com/ubicloud/ubicloud
GitHub - ubicloud/ubicloud: Open source alternative to AWS. Elastic compute, block storage (non replicated), firewall and load balancer, managed Postgres, K8s, AI inference, and IAM services.

Open source alternative to AWS. Elastic compute, block storage (non replicated), firewall and load balancer, managed Postgres, K8s, AI inference, and IAM services. - ubicloud/ubicloud

GitHub
This isn't a classic Isle of Wight view, but it's a shot that my husband has been after for years.
The moon rising behind All Saints in Newchurch inspired him to bring out the telephoto lens and capture the view from a mile and a half away. He's thrilled that he captured it perfectly between the tree and the pinnacle on the roof next to the church spire. I wouldn't notice such things, but it's precisely what he wanted! This was last night, it was too cloudy on Friday #Photography #Moonrise

Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website

Part of Article I Section 8, and all of Sections 9 and 10, which address things like habeas corpus, nobility, and militias, are gone from Congress's website for the Constitution.

https://www.404media.co/constitution-sections-on-due-process-and-foreign-gifts-just-vanished-from-congress-website/

Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website

Part of Article I Section 8, and all of Sections 9 and 10, which address things like habeas corpus, nobility, and militias, are gone from Congress's website for the Constitution.

404 Media

I asked my German friend to draw me an informational diagram.

“Venn?" he asked.

I replied, “As soon as you can.”

(Happy Birthday John Venn)

The Mothership Vortex.

Some time ago I hypothesized that all Democratic Senators are using the same text-spam contractor, and wondered whether there was some way to block the entire network. This resulted in many, many replies from people incorrecting me and each other with their zero-information theories.

Well, I was right. They are all using the same contractor. But the reality is even more horrible than you probably imagined.
https://jwz.org/b/ykse

I'm off to my much-needed bed. Before I go, I'd like to express my admiration for Iceland and its leaders. I could live happily with people like this...
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I asked my German friend to draw me an informational diagram.

“Venn?" he asked.

I replied, “As soon as you can.”

(Happy Birthday John Venn)

@dgar Regrettably, it seems that none of these people with a sense of humor who get the joke are still alive, going off of the graph.
@indigoviolet @dgar no one alone understands Venn diagrams, so I suppose that's to be expected
@dgar Only dead people less than 180 years old have a sense of humour?
@dgar 🎵 "you're so venn, you probably think this graph is about you" 🎶
@dgar no, no-no-no, he’s outside, looking in
@dgar thanks for the excellent alt text so I could share this joy 😁
@dgar I think it's a bit sad for everyone that's alive or 180 years old that they didn't get the joke 😉
@dgar I mean, Venn diagrams and puns. Are you posting just for me?

@jens

Yes, but don’t tell anyone! 🤭

Apologies for my music not being hard enough to be #Metal. 🤘

@dgar It's not the only thing I listen to 🤷
@jens of course! …but still… 😅
@dgar
A fitting & nice tribute! I read it as 2 jokes in 1 Venn universe. Laughed too! 🤗
@dgar As a German, I approve of zis pun.
@dgar Ich verstehe eine Menge davon
@dgar So nobody who is still alive understands Vann Diagrams and all people with a sense of humor are already dead?

@dgar
Isn't that technically a Venn-Diagram inside an Euler-Diagram or not a Venn-Diagramm at all 😅🤣 That's evil.

(In a Venn-Chart, there can be no disjointed circles. Everything must overlap with everything else. Otherwise it's an Euler-Diagram)

@dgar Unfortunately, the one at the top is an Euler diagram. A Venn diagram contains all subsets, whether possible or not, so the circles all need to overlap. Euler diagrams are just circles that can (but don’t have to) overlap.
@Ancro @dgar IOW, know vhen to say Venn.
@dgar Bisous du mardi mon Dgar 😘😘😘😘
Spycatching | Blackadder Goes Forth | BBC Comedy Greats

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@dgar That is not a Venn diagram and the two sets (understand Venn and humour) should be inside the "Still alive" set.

The pun is perfect.

@dgar @thomasbosboom I was just wondering lately… are Venn diagrams used for anything other than internet memes these days? 🤔🤣
@thomasareed @thomasbosboom not that I am aware of. 🤭
@dgar this is anti-vampire propaganda !
Portal - still alive (High Quality sound) with lyrics!

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Greenland shark - Wikipedia

@dgar @dangillmor «Venn» means «friend» in Norwegian. «Uvenn» means the opposite, so I made this a while back:

@odd @dgar @dangillmor

I'm thinking of pizza in the uvenn

@dgar As they say, death is nature’s way of telling you “Hey! You’re not alive anymore!”

@CWilbur @dgar

Necromancy is magic's way of telling you, "Hey! You're not alive any more! Now, get back to work!"