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Trying to make the world slightly less dystopian. Toronto is home. For me as well as the birds.

This writer never uses AI.

The purpose of AI is to produce minimally viable text.

My purpose is to produce text that expands your mental foundations to be more skilled and more compassionate. Tech book, fiction, doesn't matter, that's the goal.

These purposes are incompatible.

Developments with #tgtg - now they're advertising the Too Good to Go app on YouTube?

Are they not making enough money, or too much money?

This, along with the move to "hide" the messages that used to appear when "dynamic pricing" was out into effect are worrisome signs.

@pseudonym @lockelyfox Picard when the mug fell.

@joelvanderwerf @lockelyfox

His tea spilled, his mug cracked.

- Third, exceptions are extremely rare and would be quickly noticed. If an even moderate number of duplicate ballots or ballots with invalid ID numbers were to come it, that would be a HUGE deal (and I'm not aware of any place in the US where it's actually happened). It would rapidly trigger a major investigation, likely involving both state/local and federal authorities.

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One for the history books...
Demonstrators arrested, tear gassed at 'No Kings' protest

More than 70 protesters were arrested Saturday evening after authorities shot tear gas and pepper balls into the crowd, leaving at least one teen with an eye wound and others with skin burns, according to demonstrators and police.

Los Angeles Times

Do not use plausible-nonsense generators for anything important.

Page from a 1979 IBM training manual:

@computer This seem fitting
And we're back! #CVITP clinics back online!