Andy Marfia 📸Welcome to "Turtle Square", the intersection of Ashland, Madison, and Ogden Ave, late 1950s. Yes, Chicago once had a 34 foot turtle statue perched above the traffic. For #throwbackthursday, the photographer of this one is sadly unknown.
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Jason Pettus 
On the sad occasion of M. Emmet Walsh's death, let's take a look back at the greatest cameo of his career, as a 1970s psychotic sniper who goes around killing random people just for kicks, but who is no match for Steve Martin's genial moron in the surrealist classic "The Jerk." "DIE, MILK FACE!!!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcwz8-EfFYE
The Jerk (7/10) Movie CLIP - He Hates These Cans! (1979) HD
@theothersimo @RickiTarr No, that was legit. It probably wasn't literal, but it was still meant to say "you're going to have a hard time getting in if you're rich." Of course, can be taken as an escape valve for "Jesus is cool if I'm rich."
Funny how we don't think any translation could ever mangle idioms.
emenelIf you had code on GitHub at any point it looks like it might be included in a large dataset called “The Stack” — If you want your code removed from this massive “ai” training data go here:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/in-the-stack
I found two of my old Github repos in there. Both were deleted last year and both were private. This is a serious breach of trust by Github and @huggingface.
Remove all your code from Github.
CONSENT IS NOT OPT-OUT.
Edit — thanks for all the replies. More context here: https://hachyderm.io/@joeyh/112105744123363587
Also the repos i found of mine i’m sure were private, but even if they were public at some point, for a brief time, in the past that isn’t my consent to use them for purposes beyond their intent.
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Edit 2 -- I see this made it to HN, which is a level of attention I do not want nor appreciate....
For all those wondering about the private repo issue -- No, I am not 100% sure that these ancient repos weren't at some point public for a split second before I changed it. I do know that they were never meant for this and that one of them didn't even contain any code.
If my accidentally making a repo public for a moment just so happened to overlap with this scraping, then I guess that's possible. But it in no way invalidates the issues, and the anger that i feel about it.
@RickiTarr
Matthew 19:24: "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God"
Bible Scholars: "Ok, technically there was a city gate that was called "the eye of the needle" and it was an arduous process to kneel the camel and get it into the city."
Conservatives:
Matthew 19:24: "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God"
Bible Scholars: "Ok, technically there was a city gate that was called "the eye of the needle" and it was an arduous process to kneel the camel and get it into the city."
Conservatives:
On This Day In HistoryToday in 1920, 104 years ago: in Detroit, station 8 MK broadcasts the first radio news.
@kaz Was wondering how far out of the way it was for you. Feel you on that, that's a lot of riding.
Punkrock History@mhoye Well done. Wreak the change in language you desire in the world.
Catbus"what if we replaced *people* with a computer facsimile that sucks ass, uses a billion gallons of water and doesn't work but is technically cheaper?"
- every CEO over the last 4 months