Thomas Escritt

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Here is a subtle and important point that Jessica Huseman understands better than either the New York Times or the Washington Post right now: Journalists have an obligation to give the government (or anyone) the opportunity to respond to criticism, but that doesn’t mean they then must publish any non-responsive rant the government then generates. https://masto.ai/@socprof/115029299175030948

I'm pretty sure, it is not a new idea, but as I was waiting for the bus, it suddenly struck me:

LLMs (falsely called "ai") are a cargo cult.

Some people dropped a few boxes with apparently magic qualities on this planet, and we're increasingly rebuilding all our civilisation around them.

Life imitates art

#Cats #Caturday

This is the surface of a comet! Dust is swirling around the surface of Comet 67/P -- captured in 2016 by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft, processing by Jacint Roger Perez.

Still one of the most remarkable scenes in space exploration.

#space #science #astronomy #ESA

Hadden we nou maar een naam voor windvangende "vleugels" op een schip. Het ligt op het puntje van mijn tong....

Sad that Jan Wouter, at whose regular cinema soirées I first saw the exquisite Mädchen in Uniform (1931) has died, aged 80

https://youtu.be/fv8itsR63lU?si=QR4Hb4UHjMqSdMZv

mädchen in uniform (1931) – english subtitles

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I found this funnier than I should have.
Der Glöckner von Notre Dame arbeitet übrigens nur von Montag bis Donnerstag. Also quasi Mo-Do.
One man will be responsible if the coalition talks fail, and it’s not Pieter Omtzigt

Photo by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas via Wikimedia Commons One of Geert Wilders’s favourite tactics is the self-perpetuating falsehood. It works like this. First the Freedom Party (PVV) leader makes a base…

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