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by dofm 7d ago
> TLDR: Communication from a human is not only the material being communicated, it's also a signal that the human understands the message they are sending you. When you pass that message via an intermediary (regardless of whether th
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by dofm 7d ago
This is 100% my take. It's nice and easy. I do not personally even think AI is useful for editorial purposes; I would rather read and re-read my own text and edit it down (which, despite my overlong comments here, I actually do), than
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by dofm 7d ago
See how it says: (dated, sometimes proscribed) We avoid doing this (only a few silly old men and bigots do it, as a dog whistle in national politics). You should not do this. It is not, in any sense, the "ordinary name" of the U
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by dofm 7d ago
Beware of Lobster.
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by dofm 7d ago
Only among people who are comically wrong.
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by dofm 7d ago
> Unfortunately, every day the USA press grows more like the British press, moving leftward and increasingly alarmist. The British press is not, on aggregate, left-leaning. That's just a weird weird wrong idea.
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by dofm 7d ago
Wow. All of that, in one go? From out of just one arse?
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by dofm 7d ago
How do you say that in Russian? I'm sure you think this is smart, but the indisputable fact of how this conflict started remains. Are you suggesting that we don't come to the aid of our friends when they are attacked by our advers
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by dofm 7d ago
Are you not essentially saying that Ukraine is partly to blame for the conflict for not wanting to roll over? We arm and support Ukraine in their war because a tyrannical neighbour led by an autocrat is intent on taking its territory and he
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by dofm 8d ago
Lordy.
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by dofm 8d ago
> I don’t care what’s possible, I asked what was plausible. OK then. BOTH ARE PLAUSIBLE. Clear enough? It's absolutely not up to me to decide whether they came up with it independently. But then again, it isn't up to you , Jim
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by dofm 8d ago
> What do you think is plausible - that they repeated something that is damn near omnipresent in the discourse, or that they never saw any of the many, many times it has come up and independently came up with the exact same formulation?
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by dofm 8d ago
Legally mandating that companies open the weights of, say, 18-month-old models might change their minds a little. I have no idea how any of this can be fixed but I do see compensation schemes for creators combined with open weights models t
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by dofm 8d ago
> If they resent it at your place, it is on adults. Isn’t that exactly what I said? I mean, who else would it be on? > That has nothing to do with covid or covid handling. This is about your community not wanting to pay community serv
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by dofm 8d ago
There is critiquing an idea using pointed Socratic critique, and there’s coming across as a bit of a dick, Jim.
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by dofm 8d ago
It was hilarious that this is the only time his, er, meta-imaginary-gains intensifier made the statement literally true.
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by dofm 8d ago
No, but the point is not that lockdown happened. Kids are not angry that there was a lockdown; they understand the science of it (in many cases better than adults) because it was a pretty rich topic of conversation in their tedious remote l
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by dofm 8d ago
It's in the book. So 1990. Internet says the inspiration for Alan Grant is Robert Bakker, and his first writings on it were in 1968: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_T._Bakker
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by dofm 8d ago
> But the resentment isn’t towards the handling, Oooooh yes it is. They are so mad at how badly we handled it. And they are right to be. > I mean, if the lockdown didn’t happen That isn't their complaint. Their complaint is not
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by dofm 8d ago
Mate. I was being funny. Now you're not. Get it together. Maybe put a chip on the other shoulder, balance yourself out.
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by dofm 8d ago
I live in a relatively wealthy town and most people here had a pretty safe series of lockdowns (bit hair-raising for me as a freelancer but ehh). We are collectively massively pro-vaccine ; I know only two people who loudly resisted (and
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by dofm 9d ago
It's not about schedules. These things don't change when you arrive; they change how much it costs to arrive and how heavy you arrive. So the only logical explanation is that they don't do that by enough to be worth installin
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by dofm 9d ago
^^ spot the bogan ;-) No grasp of when to quit while you're ahead. If I'd wanted to score a negative point I would have listed the trans-national bigot Mel Gibson (only American by birth) along with Mad Max. (Though that reminds m
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by dofm 9d ago
I mean — Brendan Carr seems to be able to bully the TV industry pretty successfully on behalf of MAGA. Trump shakes down businesses for a government cut — Intel for example. You are deporting foreigners based on their opinions. Trump shook
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by dofm 9d ago
It doesn't matter. L'etat, c'est Trump.
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by dofm 9d ago
Pretty much exactly this. A whole lot of Trump's psychology has always been "it's your fault I hurt you" for the longest time — it's a very clear undercurrent in how he treated his first wife. He's an abuser. A
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by dofm 9d ago
FYI I don’t think anyone is accepting American critique on government control and censorship right now. Maybe leave it for a decade or two.
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by dofm 9d ago
Canva, Blackmagic Design. Wifi, actually, was developed there (CSIRO patents)
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by dofm 9d ago
You rely heavily on Australia for both blockbuster and character actors. If they aren’t already British or Irish or Canadian, they are likely Aussies (or New Zealanders - sometimes seems like you barely have any actors of broad ability who
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by dofm 10d ago
I had this experience some years ago writing to an author, too. Long reply back.

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