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REVEALED: The Mother Jones 2017 Staff Board Rep Election
An email thread from another time.
On November 8 2016, Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. I had been out of a mental institution for four days.
The Free Willy Test: Which AIs Will Help Me Steal An Orca?
Is it safe?
I constantly see tech people on Twitter sharing AI benchmark tests: Which model scored highest on MMLU? Which one aced the coding eval? Which one solved the most IMO problems? Which model can do the Blibbity Blob? (OK, I made t...
SOLVED: The Shocking Crime At The Heart Of One Of England's Most Famous Nursery Rhymes
This is longer than you might first expect.
Little Bo Peep lost her sheep,
A Ramble In Time
I am still months away from being 40, ladies.
The worst thing you can do in life is wish that time would pass faster.
I hate Wendy (from Wendy's). I am not a lunatic.
Wendy must go.
What’s with this Wendy bitch? By which I mean, the mascot from the fast food chain Wendy’s.
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