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🏞:usasos:RIP the second of my ancient Armadillo bike tires. The outer layer of kevlar had obvious holes and looked like it might be on the verge of age-related failure.
The first one died in a blowout caused by metal debris in the narrow shoulder that cyclists were forced into. It got wedged in just right and used my momentum to rip through 3 layers of kevlar.
🏞:usasos:If DC mayor had defied Trump orders to destroy BLM Plaza and other demands, she'd be in the same place now, but her soul would have remained intact.
🏞:usasos:For your convenience, this toot has been deleted in advance
🏞:usasos:Can't tell whether it's extortion or bribery. They're so corrupt that they're making up new forms of corruption.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-amd-pay-15-china-chip-sale-revenues-us-official-says-2025-08-11/
🏞:usasos:AP: Israel’s military targeted an Al Jazeera correspondent with an airstrike Sunday, killing him, another network journalist and at least six other people, all of whom were sheltering outside Gaza City’s largest hospital complex. The incident marked the first time during the war that Israel’s military has swiftly claimed responsibility after a journalist was killed in a strike.
https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-gaza-journalist-jazeera-c7d73f1d3cfa3d24fb4ce5a294c08d32
🏞:usasos:Spread the word: LAWNS ARE NOW ILLEGAL
🏞:usasos:Oh, Getty. Bigfoot is many things, but never authentic.
🏞:usasos:My toots are ephemeral, but the worst of them will live forever in Meta's LLM. 30 years from now, someone will get a bizarre response that makes them go WTAF. That will be my legacy.
🏞:usasos:The most accurate prophecy of generative AI was the Nutrimatic machine in Fit the Ninth of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe paperback (in which it is spelled Nutri-Matic). Both appeared in 1980.
The Nutrimatic machine is given a ton of background information and a prompt to produce tea. The result is "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea." The main character makes a concerted attempt to cajole the thing into producing palatable tea, a process we now call prompt engineering. The Nutrimatic then sucks up extreme amounts of resources in order to produce a good cup of tea. The use of these resources to automate an unimportant task that a human could have done nearly gets everyone killed as the ship's computer has no cycles left to respond to incoming threats.
https://www.dbreunig.com/2024/07/30/prompt-engineering-at-the-end-of-the-universe.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_Primary_and_Secondary_Phases#Fit_the_Ninth
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Not all US politics is local, but more than 80% of it is somehow racist, often in a way that is not immediately obvious if you aren't in on the scam.
Take HOAs for example, the lowest and pettiest form of government. You get this narrative about how there have to be rules to keep derelict houses from depressing property values. There's a racist Karen on the board who seems to target people of color, but that's just a fluke, right? That's just her.
Hell no it's not a fluke. HOAs were literally invented by white racists for the purpose of excluding nonwhites. If they do anything else now, that is the aberration. Read the history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowner_association