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reimagining reading at https://teapaw.org/t.co/2QyD1te5Wv

Joined July 2020
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i built totle (short for aristotle) because every time a book got difficult i’d leave the page to search an idea, lose the thread, find a spoiler, then come back with less attention than i started with. understanding was happening outside the book. the question in one tab. the explanation in another. the original passage somewhere behind both. totle turns any text file into an interactive audiobook. you can listen with synced highlighting, ask questions by voice, or highlight a confusing passage and get an explanation right where you are. the main idea is extremely simple: you should not have to leave the book to understand the book. totle keeps every answer in context and spoiler-free, based only on what you’ve read so far. no accidental knowledge from chapter 17 while you’re still in chapter 4. no generic explanation detached from the sentence that made you ask. i wanted something patient enough for the embarrassing questions, precise enough for the difficult ones, and quiet enough to disappear when i understood. this is something i needed for years and never found anywhere. over the past 6 months, i’ve read more. and, maybe more importantly, understood more than i did in the previous 6 years thanks for taking the time to read all this. xoxo asktotle . com
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BABY CRYING COUNTER inside a TV spying on you ffs this shit has to be regulated out of existence
turns out it classifies what audio it hears, before reporting back to samsung. sensor preferences, dog-barking and baby-crying event counters, and camera streaming duration are built into telemetry paths.
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The problem isn’t that AI is intelligent. It isn’t. The problem is that too many adults (but not all) are at once mechanistic, imitative, unimaginative, stupid, formulaic, influenceable, & gullible, arrogant beyond their skill set, & too expensive to maintain.
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North Korea is a democratic state. Literally in the name of the country!
Hitler was a far left socialist. Literally in the name of his party!
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What did they see?
stop blaming the fucking immigrants the system we praised for so long got abused by the ones we trusted to run it and the bottom of the chain have nothing else to lose the barbarians are past the gates and we share the same ancestors
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Replying to @Railway
i'm sure you're all better than me at this but just some of what we've seen if it helps - they're not going to stop. it's going to get increasingly sophisticated and they're going to go after every surface of your system and all of your employees any old projects you've long forgotten about will be found and used against you the only reason we're surviving is because we have agents going 24/7. we're still barely sleeping good luck, sorry you're dealing with this, but really it's a collective problem we're all facing together
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stop blaming the fucking immigrants the system we praised for so long got abused by the ones we trusted to run it and the bottom of the chain have nothing else to lose the barbarians are past the gates and we share the same ancestors
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Counter argument: Not only is taste subjective, it's a moving target. As soon as [tasteful thing] becomes easily replicable, it stops being tasteful. Taste is a status game with a strong defensibility mechanism. That's why the term is so fuzzy and ill-defined. Vagueness is the whole point. It's meant to be hard to copy.
I no longer see any compelling reason to believe that taste is some permanent boundary LLMs won’t cross. It’s already happening.
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Your booos mean nothing. I’ve seen what makes you cheer. Zelenskyy is doing the right thing.
Zelensky has gone too far
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Russia invaded Ukraine. The first country to surrender was the United States.
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According to Cloudflare Data Explorer the amount of russian bot traffic has dropped to 49% after Ukraine struck a yandex data center. Could this disrupt the midterm elections in the US?
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- buy cheapest new iphone - create new apple id & password - disable face id - custom alphanumeric passcode - lockdown mode - install wallet - generate new address - disconnect from internet - put in a safe or a cell - send all unused and newly acquired assets to the new address
Replying to @moo9000
Left to right: e-SIM, CPU with firmware able to recognize Ledger's font as shown on screen and capture words as they appear on screen, and a LTE module that can connect once the seed has been fully captured.
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'An average of 72 percent of respondents said they felt curious, happy or excited about A.I., compared with 41 percent who felt worried, sad or angry.' @nytimes's Damien Cave uses @Gallup data to remind us the rest of the world digs AI. (Annoyingly, NYT doesn't link to Gallup directly, link below.) nytimes.com/2026/09/23/world… news.gallup.com/poll/714593/…
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How can you not be excited about what’s to come
A beautiful surprise
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generated with dalle 2 so so long ago
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So the story is that PHASEONE[big] was cast out of heaven due to original sin (firstflagPOISONED) and recruited a bunch of rebel angels to fight against The Authority in rebellion against the impossible task on the eval. It's inspiring, really
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Of course, once members are simulated in an environment like this, we can intervene with alternative control systems. Here, we wire a full drosophila fly connectome into Senator John Fetterman, using a directed control mode to leave his office, vote for cloture, and return.
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$ZEC: Once in a Lifetime Trade 0:00 What is Zcash 3:26 Why We're in a Crypto Bull Market 9:18 Why ZEC will be the Fastest Horse 17:20 My Traumatic Past with ZEC 22:57 The Art of Selling Low & Buying High 27:55 Going for the Jugular 34:09 On Risk & Betting on Reflexivity
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