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  • Harry takes his act home...where...

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  • Taking bets...

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    Ok, demolish the building. Burn it to the ground. See what that does. Ok, it's an open book test. The answer is nothing.
  • Leafscrolling - fall color?

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    The last day of summer is near. I'm glad.
  • Laughter is the best medicine

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    You see people like that in the City. Or you used to. All the time. But you know that. Lol! Good one!
  • Narcissus

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  • Impeach Hegseth

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    If you can read a teleprompter at Fox you are qualified to be the Secretary of War.
  • Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?

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    I have followed this guy, William Green, on Youtube for many years. His channel is called "My Green Pets". Link to video
  • What's your Uber rating?

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    5.0 Since I've never used Uber and the default starting score is 5.0
  • Word association thread

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  • Where were you when the Great Recession hit?

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    And I ended up letting a house go back to the bank, thereby trashing my credit for 7 years. No matter, I wasn’t in a position to buy anything anyway.
  • A new doomsday approaches

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    Moonbat posted this link next door. Long but readable. The first few paragraphs: Over the course of three months at OpenAI, three consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes. This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself. All this happened while humans remained more or less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy. Two reports have come out about this incident, one from OpenAI itself, and another one from METR and Redwood Research. The METR/Redwood investigation’s scope was limited to how the second civilization of AIs pwned Hugging Face (but it didn’t look at how the third civilization pwned OpenAI itself, which seems like an even more concerning incident). These two reports are 38 and 91 pages long respectively, and it’s kinda hard to parse the storyline. I’ve spent the last three days reading through these reports and trying to understand exactly what happened. Here is my attempt to tell the whole story in plain English: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface
  • Agerich at the proms

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    https://www.ft.com/content/96f911e8-eb7d-4d50-aada-7e751d42d83b?syn-25a6b1a6=1 2026 Last night of proms Yuja Wang performed Barber's piano concerto, then a jazz suite. Her playing (and dress) dazzles, I watched it through despite not liking the Barber much, nor the jazz. How, who, to follow her? ... very entertaining tenor singing a fab Scottish medley.
  • For anyone interested in home appliances

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    We wanted a little bubbly fountain for our pampered cats, so Quirt ordered one. It wasn't expensive. It didn't need to do anything but pump water up to their cute little lips. When I went to set it up, I had to download an app just to turn it on. It doesn't even have an on switch. There is no reason for it to require an app, other than to send me notifications that I should buy a filter. I think I could theoretically operate it remotely, but why? If it stops, it's because it's out of water. I can't fix that remotely.
  • Hacking Tool Built With A.I. Can Breach Phones Without a Click

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    Oy vey.
  • The bride's parents didn't fund this wedding

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  • My piano teacher’s recital

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    Sounds like a great time. Bob's house is not far from the U of Az and its school of music. We have heard one of the profs play. I need to tune into what recitals are available.
  • August birthstones

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    And here's here spinel segment. Apparently it was only added in 2016. Link to video
  • Andorra is a country?

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    So no. I'm vindicated! Lol.
  • Nice side business

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    @wtg Nice! I've done a lot of this stuff lately. I've done the back perimeter with solar motion sensor stake lights. That needed to be done. I'm refining their positioning to know what gets tripped when, and what "line" of light they draw where. I've decided two places (one inside, one outside) need wall mounted solar motion sensor lights. That's is a different layer of complexity for me since I'm not handy. I have a few solar powered outdoor lights for decoration. More lights at some point. Congrats!