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The_Blade

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    Comment #49073908

    > I don't think trying to contain people to specific areas is a good solution. Hamsterdam

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    Comment #49029075

    namechintzy.com is available

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    Comment #49027437

    it is fun to get a reminder not regretting being obsessed with Ayn at 18 alongside my duct-taped copy of Foucault's Pendulum (note: the actual pendulum is at Musée des Arts et Méti…

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    Comment #49027231

    i read half of Troilus and Criseyde out loud to myself one summer in college and i may be a weirdo but it paid dividends. unbowdlerized Chaucer is the tits

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    Comment #49027021

    i had no science, but in college for shorter works i always thought handwriting, typing, and reading it aloud was my allowing my brain to hit a problem in three different (not more…

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    Comment #49024077

    not as much as I used to but I still take handwritten notes when reading something I deem worth doing so by some personal semi-rational algorithm. my favorite exercise ~15 years ag…

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    Comment #49024007

    Marginalia is the best! I have a handwritten note about Ayn Rand in my 27 year old copy of Enchridion, a great reminder that she is like chicken pox, better catch her as early as p…

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    Comment #49009994

    Neat comment but looks prompted/authored by someone who does not know Bird Law

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    Comment #49009958

    now i have the lyrics to the theme song from the TV show in my head given the right group and timing that rockapella would totally play at karaoke

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    Comment #48994771

    yes, webrings! time for a comeback. i just found an AI agent trained on AOL chat room materials out in the wild, way to go Bending Spoons why do all the vibecoded slopsites have th…

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    Comment #48986285

    i remain really fucking pissed of about this asking ChatGPT for something regarding lyrics from It Was a Good Day. and the Supersonics don't even exist anymore dammit i'm really ma…

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    Comment #48986250

    how about a nice game of chess?

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    Comment #48986226

    ChatGPT refuses to acknowledge the existence of Shakespeare because Boccaccio's relatives complained, but all Boccaccio did was read Dante in whorehouses in Naples

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    Comment #48953372

    is having fun learning no longer a valid use case

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    Comment #48949613

    my Cleveland is extremely Brown right now: https://www.airnow.gov/state/?name=ohio and blaming Canada.

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    Comment #48949491

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48948510

    Always messing up some mundane detail!

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    Comment #48948131

    your title was rewritten by AI, correct? :) the slop doesn't bother me as much as the bowdlerized nature of said slop (and search results). sure, there was a lot of slop after the …

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    Comment #48947688

    i'll throw on some Steely Dan to that, but if AI is a body without organs how can it do the sex for us

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    Comment #48947507

    It was the best of times... it was the blurst of times! You stupid agent!

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    Comment #48922562

    reap the profits, socialize the losses

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    Comment #48913466

    the shy one of my shelter cats that figured out how to open and close the cabinet below the one with wet food at 3am without meowing has infinite more understanding than any LLM of…

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    Comment #48913432

    > I don't know whether the author thinks this is a good or a bad thing, but in my eyes it's clearly a bad thing. I like that the author lets the image do the work, rather than prea…

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    Comment #48907066

    i just learned that these exist so you can like, prove that humanitarian funds that were supposed to fund surgery in civil war-torn Africa were actually used to perform surgery tha…