The correct take: - “stochastic parrot” is a top notch turn of phrase that does accurately convey something about what LLMs do - stochastic parrots can be smarter than most of the people who like that phrase think - but not as smart as the people who don’t like that phrase think

“God I hate how uneducated voters are now, they don’t even read the candidates websites!” Voters in 2008:

🌈🪩✨ #Pride2025

Oh did we lose it. Did we drop it somewhere.

GoFundMe has set up a page for the Texan flood victims. Each campaign has been verified by the company's Trust & Safety experts, which means you know your money is going directly to families. Please consider donating if you can. Their stories are heartbreaking. 🧵

Fascinating to see some environmental organizations that looked the other way when the carbon tax was eliminated instead opt to try and fight on EV mandates. That feels like a large, strategic error sadly.

Texas officials have long worried about the dangers to children who packed into camps each summer along the flood-prone Guadalupe River. They knew that warning systems were inadequate. So why was nothing done? We have reviewed documents spanning a decade to find answers. 🧵 1/9

Someone needs to do some really serious philosophy about what it means to “try to do something”

I do not believe it tried to do this in any sense that is more real than the sense in which Dwight Schrute tried to oust Michael as regional manager

Mike Collins said happy pride

This is really funny The neighbors, NIMBY, sue over new, more YIMBY zoning code. The city, incompetent, misses filing deadline, forfeits the case. *But* b/c the city repealed the old zoning code to pass the new one, its loss means all zoning is gone. Total YIMBY victory

Whenever I spend hours arguing with people to transfer a patient it reminds me of something Dr. Sean Moore said in a talk. “Either I know what I’m talking about and you need to take the patient, or I don’t know what I’m talking about and you definitely need to take the patient.”

“I just wish the grandkids lived closer” she thought as she hung up the phone with her daughter, before getting to work on mobilizing the neighborhood against yet another set of greedy developer-driven zoning changes for smaller lots, reduced setbacks & weird pocket neighborhoods

New: The Ford government's appeal of an injunction halting Toronto bike lane removals has failed. #onpoli #topoli thetrillium.ca/news/municipal…

ΣΔΦΨΚΩ What effect does participating in Greek life have on college students? It reduces their grades considerably. But participating in Greek life in college helps improve later life employment outcomes, right? Nope. ΣΔΦΨΚΩ

New: After responses about expanding GO train service to Vancouver and an electrification schedule 18,000 years into the future, Metrolinx says the GO Transit account will no longer use AI. #onpoli thetrillium.ca/news/municipal…

For those of you who don't speak fluent evangelical, "I filed for a divorce on biblical grounds" means "my husband cheated on me" in churchspeak. (Matt 5:32 is the source text)