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Likewise almost all of Shakespeare's plots were cribbed from older, often reasonably well-known sources. His main talent was not storycraft so much as squeezing a lot of iambic pentameter dick jokes into a pre-existing tale.

Ooh, thanks for this resource! The Louisville Free Public Library doesn't have a lot of partners, but I'd been hankering after Mango Languages for a while, and while LFPL doesn't do it, our partner library in Bullitt County does.

Honestly, Heathcliff being Heathcliff, that could be the original caption and I'd be only mildly surprised.

Passing thought for the morning: slow-blinking at a cat and playing peekaboo with a baby are essentially the same thing. "My eyes were gone, and now they're back! This demonstrates my trustworthiness and/or entertainment value!"

And given that SSPX was founded by Nazis (not edgelordy neo-Nazis, not garden-variety antisemites, but literal gave-support-to-the-Axis-in-WWII-type Nazis), it's not that hard to see that they'd really like to go back on all the "sorry, Jews, for being shitty to you for so long" declarations.

I feel like all day-cycle issues which could arise for interplanetary purposes have analogues in the various opinions which have been advanced for human Jews in the polar regions and in space: observant Jews in northern Scandinavia have had to modify their practices for centuries.

Huh, I had somehow missed the news that, since 2021, Maryland no longer had a state song, which is actually good news, since "Maryland, My Maryland" was the worst set of lyrics ever to be graced with the name. But it ought to have a new one. One that doesn't suck.

This reminds me a lot of homebrew beer judging advice, which is: discuss results, not processes/intentions. That is, saying "this has more banana than suits the style/balance" is fine, but you shouldn't say "this is more banana than you wanted", or "this used WLP300 yeast, fermented too warm".

I mean, it probably is even worse than necessary because he sucks at deals generally, but it's true that even if diplomatic geniuses had been parachuted in mid-May they wouldn't have done _much_ better because America was, in fact, losing badly.

Reading the article, it actually seems like he only thinks it's dumb because he's even dumber. His basic line is, "we were winning so much, why would we make these concessions?" And, uh, we're not winning. The deal is terrible, but the reason it's so terrible is simply not in his worldview.

My first response to our attack was, "The regime was tottering, protests were breaking out everywhere, and we've just completely fucked that revolution." Nothing shores up support for the government like suffering foreign aggression. Worked for Bush, worked for Giuliani, worked for Zelenskyy.

Opera goes hard: "In Elena Doria Winell's operatic adaptation, on the other hand, the psychological weight of unrecognized labor takes a toll on the Hen and she, in a final mad scene, murders the other farm animals, chokes on the bread, and dies."

FWIW, that particular promise (with no actual enforcement mechanism) predates the JCPOA. Iran has consistently asserted that a nuclear weapon program is fundamentally un-Islamic and something they won't do. There's reason to doubt the good faith of that claim, but they've always made it.

I've told this story before but as a little kid i told everyone i was going to be a garbage truck driver when i grew up. when i became an archaeologist, my parents told me they were proud that i had held onto my childhood dream of collecting other people's rubbish

I think abuse response _is_ gendered, but the schism relates to perspective: male responses skew retributive ("get that guy") and female responses skew preventative ("stop future instances"). Deterrence fits both molds, but women (rightly) tend to favor preventative policy over vengeance.

4% is within the established margin of "people who answer polls with seemingly completely random answers". Studies have shown between 3% and 12% of survey respondents don't think at all about their answers (sources: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti..., pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22506584/).

I think it's more likely LLMs become a weird niche hobby. You can roll your own at home with ollama on a beefy system with a good GPU and lots of RAM; it'll have terrible latency and won't be as sophisticated as the commercial models, but an open model is fine for tinkering.

It's a weird bit of Catholic terminology that doesn't map well onto the cognate English term, like an "apologia" is a defense rather than an apology. The original Latin-derived meaning for an "accident" was an occurrence without clear cause, and Catholic usage turned it into "natural properties".

I'm pretty sure it's been catechism for a good long time that the physical properties of the wafer ("accidents" is the technical term of art in Catholic theology for such properties) are not transformed by the miracle of the Eucharist, only the true spiritual nature ("substance") is.

In conclusion, I figure we are either in for (a) commercial LLMs pricing themselves out of the market and imploding once demand disappears and revenue nosedives, or (b) LLM providers frantically going back to subsidizing models and retaining revenue but spooking investors.