mardy gilyard’s ghost

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[Big (Max’s BFF) Ed @2ChinzCinci]

Honest question. Isn’t the point of swearing in on the bible that as a Christian it’s a book you take seriously and respect. So if the El-Sayed swore in on the bible it wouldn’t hold the same significance. Wouldn’t you rather him swear in on a book he holds in a high regard?

[mardy gilyard’s ghost @LackingFocus]

I liked it when college sports at least PRETENDED to be about kids going to college

[Pete Thamel @PeteThamel]

NEWS: St. Louis transfer Robbie Avila is finalizing a deal to play for TCU this year, multiple sources confirm to ESPN. The sides are “close” to finishing the deal and he's expected to head to campus this week. Avila has scored 1,990 career points and was A-10 Player of the Year last year.

[Charlie Clifford @char_cliff]

This is wild: FC Cincinnati star Kevin Denkey plays Tuesday morning in Togo, Africa.

Then has to get to Orlando by Thursday night to play in FC Cincinnati's playoff match.

If that's a non-private flight, that's at minimum a 25-hour travel day.

[Charles Erb @charlescerb]

For all I love my American sports, this drives me absolutely crazy.

If you sit down and watch soccer for 45 minutes, you've watched 45 minutes of soccer.

That's not true of our sports at all.

[mardy gilyard’s ghost @LackingFocus]

Oof

[CD Ciudad de Zamora @CdzStudios]

Esto es como si llevamos un Celta - Sevilla a EEUU y Iago Aspas celebra un gol simulando un tiroteo en un instituto de Arkansas

[Michael Boston @michaelkboston]

Looking for 4 lower bowl tickets to the Saints game on November 29th at Paycor. Trying to avoid unnecessary fees. If anyone is selling or knows someone who is send them my way please!

[Noctor Ghune @GhuneCru]

Lol. It ain't the nurses, doctors, PA/NP's or anyone else that actually cares for patients that are the problem.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

Sign this petition if you want a new speaker of the house.

https://t.co/G88VLySjsQ

[Paige 🌹📕 - Oat/Almond @plushPetunias]

America is back to stagnating instead of declining let's goooooo

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

This is false and dangerous rhetoric from Mike Rogers: “The next generation of kids thinks it’s really cool to be against the Jews.”

No Mike, the next generation and my generation and the generations in between are against funding wars in the Middle East.

Mike and others do a great disservice to Jewish people when they imply that opposition to Netanyahu’s wars is equivalent to antisemitism.

[mardy gilyard’s ghost @LackingFocus]

Cute analysis, but I’m only interested in what @nathanfielder has to say

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The pilots on this private jet were on the radio with air traffic control while it fell from higher than Mount Everest to a Florida street in about 80 seconds. You can hear them realize they aren't going to make it.

Their trouble started right after a request that sounds totally reasonable. They asked to fly higher.

This was a Learjet 60 carrying nine people from Austin to the Bahamas, a little over two hours into the trip. When they checked in with Miami Center at 35,000 feet, they were getting bounced around hard enough to swing their altitude 600 to 700 feet. They also had a thin layer of clear ice on the plane that the pilot called manageable. It was minus 47 Celsius outside. Then it started precipitating, so they asked to climb to 37,000 to get out of it, and Miami said okay.

Climbing out of bad weather is standard stuff for pilots, and up that high it comes with a catch most of us have never heard of. The air is so thin that a jet has a weirdly small window of speeds it can safely fly. Go too slow and the wings stop holding it up, and if you go too fast, shockwaves start forming on the wings. Every thousand feet you climb, those two limits squeeze a little closer together. Pilots literally call the spot where they meet the coffin corner.

A Learjet 60 normally cruises right around Mach 0.76, and its limit is 0.81. So even on a calm day it's flying pretty close to the edge, and turbulence knocks your airspeed up and down inside that window.

Within seconds of starting the climb, the tracking data shows their groundspeed jumping from 437 to 505 knots as the jet started falling at almost 20,000 feet per minute. The pilot's mayday said the same thing. "We are in an overspeed condition, descending 20,000 feet per minute." Another call said they were banking.

When you get those two at once, things get ugly fast. Once a jet blows past its speed limit, the wing can start pushing the nose down by itself, which adds speed, which pushes the nose down even harder. If the wings are tilted on top of that, the lift that normally holds the nose up is pointing off to the side. The nose keeps dropping and the plane winds into a spiral. Your gut tells you to pull back on the controls, and with the wings banked that mostly just tightens the spiral. You're supposed to level the wings first and only then pull up. Now try doing that inside a cloud where you can't see the horizon while the overspeed alarm is going off.

By 12:49 Eastern they were down to 8,750 feet and dropping more than 32,000 feet per minute. That works out to about 360 miles an hour, straight down. At that speed the last 8,750 feet goes by in around 16 seconds.

The dashcam video shows the jet coming in nearly vertical over Military Trail, with cars still driving on the road under it. It hit right next to a mobile home park. About 600 people who live there are being moved out, and officials say nobody on the ground was hurt, which is honestly hard to believe when you watch that fireball.

The NTSB will probably take a year or more to officially say what caused this. The last thing on the radio was the controller repeating their tail number, November seven two two Bravo Delta, over and over, with nobody left to answer.

[local producer @trappalachian2]

Listen nobody has to love cities or anything but when it gets to this point you gotta see a therapist or something

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Here’s the thing about spotting the horrendous, soulless AI-generated writing infecting every corner of the internet now: it’s not just about the words — it’s about the patterns.

And once you start noticing them, you can’t unsee them.

The unnecessary em dashes. The polished transitions. The examples given in groups of three.

The weird metaphors that kind of make sense but kind of don’t — like a parachute opening inside a submarine.

The load-bearing use of the term “load-bearing.”

The random one sentence paragraphs.

The way a bunch of bland gibberish is quietly reframed as a profound insight.

The on-going and un-necessary hyphenation of every-day words that really don’t need it.

The cliches.

Read that again.

Cliches.

Louder for people in the back.

Tons of cliches.

That’s not a typo.

Sit with that for a moment.

And the biggest red flag? Asking yourself a question and answering it.

Because honestly? No sentient human writes like this.

And truthfully? If you can’t identify these red flags, you might not actually be sentient yourself.

Because really? If this formatting doesn’t immediately strike you as awkward and artificial, it means you don’t read books.

Ever.

Seriously.

But here’s where it gets interesting:

It doesn’t.

The point has been made but I’ll keep going. That’s what AI writing is all about.

Let’s delve into real problem. It isn’t the technology. It’s the people using it because they’re too retarded to generate an original thought of their own.

That’s not thoughtfulness. It’s intellectual laziness wearing digital makeup.

It doesn’t make the internet more fun. It makes me want to throw my phone in the river and forsake all of humanity and live as a hermit in the woods for the rest of my life.

Seriously this shit fills me with despair. I’m not kidding.

And the distinction matters.

Especially when you’re saying the distinction matters without actually drawing a distinction.

But here’s what nobody tells you.

When you ask a machine to manufacture your personality, you’re not just automating your writing. You’re quietly announcing that you’re a boring, insipid dork with nothing interesting to say.

Let that sink in.

The uncomfortable truth?

AI didn’t turn these people into tedious midwits.

It quietly revealed what they already were.

And perhaps — just perhaps — that’s quietly the most important takeaway of all.

But what do you think? Let's unpack this together in the comments. 👇

[Luka Donthičć @landahoy14]

Yormark leaving the B12 offices

[Trilly Donovan @trillydonovan]

He should have to get a tattoo of the Monster logo on his forehead before he goes.

[Michael Boston @michaelkboston]

@PeteThamel Is he, by chance… becoming the CEO of Monster Energy Drinks?

[mardy gilyard’s ghost @LackingFocus]

Why you bringing Jared Leto into this? What did he do?

[Harrison Fjord @PaulbundBund]

@Acyn What he sees when he looks in the mirror

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I know a lot of people in the West are baffled by the Mbappé-Mao storm in China - which in itself shows that Mbappé's ignorance doesn't come out of nowhere...

To understand it, here's the best analogy I could think of: imagine the biggest Chinese star in the NBA, with sponsorship deals all over the US. One day he's asked for his favorite meme of himself. He giggles: "the one where they put my face on some guy, I think he was an American slave owner." When the "some guy" in question is George Washington.

Whatever you think of the label, you know exactly how that would land in the US: an ungrateful foreigner getting rich off Americans, laughing at the country's founding father in an offensive way - at least to a big share of the population - without even knowing his name.

A founding father is the story a nation tells itself about where it comes from. Laugh at him as a foreigner while cashing in on that nation's consumers, and that's not going to go well in any country.

The label is also extremely un-nuanced: yes, all important historical figures have their share of darkness and Washington and Mao are no exception.

China actually recognizes this: the official line is that he was "70% right and 30% wrong," and the Party's 1981 resolution condemned how his "personal arbitrariness gradually undermined democratic centralism in Party life and the personality cult grew graver and graver" (https://t.co/gH2rs1FZqW)

Same for Washington: it's officially acknowledged too. Or at least it was until this year: in January, the National Park Service tore down an exhibit in Philadelphia about the people Washington enslaved there, under a Trump executive order targeting content that "inappropriately disparage[s]" Americans (https://t.co/MRLTnnllfq). Which goes to show China isn't uniquely touchy about its founding father...

[Dre Guevara @DreGuevara3]

look how fuckin small those corporate tax contributions are, and yet dumbfuck republicans will still blame welfare recipients and immigrants for "mooching off the system"

we're truly the most cucked country in the world