James Junghanns

Game Theorist, Macro Economist, Social Engineer, Lapsed Hacker, Unwitting Businessperson

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“Grok is now free for everyone” the banner proudly proclaims as I open the app.
Great. So I no longer need to have something worth expressing to partake in this constant flow of drivel. Also, I can now expect to find myself arguing with a machine designed to sound erudite. Great

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@P_Kallioniemi Now you know what Italians experience when they see ‘pizza’ abroad.

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@nocontextmemes Star Wars IV: A New Hope. Porkins is played by William Hootkins, everybody else is a muppet.

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@PandasAndVidya @Bad_Tweet_Man Yeah they own a whole legal firm that only does that on a daily basis here in Italy. Every Mario and Luigi have to pay monthly licenses or get sued into penury. They even hiked Mario Draghi’s monthly payment because he was world-famous and often on the news.

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@nocontextmemes In Italian ‘solo’ means ‘alone’ so it doesn’t sound cool at all, unless you’re referring to climbing Mount Everest or something.

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@Gammitin To be fair, being “of that era” and having suffered through using a 486DX2-66 with 8MB of RAM, I can honestly say that 16MB and a Pentium were pretty much the minimum requirement for not being driven insane by lag.

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@ret2src @0gtweet Filename.ext:stream is actually NTFS syntax for multi-stream files. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Source: https://t.co/RMnpa8fDrb

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@CancionLogica @pickover This is clearly extending it using the gamma function.

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@pickover Mind your own business, Julia.

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The last (and possibly greatest) original Star Trek film was released today 33 years ago.

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Nicholas Meyer's Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country was released 33 years ago today.

Still one of the greatest successes of this saga. What a great ending.

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@portalrealm Admiral Cain in disguise.

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@nocontextmemes “See if I care”

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@pickover Measure Theory says 0%.

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@interesting_aIl What could possibly go wrong with a wood stove in a motor vehicle?

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@NoContextBrits They’ve been on the decline since we’ve all had video recording devices on our person 23/7. Odd correlation, that.

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@interesting_aIl Not so ‘precarious’ then is it?

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a horrifying video

imagine feeling instinctively pulled to do a task. something that goes beyond your personal ambitions, your environment, or your job. something that comes from genetic instructions, placed down there over millions of years of evolution, screaming at you from generations past

now imagine that task being impossible to do in any satisfactory way. the beaver cannot feel the water, cannot find the wood. there are genetic signals to gather items for the dam, but all the beaver can accomplish in the end is a stage three simulacra. what it will create in this artificial environment will forever be lacking in the eyes of their evolutionary instincts

the beaver KNOWS there are unfinished things to do, but it cannot even conceive of what that could be. where is the water? where is the wood? what are these items meant to do? what is the purpose of it all? the beaver does not know. its brothers in the forest do, but that knowledge is forever beyond this domesticated one, who has never even been outside of an air conditioned room

but it continues its toil, because the beaver cannot understand that its evolutionary ordained tasks are useless here. the rules of its environment have changed, but it lacks the faculties to recognize that; i simultaneously pity the creature and see myself in it

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@pickover 0

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@officialHJesus I used to think he was eloquent and quite funny now he’s just a cringe crank.