[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

How many universities will abandon free speech rights for 10% of their budget?

All of them. Of course they'll frame it like "to enable our storied institution to continue performing our vital work, we are temporarily putting a moratorium on non-pre-approved meetings. Thank you for your understanding."

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah we're like waves in an ocean that break, recede, and are re-formed. I do kinda miss my dead family members tho.

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago

I think what they're getting at is this is clearly a simple script doing template generation: (1) statement of praise (2) statement of encouragement/thanks (3) a couple emoji. The sentences that are used to populate the templates might be LLM-generated, but these aren't state-of-the-art neural network "AI"s.

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago

Wait, if Arthur wasn't some kind of Anglo-Saxon, what was he? Some kind of Celt? Pict? Cimerrian? Wikipedia just says "Post-Roman Briton" which I don't understand... Was his father really a centurion or something?

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago

https://archive.org/details/IsThisTomorrowAmericaUnderCommunismCatecheticalGuild

The comic book includes some of the first published comic drawings by Minneapolis-born Charles M. Schulz, creator of Peanuts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_This_Tomorrow

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago

wow actually sounds interesting. I'ma track it down.

Mod Fuck Explosion is a 1994 low-fi independent film, written and directed by Jon Moritsugu.[1][2] It is about a young girl named London who is trying to find meaning in the world, or a leather jacket of her very own.[3] Unaccepted by the Mods or the Asian biker gang, she tries to find her own path through life.[3] Meanwhile, the Mods and the bikers have a vendetta against each other that is sure to erupt in a smorgasbord of violence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_Fuck_Explosion

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107587/

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 months ago

Trump won by 1.5% and the media acts like it was a Reagan-esque 1980 sweep.

Agreed. Every president tries to pretend that they have a mandate. But consider:

Wisconsin has 10 electoral votes. If 14,699 people in Wisconsin had voted differently, Trump would have lost Wisconsin. Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee will fit that many people.

Michigan has 15 electoral votes. If 40,052 people in Michigan had voted differently, Trump would have lost Michigan. Comerica Park in Detroit will fit that many people.

Pennsylvania has 19 electoral votes. If 60,134 people in Pennsylvania had voted differently, Trump would have lost Pennsylvania. Beaver Stadium in University Park will fit that many people.

Without those electoral votes, Trump would have lost the election. That was the size of his victory: 2 stadiums and an arena.

Source:

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 months ago

movies/tv:

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other:

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 months ago

By coincidence I was thinking of getting someone a "Sicko" t-shirt and came across this article about the author of these cartoons: https://slate.com/culture/2020/12/sickos-meme-ward-sutton-kartoonist-kelly.html

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 months ago

Agreed. Trump won by 140k in PA, 80k in MI, 30k in WI. That's less than 0.16% of the total vote. (source)

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 months ago

At first I was like: gotta be fake, there's no water tank. Then I realized that's what the bucket's for.

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