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So much lost history
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If you use a phrasal template to try to subvert the original, you’ve already lost the frame war. Winning frames that make hostile usages look weak: - Make X great again - X is eating the world - X lives matter - Big X Bill You subvert with a different logic, not a different focus How? 🤔
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For nougat with nuts look for Turkish candy, they have pure nuts+nougat things. Too much for me, but you might like it.
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I have double-decker-pilled one person so far.
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🫡 Team double decker grows!
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They are, but I think local resellers stock them. I’m not sure if the US Cadbury licensee (Hershey I think) makes them, unlike other Cadbury products that exist in distinct and different US versions. Lemme know what your wrapper says.
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Umm you can buy them here on Amazon from resellers
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The face eating leopard is now a face eating doge
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Starting in a couple of minutes. @Arvind Narayanan on the @Protocolized town hall, talking about his AI as Normal Technology philosophy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6SRoqp1vJQ
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Lots of action in the latest issue of Protocolized. This really is turning into a magazine now. Provocative summary of a distributed-AI future called south beast Asia Also: a talk in an hour by Arvind Narayanan and a new fiction bounty protocol. https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/a-sea-of-distributed-ai
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Clearly Zorro was involved
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Interesting eth wallet experiment over on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/piss.beauty/post/3lsutfcshek22
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If you attack someone for the AI they use rather than the substance of what they say, it’s called an ad botinem.
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🧐 no protein?
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Tragedy is about what you can’t undo. Horror is about what you cannot unsee. Terror is about what you cannot prevent.
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Kicking off rn in the SoP discord, the Spannungsfeld (tension field) Special Interest Group (SIG). We’re figuring out how to manage the tensions latent in all protocols. https://discord.gg/nPkq6Ukz?event=1385257235424346215
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I see what you did there. All of them. No matter what model you use, someone will have a criticism of the choice.
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The biggest emerging blocker to using AI for public stuff for me is the growing species of people who will critique my choice of model if I declare it, and demand to know it so they can critique it if I do. It’s worse than being around wine people or indie movie watchers. It’s like being in a damn Seinfeld episode. 99% of the time it makes zero difference for me. And if you care that much you should stop reading me 🤬
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Yesterday ended up even worse than it started. Stuck for hours in traffic due to 405 closure we hadn’t properly anticipated but should have. Today is off to a better start but only because my expectations are really low. Batch of dosa/Idli batter I didn’t think would come out well, didn’t. But it wasn’t worse than I expected, which is a win. The breakfast was edible. Plans for rest of day built around similar low expectations around highly suboptimal preconditions. Forecast for next week is slow recovery. Whether I have a good or bad day is 90% a function of the enshittification level of domestic and neighborhood systems. A kind of protocol weather. Right now it’s fragile and low-potential with a chance of messy breakdowns.
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And not freeze. Refrigerate uncut. Inside is the same.
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