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I think I broke my finger Saturday. Hurt yesterday, stiff and swollen today. Can't even put that hand in my pocket.

@Rhamlin said:

@d_blades said:
I never knew he was president.

I wish I had researched that. 1440 news was wrong. He was shot by Burr but because he wouldn’t endorse him for President or when he ran for a Governors spot which Burr took offense to and challenged him to a duel.

Interesting thing, we all, or nearly all, learned in school that Hamilton did the "gentlemanly thing" and fired his shot into the air, while Burr took aim and fired, killing his opponent. I saw a documentary a few years back that reported that Hamilton, who provided the weapons for the duel, had altered his weapon to give it a hair-trigger. He merely underestimated the low amount of pressure, and was actually planning to make sure he killed Burr by use of this deception. Not so gentlemanly, or even just manly, after all.

Jesus, where is the big red stop button?

Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included in one of the biggest open-source AI training sets, new research has found.

Thousands of images—including identifiable faces—were found in a small subset of DataComp CommonPool, a major AI training set for image generation scraped from the web. Because the researchers audited just 0.1% of CommonPool’s data, they estimate that the real number of images containing personally identifiable information, including faces and identity documents, is in the hundreds of millions. The study that details the breach was published on arXiv earlier this month.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1120466/a-major-ai-training-data-set-contains-millions-of-examples-of-personal-data/

WNBA players wore shirts that read “Pay Us What You Owe Us” at their all star game.

Fun fact : the WNBA was established 29 years ago. Of those 29 years, the organization has made a profit in exactly zero years.

At my old office if you saw blue tape it was marking the six foot safe bubble for people

Don't speak unless spoken to.
Don't take candy from strangers.
Do as I say., not as I do.

My usual, a peanut butter sandwich, half an orange (the other half put out for the Orioles), and a tree ripend yellow plum.