Has there been a single recorded instance of an LLM being witty?

So it turns out the little allergy I started having to drinking coffee pod coffee is a cockroach allergy! Apparently the FDA allows a certain percent of ground insect matter into coffee pods and that percentage isn't zero! Grind your own beans folks

My grandma always makes me do the dishes after Easter lunch She will be so happy to see that I cleaned her dirty old pan

Reason #14560 that we’ve been radicalized:

The bacterial flagellar motor can spin at 100,000 RPM in one direction, then switch gears and flip to spinning in the other direction. How does this work? Cryo-electron microscopy reveals some of the nanoscale mechanics involved: nature.com/articles/s41564-0… piped.video/MsPPyNWhqPo

Jacob Savage on the evaporation of opportunities for young white men writing fiction compactmag.com/article/the-v…

Yeah, no. My dad was a PhD in English literature. He was "Dr Wolf." My mom has a PhD in anthropology. She is 'Dr Wolf." My grandmother had a PhD in social work. She was "Dr Goleman." My grandfather had a PhD in comparative religions. He was "Dr Goleman." My brother has a PhD in geography. He is "Dr Wolf." Academics with PhD's or DPhils are called "Dr X." This has been standard practice in the academy and in general in Europe and North America for those with doctorates in arts and letters for a century and a half, and I am not going to disrupt this respected tradition now, simply because all of a sudden medical doctors, who actually train for fewer years than we do in the humanities, decide to have a tantrum about it.

Don't doubt that if Trump and Vance had been in Zelenskyy's position at the start of the invasion they'd have been on the first helicopter out of Kyiv.

I don’t think most people can fathom just how much alcoholics drink. People make jokes about being an alcoholic if they have two drinks a day then maybe 8 on weekends, but the time I drank with my alcoholic friend he put back 20 white claws and half a handle, he did this daily

LAFD Assistant Chief Kristine Larson: "Am I able to carry your husband out of a fire? He got himself in the wrong place."

This order proves that nativism is not even about immigrants. It's about a population purge. We are talking about deporting children who are BORN HERE, who literally have never been in any other country. That is horrific. Yes, bad for GDP too. But monstrous.

Amazing how much mail and comments I get insisting that grocery prices have doubled and are still soaring. They haven't and they aren't.

It’s 100 degrees in my room, but 68 outside, but I can’t change that because England has dumb rules

Imagine being arrested for taking your home back from squatters. NY is run by a bunch of 🤡

Windows 11 has a hardcoded hotkey for LinkedIn (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Windows+L). It can't be disabled, even using the registry. It's treated with the same level of sacrosanctity as "Crtl+Alt+Delete".

My husband just walked into the kitchen and asked me if I'd ever heard of this "interesting sex work writer named Aella."

Happy #Pride! @artbymoga

“tHEy’Ll JuST gRoW BaCk!” No they won’t. They literally fucking won’t. This is beyond fucking stupid and is actually going to fuck over our already fragile ecosystem.

(1 of 5) IT’S OFFICIAL: Earth had its hottest #June on record. Sea surface temperature anomaly was the highest for any month on record. #SeaIce coverage had a record-low in June. bit.ly/44Hi7Q8 @NOAANCEI #StateOfClimate

Let’s not mince words, the Supreme Court is intentionally arming the Confederacy with machine guns before the election.

Think of these goats next time you see a cashmere jumper 💔 #LFW #LondonFashionWeek

That was the Spot to prevent the Stab Red circle Have to have good timing and reflexes

BREAKING: Javier Milei wins Argentinian presidential election

I never thought we'd have to part ways, heretic.

Women looking to date a “guy who reads” are the same as men trying to find a gamer gf. Not going to happen, get real.

Here’s the thing, in the blue parts of our country we beat basically everyone else on life expectancy. Our stats look bad because the south is so abysmal.

Amazon obviously didn’t create 2.1T of value, the whole field of economics research is nonsense

As of next week, I will be starting at the Pentagon at the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy on the Japan Desk. So excited to join this fantastic team of alliance managers at this crucial time. Also looking forward to working again w/ colleagues from INDOPACOM!

Confirmed Electricity is down in entire Portugal and Spain peninsula! Crazy!

My parents once told me that, on a holiday in Europe, the tour guide asked the group where they were from. The non-Americans mentioned their country. The people from the USA mentioned their state, taking the USA as a given. I've never forgotten that.

This is what the people think about J D Vance. Well done to the owners of the Bull!

Tsuneo Yamagishi walks anxiously onto a U.S. post in Japan. It’s 1947. He’s 18, seeking work. And hungry. But he knows little English: “Thank you,” “O.K.” And 2 years earlier, he’d fought the Americans at war. “That is what I worried about, whether they would hire me or not.”

Why are people mowing their yards when they could have this!?

“Arabs can’t build societies” racism run so deep on this site. Look: they can build societies just fine, they just won’t look like what you’re used to in the west.

We are all doing the same job. We teach the same number of classes. I don't think my labor is worth $20,000 LESS than that of my econ colleagues. More money please.

"Fast learners" don't exist. No one child learns faster than their peers – is naturally able to move through material quicker. It just depends on their "starting point" – their previous knowledge bank. Every child is capable of excelling, we just have to give them the chance.

🚨🇺🇸 How does a cargo ship magically lose all its power? Something seems off about this.

Karl Marx died on this day in 1883. His work helps us not only understand capitalism, but fight for a world free of exploitation and domination.🧵

nothing screams I am the main character more than America having the +1 phone code

Boobtech is amazing. It's an area that the rest of medicine could look to as an example. The professionals making bigger, more realistic breast implants are simultaneously improving affordability, safety, and quality at a rapid rate🧵

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women spend thousands of dollars on makeup and maintenance for the “baddie” aesthetic just to find out that men prefer the bare-faced, bare nails, low-maintenance girl next door

It’s true that many women say they want a man who’s “in touch with his emotions,” yet get the "ick" when he expresses them. This can be bewildering for men, but the issue lies in how emotion is expressed, not in the fact of feeling it. Yes, women tend value a man who has emotional fluency and depth, someone who can articulate his inner world and empathise with hers. But they recoil when a man loses his composure, collapses emotionally and turns to her for emotional containment. The moment she has to soothe or stabilise him, when she must step into the role of his therapist or mother, the polarity between them collapses. She no longer feels his strength; she feels his need. And that is where the "ick" arises from. So this is the key distinction: Emotional depth does not mean emotional dumping. A man can speak openly about his struggles while remaining self-possessed and anchored in his own centre. He might say, “I’ve had a rough week and I'm working through some frustration, but I'll be fine,” rather than dissolving into self-pity or seeking reassurance. He shares what’s real without burdening her with it. His emotions are contained by his own form. That’s what women respond to: emotional transparency grounded in composure. It signals a robust and stable inner centre. It shows he can hold complexity without being consumed by it. By contrast, many men, fearing that any show of feeling will make them appear weak, over-correct by suppressing or hiding their emotions entirely. They present a stoic façade that keeps her at arm’s length. While this may preserve his ego, it starves intimacy. She feels locked out of his interior world, perhaps admiring and respecting him, but ultimately feeling exiled from his soul. This lack of emotional connection is far more painful for the woman, who (unlike the man) is not a self-sustaining principle. As the embodiment of the lunar principle, she requires reflection to feel whole, to know herself through the mirror of his awareness. When that mirror is blank, she loses the sense of being felt, and something in her begins to close. Both collapse and repression arise from the same root: disconnection from the solar centre. In the first, emotion floods the structure; in the second, the structure dams the flow. The true alternative (and what women are innately seeking in man when they say they want him to be "in touch" with his emotions) is one in which those feelings are governed by conscious form. The man is able to remain inwardly still while emotion moves through him; he neither denies it nor is swept away by it. That stillness is what allows him to hold space for the woman’s depths without being drowned by them. This is neither stoicism nor vulnerability, but a secret third thing: an inner sovereignty where emotion has been mastered by spirit rather than suppressed by force of will.

AI based laser based pesticide and herbicide. No chemicals. Meet Ironman…

A university janitor who turned off a freezer after hearing multiple “annoying alarms,” ruined more than 20 years of research, according to a lawsuit filed against his employer by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York cnn.it/44ilOLH

If this describes the competence of the @wef with regard to energy, I would be concerned for very different reasons... This is the stuff that makes engineers cry:

Antisemitism is society’s ‘canary in the coalmine.’ Wherever it appears, if left unchecked, hatred of all people grows. Antisemitism may begin with bigotry towards Jews, but it spreads far beyond. Help us combat this age-old poison. Follow the Combat Antisemitism Movement.

Actually, this illustrates an important point: I complain about lefties partly because they have power, but partly because I can't escape their bullshit. I can get along for months with no idea what happens in righty town, because it's not shoved down my throat.

You're not going to believe this shit! When I was a teenager living in Hanover, Massachusetts, I got into a couple of fights with a kid a bit younger than me but slightly bigger, named Andy Byron. He thought he was tough, so I had to put him in his place. I beat him up once or twice, but later, he and another buddy from Laurie Lane—I was the fuckin' new guy—jumped me, and I lost that fight. Turns out, he's the same guy who was caught cheating on his wife at the Coldplay concert! The guy clearly hasn't learned his lesson. When I knew him, I thought he'd be a competitor, he's now the CEO of Astronomy, but I also knew he'd be a complete sociopath, and it turns out I was right.

First things first: the impact of folks not filing their taxes because they are afraid of deportation would be detrimental to our economy. Two: immigrants pay taxes but do not benefit from the social programs that most taxpayers do. Three: everyone should be concerned about the privacy implications here. This sets the precedent that the federal government can arbitrarily share your personal information with law enforcement. And it's just wrong.

I announced we're investing another $82M to connect 16,000 additional homes and businesses to high-speed internet across North Carolina. This is just one piece of a much bigger story. Under my leadership, over 40,000 infrastructure projects have been announced across our nation.

This woman OWNS 37 acres of land. The government STILL told her she can’t put a tiny home on it. “I said, I own the land. It's massive. What's the problem?” Even when you own the land, the government still tries to tell you what you're allowed to do with it.

Fewer than 1 in 5 doctors can correctly answer a basic question about statistics

Billionaires, Musk in particular, spaffed £3,000,000,000 on this rocket. It blew up within 240 seconds. If this doesn’t convince you that we must tax the billionaire class, nothing will.

ASU senior starts crying after she finds out that she won't be able to graduate after she got arrested for protesting on campus. Breanna Brocker tells @bdbrown473 that she won't be graduating because her suspension means she will miss her finals. "I'm a little disappointed. I'm being restricted from a lot of things right now that I, that I didn't expect to be for first standing up for something that I believe in." "I have, I have family coming in who I have to let them know to, you know, not come to my graduation ceremonies."

What on Earth would I do with a personal humanoid robot? Where would I put it? Industrial applications galore, sure. But I don’t need a $20K (or $200K) device to empty my dishwasher.

The quality of Lightsaber fights has gone down a lot 😔

But brass/copper/silver all will tarnish, and no-one wants to install hardware that will soon look "dirty" pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article….

John Oliver slams Elon Musk as "the less f*ckable reimagining of Billy Zane’s character in ‘Titanic.’" He also compared Musk to "Lex Luthor, posing for the cover of Metropolis Maniacs Monthly. There’s ‘Why no Mr. Bond, I and my child bride expect you to die.' There’s ‘I just bought your media company, I’m about to strip you for parts.’ There’s space’s first racist sheriff...Truly, the man has range." Read more here: variety.com/2023/tv/news/joh…

the thing about chernobyl is that if it happened in the us we wouldn’t have evacuated anyone. and i know this cause a chernobyl equivalent nuclear meltdown happened within los angeles county limits and we all still live here lol

Heartless Nebraska teen who slit newborn son’s throat after secret birth to spend at least 35 years behind bars for gruesome slaying trib.al/cReUN8h

A disproportionate share of terrorists are engineers. I remember reading this in 2010 and updating from "being smart leads to better beliefs" to "there are traps only smart people can fall for." I am often reminded of this fact.

The Army War College thinks war with China could cause 3600 casualties per day. So, they're considering a draft. press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi…

These political shifts among Ivy League Jewish students are remarkable:

This breakdown of Trump net approval is fascinating sociologically.

why do men like wearing hats so much?

“You cannot seriously believe there are computer systems capable of causing $100M in losses if a single trusted individual types in a single command. That seems astoundingly unlikely. Efficient Markets and all that.” Yeah that is uncontroversial engineering reality. Point blank.