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Packy McCormick
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Packy McCormick
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- astronauts when they find out Boeing is getting all the manned spaceflight contracts now
- We’re so back.
We’ve rolled back last week's GPT-4o update in ChatGPT because it was overly flattering and agreeable. You now have access to an earlier version with more balanced behavior. More on what happened, why it matters, and how we’re addressing sycophancy: openai.com/index/sycophan… - When I stay out a little too late with the boys and try to make it up to my wife by doing the dishes before she wakes up
- holy shit. they did it. those crazy sonsabitches really did it.Introducing the newest iPad Air!
- This Hindu temple just opened near my in-laws’ in NJ. Second largest in the world. We can, we do know how to do it. Culture Critic in absolute shambles.
- In our Uber home last night, we noticed that the driver was listening to questions from the US Citizenship test and giving the answers under his breath. Asked him where he was from: China. Asked him why he wanted to become a US citizen: freedom. Said he practices every day
- Indians are the only people who have figured out how to make vegetarian food good.Why Indian food is the best in the world: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
- Mamdani has achieved “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?” status. Every (legitimate, disqualifying in a sane political environment) criticism leveled against him makes his base like him more. His is an eight grade
- Has Putin tried simply debating Prigozhin on Rogan?
- “DEI is racist! We should only hire based on merit! Most talented person gets the job, sorry if that hurts your feelings!” Ok fair, good idea, we will just hire the most talented people no matter what they look like or where they come from. “Oh so you hate Americans…”
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