🔊 IT Guru @StrangeMusicInc | Dialing up the decibels, debugging the beats for @TechN9ne & crew | Rhythm’s secret tech whisperer 🎵🎧💻
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Them actually believing that Dave Chappelle is going to get cancelled is peak-level hilarious! 😆😆😆😆
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Harrison Butker last two kicks:
Missed 56-yarder
*Offside, re-try*
Missed 51-yarder
Halftime.
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Smart MacBook user:
Year 1 (2022): MacBook Pro M2 Pro
- Buys a powerful Apple Silicon laptop.
- Gets a 10-core CPU and up to 16-core GPU.
- Enjoys a stunning Liquid Retina XDR display.
- Gets up to 18 hours of Apple-rated video playback.
- Uses it for coding, studying, professional work and productivity.
Year 2 (2023): MacBook Pro M2 Pro
- Doesn't upgrade just because newer MacBook Pros launch.
- Still gets excellent performance for development.
- Runs multiple applications and browser tabs smoothly.
- Enjoys the same premium display and performance.
- Saves money instead of buying another laptop.
Year 3 (2024): MacBook Pro M2 Pro
- Doesn't upgrade just because the M4 arrives.
- Continues using it for programming and multitasking.
- Handles demanding development workflows.
- Keeps all projects, files and development environments.
- Avoids unnecessary hardware upgrades.
Year 4 (2025): MacBook Pro M2 Pro
- Doesn't upgrade just because newer M5 models arrive.
- Replaces the battery if its health deteriorates.
- Cleans up storage and maintains regular backups.
- Continues using the same machine for work and learning.
- Invests money in skills instead of another laptop.
Year 5 (2026): MacBook Pro M2 Pro
- Doesn't upgrade just because newer MacBooks launch.
- Still uses it for daily development and productivity.
- Enjoys the premium display, speakers and build quality.
- Continues using compatible macOS applications.
- Gets maximum value from the original investment.
The result:
- Five years with one MacBook Pro.
- No unnecessary yearly upgrades.
- Less electronic waste.
- More money saved.
- More focus on skills and productivity.
Smart people buy laptops to get work done, not to chase every new release. 💀
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RIGGED: ESPN announcer calls out SEC refs for ANOTHER missed call favoring Texas.
"I can't believe I'm saying this."
Texas needs a win to avoid being eliminated from CFP contention.
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Dennis Gates is an objectively good recruiter and objectively bad coach. He’s hardly even a coach. Keep standing there with a serious look on your face. You’re a joke of a coach.
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Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/arete
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Sources: Missouri has re-signed quarterback Austin Simmons for the 2027 season, which would bring back a player who projects as one of the faces of the sport. By signing now, Simmons’ return allows the staff at Missouri to retain and recruit a top roster.
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people asked how I turn a single svg path into a 3D volume
here is a visual explanation 👨🎨
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Catastrophically stupid. Reid delivered three Super Bowls and turned decades of mediocrity into sustained excellence. The Hunts extended him through 2029 and still call him a Hall of Fame coach after last year's 6-11. Fans demanding his firing after a 5-2 start and two tough losses are the textbook definition of spoiled and short-sighted.
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BREAKING: Europe is under a massive cyber attack, with supermarket fridges and freezers in Belgium, Sweden, Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands, Finland and Estonia all hacked today by raising temperatures to up to 50°C, destroying huge quantities of food, per Reuters.
"Everything is destroyed," a sales manager in Sweden said, adding that "there has been a cyberattack and all our freezers reached 50 degrees."
More than 40 supermarkets in Belgium and Luxembourg were affected. "I only have two words for them: wake up, please, because there's something going on," a store manager in Belgium said.
This follows a similar cyberattack last month that hit hundreds of supermarkets in France, raising freezers as high as 80°C and causing major food losses.
It also comes after freezers at 6 US military bases mysteriously malfunctioned, spoiling large quantities of food, which the Pentagon is investigating as a suspected cyberattack.
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2016 me: “how are the chiefs?”
2026 me: “gone to 5 of the last 7 super bowls and won 3.”
2016 me: “holy shit. chiefs fans must finally be in heaven.”
2026 me: “they all want to die. they genuinely believe it’s the most incompetently run organization in sports history.”
