Marc Lyons Smith @marclyonssmith

Copyeditor, Poetry, Fiction, Baseball, Books, Pacific Northwest, MBA. Love God and love your neighbor. Portland, OR Joined May 2025

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Marc Lyons Smith @marclyonssmith

2 months ago

I want to buy a 2026 replica.

Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk

2 months ago

This Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looks so modern, yet it was made over 2,000 years ago! Ancient glassmakers created the tiny flower pattern using a technique now known as ‘millefiori’ (thousand flowers). A timeless design still made by glassmakers today! British Museum

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Marc Lyons Smith @marclyonssmith

2 months ago

Legumina. Ugh! (as in Ugh-ly). #Mariners

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Academy of American Poets @POETSorg

2 months ago

Nick Offerman will read at Poetry & the Creative Mind on April 28. Join us for this virtual celebration of poetry. Free with registration: bit.ly/40ODZZU

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Portland Trail Blazers @trailblazers

2 months ago

YOUR 2025-2026 PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS ARE HEADED TO THE PLAYOFFS ‼️

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2 months ago

I’m going to be blunt. I’d like to talk about some of the very stupid things that people are saying right now If you’re not catholic, I’m not talking to you. I’m talking to people who say they are Catholic. Let’s start with the talking point about the pope sitting behind walls. Have you been to the Vatican? These “high walls” that were built in the fourth century leave an opening about a half a mile wide so that anyone and everyone can simply walk in anytime. Look at an image of Saint Peter Square you’ll see exactly what I mean. What the heck are you guys talking about with high walls? Would you like them to tear down a fourth century wall so that you think their politics might be more defendable? Would you like a pope that runs about shouting “cry havoc and let’s slip the dogs of war!” is that the pope you want? What mighty army would he summon? How did our invasion of Iraq in the Afghanistan go? How many corpses do we need to pile up until everyone understands that war is a horror. Statistically, more than 99% of the people screaming for war will never be affected by it. Maybe The Pope should call for a crusade? I’m sure all 27 Americans who replied to it would make a huge difference. Your political masters .2 about eight posts to see how bad the pope is. You believe them. He’s given a ton of speeches about Islamic violence, he’s done everything in his speaking power to encourage people toward peace. But your political masters told you different and you followed like good acolytes. Most of our Protestant brothers and sisters love us, Catholics. But the Huxter‘s and the insecure don’t. I’m watching Catholics repeat the talking points of anti-Catholic madman and acting like they have a geopolitical sense greater than that of a man in charge of a world wide institution with 1.3 billion members. Pardon my intensity, but I am very sick of Americans being more formed by right wing and left-wing political commentators then they are by the spirit of the living God. Do you want war? Go fight in one. Stand with me at the funeral of these beautiful lives, shredded and cut short so that your political masters are appeased.

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Guitar Gods Unleashed @gguworld

2 months ago

"Ramble On" is 56 years old and Robert Plant just walked onto The Late Show and made it sound like he wrote it this morning.

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag

2 months ago

Work on your reports. Review each of your life's ten million choices. Endure moments of self-loathing.

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English Grammar @GrammarUpdates

2 months ago

When one English word means its opposite

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Marc Lyons Smith @marclyonssmith

2 months ago

@TexasTribune Don't most health plans include the option to fill pharmacy prescriptions by mail?

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Marc Lyons Smith @marclyonssmith

2 months ago

@RestrictedDaily Centuries are counted differently than decades.

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Marc Lyons Smith @marclyonssmith

2 months ago

I am someone who has recently come back to the #Catholic Church of my youth. nytimes.com/2026/03/26/us/…

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Marc Lyons Smith @marclyonssmith

2 months ago

Trusting #AI without verification can be expensive. salemreporter.com/2026/03/25/sal…

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Natasha Jaques @natashajaques

3 months ago

The paper I’ve been most obsessed with lately is finally out: nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…! Check out this beautiful plot: it shows how much LLMs distort human writing when making edits, compared to how humans would revise the same content. We take a dataset of human-written essays from 2021, before the release of ChatGPT. We compare how people revise draft v1 -> v2 given expert feedback, with how an LLM revises the same v1 given the same feedback. This enables a counterfactual comparison: how much does the LLM alter the essay compared to what the human was originally intending to write? We find LLMs consistently induce massive distortions, even changing the actual meaning and conclusions argued for.

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Marc Lyons Smith @marclyonssmith

3 months ago

Strike on an elementary school by the US killed at least 175, many of them children, raising questions as to whether the military’s use of AI-enabled targeting was a factor.