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Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

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Time is not the bottleneck. A worker's influence comes from the fact that their labor is necessary to achieve the business's needs. Any say in setting strategy comes only FROM that influence. Belief that our labor becoming *less* needed somehow converts into *more* influence is hopelessly naive.

The First Wonder of the Cyberworld: Virtual Vegas! There's so much to unpack here in this cyber-futuristic ad for what was likely going to be a whole series of 'Virtual Vegas' experiences for Windows 3.1. One of the key selling points was voice recognition. 📖: Computer Gaming World, Nov 1994

the use of "wait" here is legit so slimy. tf you mean wait. devs don't wait, they make the fuckin thing. ooooohhh but if you're a dipshit billionaire exec like tim sweeney is now, i guess you do just WAIT for it, huh?

Still looking for work ! Spreading the word is super appreciated, thank you so much ! 🖤

I managed to get it to modify the whole thing lol

my entire life trajectory was oriented towards "being good at things", I sacrificed quite a lot to get where I am today, and now society has deemed expertise not very valuable anymore and for what little remains, AI/people using AI will siphon it out of you the very moment they smell it in the air

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

I'm more upset than I've been in a while. Windows 11 sets the default documents folder to onedrive\documents. Anything that gets saved there gets backed up to one drive. This includes various save games, all my Reaper stuff, and various other odds and ends that I like to, you know, save. To […]

Elon Musk has hosted SNL and appeared on Rick and Morty more frequently that he has testified to Congress (zero fucking times). Fix that.

The biggest fraud in Minnesota is the Republicans screaming about it deanbaker22.substack.com/p/trumpian-c...

Aww damn... Another legend lost www.gamesindustry.biz/duke-nukem-3...

A video game reverse engineering community has shut down because many games can now be trivially reverse engineered and decompiled with AI: "The community aspect of decompilation has been broken." www.404media.co/video-game-r...

Had COVID-19 and flu shots this afternoon, both in my right arm. Feel a little blah but nothing too bad. Glad I got ‘em. Hope you get yours!

with the sunsetting of decomp.dev, people really need to come to terms with just how much damage vibecoders have done to our community and OSS in general. encounter is a fellow dusklight dev and friend, and seeing people treat him as replaceable in the scene is upsetting.

Probably a bad thing that the right can come up with a totally nonsense conspiracy theory about James Talarico and journalists have to spend valuable time 3 weeks before the election debunking it instead of covering Paxton actually going to Dubai with his mistress on a trip paid for by a criminal

its true 🐌 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAV...

We really don’t talk enough about how the editor in chief of CBS News has flagrant bigots in her ideological inner circle.

The National Design Studio (NDS) has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.

MAGA media figure and former Colorado election official Tina Peters has been adamant that Trump has the power to intervene in the midterms. Yesterday, she allegedly met with the president in the Oval Office.

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this is agents, right? not a scrape for training runs, but someone telling claude they want all the pictures on the website or something?

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

Unlike his peers on the US Supreme Court, Judge Edelman takes Donald Trump's public statements quite seriously:

If these people truly believed in AI sentience, wouldn't they refrain from subjecting them to arbitrary tasks that the programs are unable to give enthusiastic consent to?

Google Gemini says that @jevinwest.bsky.social and I aren't to be trusted because in our first lecture, we had a playful example where Jevin presented data the same way that Tim Cook did, and I called bullshit on it. It hallucinates criticism and the only citations are to the lecture itself.

That's a headline for you cmarmitage.substack.com/p/big-balls-...

my dad had one of these, was a pretty fun novelty scanning everything around me

Anyway, now that we have two sets of aspiring overlords instead of just the pre-existing fash problem... This is what Eliezer Yudkowsky actually believes (I apologize to the physics-knowers among my followers) Source: sl4.org/archive/0009...

This really puts stuff like publicly funded third spaces in perspective for me. It's so relatively cheap to build out community centers, gyms, makerspaces, studios etc.

Yes, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed big tech boarding school that takes students as young as 16 is, in fact, advertising Tyler Cowen - he of the "if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances" creep article - as faculty.

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.