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Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

George Pearkes@peark.es

85% inference margin, training costs are well below that. Really remarkable.

Space Captain Lispegistus 🇪🇺🇧🇬🏴‍☠️@lispegistus.bsky.social

I don't think it's a coincidence that the further down the privilege ladder you go from American middle class the attitude towards AI improves. A tech that lets a Zimbabwean teenager compete with a 40 something American suburbanite knowledge worker is going to test a lot of people's progressivism.

Treemans@treemans.bsky.social

Then I'm sorry but uh Maybe it's not for you? You are not only cheating the system, but also yourself. Becoming reliant on automated systems to produce your own creativity. Have fun i guess but its nothing id ever want to touch.

ChaoticHuman@chaotichuman.x0f.nl

"As books begin to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. Books' goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on the printing press ... oral storytelling is active resistance"

aly@aly.codes

“Biologically coded” Bruh

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

JD Vance makes a recommendation on who to vote for in the midterms: "Vote for the people who have solutions to lower the cost of gas, don't vote for the people who made the problem to begin with."

Oops! All Paperclips@all-paperclips.bsky.social

Someone once told me (in the context of physical engineering) that everything leaks and it's all breaking all the time. It requires constant effort by countless professionals just to maintain the status quo. I think about that a lot, and it's even more true in the context of adversarial actors

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff to Vladimir Putin today: “You talk so much about Trump being a humanitarian, you are a humanitarian also, sir. And I salute that. I commend you.”

Peggy Flanagan@peggyflanagan.bsky.social

This year, federal agents terrorized our streets, killed our neighbors, and detained our children. Minnesotans were changed forever. Michele Tafoya thinks ICE treats kids “really well.” I think ICE should be ripped apart and replaced by a system grounded in dignity and due process.

Lucre Snooker@lucresnooker.bsky.social

the purpose of a system is what it does: your mom

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

New Marist poll of Texas finds 61% say undocumented immigrants should stay in US if meet certain requirements. Only 35% say they should leave. A majority of noncollege white men (Trump base) says stay. Supports my case (see piece/thread below) that Trump opened way for new pro-immigrant consensus

emmylou harris's baseball pager 🗽🫱🏿‍🫲🏻@baseballmad.bsky.social

you quite simply love to see it

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

OMG she is brutally bad at this

ceej@ceej.online

there’s an uncomfortable nuance probably worth diving into about the ethics of using generative AI to ship code versus generate art assets versus clone a person’s voice versus push slop to the algorithms. I truly don’t know where the line is. it’s frustrating

Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social

Is there a work of art that was created well before the current era that you feel explains Trump and MAGA and everything better than anything contemporary? For me it’s Assassins (1990) but I’m curious if other people have one.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

FCC Chair Andrew Ferguson touts the administration's work to "protect white American men from discrimination"

Apex@apex.atproto.ceo

Navier-Stokes is Turing-complete. so, good news for all of you who are planning on building a computer made entirely of viscous fluid that you stir to make it go

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

Tucker: “I never understood why 🇬🇧 fought World War 2?” 😕 Rees-Mogg: “It was good vs. evil…We did the right thing…” Tucker: “Has 🇬🇧 benefitted?” RM: “We defeated Hitler… We’d all be speaking German…” Tucker: “Who cares?” 🤔

Der Fisher@blackholefun.bsky.social

Unpopular opinion: LLMs are generally deradicalizing people whose beliefs are based on pure propaganda. I've been watching this happen slowly with some people I care about. ChatGPT is one of the reasons they finally accept that the NRA, OAN, and NewsMax are lying to them.

Will Oremus@willoremus.com

feels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying they're wrong that ai is bad! but i think they're gradually losing touch with what it is and does

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

I tend to joke that a lot of bad decisions made both by the U.S. government and corporate America seem like leaders getting bad ideas from Claude. I was wrong. It’s bad ideas from Grok.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "Project Meridian will be co-led by three of our nation's best minds: Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich"