Delyn Simons

Delyn Simons

@delynator.bsky.social

🫡 RIP Twitter. Proud daughter of a 🇺🇸 veteran and a public school librarian. Married to a 🇬🇧 immigrant, mother of two dragons 🐉 🐉

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I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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I’ve spent months exploring smart defaults for fact checking to minimize hallucinations in ChatGPT & Claude and now have something I think is ready to share. Add the following prompt to the Settings->Personalization-> Custom instructions in ChatGPT and Settings-> Profile->Instructions in Claude.

“The price of collaboration in America has already turned out to be extraordinarily high.” Great gift article evergreen piece from 2020 by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu The Vichy France analogy hits 🎯

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Florida police almost ruined a man's life based off a false facial recognition match. Our client Robert Dillon is one of at least 15 people who have been wrongfully arrested because police relied on this dangerous technology. This cannot continue.

reason.comACLU sues after facial recognition falsely identifies Florida man as a child abductorPolice arrested and charged Robert Dillon with a heinous crime based on nothing more than a faulty image search.

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This is Freddy and Ozzy. They are transferring data. Please do not disrupt them until the process is complete. 13/10 for both (TT: whatfreddyretrieves)

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Whenever I hear someone say that PMs are vibe coding features in production, I always want to ask if those PMs are on call for when those features inevitably break in production? Note: All features eventually break-in production.

Support investigative journalism not owned by US tech billionaires. ProPublica also gets contributions that have been harvested back from my #resistandunsubscribe savings The days of 60 Minutes interviews, Woodward + Bernstein investigations are gone. Follow the money.

theguardian.comSex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s clubFiles reveal a world of flattery and fratboy tones, where rich men are cultivated and women provide services

Then you can take some of your discretionary spend savings from #resistandunsubscribe and support local journalism in your community, strong investigative journalism, like www.propublica.org and www.npr.org that still hold the powerful to account Fight for a healthy fourth estate again 🇺🇸

propublica.orgProPublica — Investigative Journalism and News in the Public InterestProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

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Carlos Alcaraz defeated Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open final at Melbourne Park Sunday. It’s his seventh Grand Slam title, drawing him level with John McEnroe and Mats Wilander in the all-time list.

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Replying to @margaret.bsky.social

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

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Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."

Eric Columbus@ericcolumbus.bsky.social

Powell responds ON VIDEO with basically a polite version of Phil Hartman’s Frank Sinatra saying “I got chunks of guys like you in my stool!” www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

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Lovely to listen to this most beautiful of Christmas songs and then read its history—a Ukrainian import to the US that was originally about a swallow flying in to proclaim a bountiful year for a family and their sheep farm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shchedr...

en.wikipedia.orgShchedryk (song) - Wikipedia
Pete@petetheref.bsky.social

The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground. Wonderful!

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This is Gus. His brother Walter is trying to teach him how to catch a treat. Sadly it may be a lost cause. Still 13/10 for both (IG: waltandgusthebernese)

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At this point it's a cliche to point out the parallels between the AI bubble and the dotcom bubble but it's fascinating to see AI equivalent of companies buying banner ads from each other. Here it's Nvidia investing $100B in OpenAI which OpenAI will then use to rent datacenter capacity from Nvidia.

openai.comOpenAI and NVIDIA announce strategic partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systemsOpenAI and NVIDIA announce a strategic partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters powered by NVIDIA systems, with the first phase launching in 2026.

If you hate a good love story, that says a lot about you. Take a seat today, and don’t yuck other people’s yum. Also, sending your digits to her on a friendship bracelet is a certified meet cute move.

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Replying to @ryanlcooper.com

Facebook is probably up there with oil and tobacco companies in terms of net harm to human society

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

www.reuters.com/investigates...

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NEW: Microsoft announced that Chinese state-sponsored hackers had exploited vulnerabilities in its popular SharePoint software. But the company didn’t mention that it has long used China-based engineers to maintain the product. By @reneedudley.bsky.social

propublica.orgMicrosoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by ChinaMicrosoft announced that Chinese state-sponsored hackers had exploited vulnerabilities in its popular SharePoint software but didn’t mention that it has long used China-based engineers to maintain the...

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Whether it’s Trump and Netanyahu refusing to feed starving Gazans or a farmers market vendor refusing to sell Alan Dershowitz a pierogi, both sides are guilty of withholding food from hungry people.

thank you for keeping this platform useful for humans by not rewarding trolls, energy vampires, mechahitler AI, and clickbait. learn from mistakes made on other dying platforms 🫡 #usefulcontent

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