wakk

wakk

@electrospecter.bsky.social

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There are eerie parallels between what’s happening in Irkutsk and what happened in Wuhan in early 2020. Doctors claiming the government was hiding the extent of the spread. Masks being mandated. Schools being closed. Pay attention. Listen to independent journalists & locals:

cnn.comResearcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of ‘unknown’ infection | CNNRussian authorities are responding to an incident in which a dangerous infection was released as a result of a laboratory accident in Siberia and a researcher died.

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AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse www.404media.co/theres-a-100...

404media.coThere’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online.

I think it would be cool if they used Doomsday in the new Avengers flick, so they have to pay both Sade plus MF Dooms estate a gorillion dollars to play like a minute of music in the opening of the film.

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ok this is a grumpy take, but I'm tired of EXTREMELY simple yet essential instructions being made into youtube videos starring some vtuber with an intro for engagement here's how to do it: open twitch, hit the settings gear icon, Security & Privacy, turn the generative AI thing OFF, you're done!

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A certain AAA studio told employees that their internal gen AI was trained only on local data, but whenever said employees tried to generate an image of a woman holding a gun, it generated Lara Croft. The studio was not Crystal Dynamics, and had never worked on the Tomb Raider IP in any capacity.

jess m. ☕🍂@jametc.bsky.social

I just want to mention: Even if your AI somehow runs locally and you think it's okay, it's still using trained data from a pre-existing dataset which is still full of stolen work. The sheer amount of data gen AI needs is in the hundreds of thousands, you can only get that by scraping

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There’s a guy on TikTok who posts just him taking a pizza out of the oven every day with tongs and all of the comments are about how their day is ruined from having watched this

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was very happy to briefly talk to Chris about switching off adobe because they're a fuckass company and i've never been happier with the art i'm making without them

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Sean Brodrick@seanbrodrick.bsky.social

Google (GOOGL) Free Cash Flow goes negative for the first time in history. They’re spending too much on data centers, and search revenues came in below expectations

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"why does the UK change leaders so often?" there are diminishing returns wrt how long each vessel can house thatcher's spirit. by the end of the century we'll be getting through 1000 prime ministers a day

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THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

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The entire city is on edge right now. It’s 96 degrees, we’re interrupted every 5 min by the sound of low-flying fighter jets, and the president has managed to ruin July 4th. Quietly muttering to myself: “just wait until IT happens. Everyone will be so happy when IT happens. It’ll be incredible…”

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vindicated on my longheld belief that the dems could've won way more often even without giving lefties like me anything if they just poured money into the basic on the ground fundamentals instead of consultants and ads, but they don't, didn't, and won't

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social

I’m crying

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every closure and layoff is a tragedy, but seeing bungie people with 20+ years experience affected is hitting extra hard twenty years! people who worked on reach, and halo 2! and you just throw that in the bin? fuck off!

Rebekah Valentine@duckvalentine.bsky.social

god what an unforced disaster to take the team that built and maintained Destiny 2 and just smash it into the rocks instead of investing in whatever that big pile of talent and skill can build next

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Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...

aftermath.siteI’m Tired Of These Useless Jackasses Making The Computer ExpensiveRAM, flash memory, and HDDs are unaffordable because of a bunch of greedy idiots that do not love the computer.
Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social

I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.

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the key to understanding the rich pricks fretting about the left destroying 'the democratic party' is that when they say 'the democratic party' they mean their gentleman's club. that's where they go to do insider trading & extort the elderly with scam texts. you're not allowed in there

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The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

nytimes.comThe Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

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To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

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It's embarrassing how this website handles stuff but it's also embarrassing that you can get DMCAed for linking to a public website

mdm@d8i.com

What he said on discord

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Synapse Films have announced via their newsletter that Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark is getting a 4K UHD release with Dolby Vision from a recently discovered 35mm camera negative for its 40 anniversary. Will include new bonus features and a remastered Tangerine Dream CD soundtrack.

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My grandpa passed yesterday. He said he lived a full live. He was happy with his family, his love, and where the paths he’d chosen led him. But what breaks my heart is he told me he had only one regret: Not seeing another Star Fox 64 remake before he went. Missed it by one day.