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Holy shit Daredevil

Today I defeated Bayle on my #EldenRing RL1 run. It took 89 attempts. Now I have only Promised Consort Radahn on my All Remembrances RL1 run. I don’t know how I’ll ever get him, but I thought that about a dozen bosses on this run, and managed to get them, so… hopefully I find a way.

Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…

I defeated Malenia on my #EldenRing RL1 run today. That was a win I thought I’d never get. 379 attempts required. Now I’m down to just Bayle and Consort Radahn on my all Remembrances run.

It means very bad things. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

"I don't remember there being so many big fires in the past!" "Weird to see so many fires this time of year!" Wow, yeah, it is almost as if something is CHANGING.

organisations need to have policies about wearables and about AI transcription of meetings and how to turn them off for meetings that count as confidential - especially if a topic wasn't on the agenda but needs to be covered - and how to sanitise recordings done by accident/block devices that can't

I very much agree w/this. It’s why Invisible Rulers focused on factional realities, group identities, & divergent publics created via the influencer-algorithm-crowd triad — not problems of fact. Group identity negotiation happens within the factions, with no easy way to see across the expanse.

Deleted my Instagram and Threads accounts this morning. I'm not going to participate in a social media ecosystem that doesn't do basic community moderation. www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/243...

These are the key facts everyone needs to know about climate change, according to @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social. I shared this post across 7 different social media platforms, including FB, LI, Mastodon, Threads, X and Twitter both pre-and post-Musk. Here's how their engagement stacked up. 🧵

I also looked at personal posts (on food, cats, holidays). Although the sample is much smaller, I see a similar trend. This evidence suggests recent algorithm changes on Threads significantly down-weighted climate content as well as altering what people see. techcrunch.com/2024/11/21/t...

Good. We need to be on-shoring more, and owning more of our own production and industry, not less... www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/u...

That chart is wild.

I defeated Messmer on my #EldenRing RL1 run today. That just leaves Malenia, Bayle, and Consort Radahn for my All Remembrances run (yes, Bayle technically doesn’t count and my lean on that fact at some point, LOL). Malenia seems impossible for RL1, but I guess I’ll start trying her next.

In this Philly diner, Adrian still means Talia Shire. But they do know this: if you can’t admit that Americans are too retarded to work in tech, you should step back and fuck yourself in the face.

AGI is defined by a certain profitability threshold. Of course. gizmodo.com/leaked-docum...

Chatted with Adam Lowenstein for The Ink about how to fight an epidemic of bad faith. Not sure I have the answers here, but a lot of good people are trying to figure it out… the.ink/p/how-to-fig...

I sure hope some circuit court judge doesn’t say anything about this or they could be in danger of an ethics violation.

#Severance #SZA

Here's the truth: Elon Musk doesn't want any restrictions on his investments in China, and that's why we're on the brink of a government shutdown. This is the first scandal of Trump's second term, and it'll look like a lot of the others: putting personal financial interests above the country's.

1) The Senate will be 53-47 GOP while Dems represent 53.5% of the 50-state population 2) 51% of Americans live in the 9 biggest states & get 18 senators; 16% in the 25 smallest states get 50 3) CA is > the 21 smallest states combined & 67 times > WY 4) 4 million citizens in DC & PR get 0 senators

I just watched the new Superman trailer and I thought it was the Special music video for a second 😫

I feel attacked 🤣

I've been warning about this for a while. Sooner than you think U.S. economists may have to go Argentine, cobbling together alternative estimates of inflation, employment and so on because the official data have been corrupted.

I defeated Metyr on my #EldenRing RL1 run today. That just leaves Messmer, Bayle, Consort Radahn, and Melania to get all the Remembrances. Down to the real crunch here. IDK how I’m going to get any of them at RL1. But then, I’ve gotten much further than I ever thought I would.

I've been saying this from the minute Trump started talking about tariffs: there's no principle here, no "policy." It's an ad hoc system via which Trump can reward friends & punish enemies -- the only form of governance he understands.

What I'd really like to hear from Democrats is a plan for what they'll do if they win back the house in two years. A plan that is more effective than what they did when they won back the house in Trump's first midterm. Trump started running again as soon as he lost, Dems could take a page there.

Free speech absolutism indeed... we need to come together as a nation somehow to see to it this actually goes to court so Selzer can crush him, and not just let this be intimidation by ultra-wealthy oligarchs that can fund endless legal harassment. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

YES. Please somehow make this happen. apnews.com/article/joe-...

the lefty economic policy that Biden got through didn't pay off as much as I hoped politically, but in the economic data it actually worked way better than I thought it would newrepublic.com/article/1892...

We will truly never learn. Every time, *every time* we deregulate the financial sector there is an enormous blow up. And the idea of getting rid of deposit insurance is insane. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

I defeated Midra on my #EldenRing RL1 run today. So, down to Metyr, Messmer, Bayle, Melania, and Consort Radahn for my all Remembrances RL1 run (Bayle isn’t a Remembrance boss, I know).

No matter how you spin it, this is a massive conflict of interest and it is hard to imagine Trump not abusing this situation to steal enormous sums from investors. Whatever your politics, we all need to speak out firmly against this sort of kleptocratic corruption.

Trump has had plenty of time to come up with an explanation for why he wants to fire his own handpicked FBI director. He apparently can't think of anything real. A president firing an FBI director without cause — twice — remains an underappreciated scandal. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

I defeated Romina on my #EldenRing RL1 run today. So that just leaves Midra, Metyr, Messmer, Bayle, Consort Radahn, and Malenia for my “All Remembrances” RL1 run.

I got the Scadutree Avatar on my #EldenRing RL1 run last night. So, my missing Remembrances are: Malenia, Romina, Midra, Metyr, Messier, Bayle (not a Remembrance, I know), and Consort Radahn. I'm amazed I've gotten this far, I didn't think I'd get past a handful of Remembrances.

Looking out for the working class.

Convenient timing given that these credits were key to Tesla's early success but now largely benefit its competitors. Prepare for crony capitalism on a breath-taking scale. www.politico.com/live-updates...

@qjurecic.bsky.social looks at what President Biden's pardon of his son "says about those aspects of the legal system that are most vulnerable to misuse by an incoming president who has promised to do all he can to harass his enemies."