John Rees

John Rees

@johnrees.bsky.social

Programmer. Game mechanic prospector. AI Safety appreciator.

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At some point you wonder not just if insiders using information to place bets, but maybe also reshaping their advice to make those bets profitable.

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This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

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For the purposes of this CAPTCHA, please consider the wheels on the bus unconnected from the concept of wheels, round and round, or bus. Please choose all the buses in this single picture of a bus. NO NOT THE WHEELS, YOU ROBOT.

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(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social

Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com "In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this." Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social

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Oswald Mosley's grandson, Louis, is the UK head of Palantir.

John Pettus@johngpettus.bsky.social

Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists. I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to. Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.

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bringing back this old banger pixelart / gamedev post from almost a decade ago: A visual representation of how high 2:1 isometric blocks should be

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Replying to @martin.kleppmann.com

If we take rate of likes as a general measure of activity, that means X was about 30 times bigger in June than Bluesky is now. That may seem like a big difference, but keep in mind that Bluesky has consistently been doubling user numbers every few months, and a factor of 30 is only 5 doublings.

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Replying to @bsky.app

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

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