Filipe M.

Filipe M.

@macfilipe.bsky.social

Answerer of rhetorical questions. Never met an absurd that couldn't be further reduced. Will shitpost for pizza. Cogito, ergo screwupium. (Acoustician by day, noise maker otherwise)

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Aw, damn. What a truly kind man… RIP, Walter. ❤️🖖🏼

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

About the latest bit of discourse: trust me bro, a lot of people would absolutely love to be able to afford not giving a shit about other countries' elections. Alas, here we are.

Oh you absolutely can, but the fact they don't go there should tell you something.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Why do we always have to take people from shit house countries? We can't we take people from Norway and Sweden and Denmark? By the way, Denmark gave us Greenland ... what do you take, Venezuela or Greenland? We got them both!"

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Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man

Micah@rincewind.run

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards! 'People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.”'

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Sometimes I marvel at the degree to which tech bros fundamentally don’t understand teaching & learning. It’s grounded on give & take. Teacher & student learning from each other as they go—progressing towards knowledge. You can’t teach from a script. Well…you can. But that’s not really teaching.

Just keep asking questions, people. Keep asking questions.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

😳 Trump loses it and SNAPS at a string of reporters, says Ilhan Omar might "go to jail," calls Somalia "a shit house," and boasts that thanks to a new program he announced today Americans "will make millions of dollars by turning others in" during absolutely deranged Oval Office event Supercut:

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Lewis Hamilton has been working with Ferrari’s pit crew on pitstops. With concerns mounting over Ferrari’s competence, Hamilton is set to expand his responsibilities from driving the car and determining race strategy from the cockpit to changing his own tyres mid race.

Right, time to plug the Moza kit, if you need me I'll be throwing virtual cars off of some virtuals ramps in Forza Horizon. A bit like that thing that was introduced earlier, but without pretending that they're real.

Insurers having multiple strokes in 3... 2...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

RFK Jr announces a new initiative to kick people off their healthcare coverage but insists it's no big deal because "they don't even know they were enrolled in anything. They never make a claim."

How did we get from a place where a betting site being allowed to influence the outcome of a sports match would be considered match fixing, and therefore illegal, to one where they're being used as forecasts by supposedly credible news sources when it pertains to elections and the economy?

Hey Microsoft, if at some point you could be bothered to stop making your fucking software as hostile as possible to the users, that would be grand. (no, I don't want to "set up" the computer that I've been using for 10 years after a restart just because you had a brain fart)

Louder for the people in the back:

Filipe M.@macfilipe.bsky.social

Quick note for the journalists out there trying not to fall on their arses: go ahead, instantiate an AI agent. If it starts doing anything without any input, then by all means you're allowed to write "acting on their own" the next time a breach is announced. If it just sits there? Well now...

Yes, that is *exactly* the problem, it's making things complicated for the president. Nevermind the Ukrainian people who keep getting in the way of all the explosive stuff Russia sends their way.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia nods along on Fox & Friends as Rachel Campos-Duffy blasts that "ingrate Zelenskyy who keeps blowing up refineries and making things more complicated for the president ahead of the midterms"

Filipe M. reposted

Quick note for the journalists out there trying not to fall on their arses: go ahead, instantiate an AI agent. If it starts doing anything without any input, then by all means you're allowed to write "acting on their own" the next time a breach is announced. If it just sits there? Well now...

Quick note for the journalists out there trying not to fall on their arses: go ahead, instantiate an AI agent. If it starts doing anything without any input, then by all means you're allowed to write "acting on their own" the next time a breach is announced. If it just sits there? Well now...

Black flag for Lindblad? Driving the wrong way around should be one of those immediate "yeah no mate" under any circumstances. #F1

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Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

not sure what's cheaper, retail therapy or the real therapy needed to process the news today. livestream state sponsored murder? what the actual fuck?!

If not bigot why makes bigot noises?

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

SC Dem Senate nominee Annie Andrews released an ad calling trans women "biological men." She embraces sports and surgery bans for youth. Her campaign even says she won't work to overturn the HRT/blocker trans youth ban. She once argued against capitulation. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Not even trying to hide it anymore.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: You mentioned you want people like Elon Musk to come here, but he didn't build his companies overnight. So how do you decide who is the next Elon Musk? VANCE: One, does the person fill a position that simply cannot be filled by an American worker? Two, is this person a truly elite human being?

Oh look, a generic sponsorship opportunity for my YouTube channel, lemme think about it for a yeah no. fwiw, I'm not denying anyone the need to make a living, but I *hate* ad reads with a passion, and even more when they're artificially woven into a video's theme. (...)

(...) If a music gear brand has gear that they'd like me to get my hands on and demo, or do my typical "video manual" type of stuff? Sure, get in touch. But until further notice you won't catch me telling you why you should be using a VPN in the middle of an explainer about compressors.

Hey Amazon, what exactly in my shopping history made you think I might even be remotely interested in Mr. Beast Protein Bars? Did you get a sudden attack of the stupids?