Matt Rkiouak

Gotta quote post so I can pin this.

This is excellent: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nIS...

cohere.com/blog/concern... I think it's really easy to make an argument that any Chinese trained set of weights is a supply chain risk.

This story (about the town where the Spurs reached out to flood victims last year) is incredible. Every other paragraph is jaw-droppingly screenshottable. Then there's this graphic, which becomes all the more stunning when you realize that it's essentially the work of one guy.

I have not once joined a company that did not code with embarrassing, no reason for being so insecure, code. Code is thought, no one has perfect thoughts, especially on a timeline. Just like everything else in life, automation provides consistency that is an improvement on rote human action.

The Diplomat (season 4) is such a bizarre mix of genres, not all serious, but it is most like horror in cathartically portraying insane events that would look like a quant nostalgic vision of washington to Gen Z.

Retirees want to stop paying property taxes

People need to stop asking liars hypotheticals.

I think this is an excellent description of what's going on. There are real issues with how these models were originally created and that's a separate conversation. We are where we are now and people do not want to be disrupted. Moral people will push people to be competitive.

"A tech that lets a Zimbabwean teenager compete with a 40 something American suburbanite knowledge worker is going to test a lot of people's progressivism."

Tom Nichols is a conservative moron who is way too full of himself and so is his audience, round 1,000 today

I think this is right. There's also a lot of creative destruction that needs to run it's course to re-center good work. Big Tech and conglomerates can probably get away with continuing weird scale math games on shareholder money, but any work without a capital moat is different now.

Why is this student so upset about the mushroom, though? What could it have done to make her protest across the whole continent

this must be what it feels like to live in gotham and friends are texting you shit like the joker just made money poisonous and the penguin has had an army in the sewer for over 6 years now

"Honestly, if we end up with two hundred and twenty-five seats on the White Council, I would be disappointed. I would rather Sauron keep control of Middle-earth by five seats than have the Fellowship win by five, because then we’d be hostage to the Ents." buff.ly/9WluK1y

YOU HAD HIS EMAILS AS A GEORGE BUSH LAWYER WHERE HE SAID OF ROE THAT THE "COURT CAN ALWAYS OVERRULE ITS PRECEDENT, AND THREE CURRENT JUSTICES ON THE COURT WOULD DO SO."

if Zohran Mamdani used the word "Shylock" the ADL would have called in a nuclear strike on New York City by now

how do you write this?! how do you not realize you are the fucking problem here?! you are the one doing things worse! they are better at this than you!

It'd probably be more efficient if the government just nationalized the company and took it over directly.

Kept hearing from Flock prostesters that they didn't understand how cameras went up with their tax dollars and without their knowledge. I read dozens of contracts and found 55 times the company testified their product is unique (despite the other ALPR cameras on the market) to avoid bidding process.

very underrated that you can use deepseek without having to listen to a guy holding a flashlight under his chin

The US military fired roughly 19 years’ worth of Patriot interceptor purchases in just seven months of Trump’s Iran War, the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimates.

one wonders how they arrived at that “it’s ok to kill or injure 49 people, but 50 is right out” figure.

Democrats need to be ready to hold hearings and inquiries into the assault that Musk, Zuckerberg and other tech bros are making against democratic institutions at home and abroad.

(THR) - TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies. .. raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.” @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

These people need to be expelled from the military at the soonest opportunity. The Democratic party is a complete failure for not having consistently prepared the country for all the incredibly hard things we need to do to rebuild.

Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.

This can only mean we need to give more dudes more opportunities to publicly talk about AI www.wired.com/story/men-ca...

Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

wow -- Hegseth's talk at a conference is disrupted four separate times in succession by anti-Iran war protesters

Now that is quite a photo. (Credit: Doug Mills / New York Times)

Every single Democratic (and Republican) politician should be calling for the immediate nationalization of SpaceX: malcontentnews.substack.com/p/starlink-r...

NYC COMPTROLLER LEVINE: “.. One more possible sign that AI is already impacting employment in NYC: .. For the first time in decades, NYers ages 22–27 with a college degree have a higher unemployment rate than those without one.”

“.. In Maine, the cost to fill a standard heating-oil tank as of Wednesday was $1,650, up roughly 80 percent from a year earlier ..” @nytimes.com #MEsen www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...

AHHHHHHH THE ONLY REASON HE EVEN STAYS TO DIE AT TROY IN THE ILIAD IS TO AVENGE PATROCLUS. IT'S A POEM ABOUT HIS RAGE. THE OPENING LINES ARE PRETTY CLEAR WHY CAN'T A SINGLE DEFENDER OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION READ A SINGLE THING FROM THE WESTERN CANON AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution

"Oscar-winner Alex Gibney’s 4-hour documentary about Elon Musk may be the most important film of the year." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/elon...

Reporter: Why does Mike Rogers have to answer for Donald Trump if you don't have to answer for Hasan Piker? Abdul El-Sayed: Is that a serious question? Reporter: I didn't want to ask another dumb one, so I wrote it down for you. El-Sayed: Well, Donald Trump is the president of the United States.