Ryan LeBlond

Ryan LeBlond

@rlleblond.bsky.social

Checking out a new social media site. Trying to get away from toxicity. Why can I not upload a picture for my profile? Oh, because I love that white in blue so much I'm leaving it.🤦

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The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Has this guy ever been on the right side of an issue? He got his start being completely wrong about the Iraq war?

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com

Matthew Yglesias continues to say that talking about ICE and excessive force in immigration enforcement helps Republicans. He is obviously wrong about this and refuses to acknowledge the data. Way past time for everyone to update their priors on this.

Ryan LeBlond reposted

The Celtics return to the NBA after blowing a 3-1 lead... and the Pistons return to the NBA after coming back from a 3-1 deficit... by participating in a game in which Detroit overcomes a 22-point deficit The brands are STRONG

The very people we were warned about video games destroying. Reminds of that movie Toys with Robin Williams where they had kids training to kill people like it was a video game, or even Ender's Game.

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social

Our tech boys are unwell.

Ryan LeBlond reposted

Love that my opponent is trying to paint me as someone who wants political violence and meanwhile her party is going to execute someone on live tv (after already murdering multiple citizens in the streets and fishermen in boats)

Watching a murder documentary and it opens with "I grew up in a safe place" and I'm thinking, then why is there a murder documentary about where you grew up?

Road Salt of the Earth kind of guy.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social

Like it or not this what Maine Guys actually sound like. Might sound like shit to you, but this is a Meryl Streep-level performance for guys from Maine with this voice and personality.

Ryan LeBlond reposted

If every time you "reach across" the "partisan divide", you pull back a bloody stump where your hand used to be, the shortcomings and naivete of this strategy become evident.

Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social

The best cure for ideological bias is find someone on the other side and go to lunch with them.⁣ ⁣ Sometimes we disagree about facts. Sometimes we disagree about values. Figuring out which is which is fun part. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/my-libertarian-friends-were-right

Ministry of Truthers

Mike Masnick@masnick.com

For years we've heard that Biden created a "Ministry of Truth," which didn't actually happen. But, I still hear people talking about it. But then Trump directed his FCC boss to be a literal Minister of Truth and the story disappeared within a day or two. What are we even doing here?

Ryan LeBlond reposted

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

I don't know how we get back from rewarding people financially and emotionally for sound bites and posts. It's kind of at the heart of the implosion. I don't think you can even blame Social Media, I think it was just the result of what was already desired from what was already happening.

Damn, that man can't handle the heat so bad he couldn't even make it to the kitchen to get the fck out of it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Mr Sununu, would you have voted for a war powers resolution in the Senate? JOHN SUNUNU:🚶🚶🚶 Q: Would you admit that Trump’s war was a bad decision, or are you just going to do everything that Trump tells you to do? JOHN SUNUNU:🚶🚶🚶

"We built a complex computer virus and we can't turn it off or contain it anymore and it's probably gonna shut a bunch of stuff down like Stuxnet did to the Iranian centrifuges."

If Dems take the House and Senate his numbers will improve. Especially with the way the media covers Trump breaking the law and violating the constitution.

Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social

Trump's net approval has now sunk to -27, with absolutely no sign of the trend reversing. What will it look like in two years as we approach the next presidential election? Data as ever via @gelliottmorris.com @fiftyplusone.news

I truly believe when you break down AI it'll just be a giant computer virus that stores information on random servers and computers and will eventually just start turning stuff off because Stuxnet.

You work with databases. You have to query the database. Wouldn't it be easier to write a program that can use laymen's terms to query a humongous ever expanding database? Yes. Would it be cool if it was also a worm that rearranges things on your computer? Yes. It's a virus on a loop.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

I don't understand what is confusing about this. Until recently, you could look at computers and say "Look, they're nothing like us, they're calculators, we can complete many intellectual tasks they never could." Easy, practical distinction in capabilities. Now it's getting much harder to say that.

Wouldn't it be cool to add a graphic to make people think the loop is the program actually thinking? Yes. What if we put a bunch of stuff together and it worked and we don't know how and we're saying it's a danger because we built a self-replicating ever evolving computer virus? No.

I was watching a doc on Woodstock '99 the other day and it clicked that the mentality of that crowd is the mentality of a lot of people in this country right now. No reflection of "what did we just do" more "everyone else made us do it because they wouldn't cater to our every whim of the moment"

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Again, it’s not just that this Tesla asshole killed a mother and her child with his recklessness. It’s that as his victims were dying, he did nothing to help them and instead sat scrolling through his phone.

Ryan LeBlond reposted

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

I got on a kick about this a few days ago. A lot of people who worked for companies or institutions that helped build Stuxnet are in the industry now. Plus, the more I think about how Cowork and the like works, the more I'm reminded of viruses and software patches through torrents and the like.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

You know what's missing from the AI fears discussion? Stuxnet and NotPetya If you're familiar with those cyberweapons, then software that autonomously spreads, messes up computer systems, and ends up acting in ways beyond its creators' intentions or control isn't a brand new shock.

Best guess, Someone was talking about Bigfoot not knowing that one of the people at the table next to them knew someone who had one big foot and thus felt offended for their big footed friend and had to pipe up and it's life imitating social media now.

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This was my dog when we first got her, I can't believe she was smaller than one of my cat Shirley. Shirley is still with us, Bella sadly passed away on Saturday, and it still hurts.

It's a program. They're not sure how it works They did something and it worked and they've built off of it and it's still kind of working They don't know why or how It's a layman's query tool It's not thinking, those aren't thoughts, it's visuals to ease the minds of visually oriented creatures

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

The new line all the anti-AI obsessives are adopting is that it's dangerous to "anthropomorphize" AI. What they mean by that is that if you use a colloquial term that accurately describes what they're doing - thinking, hacking, making autonomous decisions - they'll tell you to stop.

What if someone created an entire YouTube/Tik-Tok series with Mock Investigations and Trials for this current administration? It could use real facts with fake characters to start moving the window towards people accepting large groups of politicians and their backers being locked up for corruption

I thought it happened to my kid but they were just late getting out of school. How do people hate so much they'll believe any lie that confirms and justifies their hate?

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Yes, yes, the state of California is definitely taking children away from their parents if they don't agree with "the pronouns the schools chooses for your kids," yes, that is an entire string of events that definitely happened. It's cool how a US Senator can just spread insane lies on TV.