Ben Tillman

Ben Tillman

@tdesign.bsky.social

Architect & Sustainable Designer Trying to build a better world, otherwise playing old video games.

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We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

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<GOP CANDIDATES> - “Furries are FORCING your CHILDREN into GENDER REASSIGNMENT SURGERIES at their SCHOOLS!! LITTER BOXES!!!” <me> “…fuck i hope the furries in global IT patch these horrendous exploits before they destroy the internet”

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Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

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I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Stephen Miller claims Somali-Americans in Minnesota are "buying Mercedes, buying BMWs, they buy a nice house, all their kids fly first class all over the world" (This is a lie!)

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In the bedrock of my soul I know he started out thinking the press pool was a literal pool and has been seething with disappointment since he discovered the mistake

The New York Times@nytimes.com

President Trump has pushed to move briefings out of the White House press room. Aides say he wants an indoor swimming pool instead. nyti.ms/4eoW3AV

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dawg I’m gonna be empirically smarter than so many people for the rest of my life because of this shit, it’s a real shame that being smart does nothing for you in life, you still have to deal with the stupid people

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Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners

When I first heard about AI being used for menus and advertisements, my concern was largely that it would be used to idealize the food and make it look better than it actually was. At no point did I imagine that restaurants would willingly put out horrific looking images of their food on purpose

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If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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i got custom music playing on the Steam Machine so i popped the Burnout Revenge soundtrack while playing Galactic Racer and it's kind of infuriating how dramatically it's bettered the experience

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Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT.

Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social

This is why I get pissed off when anyone accuses me of being an elitist when I say young people should go to college if they can. I say that because my dad was a local lineman and contractor who did heavy physical labor for years and has had chronic back pain since his early 30s

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I'd rather see us build a hell of a lot of affordable housing instead of "A.i." data centers. 🤷

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.

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lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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‘oh that guy just thrives on negative attention’ ok but what about what i thrive on though. what if it’s very important to me medically and nutritionally to remind certain men whose addresses are in the public record that they are god’s mistake

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DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT

eva (^_^)/@eva.computer

the new America.gov AI site has a konami code easter egg that changes it to 1983 mode

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Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

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When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.