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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 4h

cleverhood.com have a lot of great night viz and rainwear. The @waroncars.bsky.social podcast usually has a discount code

Cleverhood - High Quality Rainwear

Distinctive, High-Quality Rainwear for Livable Cities Worldwide.

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 11d

A glimpse into the Bridgy Fed monitoring dashboards. Pretty conventional mix of infra, OS, and app level metrics.

Note the delay numbers. When you do something in one network, how quickly do we bridge it across? We pay a lot of attention to that, we try hard to keep it as fast as possible!

monitoring dashboard with graphs for user count, receive/send/ATProto serve/ATProto consume delays, tasks run, and processing delays

monitoring dashboard with graphs for task results, task queues, CPU, and memory

monitoring dashboard with graphs for receive protocols, types, source instances, and ATProto firehose commits

monitoring dashboard with graphs for unsupported activities and sent activities by protocol and type

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 7h

Celebrity Traitors is distressingly predictable, with the Faithful planning which Black person to evict next.

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 11h

looks like @katebevan.com called this 2 years ago on X

Kate isn't really here any more @katebevan
Jun 16, 2023
This reads as if someone has said to ChatGPT "write 1,000 words in the style of Boris Johnson about a weight loss drug".
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BORIS JOHNSON: Wonder drug I hoped would stop my raids for cheddar and chorizo didn't work for me https://trib.al/1APYTx1

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I've been saying ChatGPT is Johnson as a service for a while. Superficially read in historic texts, able to extrude something that looks like prose in a particular form, but has no underlying emotion, meaning or connection to the truth, but you recognise repeating chunks of it.
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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 12h

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 12h

I've said for a while that LLMs bullshit like Boris Johnson. Game recognizes game.

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 12h

That's clarifying - clarifying that you're an asshole attacking someone for their trauma rather than addressing their argument.
Talia Jane is an excellent on the ground reporter and you are a schmuck.

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 20h

I am concerned about the killers named Alexander who should be in solitary confinement ,like Alexander Pichushkin - why do you not address the Alexander murderer issue? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...

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Heather Glass @heatherglass.bsky.social · 1d

People protesting outside the Supreme Court that trans rights harm women might be a bit more middle class than people protesting outside asylum hotels that immigrants harm women, but I don’t think their arguments are any better (or less ultimately damaging to women)

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 21h

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 21h

It's a lie. The serious eats crew tried, but time and patience is the only answer www.seriouseats.com/caramelized-...

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 21h

god this is so funny because back when I had my life blown up due to white people tweets I lost exactly zero (0) friends defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 23h

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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NEW: X executive says creator monetization program may potentially be ended, saying that the system does
"more harm than good."
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

hello consider this a reminder, in case people missed it last week, that I've launched a new quarterly night in London called the Outsiders Arts Club where people will be able to buy great affordable art and ask dumb questions to an art professional: outsidersartsclub.com

thanks, bye

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1d

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

Politico @politico.com · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 1d

The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 22h

I am in a funky pub in Middlesbrough, I wasn't expecting the tech bro inquisition

The pub sitting room. It features a boar head 🐗 old sofas, instruments, pistols and a fireplace

The pub front room. It features a chandelier, a fireplace, stuffed animals, cupboards full of China and books and 3 tech bullshitters by the window

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 22h

They did mention huddles as well

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 23h

OH : We need a toolkit for aligning road maps

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 1d

Toast is double-baked bread, though triple cooked chips also exist.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 1d

Paul Krugman points out that Trump has ensured the United States will be second to China as a world power paulkrugman.substack.com/p/china-has-... The country will just have to learn to live with it, MAGA!

China Has Overtaken America

And Trump’s policies guarantee that we will never catch up

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 1d

I think Milton Keynes might be a better place to trial it.

Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 1d

The physics in yours is a lot more convincing too, their motion is vague and just looks wrong.

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 1d

Are you saying that Rod Liddle isn't a bigot either? Or Taki?

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 1d

Worse: we're going backwards. No COVID19 boosters for under-75s (except for badly immunocompromised patients) is a disaster—many people last got a booster in 2021, and immunity wanes rapidly. Some estimates suggest economic costs of £7Bn due to non-vaccination which exceeds cost of vaxxing everyone.

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