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ventybones @ventybones.bsky.social · 55m

I'd just like to offer up as my CV several hundred hours in SimAnt and also a sprawling underground missile silo bunker i designed entirely in The Sims 3

I work for the bees and spiders now

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 59m

Republican officials have spent years psy-oping themselves into thinking that there are no sincere, good faith liberals or progressives anywhere in America. So no wonder they're totally unequipped to deal with a large crowd of normal people waving American flags.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 55m

another thing people don't realize when they fantasize about "the AI crash" is that you're going to see a *lot* more slop and harmful use of AI whenever the big companies do crash, because the crash would drop GPU prices drastically & make cybercriminals etc. training models much, much cheaper

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1h

I know a lot of people think they're ineffective as a result, that you don't win with big happy protest events, but I think it's actually really important for people who feel lost and alone with everything that's happening to this country to be able to go and see that they aren't alone at all

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1h

I have been to two No Kings protests and they are filled with normies and people with funny signs and families and they are just the most wholesome protests imaginable

that's all people are going to see, man - their friends and neighbors out there saying we don't want this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 57m

This is fucking awful but has the byproduct of making ICE look like dumb babies.

three stills from a video showing robby roadsteamer getting arrested by ICE

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

if you have been to any of the big NO KINGS rallies, you understand what a hilarious mistake it is to tell people to tune in for coverage of scary black clad anarchists tearing everything apart

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

i have to be honest, gang, i have some questions about this republican strategy of telling everyone to tune in and pay attention to what’s likely to be one of the largest days of political protest in american history directed at the republican party

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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ceej @ceej.online · May 9

the way the early social web emphasized friending as many people as possible has lead to this weird state of zombie acquaintanceship where I still get a glimpse into the life of some guy who lived in my dorm freshman year purely through the notification I receive whenever he launches a game on steam

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 2h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 2h

Alberto Fujimori was one of the most influential presidents in Peruvian history:

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 1d

Honestly, I think we'd be better if the WH Press Corps handed in their credentials too.

Starve Trump of oxygen, go out in the streets to report what this Administration is *doing*.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

“With no reporters able to ask questions, it seems the Pentagon leadership will continue to rely on slick social media posts, carefully orchestrated short videos and interviews with partisan commentators and podcasters.

No one should think that's good enough.”

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

www.npr.org

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 20h

Masked Federal Secret Police enter Walgreens in Chicago with guns drawn and arrest Black US citizen for "running"

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Jean-Marc Liotier @liotier.bsky.social · 55m

Using "humanitarian" as a slur to criticize catholicism sure is an audacious take.

𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 4h

Daniel J. Mahoney has the distinction of having been the speaker at the only academic event I've ever walked out of.

This is pretty much why.

Pope Leo wants unity. They don't.

americanmind.org/salvo/christ...

Christianity and the West, Part III

Pope Leo XIV needs to shun humanitarian progressivism in favor of the moral and political realism of a decidedly Augustinian character.

americanmind.org

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1h

"Pope Leo, a man who has spent the bulk of his career in Peru, will surely reject Latin American ideas about Catholicism" is the funniest Anglo cope

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 1h

Unsurprisingly fantastic, nuanced piece by Dave Pozen and Jed Britton-Purdy. Read it! www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

What Are We Living Through? - Boston Review

Three competing narratives of the second Trump administration.

www.bostonreview.net

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 19h

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.

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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 4h

I'm glad that you are working to improve your dataset.

But if you are going to be changing the version label every few months, please don't embed those labels in the filenames.

I have enough work to do without chasing broken paths in my data acquisition scripts.

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James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 2d

800V racks baby!

“Up to 5% improvement in end-to-end power efficiency

Maintenance costs reduced by up to 70% due to fewer PSU (power supply unit) failures and lower labor costs for component upkeep

Lower cooling expenses from eliminating AC/DC PSUs inside IT racks”

#hpc #cloud #ai

Rich Miller @techjournalism.bsky.social · 2d

NVIDIA and 20 of its largest customers are preparing to r change how they power GPU clusters, enabling more efficient & powerful AI factories.

At OCP, NVIDIA says CoreWeave, Lambda, Nebius and Oracle are now designing for 800 VDC data centers.

datacenterrichness.substack.com/p/ai-factori...

AI Factories Prepare for 800 VDC Power

NVIDIA working with Neocloud Providers on Blueprint for Power-Intense Racks

datacenterrichness.substack.com

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Rhodium Group @rhg.com · 3h

Back in March, we wrote about how the US was on an unspoken mission to claw back strategic assets from China.

As we anticipated, Beijing is now aware of the playbook and is responding where it has leverage, including with rare earths:

The Clawback: Reclaiming Strategic Assets from China

The United States is on an unspoken mission to claw back strategic assets from China. This is not a policy that began with the current US administration, nor has it been articulated in a speech or pol...

rhg.com

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 2h

President Donald Trump, Republican officials, and their right-wing media allies have laid the groundwork for a broadbased attack on core progressive and Democratic Party institutions in response to Saturday’s planned nationwide “No Kings” protests. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

The Trump administration is positioning the upcoming No Kings protests as an excuse for crushing dissent

www.mediamatters.org

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David Grimm @david-grimm.bsky.social · 2h

Perhaps they should rename it the Scrat hole? Fun story by Celina Zhao for @science.org

Chicago’s beloved ‘rat hole’ was actually made by a squirrel

Scientists reopen the case of “splatatouille”

www.science.org

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Jean-Marc Liotier @liotier.bsky.social · 1h

Picture shows Hamas or ICE ? You decide !

Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 2h

Verified videos from Gaza show a public execution of eight men, armed members of Hamas's internal security force on patrol and masked fighters firing on unarmed men in displays of force by Hamas in Gaza since the US-brokered ceasefire began last week.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump demands Hamas disarm, as group moves against 'collaborators' in Gaza

BBC Verify analyses footage of Hamas fighters in Gaza, including one of an execution in the centre of Gaza City.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Guillaume E 🇫🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @guillaumee.bsky.social · 2h

Very interesting, on the effects of genAI on the revenue side of a business. The best performer by far seems to be the pre-sale chatbot, seems AI can definitely make chatbots useful for the bottom line.
Convincing methodology, also, which is not always the case in the world of AI-effect studies.

Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 3h

One of the first randomized controlled trials testing whether GenAI boosts revenue, not just productivity.

It does.

A large, mature international ecommerce platform, using older GenAI tools found most of them, from customer service to marketing workflows, led to large and significant revenue gains

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 1h

Did you ask anyone at Rheinmetall about what the hell that stupid GI Joe truck was for?

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