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Paulus

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@ fluxology.net Sic transit sycophantasmagoria mundi "What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity." - William Burroughs

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Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 2h

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratline...

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Ratlines (World War II) - Wikipedia

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Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 2h

Obsequious rationalizing monstrosities

Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 4h

Of course they will try their hardest

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 8h

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Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 4h

She tends to make little hops when she plants a rehearsed big lie, as if she'd dunking. Just like Bessent blinks and wobbles his head, or JD Vance pushes his chin forward, Stephen Miller's eyes blur and haze over as he's remembering reading something.

Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 5h

A lack of standards is also a standard. Sort of...

Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 9h

That poor woman that's trying to look so angelical just managed to suppress a demonic rebel yell when he goes on to rhyme his way to "Shumer shutdown"...

Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 12h

Hebben ze vergeten de Big Brother formule door te verkopen aan de Trump regering dan?

Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 12h

Dus Van der Plas wil minder wetenschappelijk inzicht en meer marketing en verkooppraatjes in het politiek bestel?

Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 12h

Antifantasy

Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 12h

Hadn't watched the clip.. interesting but all talk, no play. Here's something more appropriate

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSzN...

the epstein brothers - a tickle in the heart

YouTube video by shosh38

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Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 13h

There's plenty of that going on, but not in a consolidated way. This bubble is largely due to a concentration of power that feeds back ad-fueled social media back into people's perception by pushing out other news one has to reach out to to uncover (e.g. nano tech, passive architecture, LTER, etc)

Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 14h

Well, in the financial news, is there anything else besides a large pile of problems, the woowoo from AI evangelists and a range of cheerleading predators?

Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 14h

Academia's inverted incentives compared to the fapp trial and error businesses can afford. It's very difficult, near impossible, to commercialize academic research. But there are many ties back and forth between SV and DARPA too..

Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 14h

As far as Tesla goes, the largest institutional shareholders are:

Vanguard Group
BlackRock
State Street
Fidelity
J.P. Morgan Chase

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Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 14h

I'd agree and not agree. Obviously there's a staggering amount of money flowing into this flavor of AI now, which none can match. But how about embodied and/or narrow AI? Or close cooperation with e.g. Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer? Most Gen-AI is trained on reddit, Wikipedia, substack, quora etc.

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Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 14h

Music works... It's confrontational but at a safe distance too.

As far as trying to mobilize the military goes, instead of opening up the cesspool of corruption that's hiding in and under the Epstein files go, do indirect references count?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywrc...

Epstein Brothers: What is Klezmer?

YouTube video by Milken Archive

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Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 14h

And he wants everyone to know... I wonder if journalists are paid to regurgitate the "richest man on earth" soundbite ad infinitum?

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Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 1d

Swing to the right? Some years ago i had some chats with an Argentinian business woman who went to school in Buenos Aires with Mussolini's grandchildren... This looks more like an attempt to reverse natural denazification.

Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 1d

Asking the ol' style pimp for guidance now they want to go full-on cyber-pimping?

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Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta faces backlash over AI policy that lets bots have ‘sensual’ conversations with children

US senator Josh Hawley opened investigation into the tech giant, which said it had removed the policy guidelines

www.theguardian.com

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Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 1d

OpenAI is being sued for 200 x more on a per-author basis. These are just stolen copies from some online pirating site, but they also bypass robots.txt and other convention to keep crawlers out that try to index the internet (also all private sites). They're stealing massive amounts of IP.

OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages

Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.

futurism.com

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Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 1d

Don't tell the broligarchs!

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Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 1d

There are all sorts of productivity paradoxes with generative AI... Users often end up with 20% less. For coders it helps blurt out a mock up, but it's such wonky code that it requires a rewrite and redesign, so it actually requires some seniority to correct everything. Superficiality doesn't scale.

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Paulus @pdbqp.bsky.social · 1d

EU/ECB is a bit slow with EU bonds and CBDC (digital euro). Very annoying imnsho but on the other hand, it's wise to not import the bulk of supersaturated hot money that is blowing up the US financial system.