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Running With Spoons

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Safety first, then we dine in Hell. Bring your own sauce. Most of my posts criticize two cultures that define our lives but are rarely discussed: * Honor-Shame Culture * Managerialism The rest are about politics or information security.

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Running With Spoons @runswithspoons.bsky.social · 15d

Finally, we have military leadership like our business leadership.

Long meetings with the senior executive asshole reminding his reports that he is better than they are.

Lots of body language tricks to assert dominance.

But totally empty

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Hegseth: "It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals."

Running With Spoons @runswithspoons.bsky.social · 8h

Pete hegseth will inspire loyalty with the nation's top military nerds by acting out the role of the dumb 80s jock and forcing them to watch.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

UPDATE: Sources tell us that NSA staff are *also* included in being forced to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech (that he already forced top military generals to listen to).

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 10h

DoD today confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. - Pentagon Press Association

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Running With Spoons @runswithspoons.bsky.social · 12h

They all have a personal status hierarchy for race+gender+whatever and they assume their fellow bigots have the same hierarchy.

Running With Spoons @runswithspoons.bsky.social · 13h

Galaxy brain shit

Running With Spoons @runswithspoons.bsky.social · 14h

Probably going to be a new industry of people who clean up AI messes

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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Running With Spoons @runswithspoons.bsky.social · 15h

He's too busy trying to make AI girls like him in that cartoon purgatory he calls "the metaverse"

Running With Spoons @runswithspoons.bsky.social · 17h

Eventually they'll pivot to selling peoples' psychological profiles and interests, if they haven't already.

Or they'll go bankrupt and sell off that data in bulk

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 17h

OpenAI is no longer some research lab trying to create artificial general intelligence for the good of humanity, they are now a traditional Silicon Valley company in hypergrowth mode.

It’s also unclear if they were ever just some altruistic research but they’ve definitely given up the pretense.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 23h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 21h

America is spending $20B of your tax dollars to ensure Argentina continues to have free healthcare while the US government is shutdown because it can’t afford to give you a discount on healthcare premiums?

Make it make sense.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 21h

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that, according to the Constitution, #YesKings

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

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www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 20h

Two more prosecutors (including Republican US Atty) forced out due to excessive integrity. They refused to abdicate their oaths to pursue Trump's vendettas or Kash Patel's hallucinations. (And, no, Biden & Merrick Garland & Jack Smith did not do anything similar.)

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 1d

Extraordinary NYT story:

Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted.

They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

www.nytimes.com

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 19h

The Israeli govt obviously should not be bombing Qatar but not even the saudis get a deal from the Americans like Qatar got and it’s amazing that it’s simply because qatari leaders came up with the diplomatic innovation of “give Donald trump and Jared Kushner massive toys that we don’t need or want”

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

the latest "innovation" in models is "reasoning models" that effectively break down your input into steps to execute (all of which is done as more expensive output tokens), which has improved their efficacy somewhat for, in many cases, a massive increase in costs.
bsky.app/profile/char...

Char @charlieh.bsky.social · 1d

So they’re driving down costs by spending more money.
Also, can anyone help me understand where the need for more tokens is coming from? Are tokens like cowbell?

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Running With Spoons @runswithspoons.bsky.social · 1d

Lolol blaming their customers for the leadership's lack of business acumen

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

A handful of users abused the system so all are getting punished.

This isn't about a few high-usage users. The reality is that approximately 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying us. This isn't sustainable for us to continue delivering the quality service you expect. We have built some very powerful tools and we don’t want to impose artificial limits on what’s possible, but we do need to be able to charge in proportion to the use customers are getting from our platform. Developers are always going to push their tools to their limits, and we encourage that — and we need to be able to charge for it appropriately, too.

You only care about professional developers.

Our core focus is on building the best AI coding agent for professional software engineers and their teams. If people outside of that group are finding value with Augment, they are very welcome to use the product, but we’re not prioritizing features or solutions that non-developers might need, and frankly, there are plenty of vibe coding/low code/no code solutions available on the market that will better serve those customers.

You are just squeezing money out of us at 20x margin.

20x margin sounds great, but isn’t the reality for AI tools: the vast majority are running at a loss, including us, while we work to build sustainable, long-term businesses.

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 1d

Trump just bombed six more people in the Caribbean, for a total of 27 civilians who have been killed so far by the US military. It’s illegal for the military to target civilians who do not pose an immediate threat. This is murder.

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

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Running With Spoons @runswithspoons.bsky.social · 1d

The pros do their User Acceptance Testing in production

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Report examining the employment history data of more than 3m finance & tech workers at companies that rolled out office mandates found that turnover among women is almost three times as high as that of their male co-workers, and that women are more likely to take a lower position if they leave

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Running With Spoons @runswithspoons.bsky.social · 1d

Here comes the sinking feeling that our world is falling apart and the root cause is people seeking status in their petty social groups

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 1d

the chat logs leaked clearly show members are aware they’re posting compromising messages, they’re even talking about how cooked they be if it leaked

bc the social function of extremist rhetoric is that in-group members bond and attain status by transgressing with one another as witnesses

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Running With Spoons @runswithspoons.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering when a MAGA friend told me he didn't think racist dog whistles were a thing

Politico @politico.com · 1d

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👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.