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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 1h

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 15m

nevermind I found out

ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 17m

What did trigger it ?

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 36m

*Their

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 4h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 4h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

America Needs a Mass Movement—Now

Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

www.theatlantic.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

this ballroom is the best evidence that trump doesn’t intend to leave

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 4h

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

on.wsj.com

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 7h

They're banking on executives and managers to shove "AI" down their workers' throats, and they're building "metrics" in order to facilitate this

ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 7h

Either he's full of shit or an idiot (probably a bit of both) who doesn't understand his market.

I just had a convo. with an IT worker whose employer is forcing *each* employee to consume 600k tokens *per day*

Krieger said that usage metrics may be a company's best bet. "People do not use tools over and over again every day if they're not providing value," he said.

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 7h

Either he's full of shit or an idiot (probably a bit of both) who doesn't understand his market.

I just had a convo. with an IT worker whose employer is forcing *each* employee to consume 600k tokens *per day*

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 8h

The dominant business plan these days seems to be let’s turn everyone into slaves, who famously never revolt

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Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 10h

🚨 *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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elena perez @thisiselena.bsky.social · 8h

"pivot to video"

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h

You don’t say.

Anthropic CPO says 'AI FOMO' pushed companies to use the technology. Now, they want success metrics

Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger said that companies need "some kind of success metrics or evaluation" for their AI tools.

www.businessinsider.com

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 8h

New C suite acronym dropped out: 'CFOMOO', can't wait for the 'CFAFOO'

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h

You don’t say.

Anthropic CPO says 'AI FOMO' pushed companies to use the technology. Now, they want success metrics

Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger said that companies need "some kind of success metrics or evaluation" for their AI tools.

www.businessinsider.com

ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 8h

Roger McNamee part is here (about 4h52 into the livestream)

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 9h

Super interesting analysis:

- Two-thirds of Nigerian IMO alumni (2006-2021) now live and work outside Nigeria
- 60% work in tech/engineering at companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Bloomberg
- Half earned master’s or PhD degrees, mostly in STEM fields

thecondia.com/nigeria-imo-...

How IMO talent is fueling Nigeria’s tech diaspora

Nigeria's brightest STEM students compete in the International Mathematical Olympiad, but where do they end up? This 15-year analysis reveals.

thecondia.com

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 9h

the peter thiel way: cajole and flatter while you're young and influençable

ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 9h

I need this polishing cloth for The Verge

The Verge @theverge.com · 10h

Confirmed: Apple's polishing cloth is compatible with the new M5 MacBook Pro

the apple polishing cloth, folded over itself in a way that's elegant but also effortlessly casual

ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 10h

And that was in France, the land of « Liberté, Égalité, Fraternity »,
We should probably add a footnote to this motto « [*] for white people preferably » in t

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 10h

I remember the surprise of a young whity when I went to Paris to pass the tests for a "Grande Ecole", he was like "Oh, you have the right to be here?"
Or the head of sales at my 1st work party drunkenly telling me "Hey, I don't like black people, but I like you because you do good work"

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h

I don’t know how to approach “Republicans weren’t racist in the early aughts” as someone who went to Texas during the early aughts and had to debate whether or not Black students were “stealing” people’s spots in class.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10h

I‘m staring at this post like I was a Black student in the 90s and 2000s and had to share a campus with racist Young Republicans

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 15h

My parents' generation was super racist, but they took pains to hide it from us. So a lot of young conservatives in the 90s and early aughts were earnest small government and/or evangelical types.

As I said, the overt racists and radicals had to form their own orgs.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h

I don’t know how to approach “Republicans weren’t racist in the early aughts” as someone who went to Texas during the early aughts and had to debate whether or not Black students were “stealing” people’s spots in class.

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 11h

Important work here

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 11h

Hey we have a timeline on this @unbreaking.org

unbreaking.org/issues/data-...

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 11h

history stuttering (bis)...

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 12h

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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