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Geoff Bowser @geoffbowser.bsky.social · 21h

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

Adam Fahy @afahy.bsky.social · 3h

Logically one can’t make a rational prediction without a roadmap. Therefore comments like this are just wishcasting. The rational comment would be: computers will help us with complex data analysis, but that’s a comment anyone could have made in the last fifty years, which doesn’t give you headlines

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h

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Google President Ruth Porat: ‘We should be able to cure cancer in our lifetime’ with AI | Fortune

Porat said it's great that "people are playing" with AI through chatbots, but we're living through a much bigger change than that.

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Adam Fahy @afahy.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s the thing: if this tech was really great, it still would have only produced something mediocre at best. But the tech is objectively shit. I have no doubt you can use similar LLM type tech in a functional game engine, but this is garbage all around

K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

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Adam Fahy @afahy.bsky.social · 5d

Irony detector shatters into a thousand fragments, never to be reconstructed again

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Adam Fahy @afahy.bsky.social · 5d

Ok but when President Biden was out of office he once loaned his brother a couple of grand without interest, or “both sides have financial quirks” according to the Times’ retelling

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Adam Fahy @afahy.bsky.social · 6d

For those for whom “trump posts video of him shitting on the American people” was too subtle, now we have “trump literally demolishing the White House”

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 6d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Adam Fahy @afahy.bsky.social · 6d

It also helps strengthen the resolve of opposition leadership esp at a time when they’re making a difficult political decision to not budge on opening the government w/o good faith negotiations

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Adam Fahy @afahy.bsky.social · 6d

There’s an inherent utility in demonstrating that the ruling party’s policies are hurting everyday folk, and without a direct microphone to the rest of the American people the only way to do this is through mass events

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6d

Can I ask, what did the No Kings protest actually accomplish? I mean, in real terms, what have these protests materially changed? I can't help but feel these one off protests are merely a heatsink for energy and anger rather than a path for meaningful change and disruption of the system.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 7d

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life

and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

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Adam Fahy @afahy.bsky.social · 7d

By saying “appeared to be AI” this implies the Times thinks there’s a credible chance it really was him flying a jet and shitting on the American people

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7d

President Trump posted what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media showing him wearing a crown and flying a jet labeled “King Trump” that dumps brown liquid on protesters. He shared the video on Saturday, the same day that protesters participated in mass “No Kings” demonstrations.

Trump Posts Fake A.I. Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters

President Trump shared what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media. It shows Mr. Trump wearing a crown and flying a jet that dumps brown liquid on demonstrators.

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Adam Fahy @afahy.bsky.social · 9d

Pretty much where I am as a developer: they can be helpful but the claims they'll 10x everyone's productivity, and the desire of orgs to force it down everyone's throat/replace skilled labor with dross, are wild unwarranted hype that also drowns out rational discussion on their legit pros and cons

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 9d

"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."

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Adam Fahy @afahy.bsky.social · 9d

I'm pretty sure there's a good reason why trump and jr's parents aren't having children, and it's not acetaminophen or whatever conspiracy theory he's talking about here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

Adam Fahy @afahy.bsky.social · 10d

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My cat Lydia lying on the bed, sunshine lighting half of her face and the other half in darkness

Adam Fahy @afahy.bsky.social · 10d

[ROG Xbox Ally X] It's wild to me there isn't actually an OG Xbox chip / emulator / something in there and it's basically just as below: a semi-branded, hobbled, small-screen laptop with a basic frontend

Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 10d

Is it actually just a branded laptop with joysticks?

29 year old me is rioting in the streets.

Jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 11d

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

Adam Fahy @afahy.bsky.social · 10d

This will probably be successful. In my experience most business leaders see interviews as PR and genuinely feel betrayed when a reporter actually does their job and asks hard questions or digs up info that could be harmful to the company, while there’s a large audience for pure inspo porn

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 11d

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 10d

A story in three parts

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Adam Fahy @afahy.bsky.social · 10d

Or web apps if they get better device/low level access and native APIs

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 10d

Honestly at the rate that Microsoft is pulling shit Linux might actually have a shot.

Adam Fahy @afahy.bsky.social · 11d

I'm not saying this is bad, but not being able to mask is like the table-stakes requirement to begin the negotiation process. What's a real set of preconditions would be a requirement to follow basic rules of engagement, not swarm courthouses, due-process, full transparency re: folks are being moved

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11d

This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding.

"When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says.

This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...

Trump ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn in Chicago, Handing Dems an Opening

There’s one simple pledge Democrats can make to voters about ICE that’s easy to understand and will have broad support.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 12d

PHILOMENA CUNK: It was actually illegal in England for The Obese to be employed in the film business until 1983. Why do you think that was?
JIMINY GLICK: [ignoring question, high pitched voice] Have you ever noticed how lesbians and British women dress the same? [sudden low pitch] Why is that?

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Adam Fahy @afahy.bsky.social · 12d

If they genuinely feel Antifa is an organization and a terrorist organization at that, they wouldn't be characterizing their activities as "really frustrating"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Adam Fahy @afahy.bsky.social · 13d

Once again the cowards at the Nobel committee have refused to award me the Prize for quote-reshares

Adam Fahy @afahy.bsky.social · 13d

The Sora watermark was a telltale sign a video was AI-generated, so of course the first thing folks on the internet do is add the watermark to real videos and create tools to remove it from fake ones.

Adam Fahy @afahy.bsky.social · 14d

I think a more specific explanation is they’re misinformed but with motivated reasoning to accept the misinformation

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14d

When people claim to be voting based on some problem that doesn’t exist, be it food price inflation, crime increases, or immigrant caravans, “they’re lying and/or misinformed” IS the most parsimonious explanation.

“They’re expressing sublimated anger over something else” is much more convoluted.

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Adam Fahy @afahy.bsky.social · 14d

One Piece is a story about pirates that says the ruling class are the real pirates. The World Government are hereditary capitalist elites using a combinaton of historical censorship, slavery, state violence, and fearmongering over the threat of piracy to extract resources and keep the people subdued

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 14d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 16d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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