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Will Turner
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Site Reliability Engineering team leader; software systems architect, photographer, investor, and human. I love math and reading AI papers.

Studied math and EE.

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Ex Disney Studios, EdgeCast, LogMeIn/GoTo
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Always do this prior to going through a security checkpoint or interacting with law enforcement
Security tip for iPhone users: holding the side button and one of the volume buttons for two seconds will lock your phone and disables Face ID until you enter your password. Useful for situations where someone may try to unlock your phone without your consent.
January 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Siri, what is the halting problem?
Developer creates infinite maze that traps AI training bots

🔗 www.404media.co/developer-cr...
January 26, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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California LA area fire information links
January 9, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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DeepSeek, a LLM trained for a fraction of the cost of GPT-Xx models, in 2 months for 6 million, on limited GPUs due to export restrictions, and competing head to head. This is crazy.

It's not the AI part I'm excited about, it's the level of efficiency. github.com/deepseek-ai/...
GitHub - deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3
Contribute to deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 31, 2024 at 5:07 PM
It’s been a while since I’ve been active here, and WOW have things improved!

Huge kudos to the Bluesky team!
December 31, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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"Music is the space between the notes."

What if I told you one of my favorite films was about a font in Photoshop. But it isn't. It's about the silent thankless choices that make your world. Things of unimaginable specialization, discarded without appreciation.

HELVETICA is on Apple TV and Amazon.
December 25, 2024 at 11:37 PM
This thing on?
November 22, 2024 at 12:48 AM
Is there some bug going on right now?

The app is showing me posts that are impossible (date in 2008).

@pfrazee.com
November 8, 2024 at 4:32 PM
This is a friendly PSA that all content on Bluesky is PUBLICLY visible on the internet.

While intellectually this app is a safe space, it is NOT a private community and you should only post here with the understanding that anyone on earth can see your content.
November 6, 2024 at 7:54 AM
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Literally any position no matter how obviously morally and ethically right they'll pre-emptively compromise on

These are people who go into every negotiation doing the calculus of what they think they could reasonably get and then ask for even less [ and / inevitably get less still ]
April 10, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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Hostile reminder that the "keep kink out of Pride" discourse from a few years ago was a blatant trojan horse that was meant to pave the way for our current discourse of "what if maybe we made Pride illegal entirely" shit the conservatives are now trialing in various locations
March 27, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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Big milestone!

✅ Federated domain handles
✅ Federated feed generators (algorithms)
✅ Federated relays (event firehose)
✅ Federated app views (API service)
✅ Federated data for self-hosters (PDS hosting)
✅ Federated moderation (labeling)
🚧 Federated data for large service providers (coming soon)
Moderation is a crucial aspect of social networks. However, traditional moderation systems leave communities vulnerable to sudden policy changes and mismanagement.

To build a better social media ecosystem, it's necessary to try new approaches.

docs.bsky.app/blog/bluesky...
Bluesky's Moderation Architecture | Bluesky
Moderation is a crucial aspect of any social network. However, traditional moderation systems often lack transparency and user control, leaving communities vulnerable to sudden policy changes and pote...
docs.bsky.app
March 15, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Dude is on one today. This has to be the single dumbest idea I’ve ever heard from an established CEO.
August 18, 2023 at 4:16 PM
There is a pervasive mind virus that has deeply infected venture capital.

Many of the voices people formerly took as reasonable are signaling or outright declaring support for eugenics.

This includes many famous people like Balaji Srinivasan, David Sacks, Paul Graham, and other lesser known VCs.
August 12, 2023 at 9:49 PM
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New updates on Bellingcat's Github this week. The 'whisperbox' API receives audio or video URLs and returns the video transcripts using OpenAI's Whisper model. Designed by Bellingcat discord member https://github.com/fspoettel
Find the tool at: https://github.com/bellingcat/whisperbox-transcribe
GitHub - bellingcat/whisperbox-transcribe: Easy to deploy API for transcribing/translating video and...
Easy to deploy API for transcribing/translating video and audio using OpenAI's Whisper model and more. - GitHub - bellingcat/whisperbox-transcribe: Easy to deploy API for transcribing/translati...
github.com
August 7, 2023 at 1:16 PM
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DeSantis's administration paid doctors tens of thousands of dollars to endorse restrictions on trans adults' health care and gave raises to state employees who went along with it, according to new documents unveiled in court.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article277853063.html
August 2, 2023 at 4:37 PM
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OK this is a bit late, but we just opened up WebGlaze today, a free web service that Glazes your art for protection against style mimicry by generative AI models.

If you need/want an invite, please reply here (no DMs???), DM me on twitter (@ravenben) or IG or email. No AI artists please.
August 3, 2023 at 5:25 AM
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Samcoin is launching today.

https://bitbanter.com/post/1006/
July 24, 2023 at 4:52 PM
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In 2000, Elon Musk became the CEO of PayPal and tried to rename it X.com even though surveys showed the public hated the name but trusted PayPal.

Now he’s repeating the same mistake with Twitter, but this time no one can oust him as CEO.
Elon Musk Wants to Relive His Start-Up Days. He’s Repeating the Same Mistakes.
What PayPal’s history teaches us about Elon Musk’s management of Twitter
www.disconnect.blog
July 23, 2023 at 6:33 PM
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July 22, 2023 at 12:21 AM