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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

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

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 6h

my favorite dropout show is back

Bob Dylan Doing The Wave At A Baseball Game

YouTube video by Make Some Noise

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 13h

beautifully put

Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 13h

The action is in the reaction. A shortcoming of the mass rally/march as a tactic is that it often fails to raise significant tension, allowing the enemy to just ignore it, which can be demoralizing. Luckily Stephen Miller, a zealous but incompetent authoritarian, has solved this problem for No Kings

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Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Feds tear-gas crowd after car chase leads to crash on Chicago's East Side

This story is developing so check back later for more details.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds tear-gas crowd after car chase leads to crash on Chicago's East Side

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N, resulting in dozens of residents showing up to protest the federal immigration agents.

chicago.suntimes.com

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 13h

whoa weird

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple 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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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 17h

I hate him so much

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 17h

I hate him so much

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 17h

I do think they fucked up. there will be photos of literally a million families with kids out on saturday. but they are still digging

fox news homepage

Blue city streets erupt as 100-plus rioters turn drag race into all-out war on cops - Fox News
'OUT OF CONTROL'
Blue city streets erupt as 100-plus rioters turn drag race into all-out war on cops

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 18h

lina the GOAT

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures.

...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan

conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 18h

are we sure there are enough of these? lol
www.nokings.org

US map completely covered with dots representing local no kings protests

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 18h

7yo is reading so much. we did it, folks. escape velocity 🚀

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 1d

cool stuff. notable effect of model size. the biggest in the list by far, Gemini 2.5 Pro, dramatically outperforms the rest. other SOTA and SOTA-adjacent models (GPT-5, Claude Sonnet and Opus, Qwen Max, Deepseek, Kimi K2) were not tested

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 1d

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 1d

I had this exact series of thoughts in a half-dreaming state last night after watching the talks

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2d

yikes

The cephalothorax comprises the carapace, eyes, chelicerae (mouth parts), pedipalps (which have chelae, commonly called claws or pincers) and four pairs of walking legs. Scorpions have two eyes on the top of the cephalothorax, and usually two to five pairs of eyes along the front corners of the cephalothorax. While unable to form sharp images, their central eyes are amongst the most light sensitive in the animal kingdom, especially in dim light, which makes it possible for nocturnal species to use starlight to navigate at night.[43] The chelicerae are at the front and below the carapace. They are pincer-like and have three segments and "teeth".[44][45] The brain of a scorpion is located in the front part of the cephalothorax, just above the esophagus.[46] As in other arachnids, the nervous system is highly concentrated in the cephalothorax, but has a long ventral nerve cord with segmented ganglia which may be a primitive trait.[47]

conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2d

crossover event of the century for my interests and my wife's. this is like if saul bellow interviewed the sausage from stephen's sausage roll

John Ganz on the Era When America Was Consumed by Panic With Corporate Japan — Odd Lots

overcast.fm

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2d

this is great

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2d

I rode in a Waymo a few weeks ago. I would bump that percentage up to 99

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 2d

Thoughts after my first Waymo ride:

1. It drives smoother than ~80% of drivers I rode with

2. The “you know exactly what to expect” aspect (no driver who might or might chat me up, or be on the phone, or be a bad driver) is underrated

3. Waymo is the best ad for Jaguar

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2d

I'd of course rather see numbers than trust their vague statements, which is why I was curious if you've seen any evidence either way

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2d

funny you should say that!
cheekypint.substack.com/p/a-cheeky-p...
simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/17/...

Dario Amodei:
Get kind of burned. There's two different ways you could describe what's happening in the model business right now. So, let's say in 2023, you train a model that costs $100 million, and then you deploy it in 2024, and it makes $200 million of revenue. Meanwhile, because of the scaling laws, in 2024, you also train a model that costs $1 billion. And then in 2025, you get $2 billion of revenue from that $1 billion, and you've spent $10 billion to train the model.

So, if you look in a conventional way at the profit and loss of the company, you've lost $100 million the first year, you've lost $800 million the second year, and you've lost $8 billion in the third year, so it looks like it's getting worse and worse. If you consider each model to be a company, the model that was trained in 2023 was profitable. You paid $100 million, and then it made $200 million of revenue. There's some cost to inference with the model, but let's just assume, in this cartoonish cartoon example, that even if you add those two up, you're kind of in a good state. So, if every model was a company, the model, in this example, is actually profitable.

Most of what we're building out at this point is the inference [...] We're profitable on inference. If we didn't pay for training, we'd be a very profitable company.

— Sam Altman, during a "wide-ranging dinner with a small group of reporters in San Francisco"

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2d

the irony is this is exactly what they accuse blue-haired college students of. politics is all just power and illusion, man

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d

My version of this is that Vought, Yarvin etc represent a kind of braindead right-Gramscianism, which leaves out all the interesting subtleties and treats civil society _only_ as a realm of indoctrination, where one ideological master-narrative can readily be substituted for another.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2d

they think dialectics is when you’re just like “nah that’s fake”

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2d

can you point to any evidence they have negative margins on enterprise contracts

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