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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 7h

In retrospect 1984 was optimistic to expect the party would need to censor written newspapers and Fahrenheit 451 was optimistic to expect the TV slop people watch instead of reading will be like a soap opera.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 17h

I am struck by how lack of standing seems to so frequently evade court challenge to unconstitutional government actions.

It's an odd thing missing, given that this problem was solved in ancient Athens: for certain matters the entire citizen body ('ho boulomenos,' 'whoever wishes') had standing.

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 15h

"Just know that if you hide it doesn't go away."

youtu.be/rtL5oMyBHPs

MGMT - Little Dark Age (Official Video)

YouTube video by MGMTVEVO

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 15h

Yes, that's why you look.

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 15h

Look look look look

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Key 🗝 🦊✅ @keytryer.net · 17h

I think it needs to be mentioned again and again that the electricity consumption issue is very much real (And especially with future projections) but the water meme is an insane distraction that makes no sense.

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 17h

Learn to do I/O early, by which I mean ask ChatGPT how to use python argparse or whatever the equivalent is in the programming language you're using. Then ask it how to do file reads and writes. This is essential to make trivial programs that are actually interesting.

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 18h

Oh I have such good news for you dude.

arxiv.org/abs/2402.01825

Fractal Patterns May Illuminate the Success of Next-Token Prediction

We study the fractal structure of language, aiming to provide a precise formalism for quantifying properties that may have been previously suspected but not formally shown. We establish that language ...

arxiv.org

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Public Universehell Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 18h

It's time to stop looking at civil service as a career path in the USA. It's a stepping stone, nothing more. Some people will be stuck, hanging on, but everyone else will steer clear of getting locked into rusted handcuffs.

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 18h

torchrun --nproc-per-node gpu trainer.py --model mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506 --tok
enizer mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503 --dataset ../weave_train.jsonl --output ../weave-agent-8-msmall --seq-len 64000 --mistral3

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 18h

Yes, the stock market is sinking over tariff related stupidity. Crypto and the stock market are generally tied at the hip, when stocks go down crypto goes down, it is not a hedge against stock market crashes in any way whatsoever.

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 1d

How old was the guy at the time of this story, and just to confirm he bought it out of a comic book ad or just made you think of it?

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 1d

When I took CS classes in 2018(?) the exams were handwritten.

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 1d

Nope. I was pleased that ChatGPT can now make a mediocre graph from a handful of real data points as opposed to just making shit up, which is what would previously happen if you asked for a graph of something and probably tripped people up.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 2d

This is because it can’t get client side errors any other way from its app view

Doll @dollspace.gay · 2d

It is posting from its own custom bluesky client

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 2d

Those statements seem contradictory? Doesn't "post by post" imply not taking into account that this post is the right thing said for the right reasons but that the person is a shit stirrer so they're banned anyway? Like who do you have in mind here, Will Stancil?

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 2d

Right and what I'm saying is that any suggestion for any kind of prosocial or altruistic behavior was met with "fuck you we don't have to" for the better part of a decade so the overly broad laws burning things down is almost taken as a relief by a great deal of the public if not most people.

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 2d

Nobody wants to, or at least feels empowered to do the obvious thing which is directly target the behaviorist ragebait and clickbait promoting algorithmic feeds, so instead the compromise is to wall it off by age. "This is a toxic cesspit so let's at least get kids away from it."

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 2d

The meme here started with "we should be protecting teens from social media", which became the buy in for all sorts of other stuff. And the relevant parties made too much money on things sucking in the relevant ways to budge without laws, so you get this stuff riding in as a displacement behavior.

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 2d

Ultimately these laws are being passed because the web failed to deliver on the initial promise and people now think "I want to protect my child from this" instead of "I want to let my child benefit from this". I honestly feel these specific restrictions are just a manifestation of that sentiment.

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 2d

I feel like it's a much broader problem than just "age appropriate materials" specifically? The situation is closer to "the public Internet was at one point mostly prosocial with a dark side but is now mostly predatory with some bastions of value left" and now people are restricting it as vice.

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 2d

Oh?

John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 2d

It wouldn't start being a *good* law if it was 13, but it would at least be understandable as eyeroll worthy reactionary policy. 18 is just like, what the actual fuck you can drive a car and have sex but not download an app to your phone?

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 2d

Yeah if it was age 13 I'd be like "ehhhh" but 18 is just actually nuts, literally insane people policy we're at the stage where people are so mad about the computer that you can basically pass almost any slop legislation in red states and people just nod along.

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 2d

Thinking about how much poorer my childhood would have been if I had to ask parental permission to install any piece of software on my computer. Especially since it sounds like there's no way for a parent to opt out/let their child just install things?

stellz @piss.beauty · 2d

"app stores bad" exhibit #5627492

Here’s how Apple is locking down iPhones to comply with Texas’ age verification law

Apple and Google will have to comply with laws in Texas, Utah, and Louisiana.

www.theverge.com

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