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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · Jul 19
midwestern.bsky.social Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · Jul 19
Joe Biden was the best president of my entire lifetime, it’s not even all that close, and that’s terrible.
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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h
Some people have said the media lacks the vocabulary for this political moment but all they need to do is describe what they're seeing with their eyes instead of ignoring it. The absolute minimum and they won't do even that
internethippo.bsky.social The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 16h
I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 17h
That is very probably correct, given where I’ve been. Learn something new every day!
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 17h
Ooh that’s nice. I’m guessing I’ve only been in the 1 version because that had bunks that fold down and no sink.
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 1d
It’s much funnier if you imagine he’s British.
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 1d
I presume they saw a market opportunity in the fact that YouTube sucks?
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 1d
See the same response, then.
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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 5d
Demonstrating once again that, by holding that partisan gerrymandering is a nonjusticiable “political question,” SCOTUS set up a situation in which voters and their representatives are essentially punished in Congress if they choose to run their own states fairly.
taniel.bsky.social Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 5d
North Carolina Republicans announced today they’re going to pass a new congressional map to draw a Dem out of Congress; they already did last cycle, going from 7-7 to 10-4. Thus would be 11-3. t.co/XLJIhe8vZn
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 1d
If it had been done away with in 2021, maybe they wouldn’t need saving.

Regardless of whether you think that, to fix the damage done by Trump is going to take a govt. that can act. Since part of that is weakening the executive, the senate has to work, and with the filibuster it won’t.
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 1d
We couldn’t bully Sinema or Manchin into nuking the filibuster, and if we take her at her word she won’t be worried about reelection. So if she’s going to be convinced to change her position on this it has to be done before the primary.
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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 2d
Keys to the office? Check! ✅
Sworn in as Congresswoman? Not quite 🙅🏻‍♂️
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 2d
Let’s check back in a few years.
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 2d
How about a moderately better Siri that can phone a data center friend for the 10% of things it can’t handle? Apple already has the framework for that.
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 2d
Not clear to me how old the Siri model is, I get the impression it’s some years old. But yes, I think the general approach with on-device processing is basically correct.
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 2d
We’ll see, whether we want to or not.
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 2d
I think trying to cram a full SOTA llm onto a phone would be missing the point of why it’s on the phone to begin with. I don’t disagree that Apple is going to need *some* cloud compute. But I bet they can get an 8gb model on device to do all most people really want most of the time.
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 2d
I think that depends on how much one assumes the value of the LLM to the user on eg. a phone rests on acting as a natural language front end to APIs on more deterministic systems, from which it principally returns the outputs.
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 2d
Also Apple needs to find a reason to keep making better chips.
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 2d
It also wouldn’t be surprising for them to do some medium size acquisitions (fx. Perplexity) when the tide goes out.
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 2d
I do think the on-device aspect is important to the economics of it, and also to making a differentiator vs other products.
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 2d
Part, damnit.
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 2d
The Apple part or the on-device party?
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 2d
It’s going to be very funny when Apple wins this race by being the only company not way the fuck out over its skis on data centers as on device proves amply good enough for most purposes and better for some.
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 2d
But also that would have been much harder to raise hundreds of billions of dollars for.
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 2d
If this tech had been rolled out humbly as iterative features - web search is better, your IDE has auto complete, your voice assistant works, and you can make all the custom NPC portraits you want for your home D&D game, I think the response would have been far more positive.
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Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 2d
So here’s the thing, I use CGPT several times a week. It is usually fairly helpful at the things I ask of it. The amount of money I would pay to continue using it vs one of the models I can, today, run on my computer for free is $0. So the tech has merit, clearly, but the business model… uh…
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