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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 4h

Or in other words, they came out about the same way Massachusetts natives pronounce Worcester and Gloucester.

rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 4h

Ahem... the Brooklyn Book Festival was last month.

Which, of course, says nothing either way about the veracity of any allegations concerning Joseph Kahn, children, and Thelemite rituals from the handbooks of Aleister Crowley.

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 7h

Some of them do. But not this one.

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 16h

Not exactly training, but there are a bunch of "spot the AI" quizzes, e.g. ai-art-turing-test.com

rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 16h

One sign of the end times, for people who believe that stuff, is supposed to be a legion of "false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravening wolves".

Well, here's one of them...

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 18h

I had to look. They pointed to "impossible" campaign promises. Cited for Mamdani: rent freeze on stabilized apartments (as De Blasio did for most of two terms) and free buses (5 route pilot underway now, arranged by Mamdani himself).

One valid point: both target prior non-voters. Beyond that: yuck.

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 23h

There are already known rare earth deposits in the US, and in fact operating mines that were shut down years ago because it was more economical to buy from China - at least until the stable genius messed that up. But reopening them may not be quick or cheap...

US Does Have Rare Earths – The Big Sky Business Journal

bigskybusinessjournal.com

rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 23h

The best of it absolutely is. The rest of it... varies.

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 1d

"As a libertarian, I want a government that respects my right to do whatever I want to do without interference, and reliably interested with anyone I disapprove of and removes them from public life."

He ain't the first. www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/p...

The Education of a Libertarian

www.cato-unbound.org

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 1d

Not at all sure the frog is white. See this interview, in which the first of them identified as Mexican about a minute in (speaking with an accent to match). bsky.app/profile/comp...

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 6d

Portland Frog updates about getting pepper sprayed in his fan intake 🐸🫡

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 1d

There already had been a problem with footage of one conflict, urban disturbance, or whatever being mislabeled as from a different place or time entirely.

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 1d

Well, yes, but there are fewer examples who'd already gone rancid in public before receiving their awards. (Even that's not entirely unprecedented... there was Kissinger. But it's a shorter list.)

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 1d

Although it also matters that a lot of the press is still taking their cues from Twitter, one place where the earlier videos spread, whose algorithm has apparently been aggressively tweaked since to suppress them.

rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 1d

Google's still good for some things. For me, a search on "Elon Musk white cat" (no quotes) has it as the first hit.

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 1d

Well, here's Elon (from his own Twitter feed, in 2012). Andreessen's "Techno-optimist manifesto" quotes favorably from Filippo Marinetti's proto-fascist Futurist manifesto, and Thiel told the Cato institute in 2009 that democracy had failed because it didn't enact his personal policy preferences...

Elon Musk making a "Doctor Evil" finger gesture, in formal dress while holding a plushie of a white cat. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/192701084932907009

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 1d

Also, datacenter-scale training is necessary for creating new base models -- but subsequent tuning and updates seems to be feasible already with a lot less power. So you don't need Meta's data center the size of Manhattan to achieve that either.

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 1d

Well, some people did. But if you look at American business elites in the 1930s -- Ford and Watson of IBM were both quite cordial with the fascists, and pretty hostile to the New Deal.

rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe, but the art rooms at regional science fiction conventions have been full of similar quality stuff for decades, produced entirely by humans, well... give or take the general level of taste. (But if AIs are involved, they aren't responsible for that.)

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 1d

Corporate slop to be sure, but I'm not sure I see much here that would have required AI. (Particularly not the one that's all text! Tasteless text, but... all text.)

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 1d

There have apparently been "icy roads" warnings appearing out of season on some mapping apps.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

‘Why is your mouth open? All I said was that the US president should invade San Francisco!’

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Doing comms work for billionaires slowly melting their brains must be quite a job.

At the end of the interview, he turned to a public relations executive. He could be heard asking why her mouth was wide open and if he had said anything he shouldn’t have.

“What about the political questions?” he asked. “Too spicy?”

Then he hung up.

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 2d

They did have a Senate majority in Biden's term, they didn't nuke the filibuster, and Thune goes on like this anyway. And Democratic leadership keeps on talking about the importance of maintaining friendly relationships with their valued Republican colleagues.

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 2d

Some of those reports of a potential Harvard deal have been... misleading; in particular, there have been a bunch in the New York Times which were reported as if they had Harvard sources, but which actually came from the Trump side only. Anything since unambiguously sourced to Harvard itself?

It Looks Like Trump’s White House Lied to NYT About Harvard Deal

Harvard University isn’t close to a deal with the Trump administration at all.

newrepublic.com

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps he thinks the MTA runs the Hamptons Jitney?

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rst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 2d

Well, she's not responsible for the cold-blooded murder on the high seas... but she has endorsed them, and described the person responsible as a "visionary".

Nobel Peace Prize winner hailed Trump as ‘visionary’ just days before her victory

Maria Corina Machado was given the award for promoting democracy in Venezuela and says that the US president is the country’s best chance for regime change

www.independent.co.uk

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