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Nuala Bishari @nuala.bsky.social · 3h

Until SNAP is funded, here’s an ongoing list of Bay Area restaurants where SNAP recipients can receive free food. Just bring your EBT card!

COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 7h

While the feds continue to play stupid games, SNAP recipients are set to lose food aid for the next month. In the Bay Area, a growing number of restaurants are stepping up to help, and we're maintaining the list. Share with anyone who needs it. www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...

These Bay Area Restaurants Are Offering Free Food to SNAP Recipients

Amid a government shutdown that will cut off aid for 42 million Americans, local food scene folks plan to pick up the slack.

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silent w - looking for work @silentw.bsky.social · 5h

I'm not CRAZY about this but it does seem adjacent to a step in the right direction

however given that it's the government determining that, lol, lmao

Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 6h

To add clarity to this:

Influencers in China that discuss topics such as medicine, law, education, or finance must prove they are qualified or certified to do so, in an aim to clamp down on misinformation.

Right now it impacts large influencer accounts (1m+ followers) + bans false advertising.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 13h

get in everybody let's unfuck google drive by shooting gemini

drive.google.com/drive/u/0/se...
(if you're signed into google this goes right to settings. may go without saying, but if you're not already signed in and see a login please don't enter a password into a link you click on social media 😂)

showing the gemini thing on by default in google drive settings.

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Chris Murphy @highlyspammable.bsky.social · 6h

Dylan is a superb Unreal TA and every day he goes unhired I lose a little faith in humanity.

Dylan Browne @dylanbrowne.bsky.social · 1d

Still looking for a new job! I'm a Tech Artist / Generalist who loves pushing visual side of things, 13 years of #UnrealEngine, Tech Art, Lighting, Lookdev, Env, Cinematics, HLSL, BP, PCG, Niagara, Python as well as a Houdini & Substance skillset

Avaliable mid Dec

#GameDev #VFX #FX #GameArt

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 14h

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

$Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.$

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 7h

chotiner's secret and utterly deadly three-part technique, imho:

1. ask a follow up question.

2. when they don't answer, ask again.

3. write all that shit down.

yes, it really is that simple.

Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 7h

Chotiner operates on an elementary but effective cut-and-thrust. He is conversational enough to settle an idiot down, and they're all idiots these days. Then he's always prepared with a follow-up. But he pulls his punch. He lets the subject lean into it so far they fall over.

Waikiki Wanda @wanda.bsky.social · 9h

I actually don't think Chotiner is preternaturally good at interviewing or whatever, I just think the rest of the national press is operating at goo goo ga ga level

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 7h

Not only do strikes work but collective solidarity between different jobs striking at the same time works even better
dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc...

Historic B.C. strike ends after eight weeks: BCGEU and Province reach tentative deal | News

BCGEU has reached a tentative agreement with the Government of British Columbia, ending a highly disruptive eight-week strike.

dailyhive.com

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 21d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 13h

I would say 'they don't make games like this anymore' but what would be a lie because they just did.

It is a pure videogame-ass videogame. Just a bright, screaming sensory assault where things go fast and explode a lot. Twitchy movement and short time limits on clearing bosses. Also a pacifist mode

NIGHT STRIKER GEAR - Release Announcement PV

YouTube video by 有限会社エムツー（M2 Co., Ltd.）

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silent w - looking for work @silentw.bsky.social · 9h

you argued, above, that "post-training reinforcement learning and fine-tuning pushes models towards more accurate response."

that's exactly what the previous post is addressing. you cannot get a 'more accurate response' in a context where there are only two types of response - correct and incorrect

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 12h

One of the biggest problems in the tech industry right now is that the people running it appear to have lost their fucking minds

Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 12h

Bold to respond to one of the most concerning-on-the-technical-details cloud provider outages in years, an outage in which terrible morale and sky-high attrition are credibly implicated, with "let's do more layoffs"

George Pearkes @peark.es · 12h

*AMAZON PLANS TO CUT UP TO 30,000 CORPORATE JOBS: RTRS

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Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ 🎃👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 12h

BEGGING people to use something like this and not VCR OSD Mono

Ivano (somepx) @somepx.com · 1d

a VCR-like font for a Halloween game, eh? Classic...
You can use TAPE! (from my 40 fonts sale) 📼

itch.io/s/158296/40-...

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 11h

If Microsoft do not make a firm statement against this soon, I'm pretty sure I'm upgrading them to Boycott For Life.

This is utterly reprehensible and if they somehow endorse this naked, virulent bigotry, they are a valid target forevermore.

Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 11h

I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.

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silent w - looking for work @silentw.bsky.social · 12h

Zohran Mamdani is smoking on that shit that killed Huey Long

THE KINGFISH RISES

Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 12h

This is exactly how you win. Mamdani hasn't backed down on left priorities a single inch, but he has centered his campaign on cost of living and class war, and that is something that all workers have a stake in supporting.

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 12h

This is exactly how you win. Mamdani hasn't backed down on left priorities a single inch, but he has centered his campaign on cost of living and class war, and that is something that all workers have a stake in supporting.

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 14h

current block game mood:

(turn sound on for music)

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silent w - looking for work @silentw.bsky.social · 12h

I still remember the banter between Kyle and Jan in JK, what a great duo.

truly tragic that extended universe was killed by Disney

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Froey 🏳️‍⚧️ @froey.bsky.social · 12h

Please help support Allison!

💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social · 14h

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Hiiii
Still trying to meet my goal.
but I don't know what to do.
I have to pay rent but also have these pet medical needs...
Lyla had her vet appointment, urinalysis, and antibiotics. We got a free visit but the others cost money.

And now Magic is having stomach issues...

Support Jaye Allison Ashtear

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silent w - looking for work @silentw.bsky.social · 12h

it's so insulting! and this is coming from me, who has 30+ years of armoring myself against this kind of bullshit, I can't imagine what it's like for a kid who is just learning that this is a way you can be hurt by an authority structure

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silent w - looking for work @silentw.bsky.social · 12h

taking a retraining course and the state of education in the USA is DIRE

got these live quizzes on a website that needs 2 different windows to work, whenever you answer it gives you some snarky jerk-ass message like "woah there slow down tiger!!!"

talk about killing the desire to learn or engage

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Earthbound420+ @earthbound420plus.bsky.social · 16h

Seriously 💥 🙄

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 19h

This is what happens when you actually listen to people.

They are EXCITED to vote for you and they turn the fuck out holy shit.

“164,000 New Yorkers flocked to the polls this weekend for the first two days of early voting nearly matching the entire early voting count in 2021”

First Weekend of Early Voting Shatters Record, as Mamdani Rallies Thousands in Queens

Turnout was massive across all five boroughs, with voters telling THE CITY that they were motivated to vote for — and against — the Democratic nominee.

www.thecity.nyc

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 19h

The EHRC has sent a new draft Code of Practice which would lead to the exclusion of trans people from public life.

The decision now is up to this government, will they sign a trans bathroom ban in secret?

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-ba...

#ScrapTheBathroomBan

Image of a pink wooden sign that reads 'TOILET' with 'male' and 'female' toilet symbols. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban:
tell your MP to say no to segregation. The proposed bathroom ban will deny everyone the basic right to privacy and dignity: we should all be able to use the loo without fear or discrimination. Write to your MP:
tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 18h

Everyone spread the word!!!! Dead Static Drive is coming to Steam and Xbox on Nov 5th
GRAND. THEFT. CTHULHU.
store.steampowered.com/app/1166940/...

Dead Static Drive on Steam

Dead Static Drive is Grand Theft Cthulhu. An indie survival-horror game following a nightmarish road trip across a 1980s Americana. Evade police. Equip yourself and those close to you, and follow your...

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