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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 2h

To be fair, if you left the heater lighter in the seat, it would set the thing on fire.

Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 3h

I’ll take that as a compliment from a vegan who owns an obligate carnivore as a pet.

I’ve been futzing with stuff like neural networks since the late 80s. Now please tell me the difference between NNs, ML, NLP and LLMs.

No, on second thought save the Googling and just fuck off.

Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 3h

I feel the same in private industry.

And I’m not a Luddite! There are use cases for AI. I am a consultant for and a stock owner in a company that has such a use case!

But LLMs ain’t it, and to far too many people, LLM = AI. It always equals oracle, and that’s dangerous.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 10h

m.youtube.com/watch?v=YDfV...

Making a Bee attack pheromone then testing it...

YouTube video by Pyrotechnical Science

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 10h

They’re usually not aggressive this time of year, unless, like me, you deliberately open up their homes & peek inside. Then they get decidedly pissy.

If you’d squished it, it may have stung you, otherwise, it would’ve likely just crawled out.

Fun fact: the bee attack pheromone smells like bananas.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 10h

But it is interesting they admitted it. I take that to mean they think their investors are so dumb, they wither can’t see or (per sunk costs) can’t admit the implications. LLM performance is close to the asymptote of peak performance. Shoveling money at data centers is not going to change that.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 10h

My daughter was a comp sci / math major and is an AI specialist (real AI, not chatbot “AI”), and I consult for medical AI companies, so we had figured out this was true long before Open AI admitted it, just based on the math behind the LLM algorithm.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 16h

1. I said “control electronics”

2. ALL cars built prior to 1996 are air gapped, later if you don’t see OnStar as a modern internet connection (that interface had no way to access control electronics).

3. Most motorcycles are still air gapped.

I’m not sure what you thought I meant by air gapped…

Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 17h

Ayup. No excuses for being this dumb. This study exists and is public:

www.sciencealert.com/openai-has-a...

OpenAI Has a Fix For Hallucinations, But You Really Won't Like It

OpenAI's latest research paper diagnoses exactly why ChatGPT and other large language models can make things up – known in the world of artificial intelligence as "hallucination".

www.sciencealert.com

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 17h

Air gap all control electronics!!!!

“Security issues” should not be a thing.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 17h

This was in Appalachia in the 1970s.(I am old 🤣).

I credit a whole lot of things about my personality and my perspective on life to that decision.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 17h

Mom didn’t want to go to a local church. Small people in small towns like to gossip about teachers’ (me) & preachers’ kids.

Dad worked across the state line & was friendly with the waitress at his lunch spot. She invited us to her church, & that’s how we became the only 3 white folks in our church.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 20h

Unprecedented corruption

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 20h

Queen Isabella: the OG Venture Capital bro.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 1d

Singapore would probably come closest.

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KellyElizabeth @kellyelizabeth13.bsky.social · 2d

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 1d

The point is: why should the US celebrate an explorer who never set foot here, when there are plenty who did (e.g. Amerigo Vespucci)?

But he did set foot in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, so it’s a moot point.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 1d

And the only reason he set out in the direction he did was that he wasn’t as good at geometry as Eratosthenes.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 1d

The original impetus was less about anti-Italian bigotry, more about anti-Catholic bigotry. KoC (originally an Irish organization) chapters of all ethnicities were behind the push.

Given we have anti-abortion politics to thank the Catholics for, I could have done without the mainstreaming to WASPs.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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NPR @npr.org · 5d

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 1d

That’s cold.

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 2d

His AI girlfriend is an enabler.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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