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the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot!
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
arxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
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NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man.
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston
Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...
unraveledpress.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man.
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
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Listening to the Unclear and Present Danger podcast with @jamellebouie.net , and he made a striking analogy: the Trump administration sorta resembles the Confederacy trying to win everything in the first 24 months...
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Listening to the Unclear and Present Danger podcast with @jamellebouie.net , and he made a striking analogy: the Trump administration sorta resembles the Confederacy trying to win everything in the first 24 months...
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Interesting question, I’ll be sure to ask Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk at the NYT DealBook Summit, where she’s on the main stage with Epstein buddy and former Prime Minster of Israel Ehud Barak
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Interesting question, I’ll be sure to ask Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk at the NYT DealBook Summit, where she’s on the main stage with Epstein buddy and former Prime Minster of Israel Ehud Barak
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Eviscerate the agency further*
Jared Isaacman, the billionaire Space X fanboy picked to take over NASA, plans to eviscerate the agency
November 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Eviscerate the agency further*
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This is how you incinerate a field of science. 🔭🧪
NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
www.space.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
This is how you incinerate a field of science. 🔭🧪
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NEW: ICE remains mum regarding prosecutor exposed as white supremacist.
"They want to signal to the other white supremacists...out there that under this administration things are going to be different and you’re not going to have to worry about losing your job"
www.texasobserver.org/ice-white-su...
"They want to signal to the other white supremacists...out there that under this administration things are going to be different and you’re not going to have to worry about losing your job"
www.texasobserver.org/ice-white-su...
ICE Still Won't Answer Questions About Prosecutor with White Supremacist X Account
Congressman Marc Veasey arrived at an ICE facility Monday in his latest attempt to follow up on the Observer's reporting.
www.texasobserver.org
October 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
NEW: ICE remains mum regarding prosecutor exposed as white supremacist.
"They want to signal to the other white supremacists...out there that under this administration things are going to be different and you’re not going to have to worry about losing your job"
www.texasobserver.org/ice-white-su...
"They want to signal to the other white supremacists...out there that under this administration things are going to be different and you’re not going to have to worry about losing your job"
www.texasobserver.org/ice-white-su...
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The most Republican guy is the guy who owns the used car dealership, a tanning salon, and a boat in a place that has been economically decimated by deindustrialization
See, for instance:
See, for instance:
October 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The most Republican guy is the guy who owns the used car dealership, a tanning salon, and a boat in a place that has been economically decimated by deindustrialization
See, for instance:
See, for instance:
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I was out of Israeli prison in five days. They’ve been holding Dr Hussam Abu Safiya for nearly a year without charge, along with thousands more Palestinians. A ceasefire without an end to occupation and accountability for Israel will just be a slower continuation of the genocide
October 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I was out of Israeli prison in five days. They’ve been holding Dr Hussam Abu Safiya for nearly a year without charge, along with thousands more Palestinians. A ceasefire without an end to occupation and accountability for Israel will just be a slower continuation of the genocide
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to fix GIS, one must begin with the dictatorship of the proletariat (not really but lowkey I think in my utopian society GIS software as we know it doesn't exist so)
October 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
to fix GIS, one must begin with the dictatorship of the proletariat (not really but lowkey I think in my utopian society GIS software as we know it doesn't exist so)
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You can't put a price on this kind of friendship.
www.cnbc.com/2024/09/03/t...
www.cnbc.com/2024/09/03/t...
October 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
You can't put a price on this kind of friendship.
www.cnbc.com/2024/09/03/t...
www.cnbc.com/2024/09/03/t...
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excessive hgh has negative cognitive effects, including upregulation in fear memory formation
October 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
excessive hgh has negative cognitive effects, including upregulation in fear memory formation
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Thousands of people disappeared, ethnic pogroms in multiple cities, entire national security apparatus has been turned inside out, illegal murder campaign in the Caribbean, higher edu & science gutted, and the economy wobbling as trade has been devastated for a decade, but cracks are finally showing
“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”
The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Thousands of people disappeared, ethnic pogroms in multiple cities, entire national security apparatus has been turned inside out, illegal murder campaign in the Caribbean, higher edu & science gutted, and the economy wobbling as trade has been devastated for a decade, but cracks are finally showing
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A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters
A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.
news.bloomberglaw.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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fucked up that this is all just landlords swatting their own buildings to get rid of all the working class residents so they can raise the rent or sell to a developer who'll flip them into high end condos or w/e
like it's a real estate scam! it's a fucking land grab! a fire for the insurance money!
like it's a real estate scam! it's a fucking land grab! a fire for the insurance money!
There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;
October 8, 2025 at 6:22 AM
fucked up that this is all just landlords swatting their own buildings to get rid of all the working class residents so they can raise the rent or sell to a developer who'll flip them into high end condos or w/e
like it's a real estate scam! it's a fucking land grab! a fire for the insurance money!
like it's a real estate scam! it's a fucking land grab! a fire for the insurance money!
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I used to be the guy on Twitter reminding people that contractors like me do not get back pay. “And then also contractors experience permanent economic harm because they don’t get back pay.” Thanks to OMB Circular A-76 far more of the federal workforce is contractors than you know.
ICYMI, the federal government is still shut down.
Here's what that means for the people of D.C.
Here's what that means for the people of D.C.
The federal government has shut down. Here’s what it means for D.C.
You can’t legally get married, for one, and the city’s economy will take a hit.
51st.news
October 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I used to be the guy on Twitter reminding people that contractors like me do not get back pay. “And then also contractors experience permanent economic harm because they don’t get back pay.” Thanks to OMB Circular A-76 far more of the federal workforce is contractors than you know.
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stealing the property of ethnic minorities in mass terror pogroms in conjunction with financial interests who want to consolidate property in impoverished minority neighborhoods. Damn. History does rhyme.
bsky.app/profile/utop...
bsky.app/profile/utop...
There it is
October 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
stealing the property of ethnic minorities in mass terror pogroms in conjunction with financial interests who want to consolidate property in impoverished minority neighborhoods. Damn. History does rhyme.
bsky.app/profile/utop...
bsky.app/profile/utop...
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one side effect of the echo chamber the right wing inhabits is that they forget how to talk to anyone else
Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."
October 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
one side effect of the echo chamber the right wing inhabits is that they forget how to talk to anyone else
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HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”
“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.
thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...
“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.
thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...
Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE
Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.
thetriibe.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”
“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.
thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...
“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.
thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...
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Coates’s line in his discussion with Klein that “sometimes we lose” really stuck with me.
Klein was talking electoral calculations. Coates was talking about those working for true liberation and equality.
To me, this is so much of the difference. Where are we actually trying to go? And how?
Klein was talking electoral calculations. Coates was talking about those working for true liberation and equality.
To me, this is so much of the difference. Where are we actually trying to go? And how?
October 6, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Coates’s line in his discussion with Klein that “sometimes we lose” really stuck with me.
Klein was talking electoral calculations. Coates was talking about those working for true liberation and equality.
To me, this is so much of the difference. Where are we actually trying to go? And how?
Klein was talking electoral calculations. Coates was talking about those working for true liberation and equality.
To me, this is so much of the difference. Where are we actually trying to go? And how?
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Just fucking call his bluff. Oh, you're gonna send troops everywhere? Gonna do Zero Dark Thirty on random Chicago apartments? With what money, bozo?
October 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Just fucking call his bluff. Oh, you're gonna send troops everywhere? Gonna do Zero Dark Thirty on random Chicago apartments? With what money, bozo?
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I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.
US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies
U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.
www.reuters.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.
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Wow I can't believe the product of the overhyped tech bro startup mindset defense contractor run by a right-wing Trump lover who dresses like a manchild is deeply flawed and doesn't work the way they promised it would I am shocked by this this has never happened no one has ever predicted this wow.
“‘We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure,’ the memo says.”
Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has deep flaws, Army memo says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The much-needed modernization of the U.S. Army's battlefield communications network being undertaken by Anduril, Palantir and others is rife with "fundamental security" problems ...
www.yahoo.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Wow I can't believe the product of the overhyped tech bro startup mindset defense contractor run by a right-wing Trump lover who dresses like a manchild is deeply flawed and doesn't work the way they promised it would I am shocked by this this has never happened no one has ever predicted this wow.
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Anyone else feel the rope getting tighter
Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE official sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi says the DOJ requested its removal (Ashley Oliver/Fox Business)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
October 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Anyone else feel the rope getting tighter