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Being in tech and having a single modicum of critical thinking is just screaming "this isn't what LLMs are designed for" over and over as people shove a bunch of word predictors into critical decision making processes because some glorified used car salesmen told them it would fix all their problems
Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'
July 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Being in tech and having a single modicum of critical thinking is just screaming "this isn't what LLMs are designed for" over and over as people shove a bunch of word predictors into critical decision making processes because some glorified used car salesmen told them it would fix all their problems
I have one, and only need the one, reason to absolutely loathe Josh Kraft for Boston:
We don’t need more silver spoon fed rich assholes leading us. He has no idea what it’s like for regular people.
We don’t need more silver spoon fed rich assholes leading us. He has no idea what it’s like for regular people.
Journalist @gintautasd.bsky.social confirms what I heard the Mayor say a few weeks ago: The Kraft people are paying businesses to put his campaign signs in their shop windows. Absolutely pathetic loser shit.
July 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I have one, and only need the one, reason to absolutely loathe Josh Kraft for Boston:
We don’t need more silver spoon fed rich assholes leading us. He has no idea what it’s like for regular people.
We don’t need more silver spoon fed rich assholes leading us. He has no idea what it’s like for regular people.
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It's very bad that the son of a billionaire running a campaign funded by tons of money coming from outside Boston is being so secretive about his finances.
However, you can look at the contributions to his PAC to get an idea of who's influencing his policies. A small thread of stories below.
However, you can look at the contributions to his PAC to get an idea of who's influencing his policies. A small thread of stories below.
Donald Trump has proven that politicians today can get away with ignoring basic transparency & avoid accountability on personal financial interests, conflicts & entanglements. I’ve been disclosing financials since before Trump & still believe in good government. Here’s why it matters in this race:🧵
Josh Kraft has yet to disclose his 2024 tax return — in fact, he's filing late
In May, the Kraft campaign said it would release his tax returns “in the near future.” But now the campaign says the candidate had asked the IRS for a six-month filing extension.
www.wbur.org
July 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
It's very bad that the son of a billionaire running a campaign funded by tons of money coming from outside Boston is being so secretive about his finances.
However, you can look at the contributions to his PAC to get an idea of who's influencing his policies. A small thread of stories below.
However, you can look at the contributions to his PAC to get an idea of who's influencing his policies. A small thread of stories below.
Fantastic Four Play indeed.
July 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Fantastic Four Play indeed.
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As a long-term MAGA person I can excuse narcissism, mediocrity, childishness, dishonesty, racism, sexism, lawbreaking, dementia, incoherence, and blatant hostility to the constitution and American values, but I draw the line when I decide to stop ignoring that he’s also always clearly been a pedo
July 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
As a long-term MAGA person I can excuse narcissism, mediocrity, childishness, dishonesty, racism, sexism, lawbreaking, dementia, incoherence, and blatant hostility to the constitution and American values, but I draw the line when I decide to stop ignoring that he’s also always clearly been a pedo
In a normal world all these guys would be fired and prosecuted for assault.
F12.
F12.
Prosecutors will not bring criminal charges against sheriff’s officers who wrestled a Black man out of a car during a traffic stop and punched him multiple times, the local sheriff said Monday.
No charges for Jacksonville officers who punched Black man during arrest
William Anthony McNeil Jr. questioned why he was pulled over and refused to get out of the car. An officer smashed his window and punched him in the face, video shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
In a normal world all these guys would be fired and prosecuted for assault.
F12.
F12.
my favorite aspect of the Democratic Party is that, no matter how genuine and helpful you may be, there are a thousand voices ready to tear you down for some other perceived slight.
Nobody is good enough for many of the supporters.
Nobody is good enough for many of the supporters.
July 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
my favorite aspect of the Democratic Party is that, no matter how genuine and helpful you may be, there are a thousand voices ready to tear you down for some other perceived slight.
Nobody is good enough for many of the supporters.
Nobody is good enough for many of the supporters.
yo @aoc.bsky.social stop posting thru it
July 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
yo @aoc.bsky.social stop posting thru it
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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Today, in Mad King Attempting To Distract People From Talking About Him Being a Pedophile news....
Today, in Mad King Attempting To Distract People From Talking About Him Being a Pedophile news....
Republicans push bill to rename Kennedy Center Opera House after Melania Trump
The First Lady is the honorary chair of the Kennedy Center
www.independent.co.uk
July 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Today, in Mad King Attempting To Distract People From Talking About Him Being a Pedophile news....
Today, in Mad King Attempting To Distract People From Talking About Him Being a Pedophile news....
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🤨 Is the US military getting into the concentration camp business?
🧊😲🪖 ICE sought immediate access to Camp Atterbury, a National Guard base in Indiana and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, a base in New Jersey, from the Defense Department.
www.npr.org/2025/07/21/n...
www.npr.org/2025/07/21/n...
Military bases in New Jersey, Indiana, to be expanded to detain immigrants
NPR has learned that the Pentagon has also approved the expansion of the U.S. Naval Base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the same purpose.
www.npr.org
July 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🤨 Is the US military getting into the concentration camp business?
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Colbert comes out swinging. Gonna be a fun 10 months...
July 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Colbert comes out swinging. Gonna be a fun 10 months...
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Quality of life for everyone is why we need universal basic income. When the lives of the poorest are improved, everyone's quality of life improves.
Parents reduced their work hours and used the money to invest in their children’s lives — moving to better housing, enrolling them in extracurricular activities, switching schools or ensuring their kids got additional support. www.instagram.com/p/DMYa-YbsGo7/
July 22, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Quality of life for everyone is why we need universal basic income. When the lives of the poorest are improved, everyone's quality of life improves.
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Just had a great gameshow idea. We find 20 of the worst people imaginable and give them all free airtime. Then we add 1 person with different views and call it a debate. Afterwards the terrible people can use the attention to grift idiots for donations. I think this would massively benefit society.
July 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Just had a great gameshow idea. We find 20 of the worst people imaginable and give them all free airtime. Then we add 1 person with different views and call it a debate. Afterwards the terrible people can use the attention to grift idiots for donations. I think this would massively benefit society.
Pedophile Of The United States
Jon Stewart, on the same CBS that canned Colbert, rips both Trump and his bosses a new one.
Jon Stewart Reacts to Colbert's Cancellation & Trump's "Bawdy" Epstein Doodles | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
www.youtube.com
July 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Pedophile Of The United States
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A good way to think about the housing crisis is landlords pocketing essentially all the consumer surplus the last 40 years
Between 1980 and 2024 the basket of 50 basic commodities become cheaper and more abundant. To be precise 70 per cent cheaper and 238 per cent more abundant. If we hadn’t messed up housing costs we’d be collectively very well off. Source: buff.ly/U8lZZkc
July 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
A good way to think about the housing crisis is landlords pocketing essentially all the consumer surplus the last 40 years
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My leftist position goes further
"Abolish ICE" needs to be the centrist Democratic position going forward. The leftist position is "Charge everyone involved in this with war crimes." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges
Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied one of succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
My leftist position goes further
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By 2029 the GOP may have entrenched their coup by "legal" methods
Gerrymandering-permitted by MAGA judges
Changes in citizenship laws and deportations
Quashing dissent by jailing protesters
And radical "interpretation" of the Constitution
We still don't fully comprehend the danger America faces
Gerrymandering-permitted by MAGA judges
Changes in citizenship laws and deportations
Quashing dissent by jailing protesters
And radical "interpretation" of the Constitution
We still don't fully comprehend the danger America faces
"Unlike January 2021 — when the Big Lie scheme failed — by 2029 Trump and his cohorts will have new tools to carry out a coup, including a massive federal police force with a proven willingness to engage in systemic illegality at Trump's behest."
The emerging coup
Lawless authoritarian regimes don't give up power willingly.
www.publicnotice.co
July 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
By 2029 the GOP may have entrenched their coup by "legal" methods
Gerrymandering-permitted by MAGA judges
Changes in citizenship laws and deportations
Quashing dissent by jailing protesters
And radical "interpretation" of the Constitution
We still don't fully comprehend the danger America faces
Gerrymandering-permitted by MAGA judges
Changes in citizenship laws and deportations
Quashing dissent by jailing protesters
And radical "interpretation" of the Constitution
We still don't fully comprehend the danger America faces
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When, one year ago, a buggy update to software sold by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike took down millions of computers around the world and sent them into a death spiral of repeated reboots, the global cost of all those crashed machines was equivalent to one of the worst cyberattacks in history.
At Least 750 US Hospitals Faced Disruptions During Last Year’s CrowdStrike Outage, Study Finds
Of those, more than 200 appear to have had outages of services related to patient care following CrowdStrike’s disastrous crash, researchers have revealed.
www.wired.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
When, one year ago, a buggy update to software sold by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike took down millions of computers around the world and sent them into a death spiral of repeated reboots, the global cost of all those crashed machines was equivalent to one of the worst cyberattacks in history.
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GOP Rep. Tim Burchett: The Biden Administration tampered with Epstein files, and we‘re never going to get to the bottom of it. I think stuff could have been placed in those files
Laying the groundwork for Trump’s excuse before the files even drop.
Laying the groundwork for Trump’s excuse before the files even drop.
July 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
GOP Rep. Tim Burchett: The Biden Administration tampered with Epstein files, and we‘re never going to get to the bottom of it. I think stuff could have been placed in those files
Laying the groundwork for Trump’s excuse before the files even drop.
Laying the groundwork for Trump’s excuse before the files even drop.
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You want a dis track? This one by @lincolnproject.us recently is pretty good.
youtu.be/LHhYl895P_E?...
youtu.be/LHhYl895P_E?...
Trump Not Like Us
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
youtu.be
July 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
You want a dis track? This one by @lincolnproject.us recently is pretty good.
youtu.be/LHhYl895P_E?...
youtu.be/LHhYl895P_E?...
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Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social,
Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,
Your fan, Mar🐫
Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,
Your fan, Mar🐫
July 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social,
Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,
Your fan, Mar🐫
Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,
Your fan, Mar🐫
y’all if you can’t see the lines being drawn throughout the courts right now straight towards a centralized fascist regime…
i just can’t help you understand it anymore.
i just can’t help you understand it anymore.
8th Cir. holds, 2-1, that a federal prosecution for arson is constitutional under the spending clause as applied to a man who Molotoved three state-owned police cars.
Held: it's enough that the feds gave around 4% of the police budget and money is fungible.
ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/25/07...
Held: it's enough that the feds gave around 4% of the police budget and money is fungible.
ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/25/07...
![Because money is “fungible” and property is not “inherently
interchangeable,” the dissent suggests that the Government must show “a connection
between” the burned police cars and the federal assistance. Post, at 9. We don’t
think so. Even though the cars were not bought with federal money, their destruction
necessarily depleted the resources of the three departments. And because money is
fungible, there is interference with the value of disbursed federal dollars—whether
the federal funds were “drained off” via bribe, used to replace cars burned up by
arson, or used to backfill other funding diverted to replace the cars. See Sabri, 541
U.S. at 606. But see Agency for Int’l Dev. v. All. for Open Soc’y Int’l, Inc., 570 U.S.
205, 220 (2013) (fungibility of money limited when funding conditions “require [an
organization] to pledge allegiance to the Government’s policy”).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/bafkreicyaozfr4coga2wdot7mpafoa4yxphpcfcilnod4pvm3hgw3c3fru@jpeg)
July 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
y’all if you can’t see the lines being drawn throughout the courts right now straight towards a centralized fascist regime…
i just can’t help you understand it anymore.
i just can’t help you understand it anymore.