@dochammertime.bsky.social this must be an excruciating playoffs to have to watch

So I guess we might have to rewrite that old joke about what do you call the guy who graduated last in his class in med school

Several Chinese-linked cargo ships and tankers have passed through the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours, citing navigational data.-NBC News

"oh, lamaze? you took lamaze? i forgot you spent three whole weeks sitting on a floor learning how to breathe. i had to get by with this degree from COLUMBIA MEDICAL SCHOOL"

trump: if people can just vote for who they want then we won't even have a country anymore. who will even give me one billion dollars for ballroom then. we gotta make not liking republicans punishable by death nyt: buoyed by recent legal triumphs, a defiant trump seeks to redefine democratic norms

If the students had not encamped Nicholas Kristoff (of all fucking people) wouldn’t have written about Palestinian rape. Im going to say it again & again : just because a movement doesn’t accomplish its objectives, just because it’s brutalized, doesn’t mean it doesn’t change its world.

don't care about most of this and don't know who the hair helmet kid is but in what mixed up universe is Rumble's Glenn Greenwald a left winger

in essence he's right, he's firing multimillion dollar missiles at butterflies. and this is why your libraries are closed on the weekends and your grandfather is working a retail job at 80

Robert Picardo fending off a horny gremlin in Gremlins 2

they were pretty ok at grouping or finding patterns in big data sets ~10 years ago, but idk if you can make 700,000 people unemployed with just that

not saying they are better people. just saying they have a better product that is not hamstrung by a dumb despicably unctuous shit head like altman. in a way you can thank musk here. altman fucked up by thinking Public CEO Personality was a plus. the days of the celebrity CEO are over for now

The original purpose of LLMs is still one that I think is genuinely useful and cool: Translate web pages. Not like translate a novel and keep the nuance, etc, but a quick and dirty translation that's good enough to get the point. But that's not a trillion dollar industry.

We call these things hallucinations at our peril. The LLM isn't really hallucinating, it simply doesn't know anything. It's always trying to say what it calculates the next thing that should be said is. But that metric for "should be said" has no relationship to reality, only to what HAS been said

it’s that very primrose path that so concerns me for people trying to use this for purpose, in load-bearing applications for our society. i hope we catch it quickly but i have little hope. you just can’t have this shit telling the water company what to put in the water! not any good at all

i was thinking that a genuine highest best use case for these things is letting abusive freaks yell at them but honestly. we should just not let the abusive freaks abuse anyone or anything

exactly the point! this isn't me getting to the "truth" this is just it getting better at telling me, specifically, what i, specifically, want to hear

not an absolute hater but the problem i have with AI is you can basically make an LLM say anything. but it's always going to be definitionally a lie. sure you can hire a liar off the streets but sometimes you hire a solid, moral person. these guys will always be lower than worms

*adopting a golden retriever* this dog is going to get me so much ass

absolutely incredible thing for bret stephens to say out loud

Excuse you the only crimes this creature has committed are chewing through laptop cords and stealing food which isn’t enough for a dark side

Nothing can prepare you for how literal this description is until you see the ad.

SPIRIT IS CURRENTLY EXPECTED TO CEASE OPERATIONS AROUND 3 A.M. ET SATURDAY - WSJ

You didn’t help the United States after the United States went “you suck, I don’t need any help from you”? Now it’s going poorly for the United States and you tell the truth about that?!? Well, fine. Then I’ll weaken the United States! So there!

bubble as in dotcom bubble: a few companies hyped as the next big thing are gonna go kaboom, some people are gonna lose a lot of money, the shit’s still gonna be around and unavoidable the rest of your life

the guy is a dumb asshole who sucks. that's all there is to know

Did you guys hear about Will Stancil leaking the Tinder ICE Honey Trap details just to take credit for the work done by women for months (ruining the entire operation by doing so)?

law offices, bill williams avenue, williams, arizona, 1987

"We're at the vet again, aren't we little buddy."

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

BREAKING via the AP White House officially tells Congress it considers Iran war 'terminated' despite presence of US armed forces in region.

Some Airbnb hosts spent years and thousands of dollars preparing their houses for the World Cup tournament. "I don’t think it’s going to be the huge windfall that I once thought." on.wsj.com/4um3IWf

NEW:🧵🧵 Texas fracking tycoon Farris Wilks has for years been one of the GOP's most prolific donors. He's spent more than $100M, funded The Daily Wire and, with billionaire Tim Dunn, helped pull the party to the far right. But something happened recently: Wilks quietly disappeared...

The Daily Wire fires half of its staff in mass layoffs This comes as co-founder Ben Shapiro has lost 85% of his Youtube audience since last year

I will never forgive or forget the cowardice of wealthy, powerful, safe people during this period. Yes, it’s a constant across history, in all periods of authoritarian ascent. But there is no reason — today — to bow to a historically unpopular, failing president.

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This is perhaps the most significant Supreme Court race-related decision in modern history. While people will focus on Congress, this decision will dismantle thousands of districts electing representatives of minority communities at the state and local levels

I have two daughters and I think about this all the time. I don't know how I will explain it to them when the time comes. bsky.app/profile/carn...

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Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

‘DESERT WARRIOR’ is tracking to be one of the biggest box office flops of all time. The Saudi Arabia-funded film has earned $488K so far on a $150M budget.

Bigger risk (probably already happening) is the money men go "only hire minimal amount of human software eng and fire anyone who isn't cranking out 10x the daily JIRA tickets vs 2023" and then everyone is just waving through whatever the AI does to not get fired. Then oops aws is down worldwide

it's incredibly funny to me that in spite of this site's niche status in context of the larger web, two bluesky posters made significant news this week for very different, if loosely aligned, reasons

If you want a picture of the Republican future, imagine a bench full of white men— & men who wish they were white— declaring in law that only They know what the Real racism is, & it's when they, personally, have to acknowledge any systemic inequalities which have disproportionately benefited them.

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