James Thompson
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The Daily Show
7 months ago
Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995
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This will be an important labor statistic moving forward, capturing this data consistently and accurately should help us make better AI policy.
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New York Requiring Companies to Reveal If AI Caused Layoffs | Entrepreneur
New York has become the first state to require companies filing WARN notices to disclose if layoffs are due to AI, robotics, or other technological innovations.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/new-york-requiring-companies-to-reveal-if-ai-caused-layoffs/493267
7 months ago
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Show up and speak out wherever you can. One Sherrif in FL already said his force is ready to kill protestors if you scare him and his deputies. Stay safe, stay alert, and take care of each other.
www.nokings.org
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No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
https://www.nokings.org/
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Ed Burmila
7 months ago
When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.
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The Lincoln Project
7 months ago
If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe.
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Islands & Trains Game 🏝️ 🚂🚃🚃🚃
8 months ago
it's a train, it's an island, it's relaxing 🚂🔧 and it will be out later today! ahhhh!!! 🥹
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An interesting look into the way LLMs form an understanding of their users.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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What AI Thinks It Knows About You
What happens when people can see what assumptions a large language model is making about them?
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/inside-the-ai-black-box/682853/
8 months ago
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Enjoying exploring different LLMs for
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8 months ago
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Enjoying getting
@photoprism.app
set up on my home server. Next to plain file storage and backup, photos are the single largest set of data I have. Another great step for me in moving to a
#selfhosted
#personalcloud
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11 months ago
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Art Candee 🍿🥤
12 months ago
Elon did the Nazi salute twice. TWICE.
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Watching Musk give a nazi salute not once, but twice, for a crowd of cheering fans is insane.
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Kent Beck
about 1 year ago
Response to
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I'm going to live tweet my responses & convert to a post afterwards.
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The Great Tech Wake-Up Call: VCs Discover Billions Wasted On Inefficient Engineering Teams
A viral social media thread by tech industry figure Deedy Das has ignited a fierce debate about engineering productivity at some of America's largest technology compan...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2024/11/27/the-great-tech-wake-up-call-vcs-discover-billions-in-inefficient-engineering-teams/
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Kent Beck
about 1 year ago
"Mouse movement software" -- if one of my reports resorted to this, the first question I would ask myself is why I created the environment in which that is rational behavior. It's the environment that's interfering with productivity.
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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi
about 1 year ago
Subtitles aren’t just for deaf or hard of hearing players. They’re important for players in loud environments (who can’t use headphones), non-native speakers who rely on text to follow dialogue, and many neurodivergent folks who struggle to focus or process audio quickly. Just to mention few.
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