Always do this prior to going through a security checkpoint or interacting with law enforcement

Siri, what is the halting problem?

California LA area fire information links

DeepSeek, a LLM trained for a fraction of the cost of GPT-Xx models, in 2 months for 6 million, on limited GPUs due to export restrictions, and competing head to head. This is crazy. It's not the AI part I'm excited about, it's the level of efficiency. github.com/deepseek-ai/...

It’s been a while since I’ve been active here, and WOW have things improved! Huge kudos to the Bluesky team!

"Music is the space between the notes." What if I told you one of my favorite films was about a font in Photoshop. But it isn't. It's about the silent thankless choices that make your world. Things of unimaginable specialization, discarded without appreciation. HELVETICA is on Apple TV and Amazon.

This thing on?

Is there some bug going on right now? The app is showing me posts that are impossible (date in 2008). @pfrazee.com

This is a friendly PSA that all content on Bluesky is PUBLICLY visible on the internet. While intellectually this app is a safe space, it is NOT a private community and you should only post here with the understanding that anyone on earth can see your content.

Literally any position no matter how obviously morally and ethically right they'll pre-emptively compromise on These are people who go into every negotiation doing the calculus of what they think they could reasonably get and then ask for even less [ and / inevitably get less still ]

Hostile reminder that the "keep kink out of Pride" discourse from a few years ago was a blatant trojan horse that was meant to pave the way for our current discourse of "what if maybe we made Pride illegal entirely" shit the conservatives are now trialing in various locations

Big milestone! ✅ Federated domain handles ✅ Federated feed generators (algorithms) ✅ Federated relays (event firehose) ✅ Federated app views (API service) ✅ Federated data for self-hosters (PDS hosting) ✅ Federated moderation (labeling) 🚧 Federated data for large service providers (coming soon)

Dude is on one today. This has to be the single dumbest idea I’ve ever heard from an established CEO.

There is a pervasive mind virus that has deeply infected venture capital. Many of the voices people formerly took as reasonable are signaling or outright declaring support for eugenics. This includes many famous people like Balaji Srinivasan, David Sacks, Paul Graham, and other lesser known VCs.

New updates on Bellingcat's Github this week. The 'whisperbox' API receives audio or video URLs and returns the video transcripts using OpenAI's Whisper model. Designed by Bellingcat discord member https://github.com/fspoettel Find the tool at: https://github.com/bellingcat/whisperbox-transcribe

DeSantis's administration paid doctors tens of thousands of dollars to endorse restrictions on trans adults' health care and gave raises to state employees who went along with it, according to new documents unveiled in court. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article277853063.html

OK this is a bit late, but we just opened up WebGlaze today, a free web service that Glazes your art for protection against style mimicry by generative AI models. If you need/want an invite, please reply here (no DMs???), DM me on twitter (@ravenben) or IG or email. No AI artists please.

Samcoin is launching today. https://bitbanter.com/post/1006/

In 2000, Elon Musk became the CEO of PayPal and tried to rename it X.com even though surveys showed the public hated the name but trusted PayPal. Now he’s repeating the same mistake with Twitter, but this time no one can oust him as CEO.

Check SkyDeck https://skydeck.social/

trying to offer people bluesky codes feels like going up to strangers on the street to offer them "some of the good stuff" except when i open my trenchcoat it's just filled with rats

@why.bsky.team @pfrazee.com looks like there's a bug in the web view for mute lists in dark mode. This happens when I view the mute list in my profile or on another account's profile.

Amazing. This actually works!

Imagine Elon, furiously spamming the legal system to form shell startups, harvesting just enough AWS/GCP credits to get the servers back online to fight the bots

It appears Twitter has started rate limiting based on location. When I’m on my Colombian WiFi I keep exceeding the rate limit. When I turn WiFi off and use my SIM card the errors go away.

This extremist Supreme Court believes LGBTQ+ people are second class citizens. Disgusting. I’ve said it before but now more than ever we need court reform and we must expand the court.

I would like to thank the amazing @craignewmark.bsky.social for his contribution to the LGBT community. In a time before apps many found Craigslist as a place to network with those in their community. This is largely lost on those who grew up in the age of apps, but at the time it was huge!

Ten years ago on this day, June 5 2013, teenage antifascist activist Clément Méric was beaten to death in Paris by two neo-nazis wielding brass knuckles. Méric worked actively for LGTBQ+ rights and for the rights of refugees. Rest in power. We do not forget. ♥️↙↙↙

Looks like Mastadon has one of their first alternative modality “app views” launch. https://join-lemmy.org

the secret to rizz is to be incredibly autistic but also very confident. this is how the pros do it

True cypherpunks are obsessed with digital freedom, privacy, and autonomy. I got into crypto to become free not to become rich. The same people you hate in crypto are the same crooks who've been grifting in traditional finance for decades.

I actually completely agree with this.

Squirrel(s) of the Day for May 21, 2023 awwwwwww

Woohoo, got my object-detection pipeline cooking and built a bunch of stuff to allow me to generate feeds based on the content of an image. That means @jay.bsky.team can now get a feed of cats, birds, dogs, etc. More info below on how to use the feeds, native app support coming next week(?) maybe?

Many people don’t realize that “Russia” is not simply one giant country. It is a colonialist empire that actively occupies foreign territories it claims as its own. https://twitter.com/volodyatretyak/status/1659634998440239105?s=46&t=PYJuulAQWj0G_ZO_7tWBgw

We encourage everyone to get a passport. Folks should help their friends apply / pay for it. If things start to get bad in your area, keep essential documents together in a safe but easily accessible place. Same for sentimental photos, a thumb drive with copies of your passwords, etc.

I’m all for the trillion dollar coin if it actually contains $1T of platinum. From what I’m reading, that won’t be the case! They plan to simply take the plaster mold for the silver eagle and change the denomination. The treasury says they can manufacture it within minutes.

Are we minting the coins?

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As this Atlantic piece explains, Musk has been an anti-LGBTQ, Covid denialist, racism-peddling far right extremist for a long time, but lately he’s become more comfortable making his views explicit https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/elon-musk-twitter-far-right-activist/672436/

linear algebra legend gilbert strang just taught his last lecture at MIT he is also the author of the best acknowledgments section in a math textbook ever

Would you go to Tailscale Up but can't pay for the ticket? Send me a message and I'll see what I can do.

jay.bsky.team why.bsky.team Hi Bsky team 🤗 I have an ask. As a disabled person, I try to do right by my disabled friends & add alt text for every picture. It would really help if, when entering the alt text, the pic was still visible so that it's easy to describe it and transcribe any words.

Anyone interested in helping fork this to add some of the moderation features that we want? There’s no reason we can’t TODAY make our own timelines and moderation tools. Bear in mind I’m not talking about federation, just adding a layer of tools on top of the existing network: