Hey @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social @jamestalarico.bsky.social .. this sounds a lot like 'I support a woman's right to choose except in the last trimester' That train got Roe overturned.. You can't put qualifiers on rights. You can't compromise with the GOP.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Talarico: "I oppose trans athletes playing in girls' sports if it endangers safety or fairness"

white supremacy is not a "growing" problem in the republican party. it is a central feature attracting new younger members. from october:

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

politico.com

Where are the GPUs? Undeployed, in warehouses because there's a cartel colluding to keep prices artificially high and keep the world dependent on inference capacity rented by about 6 companies.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 13h ago

NVIDIA has sold about $535bn of gpus and associated gear (mostly GPUs) in the data center segment since the beginning of fy2023 (February 2022). If Microsoft only has 2gw or so, I think it’s unlikely anyone else is even close. Where are the GPUs?

Wonder if anyone will compare this to the messages coming from the multi-day Klan Rally/Imperial Wizard Primary debate in Dallas this week?

Spectrum News NY1@spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 17h ago

The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.

Chris "We should not call witnesses in the January 6th insurrection Trump impeachment trial because my Republican colleagues want to leave D.C. early for Valentine's Day" Coons is the one guy that anti-fascists and DSA should have cultivated an insurgent United Front candidate to challenge against:

Senators Desperately Wanted Trump’s Impeachment Trial to End

Senators reportedly had cars waiting for them in the Capitol parking lot to take them to the airport.

thedailybeast.com

Bolts@boltsmag.org · 15h ago

U.S. Senator Chris Coons is running for reelection in Delaware this fall. One of his opponents in next week’s Democratic primary is Eric Hansen, who ran for Senate as a Republican two years ago and who has changed his name to “E. No-Trump Hansen.”

Your dad would be proud as hell of you, my man.

Spectrum News NY1@spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 17h ago

The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.

“You do my dad's legacy and the legacy of all these victims no honor by using this tragedy to spread hate…I've had to grow up and spend the past 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers and sisters, to hate on people who don't look like them."

Spectrum News NY1@spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 17h ago

The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.

A Rudy Giuliani aide (lifelong Republican) dispels the clip of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @aoc.bsky.social at a 9/11 ceremony currently blowing up in right wing fever swamps online👇🏽

We've had a million news cycles about the freakout from one guy who worked at Anthropic for 5 minutes saying we're all gonna die, but almost *nothing* about an actual multi-millionaire tech leader calling for an ethnic cleansing against the Roma people — an act which has happened in living memory!

The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.bsky.social · 18h ago

27-year-old British researcher Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic on Tuesday. He explains to The Washington Sun why now.

This newspaper wrote that the election of Mamdani “confirmed Jews’ worst fears” so I think I figured out where the Islamophobia is coming from

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 18h ago

Current and former mayors of New York City are at today’s 9/11 memorial at ground zero. Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has faced Islamophobia leading up to the ceremony and calls for him not to attend, is also present. nyti.ms/4yDknqB

Man sits down with Coloma, CA shovel sales man in 1848 to discuss potential growth.

John Burn-Murdoch@jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 2d ago

New from us: Anthropic just published scenarios for AI’s possible economic impacts, which range from minimal, to explosive GDP growth of 15% by 2030 as knowledge-worker unemployment hits 18%. I sat down with their co-founder Jack Clark to pick his brains on how they’re thinking about all of this.

Dear Democrats, You will never be able to triangulate your way through racism/sexism/transphobia, because pushing a lighter, politer form of bigotry is always a lose-lose proposition. The bigots want the uncut stuff, while normal people aren't drawn to cowards who sell out. Stand your ground.

Neither Trump nor his wife are in attendance at this year’s ceremony, notwithstanding the AP photo editor’s bullshit.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 21h ago

The ceremony in New York to mark 25 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks begins with a tolling bell and a moment of silence. Follow live coverage.

Making a powerful person mad by demanding an answer they don't want to provide is precisely the job description.

Mediaite@mediaite.com · 21h ago

Trump Gets in Female Reporter’s Face Over $5K Check Proposal Grilling: ‘You’re the Worst!’

Trump's attacks on our civil liberties didn't come out of nowhere. The groundwork for his Orwellian surveillance state was laid by the post-9/11 PATRIOT Act. Only one Senator at the time had the foresight to see what it would unleash.

James Talerico made it clear he would work with Republicans against gender-affirming care for trans kids and what did this spirit of compromise get him? Being called a pedophile tonight by JD Vance. Again, WHEN will Democrats learn there’s no appeasing these bigots??

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · yesterday

Vance on Talarico: "A guy that age who was so obsessed and focused on transgender children, I don't know about you, but I never want to see that guy's web browser history. It's not a good place."

Nothing divided the citizens more than “Citizens united” 😕 💰

IDGAF

The OpenAI incident report is still bothering me, you can yap all you want about monitoring, permissions, sandboxing, escalation, evaluation and design, but if you can't understand the need to "properly air-gap", the most obvious containment failure prevention, then you're not qualified for the job.

👻@0x0.sigint.team · 2d ago

The bottom line for me is that we need to start holding "humans" accountable, for actions taken by AI agents, the sooner that happens, the better, because there's a lot of FUD, and outright BS being passed off as "the AI did <insert bad thing>" No, you did it mfer, you fucked up

The number of people willing to surrender their own agency to a machine is shocking.

Once again, there's a reason they won't spell out how we'd go extinct. Are we getting Jurassic Park'd because the AI is reinventing dinosaurs? Are they getting access to the nuclear codes and hypnotizing the president into using them? They are referring to bank/infrastructure hacks and exaggerating.

Too Big to Fail@toobigtofail.bsky.social · 2d ago

This, from an Anthropic employee, either reflects a lack of imagination or is evidence that this is all just lies. If you were really that scared, you'd pull the plug on all the servers and wipe everything from ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC, AFRINIC, and RIPE NCC. No more internet; problem solved.

As a fellow zero unread email I get all the love for that. But it’s the “looking for work” thing I’m in 100% agreement with.

Mina Kimes@minakimes.bsky.social · 2d ago

Talked to @wired.com about a bunch of things, including: r/bald, Bluesky, Elon ruining twitter, why I live the inbox zero life, LLMs, and more. Here it is: www.wired.com/story/user-b...

My son knows me so well.. He surprised me with a ticket to MST3K : The RiffTrax Experiments ... That was awesome!!!!

cool thing is this opinion piece was written by a guy who works for an advocacy group committed to opposing government regulations and unionization that’s funded by “Amazon, Uber, Meta, Google, Apple, Twitter, StubHub, and other technology companies” so we can all just tell him to shut the fuck up

Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Talarico: "I oppose trans athletes playing in girls' sports if it endangers safety or fairness"

There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Talarico: "I oppose trans athletes playing in girls' sports if it endangers safety or fairness"

In what universe would a white Mayor be told he could not attend a commemoration in Oklahoma City because "Timothy McVeigh?"

Hey @ericlipton.nytimes.com 👋 AI is not “evolving” on its own. *People* are choosing how to build it. *People* are choosing how to train it. *People* are choosing how to run it. Maybe the problem is that they are the *wrong people* to make these choices.

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 4d ago

OpenAI’s top scientist, in a blog post on Sunday, warns that artificial intelligence is evolving so rapidly that it is becoming increasingly difficult for humans to understand and control it. Here is the post: openai.com/index/an-ali... And a couple of small excerpts--clear warnings.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

We Can’t Let the Kaepernick Era Be Erased From History

Critics say the Black Lives Matter movement in sports went too far. In reality, it didn’t go far enough, and the backlash to it has been brutal.

thenation.com

We don't even need the doomer argument. An AI agent escaping its sandbox, accessing a real company's systems and operating outside its instructions is already a serious safety failure. If labs can't control their agents, independent audits and mandatory incident reporting aren't optional anymore.