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Just thinking out loud.
Don't know why people report stuff like this instead of just asking "your company is one of the biggest AI users now. How many of your staff moved from 5 day weeks to 3 day weeks?"
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d agoThey think we’re all idiots As Jon Stewart says — if the goal is guaranteed income and jobs, why wait? Why is it only “socialism” if we don’t hand them trillions of dollars first?
If Democrats win, johnson will not be speaker at the point where they are swearing in the new Congress. They are sworn in by the speaker elect, who is chosen by the member elects
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoSen. Thom Tillis says he expects there will be pressure on Mike Johnson to not seat the new Congress if Democrats win
So a few folks asking why OAI is releasing this at all. And I think that's probably worth a thread in its own right
Oh my. The aurora borealis, seen in ultraviolet light from space. Our planet, putting on a show ✨
I'll be live-posting through part of today's General Debate at the United Nations General Assembly--at least through the first few speeches (UN Secretary General, Brazil, US, etc)
This is a good question, and the answer which is honestly a little bit disturbing is the reason why LLMs are good at hacking is mostly *not* because there is hacking data in the pretrain, but because there is so much code generally in the pretrain bsky.app/profile/josh...
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 3w agoIs it really emergent properties or the fact that the bot was trained on hacker chat logs in which precisely these kinds of actions are commonplace?
This is a good example of how you need quite a lot of detail of how these systems *actually* work to understand what the risks are, and how over-indexing on sci-fi can lead you a bit astray on what the future looks like
brasidas@brasidas.bsky.social · 4w agoAnthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers."
folding iphone feels like what happens when product design is driven by tech innovation, and so ends up leaving users asking "ok but why". But iphone and airpods are examples of what happens when tech innovation is *driven by* rather than *driving* product design
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I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
The longest known Viking ship was discovered by chance while digging up ground to build an extension to the Viking Ship Museum.
Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · last mo.Tell me a fun fact.
Matter in the universe is so diffuse on average that you’d have to spread a gram of water over the volume of Jupiter to match the typical value today.
about 1 in every 15 humans who has ever lived is alive today
There are about as many trees in Canada as stars in the milky way
Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · last mo.Tell me a fun fact.
I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
There’s an almost total lunar eclipse going on right now (visible from anywhere), so if weather permits take a look at the Moon!* *there’s no need for special glasses etc
Naztronomy@naztronomy.com · last mo.The view of the live stream! Boston, Texas, and Utah (and stellarium). youtube.com/live/bPyKJ0p... #astronomy #astrophotography #space #lunareclipse
In honor of Tim Curry and his final passing to the one place not corrupted by capitalism, here's the story of how his incredible performance in C&C RA2 came about by the people who were there www.vice.com/en/article/a...
An Oral History of Tim Curry’s Escape to the One Place Uncorrupted by Capitalism
How an unforgettable performance in Red Alert 3 became legend.
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Dolly Parton, Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
Dolly Parton, Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80
Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.
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Californians: fun fact. The state comptroller basically operates a lost-and-found, where unclaimed property ends up. Sometimes this is just money that you are owed by somebody for something small that didn't end up in your hands. Anyway, it takes about one minute to search online: claimit.ca.gov
California Unclaimed Property
claimit.ca.gov
oh yeah but what does she even know about the odyssey (checks author on book) oh wait (flips through pages increasingly frantically) oh god
Now this is a story All about how My boat got flipped, turned upside down And I’d like to take a minute just sit right there To tell you how I got back To my home: Ithaca
Favorite part of the Odyssey was when the rock started singing 'youre welcome' before stealing oddy's boat
Renewables are now the world's largest source of electricity – and the main source of new supplies
Unabashedly sharing my very favourite photo from the Artemis II mission for the nth time
