Flock is an important symptom, but policing is flat broken in this country. open.substack.com/pub/kcvellum...
A Flock of Police Criminals
I am not sorry for that headline.
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See, this just kind of proves that the hype is nonsense. Does imitative AI help some workers be more productive, especially experienced workers who can easily find its mistakes? Sure. But if it went away tomorrow, those people would go back to doing what they did before with no 1/2
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 23h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”
The crashes that are survivable if you've buckled your seat belt are fucking unbelievable from a 1980s perspective.
I just ... man, some people are just broken in fundamental ways.
CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · yesterdayOh my god I think I found the video.
I do think that there's a genuine insight in Pratchett's description: there are many points in the economy where you are forced to pay more long-term because you can't afford a higher immediate payment. It's just not true about boots any more.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · yesterdayYeah, for days people have been citing “boots theory” at me and I want to shout DO YOU REALIZE THIS IS A RANDOM IDEA TOSSED OUT BY A FANTASY WRITER AND MAY NOT ACCURATELY DESCRIBE REALITY
Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
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You can see the very obvious throughline from “men could transition and easily dominate women’s sports” to “women’s sports are lesser and shouldn’t be taken seriously” to “women shouldn’t play sports” to “here are the acceptable life choices for women”
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2d ago"It's about protecting women's sports which, by the way, I hate more than anything in the world."
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Well, actually, kinda, yeah, close to what happened. It's not for nothing that Jack Dorsey, who started the place and was on its board, basically ran away when the trans folks and furries scared off all the crypto bros he assumed would be the natural demographic here (they went to Nostr instead).
jack@jackalltogether.bsky.social · 2d agoBluesky often seems like a project run by tech people who place great value on its architectural differences from Twitter, which nobody cares about, while not understanding how they walked ass-backwards into having a userbase (whomst they fear and despise)
i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
hi my name is sam and this is my petition to STOP HURTING MEG IN FAMIL Y GUY!!! 1/64 :) keep readingt!!
there aren't a lot of moral lessons in sports and total assholes succeed all the time but I continue to take grim satisfaction in the fact that the deshaun watson contract has been a franchise-crippling disaster from the second it was signed
Rotoworld Football@rotoworld-fb.bsky.social · 3d agoWatson has thrown six picks in four practices
…but they seem to miss that a very large part of learning how to ask the right questions, is asking & playing w/ & sorting through & grinding out the "WRONG" questions, & learning WHY. That happens in training, in play, in conversation with other people who can & will challenge your assumptions…
This is the perfect grift: LLMs coding creates less secure code (not what happened here, to be clear. We have neer taken security seriously as an industry) that LLM models then identify as insecure.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 4d agoA new AI model from Anthropic identified major cybersecurity weaknesses in more than a dozen popular Microsoft products, including Teams, Copilot and SharePoint. “The bug apocalypse has fully descended upon us,” said one cybersecurity expert.
Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.
A good chunk of the modern right thinks that the worng side won the Civil War.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d agoIt is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...
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Did they discuss her line “Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine”?
Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 5d agoThe godmother of punk Patti Smith met Pope Leo XIV this morning.
A cynic might think these announcements are PR moves intended to awe potential investors www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Anthropic's Claude AI escapes tests to hack three organisations
It comes just days after rival OpenAI said rogue AI agents had breached other firms' networks.
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This sums up the problem with imitative AI. They so need it to be a big hit that they are killing actual useful products on the gamble that they can replace 80% of white collar workers with fancy clippy.
Engadget@engadget.com · last wk.DeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more.
It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society