I feel like takes scoffing at the idea that people could have addictive behavior patterns relating to LLMs are likely to age poorly
Angelus Novus
@penismusic.bsky.social
abstract being squatting outside the world
If you are rich, to be mildly inconvenienced is a fate close to death, apparently.
The city of Los Angeles bulldozed Chavez Ravine in the 1950s, displacing thousands of Mexican American residents to make way for Dodger Stadium. A new digital archive, Chavez Ravine: An Unfinished History, preserves the story of the families who lived there. Read more: buff.ly/zltbWt5
New Chavez Ravine Digital Archive at LMU
Loyola Marymount University hosts digital archive that keeps history of Chavez Ravine, the neighborhoods demolished to make way for Dodger Stadium, alive.
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Not only that: teachers are using AI. Teachers are using AI *a lot.* We have professional development sessions every year, multiple times a year, on AI tools for teachers. Teachers are using AI to create lesson plans, presentations, quizzes, worksheets. Everything.
if they're this unpopular now, imagine how unpopular data centers are gonna be after the AI bubble bursts and people's 401ks decline 40% in a year
These "we have made an AI so powerful" warnings are straight-up advertisements, btw. No different than "we have made an Oreo so delicious all other snack artists must relent."
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last wk.OPENAI, ANTHROPIC STAFF CIRCULATE PETITION URGING US TO SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO 'DELIBERATELY PACE' FRONTIER AI DEVELOPMENT, WARNING OF RISK IT ADVANCES FASTER THAN HUMANS CAN CONTROL; LETTER ALSO SHARED WITH GOOGLE DEEPMIND STAFF, EXPECTED PUBLIC THIS WEEK
I just had a gyro. Here's what Christopher Nolan gets wrong about Greek culture.
Arresting Netanyahu is the moderate position, lol.
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last wk.New poll: Americans believe the U.S. should arrest Benjamin Netanyahu by a +22 margin Total: 49-27 Black: 53-13 Hispanic: 52-15 Ages 18-29: 58-17 Harris voters: 74-10 Independents: 55-20 23% of Trump voters agree as well Economist/YouGov:
Cops hate cities, hate the people living inside of them and are much more empathetic to someone trying to race through the city to enter and leave as quickly as possible than they are to like, a cyclist or pedestrian, who represent a class of people (city residents) the cop wished stopped existing
@calizaybak.bsky.social · last wk.I have seen this in so many places, I have no idea why police no longer care about enforcing traffic laws, it's bizarre! They're driving more than anyone! They have kids! Yet they don't care. Like do they get paid more dealing with crashes, the bloody the better?
A letter from the mother of Alex Pretti, six months after he was murdered by ICE.
If I die in anyway that makes news, please don’t write about me like this.
KUTV2News@kutv2news.bsky.social · 2w agoThe fiancée of 1st Lt. Tyler Feehan is sharing an emotional tribute to the 25-year-old Army officer killed in action while serving in Jordan amid the conflict with Iran.
For your “worrying about data centers is just slopulism” file
Dr Grace S Peng@gspeng.bsky.social · 2w agoPower (suppliers) and load (users) on the grid must match instantaneously. A transmission line serving data center-rich N VA went down in a storm. Data centers all disconnected to the grid, fell over to diesel generators, causing a multi-state power surge. 😱
this is how dumb you sound, democrats, when you accept the absurd premise that this is an issue that you need to campaign on
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump: "We had transgender for everybody. Men in women's sports came ravaging through our cities."
One phenomenon I’m ready to let die is people shilling life hacks in a world where the solution is absolutely never going to be rewiring your brain and only ever going to be complete systematic economic and political reform.
NPR@npr.org · 2w agoA clinical psychologist shares effective strategies to quickly de-escalate stress and anxiety. That includes dunking your head into a bowl of ice water to trigger your mammalian dive reflex. n.pr/45c38zP
sorry maybe this is a stupid question and I’m just a silly little girl who doesn’t understand the smart number genius guys at these companies, but, uh isn’t “I would make a lot of money if there was a fire” just going to incentivize people to start more fires
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 3w agoyeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction markets
The billionaires have a vision of the future, and in it, many of us are dead. Not because they all want to kill us (some of them want to kill some of us), but because we are simply surplus and expendable in their eyes.
How the fuck are the dresden dolls still able to tour? what venue is willingly booking them?
The Wicker Amber@elementalamber.bsky.social · 3w agoJinx Monsoon is touring with The Dresden Dolls. What the FUCK??
the Talmud really is “the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate”
When you try to "preserve neighborhood character" in a neighborhood that burned down, you are admitting that "neighborhood character" is entirely about the socioeconimcs of the people that live there and has nothing to do with buildings.
Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social · 4w agoIt's tragic that people lost their homes, but we really need to stop pretending that Altadena was anything but an extremely affluent enclave prior to the fires. The typical home sold me $1.3 million in Dec. 2024 and the median household income was nearly $130,000.
I dream of a world where military service is career-endingly scandalous.
If only there had been a sign the man was bad. A literal Nazi tattoo, perhaps.
this pattern is because they like trump and they want to help him rule over us
Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · last mo.“Experts Say Other Factors Could Have Caused the Major Problems that Have Plagued It.” Once again, the headline leads with Trump’s obvious bs claims and then in the subhed calls them into question in the mildest possible way. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...
