El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
small people making America small; not controlling, building the man's got the right words for a lot of people
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 12h agoEl-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 16h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
if you do a dunk in basketball it should activate multiball
"cringe" is the weirdest insult and it feels lowkey ageist tbh
Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterdayBanks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS
i got a framework desktop for running local qwen and deepseek, but then immediately filled it with other service VMs cuz it's such a nice little server now i need to get a minisforum or thinkstation just to free it up again –_–
im just.... gonna go ahead and buy another hard drive to download the kimi, glm, deepseek and qwen weights right now
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 2d agoI love the coverage of this stuff, as if a corrupt fascist kakistocracy is capable of building a useful "framework for AI"
Yikes, this story by @drewharwell.com, @douglasmac.bsky.social, and @aaronschaffer.com about police officers using Flock's license-plate readers to stalk women.
How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
washingtonpost.com
I think "AI" plumpers should be happy I'm focusing mostly on the nonsense it's doing to my field, rather than how it's very clearly designed as a tool for the capture of wealth and capital by a bunch of accelerationist weirdos enthusiastically huffing their own farts from the depth of their K-holes
The Register@theregister.com · 2d agoSci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft
Love this project and writeup! A color space to cover skin colors. toneyalexander.github.io/inclusive-co... (can also be useful for #procgen)
What Colors Are We? Constructing A Color Space For Skin Tones
Simple equations and a color picker to inclusively select simplified skin tones in a custom color space for digital art or game development.
toneyalexander.github.io
Watched a multi-acre fire break out before my very eyes and then watched a bunch of helicopters show up and put it out. Government was a good idea, it should do more things like that instead of evil and corruption
I would unironically play a game that’s based on ea nasir and his everything.
Browser-based 3D Editor Covers The Basics While Staying Local
Browser-based 3D Editor Covers The Basics While Staying Local
Hackaday Article
hackaday.com
5.6sol is so good at implementing random siggraph papers, it feels like cheating. i am learning nothing. my brain is puddled into project manager goo.
i have it in all my routines now for fable5 and 5.6sol to check in on each other's plans and progress as they each delegate most work down to more specific subagents..... but I keep feeling there's a 3rd cohort missing
LLMs are used for lots of dumb shit. We're probably in a bubble. The economic stats haven't budged. LLMs still have hallucination problems. But this is real! Donald freakin' Knuth got help solving a problem from Claude 4.6, which is already out of date.
People need to start getting disbarred for this shit.
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
a few people lately have expressed appreciation for my chapter in the Game Narrative Kaleidoscope, which makes me feel like I should talk about it more—it’s a short article about procedural narrative and casting, and there’s a ton of other good work there as well. I do recommend checking it out!
The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope
The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope book and podcast from inkle.
inklestudios.com
There are a lot of very talented people who are either laid off from Big Tech or are disgusted with it and I know it’s a pay cut but state and local governments could really use some help right now, I’m just saying
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 5d agoAre the other 6+ states who were attacked behind the attacks on their water systems too?
I sincerely hope someone at Google got promoted for this particular AI slop
QuoProQuid@quoproquid.bsky.social · 5d agogoogle has added generative ai capability to Google Earth and i cannot conceive of any positive, good-faith use of this
