(((Asa Zernik)))
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(((Asa Zernik)))
@asazernik.bsky.social
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Israeli-American techie scum. Almost became political operative scum, hence tweeting. RP without comment equals endorsement of post only, not source account.
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btw there's that NRSC poll floating around that says voters are more likely to support Platner after hearing about his tattoo

here's how the question was phrased lol
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This isn't reimagining, this is just adapting the basic concept
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 1d
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains. n.pr/3L5exuu
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
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Refusal on its face to accept that Palestinians are political people with political aspirations and political demands is one of the biggest underlying principles of this kind of thinking.
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Pro-Israel talking points are basically contingent upon you never reading about anything that has ever happened. It is not like we revolted against the British in 1936, or were immediately suppressed politically by the Jordanians from 48 to 67 or engaged in civil war in 71, or fought Egypt in Gaza.
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Under 50 U.S.C. § 1701(a), it is an “unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States” that Canada is being mean to me on TV.
I feel like *some* level of investment is justified as a research project, because if/when it becomes technologically feasible you'll want to know.

But it should be without illusions about this being an actual operational capability.
And even if this time around the development project works, it'll be at a much higher price per intercept. That masters winner makes a lot of money!
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i was against Trump tearing down the East Wing until i learned that the ballroom would have 730 units of low-income senior housing
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Right. What they mean is that have had only four highly scripted tests in ten years and each hit its target. 2014, 2017, 2019, 2023. Technically correct. But they ignore the 9 previous failures. And fail to note that DoD has canceled both the interceptor booster and the EKV because they don’t work.
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The Pentagon is pissed about "A House of Dynamite," and claims its missile interceptors have a 100 percent accuracy rate.
There's no such thing as a "100% accuracy." That's aimed squarely at Trump, so that he'll go ahead and dump money into "Golden Dome."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Pentagon Frets Over ‘A House of Dynamite’ Nuclear Doomsday Film
The plot of A House of Dynamite, the new thriller from Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow, hinges on — spoiler alert — US missile defenses failing to knock down a nuclear-tipped intercontinental bal...
www.bloomberg.com
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The thing I fucking hate about the "Zionism makes Jews less safe" line is that antisemitism like this is not a valid response to Zionism even if one opposes it.

The one who chooses to hate is always responsible.
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I think my favorite thing about "every city reveals its inner character" era of ice protests is that people keep saying portland is weird or cute or nice or silly when one of the most common chants at the ice building is people looking up at feds on the roof and yelling "jump! jump! jump!" in unison
Portland resists with whimsical improv theater, Chicago resists by screaming at weird jagoffs that don’t belong in the neighborhood. Every city brings its own strengths to the fight
The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.
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the Pacific Northwest: uwu im just a smol bean frog pls don't hurt me
also the Pacific Northwest: you should kill yourself
AFAIU those are respectively a) conventional invasion by the southern African states they were in a mini cold war with over apartheid/Namibia/Angola, and b) the end of apartheid removing that conflict from the board.
Genuinely curious as an outsider with only the vaguest awareness that such a thing existed: why was 2009 such a big cause?
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I did! A good paper, but an even more essential one is Gambetta/Origgi on Italian academia and the preference for low-quality work. Literally everybody I know who has read this and has experience in China has remarked on how useful it is.

diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...
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hey i know things are hard but just remember YOU are charismatic megafauna
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my biggest takeaway from all the dudes talking about how could you possibly know this was a nazi symbol is there are a lot of fake WW2 nerds in the chat
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What happens when you turn a designer into an interpretability researcher? They spend hours staring at feature activations in SVG code to see if LLMs actually understand SVGs. It turns out – yes~

We found that semantic concepts transfer across text, ASCII, and SVG:
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Some AI experts told me it looks like Grok's been given a restricted list of sources when talking about subjects where Elon wants it to give a specific answer. So I asked Grok to give me a list of researchers on cognition and heritability and it spit out total bigots and pseudo-scientific cranks
Yeah. Just saying that 500 is perfectly large and that other methodology issues are introducing systematic bias instead.
An alternate take to others I've retweeted.
Yeah, this. The ADL's primary problem is not that they care about Israel more than about Jews; it's that they attack left-wing anti-Semitism more vociferously than right-wing anti-Semitism, even when the latter isn't pro-Israel (Musk, as I never tire of pointing out, unbanned Quds News Network).