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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 23m

My grandparents hid their illegal (Jewish) neighbors from the (occupation Nazi) police in occupied France during WW2.

I know what I'll have to do when fascist police come to my neighborhood. I want to have to do this, but neither did my grandparents.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

Echoes of a very dark past.

From the Chicago Sun Times: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 33m

Having known much of the original Android team from Danger I was surprised that it was as open as it was.

My take is that Google's been able to thrive in open ecosystems and struggles in closed ones. I don't think that this view extends far above my pay grade any more.

Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 1h

Is this AGI? 🦋

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 1h

And Google's just Chuck Schumering along behind.

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 1h

The reason that Apple doesn't want to allow modern browsers is the same reason that the US and Chinese governments don't want to allow free communication. There's no conflict here.
The American embrace of the iPhone foreshadowed the embrace of Trump's comfortable totalitarianism.

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 3h

The fact that Nate Silver posts about being wrong when he's wrong is something to appreciate rather than criticize. There's *lots* to criticize him for, so why pick on him for this?

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 3h

There's a lot to criticize about Nate Silver but he's not afraid to say when he was wrong. Like here. How many other pundits are saying they were wrong about the utility of AI?

Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 4h

Lower case L or upper case i?

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 4h

Please protest, but kings aren't the problem.

Do you see Canada, the UK or Australia having these problems? How about Denmark or Sweden or Spain? They have plenty of problems but the issue of an autocrat is a problem with the American constitution, not of monarchies.

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 7h

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! 👎

Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org

#BeThere 👍

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7h

If someone merely acknowledging the humanity of your enemies enrages you, you’re the baddies.

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 4h

And Benioff has been bankrolling local fascists who want to cleanse the streets of the poor for years.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 8h

it would probably be sorta hard for just anyone to do it *this well* because it requires you to actually be normal about trans people, but still it feels important to state for the record that WE ARE NOT HARD TO STAND UP FOR AND ANY OF THEM COULD DO IT.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 1d

Straight up ML-KEM is not *known to be* patent encumbered. If someone has a patent on some part of it that didn't show up in the patent searches they did as part of standardization then they could have a claim. But I imagine if that happened NIST would be trying to work out a licensing arrangement.

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Saki 🦄🪶✦Fae NTVtuber✦【NTVN】【V-Chunky】 @nightmaresakito.bsky.social · 1d

A beautiful native woman flipping the bird in response to Monday, Oct. 13th, Columbus Day. “Fuck Christopher Columbus.” Happy Indigenous People’s Day!

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 1d

Super vegan

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 1d

Teaser trailer for the new Red Dawn reboot.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 1d

I think this is a teaser trailer for the new Red Dawn remake.

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Ian McKellar @ian.mckellar.org · 1d

Cut your losses.