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Justin Falcone @justinfalcone.com · 1m

Are there people saying that the Glass Bead Game synthesizes but LLMs do not?

Justin Falcone @justinfalcone.com · 1h

Majestic

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George @georgem.bsky.social · 4h

online in general is about the crucial authenticity of our whining and the sinister frivolity of everyone else's whining

Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 5h

Commenter today pretty much nailed it: "Online fandom seems to be build on believing your team will lose and being annoyed when the media says your team will lose."

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Justin Falcone @justinfalcone.com · 6h

Did Up With People ever come to your school to "recruit"?

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Justin Falcone @justinfalcone.com · 7h

Man I see someone post this every day and, like, professors were not begging their students to stop using slurp juices on their apes

perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 22h

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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mivox is exHAUNTed 👻 @bs.mivox.net · 13h

Three people protesting outside the Portland, OR ICE facility, dressed in inflatable frog costumes, holding a small sign that says “Portland Frog Brigade”.

Over top of the photo is white text reading: “Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."”

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t. kendal mintcake @mintcaketime.bsky.social · 18h

handshake meme about some of my guys doing Raps

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Justin Falcone @justinfalcone.com · 1d

The launch of the personal computer was also probably hyped to this extent but I wasn't around for that

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Justin Falcone @justinfalcone.com · 1d

In terms of "CEOs think they need to get on board regardless of what their company actually does", the only things that come close are the World Wide Web + ecommerce (around 2000) and mobile apps with a social component (around 2010)

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 1d

this learned helplessness is silly, happy to chat with anyone on finding sponsors for independent tech meetups

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Justin Falcone @justinfalcone.com · 1d

It's like trying to figure out the historical events that "inspired" bible stories

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 1d

Huge support to the inflatable frog costume person in Portland for both embarrassing the regime and reclaiming frog imagery from the internet right.

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 1d

The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 1d

Good god he’s going Tetsuo Mode

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

Trump: plans to incorporate deceased individuals

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Justin Falcone @justinfalcone.com · 1d

I think it would be difficult to effectively enforce those non-competes

Justin Falcone @justinfalcone.com · 1d

If I live until then I'm going to be so annoyed that it anachronistically incorporates artifacts of the "name one thing in this photo" era into a mid-20s High Slop aesthetic

merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

i just realized there's a pretty good chance that in 20 years people are going to be nostalgic for the shitty, glossy appearance of generative AI. there will be video filters that make you look like you were generated with a mid 2020s-era AI tool

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 2d

An underreported part of US campus repression post-2023 was the pivot to making “[IDF] military veteran” a protected class coterminous with “[pro-occupation Israeli/Jew]”. Students protesting the Gaza war were charged with *discrimination based on veteran status*. migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Justin Falcone @justinfalcone.com · 2d

Huh, he thinks of this as, like, Johnny Cash playing San Quentin?

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Justin Falcone @justinfalcone.com · 2d

Man, it's weird how much the stance on IP law has changed since Napster

"I have to be able to destroy the environment to sell cars"
"I have to be able to employ slave labor to grow crops"
"I have to be able to steal IP from millions for my art theft robot to function"

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Justin Falcone @justinfalcone.com · 2d

"overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out."

counting sheep @countingsheep.bsky.social · 2d

counting sheep...10000...🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

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Justin Falcone @justinfalcone.com · 2d

My zoomer coworkers won't shut up about how they love flint axe

Young People Are Falling in Love With Old Technology
Driven by a feeling they've lost control to screens, twenty-somethings are resurrecting...

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 2d

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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Justin Falcone @justinfalcone.com · 2d

2024 Ig Nobel prize in demography: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Supercentenarian and remarkable age records exhibit patterns indicative of clerical errors and pension fraud

The observation of individuals attaining remarkable ages, and their concentration into geographic sub-regions or ‘blue zones’, has generated considerable scientific interest. Proposed drivers of remar...

www.biorxiv.org

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Justin Falcone @justinfalcone.com · 2d

Erik Satie made a music video

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 3d

Tech workers united will never be defeated! Alphabet Workers Union members in Seattle and New York City turned out in solidarity with @kickstarterunited.org members ON STRIKE for a fair second contract! #1u

a big group of workers, including AWU members and striking Kickstarter United workers, hold Kickstarter United signs at a rally in Seattle.

Two NYC AWU members hold a Kickstarter United/OPEIU Local 153 sign as they participate in a rally in solidarity with Kickstarted United workers on strike.

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Justin Falcone @justinfalcone.com · 3d

Is there another country's system for determining available credit that the US should emulate?

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