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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 13d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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River Side Casino @riversidecasino.bsky.social · 13d

Unlike Disneyland, we don’t have to spend millions of dollars every year to buy off the city council. We pass those savings to you!

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13d

‘Under the terms of the deal, the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund PIF and Affinity Partners will pay EA’s stockholders $210 per share.

Affinity Partners is a private equity firm run by Jared Kushner’

Video game maker Electronic Arts to be acquired and taken private for $55 billion

Electronic Arts, the video game maker of “Madden NFL,” “The Sims,” and other popular titles, is being acquired and taken private for $55 billion.

apnews.com

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 13d

1. The $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina, announced last week by the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, delivers an enormous windfall to hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone.

Citrone has a longstanding personal and professional relationship with Bessent.

Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected billionaire

A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary

popular.info

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 13d

Hell yeah that's how I wanna go

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13d

one of the moments where I realized how cooked we are as a society was when people started saying that not voting for a politician means you "failed" or "betrayed" them. what a fucked up way to look at politics

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 14d

“Of course he wasn’t debating to find the truth”

Is an objectively insane thing to say… what are we doing here

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 14d

Klein vs TNC is such a fascinating example of how Ezra views the world:

Of course, he wasn’t debating to find the truth. He was doing politics. He was trying to persuade people. And I’ve watched on our side, not opportunistic engagement but a lot of, I would say, counterproductive disengagement.
But would you like to see one of us put up a sign outside of, say, some white evangelical church in Alabama: Debate me on abortion? And then use that content to say: Such and such “smashes” church parishioner? Or: Such and such “owns” church parishioner?
Would you like to see a version of that?
I would like to see people on our side, yes, go to evangelical churches. Go to places that feel unfriendly, have conversations.

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🦖 Joseon Derulo @inkdino.bsky.social · 14d

a cartoon of a man with a sword standing next to a giant white object

ALT: a cartoon of a man with a sword standing next to a giant white object

media.tenor.com

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🎮KeyLock🕹️ @keyxlock.bsky.social · 15d

No. Let the dead rest and be missed. This is gross to me.

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 15d

Miss the late Stan Lee? Might be time to chat with the comic book legend's AI-fueled avatar

Stan Lee may have died in 2018, but an AI-powered avatar of the late comic book legend is standing by at L.A. Comic Con, eager to talk shop with his fans.

www.latimes.com

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 18d

Been trying to explain why economy increasingly feels like it's running wholly on rich people passing each other same bag of money - innovation is stalled, unemployment is rising, but stock tickers are still somehow going up. This example captures the current state of our economy perfectly.

Tweet:

So let me get this right. Oracle says openai committed 300b for cloud storage. Oracle stock jumps 36% Oracle runs on Nvidia gpus. Has to buy billions in chips from Nvidia. Nvidia just announced they're investing 100b in openai. Openai using that money... To pay oracle. Who pays Nvidia. Who investa in open ai

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 15d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 16d

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

heated.world

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Fish'n'Chips enthusiast @lorgwalrus.bsky.social · 17d

me: "Ah haha, I'm so comfy cozy coded today :3"
*the camera pans and the soft soothing rain is backdropped against Fishers computer screen where he is playing space war crime simulator Stellaris*

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Fish'n'Chips enthusiast @lorgwalrus.bsky.social · 17d

but Scott the soilussy needs that sky cum

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Fish'n'Chips enthusiast @lorgwalrus.bsky.social · 17d

it's one of those rainy and cozy early fall days in RI and I am one of the gurlies that dreams of wrapping up in a blanket with hot cider and listening to the rain all day 🥰🥰

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 17d

Non-Irish people should be told that Ireland is creased with national hilarity because the Catholic conservative candidate who failed to get enough support did a presser to talk about how Ireland had been cheated out of having a real 'people's candidate' while holding a €20K+ Hermes handbag.

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 17d

To understand Steen's demographic, you have to realize there are people who think a working-class blue-haired barista on minimum wage is the Establishment, while upper-middle-class professional Catholics of multi-generational wealth are the oppressed disenfranchised politically homeless.

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 18d

WTF is this piece of shit headline from RTÉ?

"Activists said"?!

There are videos.

We all can say we heard and saw the explosions, even you RTÉ.

Would it kill ye to say "Footage shows..."

What happens if someone is murdered, activists say their lives were lost?

Cowards

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 18d

Organisers of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid as well as a number of Irish and international pro-Palestinian activists said they heard explosions and saw multiple drones target some of their boats

Activists say Gaza aid flotilla attacked by drones

Organisers of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid as well as a number of Irish and international pro-Palestinian activists said they heard explosions and saw multiple drones target some of their boats.

www.rte.ie

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Fish'n'Chips enthusiast @lorgwalrus.bsky.social · 18d

gonna be so honest, muting/blocking having the notifications removed from your feed feels good initially but also feels a bit odd

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Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social · Aug 28

Sex work is 1000% more honorable and socially beneficial than working as an ICE agent.

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Fish'n'Chips enthusiast @lorgwalrus.bsky.social · 18d

we celebrate these occasions

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Halcyon Ember @halcyonember.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 19d

Happy one year anniversary to this banger tweet that got so ridiculously blown out of proportion that it got us 70k wishlists in like a day

screenshot of a twitter exchange, dated Sept 23 2024:

@MaliceDaFirenze: We're making a game where you play a courier rier in 13th century Mongolia. No combat, just you, the horse(s) you've tamed, bred and trained and the vast wilderness. Would you play this? (10k replies, 11k reposts, 131k likes)

@doodlewhale: I would love to, as long as it can avoid woke DEI nonsense which appears unlikely as you have pronouns in your bio (shrug emoji) (337 replies, 124 reposts, 10k likes)

@MaliceDaFirenze: For every comment like this, I will add one extra pronoun to the game. (2k replies, 700 reposts, 19k likes)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19d

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.

List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 19d

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19d

They rush when they want to rush and they slow walk when they want to slow walk and it’s an ideological decision always in either direction.

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 19d

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

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