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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 4h

guy who is most notable for slorking down raw eggs directly out of the shell like an australopithecine complaining that someone else is eating primitive slop

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 4h

A huge part of current twitter is eating disorder content for racist guys

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 7h

to be clear i think that the trajectory of "AI" depends primarily on whether the research yields anything useful in the next couple years rather than following any natural scaling law, but this guy is just talking his book

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 7h

his suggestion is that you take everything out of stocks and go long gold equities. which he sells

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 7h

unfortunately, source is actually a crank Austrian commodities trader via Marketwatch who is claiming that we are doomed because near-zero interest rates resulted in the entire economy being malinvested

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 8h

one single step that would do a lot to improve reputation of LLMs would be for Google to abandon AI Mode like they do with all of their other products

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 8h

like, this was a man who very clearly had a suit fetish

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 9h

one funny thing about this is that you can even remove all the high-frequency features and you... can still see the leyendecker i seeded it with like three years ago, even with no leyendecker remaining

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 9h

it is. i am working on something which removes all the high-frequency features so i can just see the low-frequency features, and one of my test images made Boat Guy.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 9h

yeah, i'm working on a label i can use to remove everything but the low-frequency features from something so i can work on silhouettes

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 9h

trying out something new. this came out. extremely mysterious.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 9h

indirectly

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 9h

i mean, i think that it would be good to drop them just to avoid sending money to them, but they're moving towards paper receipts and removing barcode encoding from their ballots. i don't think there's much risk.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10h

i don't know that it's a good sign in 2018

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10h

oh. good. this requires a paper receipt and bans barcode-encoded votes, as well as recertification. there are a lot of problems with the EO but the voting machine stuff is not one of them.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10h

yeah, the basic play here seems to be to take the fact that he killed Dominion to sell known-good machines to Republican jurisdictions

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10h

correct, yes. there are also e-day audits.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10h

and ES&S was historically much worse -- Howard Ahmanson Jr. was both the owner of the voting machine company and believed that democracy was literally a heretical form of government and must be overthrown. he was one of Gary North's big funders.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10h

like, the EAC labs inspect the actual source code, and then compile it to a known-good binary and produce a signature hash. the code running on the actual machines has to match the signature hash on election day.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 11h

this guy is kind of a rwnj but he is more or less on the level and he still has to pass his audits to sell his equipment

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · Mar 25

i cannot believe that after Biden and RBG we are still having discussions about whether 80-year-olds should hold public office. they shouldn't. flat out.