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James Barris

@314xel.bsky.social

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EU resident 🇪🇺 Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 Average coder. I'm also very modest. </> Privacy advocate 🔒 Books! They magically make you less stupid! 📖✨ Save the climate, I need snow 🏂🏻 Live long and prosper 🖖🏼☮️⚛️

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · Aug 3

The classic UFO poster with a twist: "I WANT TO LEAVE"

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 14d

"Absolutely! Let's jump right in."

"But... but... was he using the latest and greatest #AISlop GPT 17.0 model? Ha?"

Halloween name @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 25d

"i just use it to generate ideas"

James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 14d

Shutter (2004 - the original Thai film, not the 2008 remake trash)

Left me with a burden on my shoulders 😂

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 14d

It's National Motorcycle Ride Day 🏍️

Post a scene with a Motorcycle... 🖤

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 15d

a person is sitting on a chair in the grass in a field .

Alt: a person is sitting on a chair in the grass on a heavy rainy day

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 16d

James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 16d

And don't forget the "please", it makes all the difference!

James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 16d

Oh, but you see, it's not the machine's fault. The magic is in how you write the prompt! It's not "plan a trip to Mars for me", it's "hey GPT, plan a trip for me to Mars AND back".

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 16d

Not that long time ago, this would have been an Onion article. Boy, morning coffe news headlines sure changed.

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 16d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · Sep 24

Zelensky at the UN General Assembly session:

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · Sep 24

The #shooting hashtag sure is very diverse on Bluesky.

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deck.blue @deck.blue · Aug 25

brazil is on the way of implementing a similar age-verification system to the uk that is """for the children""" and if that ends up happening i'll have to shut down deck.blue

i'm operating under brazilian laws and i don't want to build a verification system that will do more harm than anything else

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · Aug 22

One first step for the Bluesky team would be to move those servers to EU. I don't like my data sitting in US anyway.

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · Aug 21

Finished Wayward Pines and Snowpiercer recently. Both went down smooth. I'm very much into dystopias lately, I wonder why?

James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · Aug 21

a man in a suit and bow tie is sitting at a table in front of a microphone holding a pencil .

Alt: a man in a suit and bow tie is sitting at a table in front of a microphone holding a pencil .

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · Aug 21

I'm convinced, it's going in the wakeup playlist.

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · Aug 21

Very strange indeed...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Aug 21

Oh yeah things are falling apart. You've got paranoid guys on Blind freaking out now

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Amazon • EL TRUMP
Something very strange is going on
There is a seemingly coordinated effort to FLIP FLOP on Al. All of the execs who were hyping Al to death just a few weeks ago are now claiming that Al is a bubble, that AGI is nowhere near, and that Al will have a much smaller impact than anticipated.
> Altman called it a bubble
> Eric Schmidt said that AGI is basically bullshit
> Matt Garman (AWS CEO) downplayed its impact
WHY the sudden narrative switch?
WHO gave the orders?
I swear, it's like they're all part of some cult. They all embrace the same talking points all at once, and abandon them all at once.

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*Handle pending approval @existentialfauxpas.bsky.social · Aug 21

Looks like it’s a bigger scam than crypto.
Sam Altman is the Elizabeth Holmes of Elon Musks…

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · Aug 4

Here I am, insisting on the creatives whose work I crib from are compensated, and they are using that good will to rip me the fuck off. Fuck you. Fuck everybody that uses this shit. Fuck Gen AI and fuck you for using or liking it even ironically as a joke, fuck you all you bitchshit motherfuckers

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · Aug 20

AI tech stocks taking a dive.

Sam Altman: "Calm down people! It's only a drill! We need to exit in an orderly fashion. Me first!"

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · Aug 20

Altman: "I do think some investors are likely to lose a lot of money, and I don’t want to minimise that, that sucks. There will be periods of irrational exuberance. But on the whole the value for society will be huge."

Youge, I tell you 😂🔥

James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · Aug 20

Read this yesterday, still amusing in the morning.

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · Aug 19

James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · Aug 18

I mean, since when is it mandatory to have/provide an email or phone number when buying in person?

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · Aug 18

I don't have an email address. What now? I have hands to grab a paper one though.

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