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Adam Riggio

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Education, Training, & Curriculum Design Professional; media entrepreneur figuring out the next project; For All Our Futures newsletter at https://forallourfutures.beehiiv.com/; he-person; slowly recovering faith in humanity, recovery not guaranteed

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · Aug 19

Visit the current form of For All Our Futures! My newsletter covering all the major issues in modern business & technology today, one of many locuses for progress-minded professionals to share ideas & build new futures for everyone.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 15h

i think it’s noteworthy that a lot of centrist pundits have decided to just take it as a given that jd vance lies constantly and to treat this as almost part of his intellectual program so that only gauche rubes would bother to mention or care about it.

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 16h

Took some time for antiquing

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 19h

I've been re-acquainting myself with NNs, transformers and LLMs this week, so these are early thoughts. But I am starting to think about language without the capacity to imagine language, i.e., an LLM unable to imagine itself participating in language. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...

What Machines Don't Know

Imagining Language Without Imagination It's important to acknowledge that Large Language Models are complex. There's an oversimplified binary in online chatter between the dismissive characterizatio...

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 2d

This Day in Labor History: October 10, 1917. The red light district of New Orleans, known as Storyville, closed due to the efforts of reformers seeking to eliminate vice from the city. Let's talk about sex work and how banning red light districts just made workers unsafe!

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 3d

The young Tory in the middle, Rhys Benjamin, is wearing the sweater of the Doctor Who whose era featured a story where the Doctor literally overthrew an authoritarian dictator blatantly modelled on Margaret Thatcher.

LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 3d

Charles Amos is the legalise incest guy. Insane they didn't do due diligence. www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy.

Some thoughts from my new piece:

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We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 3d

“I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.”

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 3d

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 3d

I have met medical workers in Canada who say the most awful, insulting things about people with chronic fatigue syndrome. The biggest obstacle to treating this issue with complicated neural & autoimmune causes is a medical culture of contempt

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 3d

Is that little shit wearing a Sylvester McCoy Doctor Who sweater? Talk about failure to understand your favourite show

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 3d

I remember a long time ago, I felt excited to get an email, and every email was something I wanted to see. Was I just young?

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 4d

The dot-com bubble resulted from too many ill-conceived businesses trying conventional business models but sticking them on the internet. Very different from the circular investments in these massive supercomputer infrastructures among a handful of massive companies

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve heard talk about the AI bubble as if it would turn out like the dot-com bubble, with a handful of firms positioned to dominate the field post-collapse. But the financing looks a lot more like the Icelandic investment banking bubble, which resulted in full-on devastation

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 4d

It’s good to have elder Millennials around to remember the awful crap of previous decades so we can get some context for the current era’s awful crap

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 4d

If I remember correctly, circular deals were a big part of what brought down the Icelandic banking sector in 2007 just as the subprime mortgage bubble was starting to crash

Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 4d

Not to mention the complete rort that the trifecta of NVIDIA, OpenAI and Oracle have done by artificially inflating their own worth through circular deals...

The AI boom's reliance on circular deals is raising fears of a bubble

A spate of recent deals among AI's biggest players has tightened the circle of companies and investments underpinning the technology’s explosive growth.

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 4d

The only reason I remember the melody of Actually Romantic is that it's the same as Where Is My Mind? by the Pixies

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 4d

Our countries may never have lived up to the democratic ideals that social movements & thinkers have developed for centuries. What matters is our ability to organize & push our governments & institutions toward those ideals. A state action that pushes back against those is fascistic too.

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 4d

One political voice these days that depresses me is "fascism was always here." It encourages futility. Yes, Jim Crow & Japanese internment in the US, & residential schools in Canada were all fascistic institutions. But that didn't stop political movements from shutting them down.

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 5d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 4d

Last night, one of my neighbours got into a fight with some raccoons around our complex’s garbage disposal area, which I could hear with disturbing clarity from my home office window. This fight did not turn out well for my neighbour

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 5d

My daughter loves “Opalite” on the new Taylor album & I can’t listen to it without thinking of the Shirelles

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 5d

Spent this morning at the dentist & because I was getting two fillings on opposite sides of my mouth, ended up with four doses of anaesthetic instead of my usual two. This has not been a fun afternoon

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 6d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 6d

Really, though. One day, I was feeling depressed & doom-posting in reply to some people & I got dogpiled for an hour. The block tools that already existed were really effective in shutting that down. It's just that the people in charge of the site can't block users for being merely jerks.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 11d

Too real. We’re going to try to fix this. Social media doesn’t have to be this way.

Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 16d

(bluesky user bursts into Waffle House) OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES??

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 6d

Genuine response: It's a problem to define 'toxicity' clearly & distinctly enough not to catch a lot of false positives or dickish shitposters who 99.9% of users can simply block. If people are telling off you & the leadership team, that's the cost of being the boss. It's the American Way™.