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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 2h

It's the scale issue - it's going to be cost effective to put your mom in a commercial about tide targeted at you.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 3h

So what I've been saying since the Star Wars franchise is that nobody can ever die and they will use your deceased loved ones in advertisements.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 5h

Fake AI videos mocking dead celebrities are going viral. We talked to their families, and they're horrified.

We break down OpenAI's Sora 2 and the moral and legal problems of "synthetic resurrection."

Gift link: wapo.st/4nNKzd3 w/ @tatumhunter.bsky.social

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 15h

Oh yeah...

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 15h

Plus strip clubs and bars.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 15h

Oh I think it’s coffee shops and pawn stores for rugs.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 15h

What kind of stores are gonna crop up around the Qatari Airbase?

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19h

the basic problem is that it is easier to reproduce an artist's style in almost every detail or answer most questions with like 88% accuracy than to walk up four steps

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 19h

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

Solid. I get it.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

High praise!

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Active BOOsures, LLC @activemeasures.bsky.social · 1d

The Okhrana made this mistake too

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

FSB boss: “Sergei, you post frog to make America Nazi”

Sergei: “Da”

Boss: “Why is frog now Antifa?”

Sergei: “…”

Boss: “Сергей!!!!”

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

FSB boss: “Sergei, you post frog to make America Nazi”

Sergei: “Da”

Boss: “Why is frog now Antifa?”

Sergei: “…”

Boss: “Сергей!!!!”

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

It's something they could do, but it opens up a lot of other problems and is a disaster if it goes wrong.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

Cry Eagles, Cry.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

Jersey Devil

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

It's as brutally nonlinear a problem as exists in any context.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

It's as important to understand what an enemy or adversary won't do as what they will or could.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

The mass psychology piece is how groups respond - there are pervasive ideas that peoples will capitulate in ways that history tends to not agree with.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

So that's part of it - I look at strategic empathy as fundamentally understanding what someone wants, how they want to get that, and how well they can execute their strategy.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

"What is pass interference" has changed multiple times during my lifetime.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

Especially with the uncalled false starts.

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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · 3d

Told a young coworker not to mistake ChatGPT for experience or you'll end up like Icarus and caught him asking ChatGPT who is Icarus

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I don’t think we need a separate account - even just posting a thread is great!

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 2d

Other than the organizations you probably already know about, I know a lot of credit unions and financial associations with lots of fed/mil members often offer low / zero interest shutdown loans. May be worth looking into depending where you are.

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