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Dragon Moll Z 🎃 @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 7h

Asking everyone with over 10k followers to make an official statement about a random current event

F4T3 @f4t3.com · 9h

Had to log into Instagram today. Figured I might peruse the timeline there for a bit, but stopped after every single ad was for boner pills that I’m convinced are just placebos for 60 year old dudes who are nostalgic about taking shitty doped up ecstasy in a club bathroom.

An ad from Instagram for an ED pill called “ro” which appears to be a pressed pill with a fire motif that looks identical to illegal drugs from the mid 2000s.

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tug @tugboet.com · 1d

there is no energy drink or coffee option that can match the power of waking up to the sound of a dog dry heaving

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F4T3 @f4t3.com · 1d

It's crazy that history books all imply if not outwardly state that we failed the reconstruction era by aborting it too soon and not finishing the job, and then we continue to this day to fail to follow up on the job of ridding society of those same actors.

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F4T3 @f4t3.com · 1d

Tron is nostalgia, and I'm personally tired of being reminded that sci-fi stories and special effects in the 80's and 90's was objectively mediocre. Yet I enjoyed it and have positive memories of it, and every "reboot" of something I have positive memories of sours the franchise. Just let shit die.

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Cassie 🎃 kween, expert opinion giver, supergenius @kweencassie.bsky.social · 2d

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F4T3 @f4t3.com · 2d

I mean, for what they are getting it’s not a big deal. Only when the SecDef is a complete moron and is incapable of communicating the trivialness of an existing relationship that’s been in place for over 3 years does it become a big deal.

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F4T3 @f4t3.com · 2d

This was my take as well. ML/In-Silico novel research is super valuable, but it doesn't exclude humans from reviewing the output.

F4T3 @f4t3.com · 2d

This is bullshit. The LLM happily spit out words that are used in papers and publications that have previously announced the design and synthesisation of viruses, but it did nothing of the sort. We don't even know if this virus is viable.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 2d

“In September, scientists at Stanford reported they had used A.I. to design a virus for the first time.”

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F4T3 @f4t3.com · 2d

My point is, just because a computer says it made a brand new novel thing, it still requires skilled humans to review that output to see if it's not complete bullshit. This here is complete bullshit until proven otherwise.

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F4T3 @f4t3.com · 2d

The company I used to work for was using ML/AI/LLMs to help synthesize new molecular entities for research during in-silico drug discovery. A HUGE number of those molecules were technically stable, but there was no pathway to synthesize them without blowing up a lab or hiring a particle accelerator.

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F4T3 @f4t3.com · 2d

This is bullshit. The LLM happily spit out words that are used in papers and publications that have previously announced the design and synthesisation of viruses, but it did nothing of the sort. We don't even know if this virus is viable.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 2d

“In September, scientists at Stanford reported they had used A.I. to design a virus for the first time.”

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

www.nytimes.com

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F4T3 @f4t3.com · 2d

I'm sure there's some well meaning uses of it, but that TTS voice has as much of a positive connotation to me as the phrase "Nigerian Prince" anymore.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 3d

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

theonion.com

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F4T3 @f4t3.com · 3d

This is gonna be an expensive costume.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

I think Paul, of blessed posting memory, is entirely right here, and I say this *even though* the young people I know remain highly literate and engaged, because I think his sample is way more representative than mine.

musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

musgrave.substack.com

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 4d

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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F4T3 @f4t3.com · 4d

All of 2016 to 2021 was filled with anecdotes of "My DMs are filled with horrified Republicans".

None of those DMs were published. None of those Republicans acted on their horror. At the end of the day, they realized it helped them and they're still actively cheering it on in public.

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F4T3 @f4t3.com · 4d

This is going to be Hotmail all over again. Lmao.

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 5d

talking about the environmental impact of inhalers on the world carbon budget when disposable vapes exist is like talking about the financial impact of black beans on my personal budget when nerds gummy clusters exist

CNN @cnn.com · 6d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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strawbaby jam @strawbbfields4ever.bsky.social · 5d

always remember who was there for you at your lowest. thank you cigarettes

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F4T3 @f4t3.com · 5d

yeah, "Why didn't people do something" is specifically referring to this picture.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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John Breen’s Body @acab.dad · 6d

Bluesky loves links*

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Sep 3

Bluesky loves links — we don’t downrank or deprioritize posts with links in them, and as a result they get higher traffic, so lots of people post them.

spencer chang @spencer.place · Dec 2

oh my god there are so many links here

the iframes dont load fast enough lol

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F4T3 @f4t3.com · 6d

I dunno, I think she'd fit right into some of the Dem leadership.

LeadingReport on twitter joked that Bed Bath And Beyond (a bankrupt company) is closing all of their stores in California for political reasons.

@JoprdanUhl replies: "This is just the first domino to fall. Just got off the phone with sombody who said Circuit City is closing all stores in California next week."

@AmyMcGrathKY replies to Jordan: "Hey Jordan, Circuit City doesn't have any stores in California....or anywhere for that matter. It's online only. Why are you spreading disinformation?"

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 7d

You don't understand the difference between government, movement, and regime.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 8d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 8d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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F4T3 @f4t3.com · 7d

The Saudis did October 7th? Quite an accusation here Debra Messing. Pretty unbelievable a 9 year old Mamdani would also celebrate 9/11.

Or you just mean brown people are bad, in that case it's still quite an accusation and you're a shitbag racist.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 8d

The funniest thing in the world is someone posting something egregiously fake followed by “let that sink in.”

Debra Messing: @emmabenson92 I have nothing against Socialism, don't know where you got that. I voted against M because he celebrated 9/11.
Let that sink in. I love my country. My reasoning is not Islamophobia. I I've chosen to live in the most beautifully diverse city in the world.

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