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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 11h

No YOU just visible cringed while walking around randomly thinking about how stupid you were seven years ago

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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 12h

What, and I cannot say this strongly enough, the fuck?

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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 12h

Ah yes the scientific method where you decide what you want the outcome to be and then use “studies” to verify the outcome you have decided

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 19h

That’s totally how science works

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 12h

Horses are genuinely amazing to be around if you have a chance to be around them. But this is kinda true - they are giant beasts that smell like shit.

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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 20h

Anyone using @hashnode.bsky.social ? Is it dead? Their discord is totally locked down, and it seems like they aren't doing anything with it.

David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 21h

I dunno - maybe? I think human attention is finite and in the category of “check in news and friends” there is a winner

David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 1d

Is the social network that has the most conversations on it

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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 1d

(I’m cofounder of Kubeflow 😃)

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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 1d

I really hope bluesky wins - the APIs are so good

Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 1d

While other people are forced to lie awake wondering, Shadowsky.io enables me to see *at a glance* and know for sure that almost all of my posts bomb.

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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 1d

I love when things end with -ique. Appeals to my Francophile/math loving nature.

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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 1d

Anyone know the answer to this?

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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 2d

Is this war ravaged Portland? Because to me this is Heaven

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Suspicious that Death is creeping behind me with his fatal dart, I am communing with God...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 4d

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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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 2d

You’re too sweet for me.
You’re too sweet for mee-eee-eee-eeeee

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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 3d

Petition to stop companies from treating the WiFi entry field as a password - you don’t need to obscure “mattisaballer”

David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 3d

Move to America - 107!

(Don’t! Our date structure sucks)

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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 3d

Billionaires DO need to be stopped, but… 7?

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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 3d

some thoughts on what we're measuring in AI (it will come as no surprise to anyone that i think we're doing it wrong)

distributedthoughts.org/what-the-fck...

AI Evaluation: Defining What We Measure

Uncover the challenges of measuring AI success and the need for clear definitions and real-world performance metrics in AI evaluations

distributedthoughts.org

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Auke Hoekstra @aukehoekstra.bsky.social · 4d

We just made this graph showing most people in the world could get by on just some solar panels and batteries.

The X axis is basically latitude, but we filled in how many people live between the equator and a certain latitude.
The Y axis shows the amount of solar and batteries needed

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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 4d

Far be it from me to compliment the current democratic party in any way, but this is THE WAY.

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 4d

Whatever Speaker Johnson says:

He sent the House home for YET ANOTHER WEEK because he cares more about protecting the Epstein files than he does about protecting the American people.

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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 5d

What’d you want to do? Can I help?

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 5d

I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD

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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 5d

I fear nothing. Except git. Terrified of git.

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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 5d

My general thing is you don’t get to choose why someone doesn’t want to speak to you - I’m sure a million people hate me.

I just don’t want companies making that decision for me!

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