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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 55m

i get deeply embarrassed when propaganda trips me, and very very annoyed when i catch it -- it's terrible for my health

i'd call it propaganda: we're way past the “1st time is an accident, 2nd coincidence, 3rd is enemy action” pipeline: we have actual enemies taking purposeful action against us

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 1h

i would be very very annoyed at a company which fucked me over this way

Garrett Wollman @gwollman.bsky.social · 6h

UNFORTUNATELY, while Congress allows the Berne bare minimum -- a suit for actual damages -- it made both statutory damages and attorney's fees conditional on registration either prior to the infringement, or within three months of publication if the infringement happened immediately at publication.

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 1h

... cocaine

لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 1h

bsky.app/profile/kloc...

what folks are missing [i think?] is that cheap power sources just don't have the margin in absolute value to be attractive:

e.g. if the same 1GW costs $1 from solar vs $2 from hydrocarbons, there's gonna be a lot more margin on the latter

and stupid money chases profits

Jamey @klocktower.org · 19h

In terms of profitability, sure. But as I understand it, a lot of solar fields are owned by relatively small, local producers, including local utilities. The amount of capital, and thus the lobbying capacity, isn’t anywhere near what the carbon-fueled industries are rocking.

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 10h

oh man, that reminds me that Kissinger's dead ;)

لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 10h

they can do that OTC in the USA as well -- i do know that parties to such have to be qualified investors, maybe that's what's stopping them in the USA and not over here: restrictions on whom they can target?

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 11h

oh absolutely, it's just a twitch i have these days whenever i see an etsy link: i assumed i had bought a joke gadsden flag from someone aligned politically w/ me, now i have this traumatic reflex

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 11h

i'm reminded of how both Mandela and the Suffragettes got sprayed as terrorists

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 11h

my face when i learnt i ordered a funny patch from a trumpet -- in other words, now i check profusely before buying

not saying that's the case here, just sharing trauma

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 11h

the population of Russia doesn't have a say in the matter at all, that's the point

لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 11h

no worries, i have no need to know it

it's one of those cases where i ask a proxy question without thinking: “have you been on air?” because i had forgotten your country has the tech level

but instead of asking that, i used the proxy question for some unthinking reason; it's a pattern i fall into

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 11h

bunch of eejits in this world acting as if “Russians” have a say in the matter

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 11h

here in Ireland if we take the morse code version of the test we get the 2-letter suffix call-sign, that's the incentive ;)

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 15h

Ian Watkins’ ex girlfriend reports him multiple times to the police for what he was doing and they treated her as if she was hysterical in every sense of the word. Misogyny is dangerously and deadly, it played a huge role in those poor children’s torment. Hope he went roaring

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Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 13h

Ian Watkins is dead, and that's a good thing. Unimaginable depravity.

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 11h

ah wait, already technician probably;m carry on

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 11h

does that mean you got a call sign now, or did you have one already?

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 12h

forgot to say it explicitly: i expect 2008-style bailouts, and that's how the rich will maintain both assets and cash-flow, leading to being able to buy further assets at a discount

sadly i don't know how to use this info to protect my own arse from the oncoming freight train; would welcome advice

لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 12h

but i'm deff gonna enjoy seeing China's GDP in dollars go #1 economy

[i have a pet peeve about GDP measured in coin, rather than purchasing power; China's already #1 economy on GDP-PPP for a few years now, just not when measured in $/USD]

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 12h

it won't be equally controlled for everyone: 2008 saw some institutions and some asset classes bailed out, but not all of them

i'm fully expecting the cycle to come back around, and if it blows up during trump it's going to be even more “fun”

and then the rich will buy the dip again & consolidate

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 1d

ARE YOU FUCKING SHITTING ME HE PICKED THE GUY WHO QUIT ON MONDAY AGAIN?!

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 1d

“hold my bière” on repeat

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 1d

good reminder

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Jul 30

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam.

But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else:

A massacre.

He decided to act. 1/28

a young, brown-haired, clean-shaven american man in a green army uniform. he looks stern.

لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 1d

quote from this, where that reasoning [heh] is offered to support a prediction that we'll see agentic LLMs go from 35% correctness to 90% -- because somehow constructing a 2nd step on a foundation of a broken/wrong 1st step will be perfectly fine, no impact at all

taloranderson.com/blog/ai-valu...

OpenAI's inflated valuation, as I understand it - Talor Anderson

Blog post: OpenAI's inflated valuation, as I understand it

taloranderson.com

لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 1d

“““
If a system succeeds at each step with probability p, the probability of success across n independent steps is p^n
”””

since when would a multi-step agentic process consist of independent steps, it's a literal pipeline -- what are these folks doing/thinking?!

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