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Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · 9h

They don't understand how it works or what it does well (I'd include myself in this category), so they/we rely on heuristics: it's being hyped by the same people who've been overhyping dead-end technology for the last decade, 99% of the images/videos that are obviously AI look like dog shit

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sri (but spooky) @sri.plur.ca · 12h

yeah I built an AI that hangs out on your porch and drinks a six pack for you so you can write regexes at work

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

"THEY WERE EVENTUALLY LET GO AFTER SHOWING THIER DOCUMENTS". In other words, they were pulled out of their cars for looking "Mexican".

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 1d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · 1d

This scenario, 1-2 times per year, whenever the GOP controls Congress, for my entire adult life

Apu saving James Woods from a bullet meme (James Wood is "Republicans", shooter is "Republicans", Apu is "Democrats")

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Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · 3d

Evergreen: "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 13d

Trump is launching an authoritarian takeover of Portland hoping to provoke conflict in my hometown. I urge Oregonians to reject Trump’s attempt to incite violence in what we know is a vibrant and peaceful city. I will do everything in my power to protect the people in our state.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 13d

BREAKING: Trump says he'll send troops to Portland, Oregon, as he expands military deployments in U.S. cities.

Trump says he'll send troops to Portland, Oregon, to handle 'domestic terrorists'

President Donald Trump says he'll send troops to Portland, Oregon, to handle “domestic terrorists” as he expands his controversial deployments to more American cities.

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Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · 17d

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Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · 20d

The future is more Paul Verhoevenesque than I hoped for? But you're right, it does smack you in the face at times.

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Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · 22d

Less than 20% of the country? And when 20% of the country says working in a factory would improve their lives, it's not false consciousness. A unionized factory job is better than working for minimum wage at, like, a Jiffy Lube

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Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · 22d

Yeh, agree with you. The factories I've toured (equipment for public transit) are being actively hurt by Trump's "policies"

Was responding to the 80/20 split in respondents to "America/I would be better off". Successful manufacturing policy doesn't require a Down to the Countryside Movement

Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · 22d

(These figures are from a 2018 Brookings report, so they're little out of date www.brookings.edu/articles/glo... )

Global manufacturing scorecard: How the US compares to 18 other nations | Brookings

An original scorecard analyzes 19 leading nations on their manufacturing sector.

www.brookings.edu

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Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · 22d

We shouldn't bring back sweatshops. But I've walked through some high-end manufacturing facilities in the US and I'd rather work there than hang drywall/sling burgers/be an orderly in a hospital.

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Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · 22d

This isn't necessarily contradictory? About 10% of the US workforce is in manufacturing. Poland/Germany/Italy lead the way with ~20%. Even China's only 17%.

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Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · Sep 4

Incorporate the Attari–Wagah border ceremony into The Game

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Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · Sep 4

Even with the current Waterfront Park skyline, in winter the sun sets behind those buildings at, like, 3:15 pm. Which matters less, I think, when the sky is matte gray.

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Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · Sep 3

www.commonwealmagazine.org/three-cheers...

Three Cheers for Socialism

In the late modern world something like socialism is the only possible way of embodying Christian love in concrete political practices.

www.commonwealmagazine.org

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Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · Aug 7

Or maybe not! From the official press release: "As the official launch date approaches, customers should look for more information from Amtrak about how to locate and select the NextGen Acela train options."

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Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · Aug 7

My understanding is you won't be able to reserve a seat on "the new Acelas." You'll just buy an Acela ticket and you'll find out if it's the new equipment when you show up on the day (and the odds get better as they bring more trainsets online throughout the fall)

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rchen @chenrich.bsky.social · Jul 23

Reporting from Oakland: Tracks with online car community vibes

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Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · Jul 23

I've heard FRA buff strength standards are derived from "old AAR interchange rules for passenger cars" and "protection for postal workers in railway mail cars". First one makes more sense, second one has a certain old timey appeal.

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Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · Jul 9

Waymo double-parked in the middle of a block for 10 mins. because a person getting ready doesn't feel bad about making a robot wait. Drunk people outside a bar trying to figure out which Waymo is theirs. Humans will be the points of friction, and the cheaper it is the more obnoxious it'll get

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Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · Jul 3

I suppose that's encouraging, in a way? We don't have to wait for WWIII to happen before the federal gov't gets serious about engaging in interstate network planning for rail.

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Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · Jul 3

Would love to hear your thoughts on this. I've always wondered how much post-WWII U.S. transportation network development (mainly highways, but some aviation?) is downstream of a centrally-controlled, wartime economy that was looking for something to build

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Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · Jun 16

There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest cops and the dumbest citizens

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Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · Feb 20

U.S. should begin to lay the groundwork for an extension through Detroit to Chicago

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