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Adam Riggio

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Education, Training, & Curriculum Design Professional; media entrepreneur figuring out the next project; For All Our Futures newsletter at https://forallourfutures.beehiiv.com/; he-person; slowly recovering faith in humanity, recovery not guaranteed

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · Aug 19

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 11h

The dot-com bubble resulted from too many ill-conceived businesses trying conventional business models but sticking them on the internet. Very different from the circular investments in these massive supercomputer infrastructures among a handful of massive companies

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve heard talk about the AI bubble as if it would turn out like the dot-com bubble, with a handful of firms positioned to dominate the field post-collapse. But the financing looks a lot more like the Icelandic investment banking bubble, which resulted in full-on devastation

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 12h

It’s good to have elder Millennials around to remember the awful crap of previous decades so we can get some context for the current era’s awful crap

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 12h

If I remember correctly, circular deals were a big part of what brought down the Icelandic banking sector in 2007 just as the subprime mortgage bubble was starting to crash

Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 12h

Not to mention the complete rort that the trifecta of NVIDIA, OpenAI and Oracle have done by artificially inflating their own worth through circular deals...

The AI boom's reliance on circular deals is raising fears of a bubble

A spate of recent deals among AI's biggest players has tightened the circle of companies and investments underpinning the technology’s explosive growth.

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 18h

The only reason I remember the melody of Actually Romantic is that it's the same as Where Is My Mind? by the Pixies

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 19h

Our countries may never have lived up to the democratic ideals that social movements & thinkers have developed for centuries. What matters is our ability to organize & push our governments & institutions toward those ideals. A state action that pushes back against those is fascistic too.

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 19h

One political voice these days that depresses me is "fascism was always here." It encourages futility. Yes, Jim Crow & Japanese internment in the US, & residential schools in Canada were all fascistic institutions. But that didn't stop political movements from shutting them down.

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 21h

Last night, one of my neighbours got into a fight with some raccoons around our complex’s garbage disposal area, which I could hear with disturbing clarity from my home office window. This fight did not turn out well for my neighbour

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 1d

My daughter loves “Opalite” on the new Taylor album & I can’t listen to it without thinking of the Shirelles

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 1d

Spent this morning at the dentist & because I was getting two fillings on opposite sides of my mouth, ended up with four doses of anaesthetic instead of my usual two. This has not been a fun afternoon

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

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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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 2d

Really, though. One day, I was feeling depressed & doom-posting in reply to some people & I got dogpiled for an hour. The block tools that already existed were really effective in shutting that down. It's just that the people in charge of the site can't block users for being merely jerks.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

Too real. We’re going to try to fix this. Social media doesn’t have to be this way.

Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 12d

(bluesky user bursts into Waffle House) OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES??

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 2d

Genuine response: It's a problem to define 'toxicity' clearly & distinctly enough not to catch a lot of false positives or dickish shitposters who 99.9% of users can simply block. If people are telling off you & the leadership team, that's the cost of being the boss. It's the American Way™.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

Me: *pays 140 dollars*

Tim Meadows: get away Dewey! don’t eat that Panda Express Orange Chicken! you don’t want any of that shit! It’s delicious!

Me: *delighted* *pays 140 dollars*

Meadows: Dewey get out of here! Don’t eat the rangoons! You don’t want any of that shit!

Me: *delighted* *pays 140

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 2d

If I say that I'm willing to admit that I'm wrong, but never admit that I'm wrong, then I must be right? Right?

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 2d

What's the biggest sign these days that someone has no interest in ever admitting that they were wrong? When they frame their aggressive argument as "just asking questions" and being perfectly able to admit when they're wrong.

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 2d

Even worse, it's equating the refusal to admit any wrongdoing, falsehood, or error on your part with genuine humility & truth-seeking simply because you say that you're trying to find the truth.

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 2d

At a very fundamental level, one of the worst things to happen over the last 15 years or so is the complete legitimation of dealing with any disagreement with the refusal to admit any wrongdoing or error.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 2d

The utterly preposterous idea that the intellectual burden rested on the guy who had just dropped a painstakingly detailed demolition of their argument, in 30-thousand words across multiple installments, to now have to say *even more things.* Rather than the burden being on the other guy to respond.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2d

“I left my wife, Nicole Kidman, because I was sick of her, Nicole Kidman, needing me to have sex with her, Nicole Kidman” do you hear yourself man

Tweet from Daily Mail Celebrity @DailyMailCeleb
How Nicole Kidman's 'bottomless need for sexual attention' led to the end of her marriage to country music star Keith Urban: Nashville insiders open up to
ALISON BOSHOFF

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 2d

Something I’ve found really interesting in my research on LLM science & business use is how much it destabilizes who’s responsible for writing things people will take action on. It’s encouraging me to dig back into some classes like Derrida & Bergson for strategic guidance

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 2d

A generation ago, measles was declared eradicated from Canada. Today, Alberta reports more confirmed cases than the entire United States. How did it become the epicentre of Canada’s outbreak? Physician and journalist @monicakidd.bsky.social explores: thewalrus.ca/how-alberta-beca...

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4d

"The fights for trans rights and Palestinians are over and we lost" is something I'm seeing over and over from cis white progressives. And I'm seeing variations of this popping up about racial justice, marriage equality, and disability rights too.

Sorry, but fuck that.

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 4d

I know, but I also want to explore the paradoxical twists of people's ideologies & political commitments. Life gets a lot more boring if all those people are just bots