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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 6h

Are you illiterate? "Preset routes" does not mean "bounded area"

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🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · 15h

This is one of my favorite takes. I’m sure people would love a 30-day delay on having their images posted so they can be reviewed by hand and also it’s Good Actually to make humans look at some of the most heinous images in existence all day

The Bluesky Head of Trust & Safety admitting that all posted images are processed through an Al autolabeller that presumably employees have no access to or control over? (And probably steals every image to be used in an Al "art" generator, who knows?)
Seriously, this is outrageously irresponsible.

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 14h

I *think* the context was talking about self driving stuff more generally, but I'm not super confident of that

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 14h

I'm guessing they deleted it because it was QTed by at least one large account

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 14h

If a) Waymo exists, and b) the highlighted bit is true, I assume you'll have no difficulty pointing me to the fixed routes Waymos run on in San Francisco?

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 15h

Graph algorithms rule everything around me

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 15h

I actually think SF is a relatively hard city since it's made up of...I want to say 5 or 6? misaligned grids with messy interfaces, plus various hills which break those grids, create blind corners & crests, etc. Way easier than Boston, but much harder than eg Phoenix

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 15h

Sitting the models down and teaching them a new road rage mode to activate as soon as they cross inside the i95 ring

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 16h

It's the same level of out of touch with reality as like, asserting that Vegas doesn't have a hockey team on the basis that it didn't have one in 2015 so it can't have one today. I can show you the rink where they play! They won a Stanley Cup!

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 16h

It's fascinating to me that there's a whole "AI skeptic" misinformation ecosystem out there that somehow continues to deny that Waymo exists. Like, this is easy to fact check! Waymo runs publicly-available service in 5 cities, you can just go look up how it works and see it's not planned routes!

A bluesky post with the user's handle cropped out: "In 2015, I was told, confidently, that AI would end human drivers in the trucking industry w/in 5 years.

[Begin my highlight]10 years later, and there’s what-some experimental cabs rolling around a few cities in heavily-engineered preset routes?[end my highlight]

Not to mention the fact that the AI industry itself is Enron on heroin."

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 16h

Old: "my body is a machine which turns protobufs into other protobufs"
Bold: "my body is a machine which turns transforms (defined in protobufs, probably) into other transforms (defined in different protobufs)"

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 16h

manifesting a better and also funnier world where zuck's artificial T finally convinces the EU to just fully eject a major US tech company

Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 16h

*poking zuck with a stick* hell yeah buddy go challenge Ursula von der Leyen to an MMA fight, that'll TOTALLY work out well for you

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 16h

*poking zuck with a stick* hell yeah buddy go challenge Ursula von der Leyen to an MMA fight, that'll TOTALLY work out well for you

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like "Meta ceases to exist" specifically is a bad example because Meta is like, two orders of magnitude more badly run than any other major tech company and I can actually imagine a world where, against all odds, they find a way to bankrupt themselves

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 18h

like honestly who knew there was a level of fascism even the Standard people would get angry about

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 18h

Also that more of the companies engaged in it don't start just building their own servers, which given the volumes involved probably will make financial sense eventually (there's a reason Google started doing almost everything itself after a while, after all)

Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 18h

Capital really starting to feel the buyer's remorse lol

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 18h

Paul Graham? MICHAEL MORITZ??

💀 Crypt Jones 💀 @cjones47.bsky.social · 19h

Interesting list of top 10 pro Prop 50 individual donors.

Michael Moritz (Venture capitalist, co-founder of the San Francisco Standard) - $2,500,000

Gwendolyn Sontheim (Heir to food-production company Cargill Corp.) - $2,000,000

Reed Hastings (Co-founder and chairman of Netflix Inc.) - $2,000,000

Bill Bloomfield (Businessman) - $1,000,000

Laurie Michaels (Philanthropist, psychologist, founder, spouse of David Bonderman) - $750,000

Miriam Haas (Heir to the Levi Strauss fortune and mother of San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie) - $750,000

Thomas Rothman (Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Motion Picture Group) - $500,000

Mark Heising (Engineer, scientist, son-in-law of hedge fund manager James Simons) - $500,000

Paul Graham (Co-founder of tech incubator Y-Combinator) - $500,000

Cale Bonderman (Son of David Bonderman and Laurie Michaels) - $368,000

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 18h

good morning!

Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 19h

SHIVERS - COME MORNING, I CARRY INDUSTRIAL DUST AND LET IT SETTLE ON TREE LEAVES. I SHAKE THE DUST FROM THOSE LEAVES AND ONTO YOUR COAT.

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1d

how many months do we think we have til somebody in the white house posts an AI Trump threatening to nuke Portland or Chicago or whatever

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1d

lol

Excerpt from the linked paper with the sentence "it is not trivial to detect protoplanets" highlighted

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1d

That's right, that's why you've gotta fire em from railguns in your unhinged libertarian fanfice moon base like Heinlein (master of the "just trust me bro" school of allegedly-hard scifi)

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1d

the allies invented the dang computer as part of that war, what on earth

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 1d

Lol, lmao, lol, lmao

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1d

You can name it the Handing Trump an Illegal Third Term For Some Reason Act

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 3d

What do people think about giving working class Americans a $2000 tariff relief check for the unfair tax that has driven their grocery and housing prices up?

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, is proposing $2,000 payments to Americans making under $100,000

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1d

Returning from vacation and immediately being subjected to a struggle session led by the unread count in my inbox at work

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