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Devon Hjelm
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Research Scientist @ Apple Work: Modeling intelligence, generalization, representation learning. Play: Music, games, outdoors
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 26d
Pro tip to Laura Loomer who deleted this: The Internet is written in indelible ink.
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Devon Hjelm @devhje.bsky.social · Sep 3
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"Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery"
"Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body?"

The party that is anti pro-choice and adopted slavery-denialism misappropriates pro-choice and anti-slavery.
Florida surgeon general says state will eliminate all vaccine mandates
"Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery," Dr. Joseph Ladapo said. "Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body?"
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Devon Hjelm @devhje.bsky.social · Aug 23
+1: Discord is the way. I’m increasingly relying on smaller curated community participation for all sorts of things, including AI but also my various hobbies. Way better than the whole influence rat race than every major platform devolves into.
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Devon Hjelm @devhje.bsky.social · Jul 19
This is what evil looks like. Using people as political leverage, just because you can.

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Trump administration completes large-scale prisoner swap with Venezuela | CNN Politics
The Trump administration completed a large-scale prisoner swap with Venezuela on Friday, sending about 250 Venezuelans who had been deported and imprisoned in El Salvador back to their home country in...
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Devon Hjelm @devhje.bsky.social · Jul 18
I think everybody is about a year too late talking about Trump being a sexual predator to get distracted from the paid masked thugs, the billionaire tax cuts, the dismantling of public investment and support, and about everything else.

Good job America. I’m diagnosing you with ADHD.
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Devon Hjelm @devhje.bsky.social · Jul 4
Well. Maybe the strictness will create a shift. A broken system that is easily exploited and is profitable probably needs to be changed.
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Devon Hjelm @devhje.bsky.social · Jul 3
I worry mostly that they’ve handed ACs a whip, and there’s going to be a lot of variance on how well that whip is used. Some will surely use it badly.

But again, the review problem has been getting worse and worse, so it’s good they’re trying something. I hope it leads to more effective changes.
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Devon Hjelm @devhje.bsky.social · Jul 3
Yeh I have mixed feelings. Punishing people who ultimately are reviewing for free (there’s only a small chance the average paper gets accepted) seems like the wrong approach. There will be resentment. But the review problem has only gotten worse and if it’s not fixed there’s no point.
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Devon Hjelm @devhje.bsky.social · Jun 30
I guess propaganda wouldn’t be effective if people weren’t willing to accept it under certain conditions. It seems like Xitter satisfies a big enough need that wherever negative connotation passively being manipulated has isn’t a big deal. Or perhaps people feel like it won’t affect them.
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Devon Hjelm @devhje.bsky.social · Jun 28
I haven’t seen this idea, but if true it’s more evidence that we’re devolving into a meritocracy where the only valuable trait is intelligence relative to the masses. So now the only valuable critique is one that attacks intelligence.

Whether someone is moral or even sane doesn’t matter anymore.
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Devon Hjelm @devhje.bsky.social · Jun 25
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Devon Hjelm @devhje.bsky.social · Jun 24
I haven’t used it, but I’m against Black as it’s better at generating arguments over auto formatters, unreadable diffs, and misattributed contributions than clean looking code. If ruff is customizable that’s an improvement.

Blacker is a nicer idea: it only formats lines you’ve changed manually.
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Devon Hjelm @devhje.bsky.social · Jun 24
Speaking for readable diffs: how about that Black, eh?
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Devon Hjelm @devhje.bsky.social · Jun 15
It begins. Get ready to start having to pay premium to generate those Ghibli stylized images.

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · Jun 13
“They took my cousin. He informed them he is a US citizen and his passport was in his pocket. We don’t know where they took him.”

This isn’t about deporting undocumented immigrants this is about going after people who are not white!
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St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · Jun 13
Kristi Noem, Dr. Phil, and ICE went to this woman’s home in Huntington Park, CA at 6am to make a spectacle and you want me to be satisfied with @governor.ca.gov flowery words? Watch. It’s disgusting. Noem belongs in prison.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jun 12
A little more on RFK's new vaccine committee:

Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS

Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection

Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids

Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit

Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax
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Devon Hjelm @devhje.bsky.social · Jun 12
Just be prepared: some reviewers will say things like “this is obvious” or “this is known”.
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Devon Hjelm @devhje.bsky.social · Jun 9
How can one advocate for state rights, gun rights to protect against abuses of the federal government, and personal freedom at the same time be pleased with the federal government’s response in LA?

There are a few words that come to mind.
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Devon Hjelm @devhje.bsky.social · Jun 9
The problem with deregulation in the US is it’s almost always paired with zealous free market ideology, which assumes that greed is good quality, and that when paired with competition it will yield benefit on the masses.

So it’s really really important that it’s done with the right mindset.
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Devon Hjelm @devhje.bsky.social · Jun 9
BTW it’s worth looking at efforts in other countries to tackle locality challenges, e.g. JR in Japan. In that case privatization came paired with public service mandates, including a regulated base fare that ensures a degree of equity.

But in the US, the main idea is to “free the market”.
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Devon Hjelm @devhje.bsky.social · Jun 9
Well, to loop back to my point: the people thinking about public benefit and wealth inequality are thinking of specifically good domains.

The people who aren’t are the issue, and they’re driving policy.

If it was paired with a wealth equity philosophy, I’m sure deregulation would be fine mostly.
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Devon Hjelm @devhje.bsky.social · Jun 9
Sure. The issue isn’t that there aren’t good reasons to deregulate. The problem is that the bad reasons are really really bad and mostly involve making a killing by harming the public for generations.
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Devon Hjelm @devhje.bsky.social · Jun 9
For example, it would be great to have an automated, *equitable* self driving framework for transportation, and regulation could play a role in slowing this down. But it’s pretty obvious to me that this isn’t the purpose of current efforts to deregulate self driving technology.
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Devon Hjelm @devhje.bsky.social · Jun 9
It’s definitely worth being cognizant of the purpose of deregulation: is it to benefit the public (most to all of us) or to increase profits? One should be forgiven in the US to be distrustful of these efforts.

Privatization / regulation isn’t always bad mind you, and I get the frustration.
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