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elfsternberg.bsky.social
Today I learned that the European Union has a "Senior Diplomat For Science." The current one is retiring soon, and in her retirement speech said, "The United States has taken to its leadership position in the sciences with a wrecking ball."

sciencebusiness.net/news/horizon...
US is ‘demolishing its scientific leadership with a wrecking ball,’ says chief EU research diplomat
In a parting shot before her retirement, the European Commission’s top science diplomat has castigated the US for destroying its reputation as a global scientific leader. Signe Ratso, who is in charge...
sciencebusiness.net
December 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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secondaryeducation.bsky.social
There's a bit in Benn Jordan's video about it where he reads the Flock corporate statement outlining that their cameras don't do that to an actual flock camera

youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo?...
This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
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December 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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mrmunchertoyou.bsky.social
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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woolie.meowmeow.city
I'd be more inclined to hear a talk by CrowdStrike about "We made Protobuf faster by using unsafe memory operations and trusting the caller" if they hadn't caused a global computer outage by using unsafe memory operations and trusting the caller. youtu.be/eWZ8pNMpqcU?...
December 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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pookleblinky.bsky.social
Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves

Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars

Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
jimnauer.bsky.social
The real problem with generative A.I., succinctly stated:
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
jimnauer.bsky.social
Best science/engineering-nerd video. EVAR.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0af...

I have been waiting 46 years for a view this detailed of a real nuclear reactor.
Refueling a NUCLEAR REACTOR - Smarter Every Day 311
YouTube video by SmarterEveryDay
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November 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
jimnauer.bsky.social
Randal Munroe with another absolute banger of a comic.
Having gone to school in the late 70s and 80s and learned nothing else, it boggles my mind that continental drift was that new.
xkcd.com/3159
Continents
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October 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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jeffstormer.gobirds.online
Everyone please diligently check your candy this year. I cracked open a snickers bar and not only did I find a copper ingot, but it was of poor quality.

Worse still, when my man Nanni confronted my neighbor about it, he was treated with disdain.
A snickers bar split open, with a JPEG of a copper ingot exposed in the middle
October 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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uhjustin.bsky.social
“With AI, you can be twice as productive with half the work!

Unrelated, we need you all to come in twice as much.”

Alarm bells are ringing, and not because things are going great.
October 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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erininthemorning.com
1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To
After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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devilstower.bsky.social
The party that hid racism and misogyny behind “state’s rights” for decades now has control of every branch of the federal government. They’re waging war on states in the name of racism and misogyny and laughing at the whole idea of state’s rights.
October 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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elfsternberg.bsky.social
I've never seen this administration:

• Feed the hungry
• Give water to the thirsty
• Clothe the naked
• Shelter the homeless
• Visit the imprisoned
• Welcome the stranger
• Comfort the widow
• Teach the orphan
• Ransom the captive
• Heal the ill

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Jim Garlow
Trump Administration the most OPENLY CHRISTIAN administration ever.
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October 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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elfsternberg.bsky.social
"If you don't test for COVID, there's not going to be any COVID." The Republican Administration said so back the first time around. So now they're upping the ante: "If you don't study hunger in America, nobody will be going hungry." apnews.com/article/trum...
After cuts to food stamps, Trump administration ends government's annual report on hunger in America
The Trump administration is ending the federal government’s annual report on hunger in America, saying it had become “overly politicized″ and ”rife with inaccuracies.″ The decision comes two and a hal...
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September 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
jimnauer.bsky.social
Beautifully crafted artisanal insults like this are the reason why Mr. Scalzi is a professional author, and I am not.
scalzi.com John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Sep 14
Got a COVID shot today because:

1. Book tour starts tomorrow and then I have events all through November;

2. Fuck RFK Jr, that worm-piloted pleather ballbag of pestilence and stupidity.

Get your COVID shots, folks (allowing for previous vaccine schedules and/or recent infection).
My arm, with bandaid hiding my injection site.
September 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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enbyxennial.bsky.social
"[T]he Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion..."

From the Treaty of Tripoli, signed by President (and Founding Father) John Adams and passed *unanimously* by the Senate in 1797.
September 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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eleanormorton.bsky.social
We Have AI Now

www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
We Have AI Now
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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August 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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edzitron.com
I am no longer accepting half-baked arguments. AI boosters are *losing* - they have weak arguments, weak beliefs, and weaker spirits, eagerly marketing ideas for the powerful.

Critics work harder, prove themselves in detail, and fight for the good of the user.
www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...
I Am No Longer Accepting Half-Baked Arguments If you are an AI booster, please come up with better arguments. And if you truly believe in this stuff, you should have a firmer grasp on why you do so. It's been three years, and the best some of you have is "it's real popular!" or "Uber burned a lot of money!" Your arguments are based on what you wish were true rather than what's actually true, and it's deeply embarrassing. Then again, there are many well-intentioned people who aren't necessarily AI boosters who repeat these arguments, regardless of how thinly-framed they are, in part because we live in a high-information, low-processing society where people tend to put great faith in people who are confident in what they say and sound smart. I also think the media is failing on a very basic level to realize that their fear of missing out or seeming stupid is being used against them. If you don't understand something, it's likely because the person you're reading or hearing it from doesn't either. If a company makes a promise and you don't understand how they'd deliver on it, it's their job to explain how, and your job to suggest it isn't plausible in clear and defined language. This has gone beyond simple "objectivity" into the realm of an outright failure of journalism. I have never seen more misinformation about the capabilities of a product in my entire career, and it's largely peddled by reporters who either don't know or have no interest in knowing what's actually possible, in part because all of their peers are saying the same nonsense. As things begin to collapse — and they sure look like they're collapsing, but I am not making any wild claims about "the bubble bursting" quite yet — it will look increasingly more deranged to bluntly publish everything that these companies say. Never have I seen an act of outright contempt more egregious than Sam Altman saying that GPT-5 was actually bad, and that GPT-6 will be even better. Members of the media: Sam Altman does not respect you. He is not your friend. He is not secretly confiding in you. He thinks you are stupid and easily-manipulated, and will print anything he says, largely in part because many members of the media will print exactly what he says whenever he says it. To be clear, if you wrote about it and actively mocked it, that's fine. But let's close by discussing the very nature of AI skepticism, and the so-called "void" between those who "hate" AI and those who "love" AI, from the perspective of one of the more prominent people in the "skeptic" side. Critics and skeptics are not given the benefit of grace, patience, or, in many cases, hospitality when it comes to their position. While they may receive interviews and opportunities to "give their side," it is always framed as the work of a firebrand, an outlier, somebody with dangerous ideas that they must eternally justify. They are demonized, their points under constant scrutiny, their allegiances and intentions constantly interrogated for some sort of moral or intellectual weakness. "Skeptic" and "critic" are words said with a sneer or trepidation — that the listener should be suspicious that this person isn't agreeing that AI is the most powerful, special thing ever. To not immediately fall in love with something that everybody is talking about is to be framed as a "hater," to have oneself introduced with the words "not everybody agrees..." on 40% of appearances. By comparison, AI boosters are the first to get TV appearances and offers to be on panels, their coverage featured prominently on Techmeme, selling slop-like books called shit like The Future Of Intelligence: Masters Of The Brain featuring 18 interviews with different CEOs that all say the same thing. They do not have to justify their love — they simply have to remember all the right terms, chirping out "test-time compute" and "the cost of inference is going down" enough times to summon Wario Amodei to give them a… I have consistent, deeply-sourced arguments that I've built on over the course of years. I didn't "become a hater" because I'm a "contrarian," I became a hater because the shit that these fucking oafs have done to the computer pisses me off. I wrote The Man Who Killed Google Search because I wanted to know why Google Search sucked. I wrote Sam Altman, Freed because at the time I didn't understand why everybody was so fucking enamoured with this damp sociopath. Everything I do comes from genuine curiosity and an overwhelming frustration with the state of technology. I started writing this newsletter with 300 subscribers and 60 views, and have written it as an exploration of subjects that grows as I write. I do not have it in me to pretend to be anything other than what I am, and if that is strange to you, well, I'm a strange man, but at least I'm an honest one. I do have a chip on my shoulder, in that I really do not like it when people try to make other people feel stupid, especially when they do so as a means of making money for themselves or somebody else. I write this stuff out because I have an intellectual interest, I like writing, and by writing, I am able to learn about and process my complex feelings about technology. I happen to do so in a manner that hundreds of thousands of people enjoy every month, and if you think that I've grown this by "being a hater," you are doing yourself the disservice of underestimating me, which I will use to my advantage by writing deeper, more meaningful, more insightful things than you. I have watched these pigs ruin the computer again and again, and make billions doing so, all while the media celebrates the destruction of things like Google, Facebook, and the fucking environment in pursuit of eternal growth. I cannot manufacture my disgust, nor can I manufacture whatever it is inside me that makes it impossible to keep quiet about the things I see. I don't know if I take this too seriously or not seriously enough, but I …
August 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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derfbackderf.bsky.social
Genius.
johnxuandou.bsky.social Dirk Diggler @johnxuandou.bsky.social · Aug 13
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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ass.golf
It’s unprofitable dogshit that doesn’t work, nobody wants, and makes everything actively worse??? But I’m not an Economist so what do I know
Fuck this AI shit
August 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
jimnauer.bsky.social
Bill Amend knocks one out of the park, on a bar napkin:
billamend.bsky.social Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · Aug 7
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
August 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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seamus.bsky.social
The person who wrote this simultaneously demonstrates a deep lack of understanding and also an extraordinary deficit of seriousness in a very remarkably small number of words.
bryantfrancis.me Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · Jul 29
This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...
Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation. After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.
July 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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faineg.bsky.social
oh my god it’s true
lojikul.bsky.social JP @lojikul.bsky.social · Jul 30
We are gonna have charts for AI slop exposure by generation like we do lead
July 30, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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meyerweb.com
Gizmodo misspelled “zampolit”. (I would also accept “politruk”.)
July 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM