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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 2h

Agree: motivated reasoning plays a role. Also, I don't have current numbers but it used to be that half of software developers had less than five years' experience. Being older doesn't automatically give you better judgment or morals, but you're more likely to have seen cautionary tales.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 2h

It's amazing that people who make television programs understand that better than people who make software.

It's ironic, because people who make software think they know more about other industries than people in those industries, but they don't even understand their own.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 2h

As I've said before, no software should be released without asking "what's the worst thing that someone can do with this technology?" and it's totally believable that never occurred to anyone at OpenAI.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 3h

‘“For this movie to make any sense at all, one has to believe the United States, today, right now, is a fascist dictatorship,” wrote David Marcus at Fox News.’

Damn, this movie must make a lot of sense.

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 2h

Our grandchildren will have a hard time believing this.

They'll have a hard time believing that at some point they weren't fascist, I mean.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2h

Once upon a time, the social media accounts of federal agencies weren't a stream of fascist, white nationalist garbage interlaced with whiny culture-war posts. Earlier this year, even!

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 2h

Gift link:

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 3h

For Magas, the litmus test for whether someone’s “true clergy” is if their primary work is preserving whiteness.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 3h

tbf, this really is something that Magas would crap their pants over.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 7h

"The CNN anchor did not explain how he verified that it was the president — not any of his aides — who authored the written responses to his questions."

How the fuck does Jake tapper still have a job??

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Jake Tapper did a whole interview with Trump by text message? Which means he can't actually confirm it was him. And now everyone's asking even more than before very reasonable questions about the wannabe dictator's health.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The CNN anchor did not explain how he verified that it was the president — not any of his aides — who authored the written responses to his questions.

He also did not explain whether he’d made any effort to speak with the president by phone, something that has become commonplace for reporters covering the second Trump administration because Trump has maintained use of his personal mobile phone since returning to the presidency and frequently uses it to contact reporters directly.

The president’s purported text message exchange with Tapper was also unusual because Trump is not known to be a frequent user of his phone’s text message capacity.

He also famously eschews email and other written forms of communication and during his first term he openly complained when attorneys working for his administration took notes during meetings.

Trump’s unconventional use of text-based communications to purportedly respond to Tapper comes as questions continue to swirl about the state of his health

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 15h

And the craziest thing about that video is I think they shot and released it themselves. They thought people were going to see it and think we definitely needed to send in troops.

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 15h

I think more people should be aware of how much cool stuff Link does in real life. He’s not just a poster.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 15h

No fair peeking, either.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 15h

peter griffin from family guy is sitting at a desk in front of a sign that says `` what really grinds my gears ''

Alt: peter griffin from family guy is sitting at a news desk saying wanna know what really grinds my gears!

media.tenor.com

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 15h

I spend some time in online Maga spaces, and many (most?) of them sincerely believe that Portland is a war zone. They really imagine it looks like the Battle of Berlin or the opening of The Terminator.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

When a conservative president loses the country stars, that ain't good.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

👂LISTEN — (U.S. Navy veteran) country Singer Zach Bryan’s lyrics about ICE that triggered the White House

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 18h

I don't know about all engineering disciplines, but in the case of the shuttle, the margin wasn't for "it can fail this much," it was for "if it fails, this safety margin prevents a catastrophe."

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 18h

This reminds me of the Challenger disaster: the O-rings had a safety margin in case of erosion by hot exhaust gas. On several flights leading up to the disaster, they observed erosion, but thought it was ok because it was within the margin. In reality, *any* erosion was failure.

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 18h

dawg look at my space company CEO

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.... how do you have zero understanding of the concept of 'safety margin'
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So they overbuilt it by 426%. That’s just extra cost and extra mass. x.com/toughsf/status…
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So would you say the bridge is overbuilt for what it was designed for?

That’s not the wrong choice, but that choice does add cost.
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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 19h

tbf, it could probably apply to almost anyone involved in the current administration.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 19h

I saw that earlier today and thought about clicking it, but only to see if it was sarcasm.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 19h

You're in in 30 seconds so I'll neither confirm nor deny until others have their fun 😹

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 19h

No spoiler, but I knew who this referred to without clicking to see the post it was in reply to. Reply with guesses, no fair peaking.

Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 1d

Literally his whole personality is "pretty girls not like me in high school"

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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 20h

As an added bonus, ICE agents "also get to throw libs to the ground too."

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 22h

Solidarity with Mark ✊

Far-right harassment of academics has long been a problem across countries. Many legacy media ignore, minimize, or even facilitate it. #NoPaseran

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 1d

Well, there's "I know my spouse has some interesting political beliefs" and then there's "I know my spouse would void our marriage for ten grand."

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