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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

#WarRavagedPortland

Mark Madsen @markmadsen.bsky.social · 8h

I rediscovered Duck's Breath Mystery Theater today and it applies to software & AI.
a) Was your product built by somebody who studied how to build it or better yet has built something like it before?
b) Was it tested by someone who doesn't own stock in the company?
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Mark Madsen @markmadsen.bsky.social · 9h

Found.
Installed.
Typefesse is on github

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Mark Madsen @markmadsen.bsky.social · 9h

De nada. We are already the walking dead. There is no risk.

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Mark Madsen @markmadsen.bsky.social · 9h

Happy to send you cites as I find them, although mostly my focus is on studies looking critically at specific use cases that relate to decision making aids or automation.
Most of what was published on that topic years ago is still 100% applicable, i find.
There are so useful non-llm cases

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Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen @wikisteff.bsky.social · 11h

I love these polls.

I would be interested to see the polling on the usage of the Gulf of Mexico, since we're doing newspeak here.

YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 11h

A stacked bar chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Most Americans still call it the Department of Defense rather than War — including a majority of Republicans."

The chart has the sub-headline: "When thinking about the part of the government that handles the military, are you more likely to refer to it as the...? (%)."

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15h

People should stop calling it 'tactical gear', because fascists like that, and it suggests they actually use it for something.

From now on, it should be referred to as 'Emotional Support Clothing'.

#ICE #MAGA #FarRight

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 15h

See this?

This story is the sound of a bullet you didn’t even know was coming at you whistling past your right ear.

Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social · 18h

Germany will not support Chat Control - a law which proposes to scan all messages people send even on end-to-end encrypted platforms - Justice Minister said today. German stance likely dooms the measure. Signal had threatened to leave the EU if Chat Control became law
therecord.media/chat-control...

Germany will not support 'Chat Control' message scanning in the EU

“Random chat monitoring must be taboo in a constitutional state,” Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said as German officials signaled they will not vote for a controversial EU proposal known as ...

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Mark Madsen @markmadsen.bsky.social · 15h

United? They seem the most mercenary.

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Mark Madsen @markmadsen.bsky.social · 15h

Now when I search for PAM i’ll get three websites instead of two. And this one will probably look like the other two and I won’t notice when i buy tickets to something twice as often

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Alan Au @alanau.bsky.social · 15h

This is how "tech debt" happens.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17h

"You can just do things" is the rallying cry of wannabe "10× engineers" who ignore things like prioritization and maintainability to go off making cool shit. The team agenda becomes co-opted by one asshole creating problems everyone else needs to deal with, faster than they can deal with them.

Jay Owens @jayowens.bsky.social · 18h

As a principle, ‘You can just do things’ is both ‘broadly true, admirable, and helpful’ - and neoliberal, anti-social bullshit.

@jjvincent.bsky.social good on a phrase that's particularly buzzy in 9-9-6 grind Silicon Valley and EA communities.

thebaffler.com/latest/high-...

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Russia's disinformation campaign is now using deepfaked audio of Holocaust survivors to attack Armenia, in videos published on the 2nd anniversary of the Hamas October 7th attack on Israel.

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Mark Madsen @markmadsen.bsky.social · 1d

This vending machine watches in silence

A candy vending machine. For a quarter you can get either hydroxychloroquin, bleach pills, or ivermectin.

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 1d

STEPHEN MILLER: mark my words. terrorists will not reduce our great nation to ashes. we are ready, swords unsheathed, staring evil directly in the face as we reclaim what is rightfully ours

[camera cuts to man dressed as Dino from the Flintstones spanking a giant teddy bear with a rainbow dildo]

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 1d

If we pushed for this "unrealistic" stuff, even if we failed we'd get a lot better than we do now!

Dems act like they've never heard of the Overton Window.

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Mark Madsen @markmadsen.bsky.social · 1d

Re-animator (1985) is everything I had hoped it would be. I’m behind on horror films. Last year I was over 31 movies. This year I’m at number 3. I blame a certain political party and it’s billionaire owners for overstressing me

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Re-Animator (1985)

Re-Animator is a 1985 American comedy horror science fiction film loosely based on the H.P. Lovecraft episodic novella "Herbert West–Reanimator." Directed by Stuart Gordon and produced by Brian Yuzna,...

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Mark Madsen @markmadsen.bsky.social · 1d

Must find this font and install it

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Mark Madsen @markmadsen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t have that problem, but I can’t log in to microsoft email when traveling because it will only send a 2FA code to me via…email

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Mark Madsen @markmadsen.bsky.social · 1d

Scenes from #WarRavagedPortland
It’s apocalyptic out there. Specifically, the sparsely populated post-rapture streets. The terrifying trees.

A summer street scene, brick buildings, tree lined urban street, people walking in the sun

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Kaitlyn @kiixlyn.bsky.social · 15d

i took tylenol while i was autistic and now my son is pregnant

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

They believe they will never be out of power and relatedly, even if they eventually are, there will be no accountability.

Refusal to openly, credible, emphatically threaten them with it isn't just a failure on the principle of the matter for what should happen then. It worsens the situation now.

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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Mark Madsen @markmadsen.bsky.social · 1d

The government is shut down because of the last signature needed to release the epstein files.

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 1d

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

RT @meadwaj.bsky.social
Hilarious how quickly China has obliterated the “we can’t do anything about climate change because CHINA” argument
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

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Blanche Devereaux @gingerkap23.bsky.social · 1d

Miller oopsie doodled and said the quiet part out loud, talking about DT aka himself having “plenary authority”:

A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations

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