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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 10h

Apropos of nothing at all, a cool thing about TN work authorization is that every time you enter the country they stamp your passport and write the name of the employer under the stamp.

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 16h

Working in the US on a TN (explicitly non-immigrant) visa was great. Had a couple of "so I'm a migrant worker..." opportunities in response to people thinking I was a willing audience for their rant about migrant workers.

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 16h

The turning radius is necessary so that vehicles with long wheelbases (buses, trucks) can use the roundabout. For a small residential street you can just say "we don't accommodate those" but on an arterial like Parkside you do need to support buses and light trucks.

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 1d

broke: Obama staffers thinking the government is The West Wing
woke: Terrible opinion editors thinking television journalism is The Newsroom

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 3d

But idk, I’m barely beyond a layperson at this point. I still need to remind myself that they don’t use sigmoid activation functions anymore.

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 3d

(2) “we don’t know how the observed behaviour emerges from those mechanisms”. The person you’re quoting is I think referring to (1), which is an increasingly common misconception among laypeople. That misconception seems to lead layperson dogmatic skeptics to reject (2) as well.

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 3d

I think there’s a genuine terminology problem here. Just this morning I’ve seen people say “we don’t know what happens inside the LLM”, which is false. When we say “we don’t know how it works” it variably implies (1) “we do not know the mechanisms that are involved” or /

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 8d

I would simply not post my exhaustive list of 'artistically good' video games if Disco Elysium (admittedly goated) was the only non-AAA game I'd ever played. Fallout NV isn't even the only 'artistically good' game from that studio + director.

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 9d

im thinking…

disco elysium
half life 2
bioshock
fallout nv
rdr2
….
end of list?

Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 8d

Maybe I'm missing something here, but it's not clear to me what regulator has the ability to say no here even if they were so inclined. There's no market consolidation, they're paying a premium over the stock ATH, and the Saudis are generally not prohibited from owning US firms.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8d

FT: Several people said they expected the transaction to go through fairly easily.

“.. What regulator is going to say no to the president’s son-in-law?" 🤡

@financialtimes.com $EA
www.ft.com/content/61ce...

How Jared Kushner brokered the $55bn takeover of Electronic Arts

Trump’s son-in-law used deep ties in Saudi Arabia to help pull off the largest buyout

www.ft.com

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah I'm something of an alpha male myself: feature-incomplete and bug-ridden.

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Tolarian Community College @tolariancommunitycollege.com · 9d

The Ultimate Pauper Showdown!

It's Andrea Mengucci vs @gavinverhey.bsky.social vs @themaverickgirl.bsky.social!

Check out Shuffle Up & Play 88 right here, right now: youtu.be/SCWMs8JdoAM

#MagicTheGathering

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 9d

hell yes, love Tolarian pauper content.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 9d

You would think the obvious solution to "the volunteer-powered project we all train our AI models on for free isn't adequately twisting reality to our political views" would be "... and so we stopped training on it" and not "... and so we will force the volunteers to bend to our will"

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 9d

tired: it's always DNS

inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

(that williams' "evidence" is easily dismissed by just looking a little closer is typical though)

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Jennifer 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · Aug 21

"moby dick" is how fans shorten the title it's actualy mobile suit richard

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 13d

Great news, the Build Canada dorks are now trying to tell you what your position on federal bills should be, using AI that seems to break regularly and produce inconsistent results for near-identical bills (Hellenic Heritage Month is neutral, but Albanian Heritage Month should be voted against?)

Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 13d

ah, the author is on bluesky! @nickhunebrown.bsky.social thanks for a wonderful bit of local journalism.

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Max Anderson @maxanderson.bsky.social · 13d

The headline that we're heavily subsidizing the horse racing industry is eye-catching, but this whole piece is well worth reading. A really thoughtful, in depth look at the industry from someone with a personal connection to it. @thelocal.to rules.
thelocal.to/breakdown-at...

Breakdown at the Racetrack | The Local

Once a lucrative gambling business, Ontario's horse racing industry is now heavily subsidized by the government. As gamblers turn to online gaming, and ideas about animal welfare shift, a cluster of f...

thelocal.to

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 14d

Sometimes you read an article that makes you feel like... idk... 15 years ago, some of us got on an express train and saw what was on the tracks ahead. And now we're on a call to the people on the slower train, now approaching, and they cannot comprehend the landscapes we describe as familiar.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 14d

ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me.

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

The ICE Shooter’s Motive

Joshua Jahn's friends speak

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 14d

CHOTINER: And when was that?
MY CAT: I mean at least 14 hours ago
CHOTINER: Well hold on. You're telling me you haven't been fed at all today but if I look in your bowl here I see a-
MY CAT: An untouched serving, I know, but if you'd let me finish-
CHOTINER: Yeah, of course.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 15d

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called?

ME: Slay the Spire.

CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?

ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.

CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?

ME: Now hold on a second,

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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 15d

What if every video game had Hangman Adam Page as the protagonist? What then? The gaming industry would be saved, that's what

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15d

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