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Sam Turner

@renrut-mas.bsky.social

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Big beardy nerd full of cake and mathematics. ML is magic. LLMs are flimflam. "A squalid experiment in open borders." "Doctor Hitler Apologist"

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Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 8d

Oh the evangelicals are unhappy? Bring me Michelangelo's pieta and some frankincense lube.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 3h

You're just going to run that bullshit unchallenged? Couldn't you afford a journalist for this one?

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Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 7h

I'm not suggesting we stop at the minimum.

Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 7h

How many of these fascist Epstein paedophiles would we need to flay before the others fall in line and give up their stolen assets?

Wilson Dizard III @wpd3.bsky.social · 11h

[Excerpt:] Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg & critics of tech or AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that linked government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 8h

They're at the "wait ... is the leader just in it for the money?" stage of a cult.

Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 9h

He didn't win it for anything he did as president. He won it for what he did as a senator. What in the fuck kind of education do you receive over there?

Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 11h

Is this dickweed still digging his hole? Jesus. No wonder he can't get a proper job.

Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 13h

a pile of gold coins in a box with one coin that says ' a ' on it

ALT: a pile of gold coins in a box with one coin that says ' a ' on it

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Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 13h

I'm intrigued how US tech firms even knew where to buy these magnets and other Elements that China quietly amassed.

Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 14h

A huge wall of text that compresses down to "I have absolutely no fucking idea what a REE is or why we currently buy them from China"

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

Trump on China: “We have been contacted by other Countries who are extremely angry at this great Trade hostility, which came out of nowhere.”

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Some very strange things are happening in China! They are becoming very hostile, and sending letters to Countries throughout the World, that they want to impose Export Controls on each and every element of production having to do with Rare Earths, and virtually anything else they can think of, even if it's not manufactured in China. Nobody has ever seen anything like this but, essentially, it would "clog" the Markets, and make life difficult for virtually every Country in the World, especially for China.
We have been contacted by other Countries who are extremely angry at this great Trade hostility, which came out of nowhere. Our relationship with China over the past six months has been a very good one, thereby making this move on Trade an even more surprising one. I have always felt that they've been lying in wait, and now, as usual, l have been proven right! There is no way that China should be allowed to hold the World
"captive," but that seems to have been their plan for quite some time, starting with the "Magnets" and, other Elements that they have quietly amassed into somewhat of a Monopoly position, a rather sinister and hostile move, to say the least. But the U.S. has Monopoly positions also,

Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 14h

He has absolutely no fucking idea what a rare earth element is or why China is a global supplier, does he? These are the ramblings of a moron.

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Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 14h

Perhaps they should have hired competent devs in the first place if they're currently running at 20%

Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 14h

There's a lot of pension money either directly in tech stock or indirectly via US stock and a collapsing dollar.