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Rich Burroughs

@richburroughs.dev

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ADHD, tech, Arsenal, lots of bitching about AI. Good posts guaranteed* *Thursdays from 3-4:30 PM.

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Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 15d

Typography friends, what’s the best font to use for my “It’s Too Much Liquid” chest tattoo?

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Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 2m

They get so much free press for their bullshit.

Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 2m

That part about people not listening to them is super funny.

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Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 5m

I’m so excited for you all in NYC.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 8m

You won’t be surprised to hear the next mayor of NYC @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social did an amazing job crainsnewyork business leaders breakfast. He is going to be a visionary mayor- the leader we need.

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Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 7m

Roll a d20.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 20m

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 9m

Honestly I could believe that these guys are so detached from the impact of what they do on people that he hadn’t considered this super obvious thing. I could equally believe that he is just lying.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12m

I think its exactly the opposite: it is very unlikely Altman or OpenAI did not anticipate blowback, they just hoped it would be insignificant enough for them to ignore.

In response to a question about why OpenAI changed its policy, Altman said that it came from speaking with stakeholders and suggested he hadn’t expected the outcry.

“I think the theory of what it was going to feel like to people, and then actually seeing the thing, people had different responses,” Altman said. “It felt more different to images than people expected.”

Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 11m

I’m not a professional, just a guy who has seen some music videos.

Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 13m

He’s the best.

Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 15m

LOL did he call them like, “I’m not Tom. I’m a big boy named Thomas.”

Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 16m

Maybe you can spin in a circle so it flies out in all directions for several hours?

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 19h

Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

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🎃spooky chey👻 @cheygoulet.bsky.social · 2h

23 days until Halloween 🎃

Opossum in a strawberry-themed costume.

Instagram: avec.possum

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 32m

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Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 25m

Amazing

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 31m

It happened. Last night I was feeling despair about a lot of different things and I realized I needed to enlist my dog’s help to make me feel better.

I present to you Maggie the Pug as Cher Pugowitz.

Maggie the Pug is majorly, totally, butt crazy in love with Josh. She’s wearing Cher’s classic yellow plaid ensemble.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 29m

😤

It's the Anakin Padme meme. Anakin is now a smoke detector saying I don't have enough energy to tell u if there's a fire. Padme happily asks So u don't have enough energy to make a shill loud beep every minute for years? Then she looks worried, and asks again: U don't have the energy to make a shill loud beep every minute for years, right? To which Anakin the smoke detector replies BEEP

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 31m

Crazy Arsenal stat: the team has played 10 games in all competitions and only allowed 3 goals in, and just 1 from open play. 1 was that brilliant free kick by Szoboszlai.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1h

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 2h

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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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 1h

Oh 🫠 okay 🫠

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Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · Aug 24

dunk tanks > think tanks

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Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 14h

Ironically I think the “we built a decentralized service so you can go elsewhere if we turn into assholes” idea underlying Bluesky may have encouraged them to turn into assholes. Maybe it’s a chicken/egg question.

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Inkling @printinkling.bsky.social · Apr 15

We quality checked THREE THOUSAND stickers by hand this morning

I've had actually conversations with every single person who has ever ordered stickers from us.

We care about the quality of clients receive, not how cheap we can make them.

But go off about your robots, Donkey Show 💀

Sticker Mule CEO fires workers, touts robots: ‘Automate, automate, automate’

CEO Anthony Constantino says the company has installed 250 robots at production sites in past two years

www.timesunion.com

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