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Eric King
@virtualking.bsky.social
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Husband 👫, dad 👨, humanist, atheist, veteran, autodidact 📕, software developer, video gamer, desert dweller 🌵.

formerly of twitter @mr_eking
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As expected, the council was not interested in listening to the community they have pledged to serve. Motion to adopt the ordinance to remove DEI passes.
Image showing the vote tally for the motion removing all City DEI programs: Kwasman - Yes McAllen - No Whitehead - No Borowsky - Yes Littlefield - Yes Graham - Yes Dubauskas - Yes
February 12, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Motion to discuss the topic further with a work-study session, to find specific problems (if they exist) and address them specifically... fails.
Image showing the vote tally for a work-study: Kwasman - No McAllen - No Whitehead - Yes Borowsky - No Littlefield - No Graham - No Dubauskas - No
February 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Trump doesn't (cant?) understand that people can be altruistic; all he sees is through a veil of narcissism.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Excerpt from the Atlantic article "Trump and Musk Are Destroying the Basics of a Healthy Democracy": No one likes bureaucracies, even if they must acknowledge that modern states cannot function without them. But Trump’s contempt for government employees is not driven by some sort of noble, reformist instinct: He distrusts public service because he does not understand it. The president has a solipsistic and binary view of the world in which everything revolves around him, and other people either support him or oppose him. He is unable to comprehend the principle of an apolitical service that must obey the Constitution and the law over the wishes of Donald J. Trump. In Trump’s world, service—including military service—is for suckers and losers. Only saps forgo personal benefit and miss out on a chunky payday in order to be part of something bigger than themselves. The president and his MAGA allies, accordingly, have portrayed diligent government employees as schemers who are part of some nefarious ideological project. In a titanic act of projection, Trump has convinced millions of Americans that their fellow citizens are scammers just out for themselves.
February 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
virtualking.bsky.social
Scottsdale (AZ) city council going full-on MAGA 😞

Excerpt from the 2025-02-11 Council Meeting Agenda.
A portion of an upcoming City Council Meeting agenda. It reads: Merit-Based Employment and Discontinuation of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs Request: Adopt Ordinance No. 4662 to: 1. Ensure city employees are hired, evaluated, and promoted based on merit, protecting City of Scottsdale employees from unlawful and anti-meritocratic forms of discrimination, and ensuring that residents and taxpayers are served by the most qualified city employees. 2. Discontinue the use of city funds for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) systemic programming, to include the Office of DEI, DEI programming and trainings, and other initiatives that could arguably violate A.R.S. § 41-1494. Training and prevention of unlawful discrimination remains encouraged and shall continue. 3. Direct the City Manager, or designee, to reassign the Diversity Program Director and ADA/Title VI Compliance Coordinator to an appropriate department and position; reflect these changes in the city’s organizational chart; and make the necessary budget transfers and amendments necessary to carry out the intent of this Ordinance. Note: This item was added to the February 11, 2025 City Council Meeting agenda at the request of four or more members of the City Council. Return to In-Person Office Work Request: Adopt Resolution No. 13353 directing Charter Officers and the Presiding City Judge to consider all positions working remotely and develop a plan to return employees to work in a timely manner, at their discretion. Note: This item was added to the February 11, 2025 City Council Meeting agenda at the request of four or more members of the City Council.
February 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
virtualking.bsky.social
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was not exactly early to the party 🤣
Image showing that I was BlueSky user #3,984,443
September 17, 2024 at 1:01 AM
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Repost with a banger picture of your cat
A photo of a relaxed grey striped cat, laying on the arm of the couch, and staring at me because it's time to be fed.
August 31, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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What is this? Why would OpenAI take one of the worst aspects of the current models, LLMs training on data generated by LLMs, and automate it *on purpose*?

www.androidauthority.com/openai-straw...
Screenshot of a portion of the article, highlighting: "OpenAI has found that it can use the large version of Strawberry to generate higher-quality training data to feed into its LLMs. This training data generated from AI is known as “synthetic” data. With this synthetic data, it reduces the company’s need to use text and images from the internet to train its AI models."
August 28, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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Kinda ironic
A portion of a browser window showing the URL to Google Cloud's "State of DevOps" resource, with the content of the page reading "Service Unavailable" in large text
March 13, 2024 at 4:23 PM