boterham

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Classrooms full of kids murdered, but the only time America starts a national conversation about “turning back from violence” is when an old white guy gets a bit of blood on his ear.

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"I am planing to build a city on Mars!" - guy who makes a truck you can't leave outside when it rains

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if we put waffle house in charge of fema you could halve recovery times

Apparently Texans are using the Whataburger App to figure out what areas have power because it is showing which of its stores have power- while none of the power companies are showing this… and have we considered just letting them be president?

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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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it’s so funny how in America you call it an elevator but in the UK it’s a lift and also when a candidate loses they concede

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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵

“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear. In a nutshell, NO. We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb! #canadaday

Canada’s Changing Climate Reportchangingclimate.ca

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wow who would have thought Biden accepting and pushing fascist immigration policy would lead to more blatant xenophobia from Democrats! /s

Something real bad is happening over on Twitter holy shit. I just saw some real bad tweets about immigrants from folks I had previously thought were anti-racist progressives

The #NYT looking to dominate "r/SelfAwarewolves" with this take.

It’s easier to write with clarity about other countries. From NYT on French results: www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/w...

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on the very day the Supreme Court's conservatives said 'we know best' and put themselves in charge of complicated agency decisions one of the geniuses confused nitrous oxide and nitrogen oxide. So they had to have a do over. Not exactly an auspicious start. www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

Supreme Court Corrects EPA Opinion After Gorsuch Confuses Laughing Gas With Air Pollutantwww.forbes.com The error came in an opinion blocking an EPA policy meant to improve air pollution.

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the erasure of 20+ years of news stories here is yet another sign that future generations will have much richer knowledge of the 1930s than they will the GW Bush and Obama years. The wayback machine is carrying a lot of weight these days. If that goes, adios: variety.com/2024/digital...

MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offlinevariety.com The website of the already-defunct MTV News has been fully pulled offline.

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What the fuck is wrong with this company? It's time to go to war with these fucking assholes like we mean it.

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati: “Some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place if the content that comes out of it is not very high quality.”

Roundup: OpenAI says some artistic jobs shouldn’t existdisconnect.blog Read to the end for a good overview of failing social media platforms

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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

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I put tennis balls out on the patio to see if the baby raccoons would play with them and...

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Again, dude is collecting billions in subsidies while running a campaign against the government.

I talk to officials from a different town or city every single week for work, and they all tell me the $42 billion in broadband funding in the infrastructure bill (just now winding its way to states) will be transformative

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My fortune cookie had an ad for napster in it. This is hands down the worst time to be alive

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“It costs hundreds of millions of dollars to train these models…So there is deep pressure from companies — that are basically promising God and delivering email prompts — to make some return on investment in this technology."

Signal's Meredith Whittaker sees AI as another big data grabwww.axios.com The "surveillance business model" is using AI to expand its reach, the privacy expert says.

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Google image search for basically any female celebrity returns AI results on the first page, some of them lead directly to nonconsensual porn: www.404media.co/google-image...

AI Images in Google Search Results Have Opened a Portal to Hellwww.404media.co Google image search results are turning up AI-generated images of celebrities and leading users to sites that host AI-generated nudes celebrities made to look like children.

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i want to talk about this for a sec without flooding anyone else’s mentions, but it’s indicative of a lot of stuff i am seeing in both self-published blogs and actual tech coverage that i find frustrating. unwise thread to follow.

AI can't fix everything automation already brokewww.bloodinthemachine.com Generative AI is the latest in a long line of technologies that promise innovation and fixes but grind away at public life

A glimpse into the future. OP: fosstodon.org/@chrisg/1112...

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Great piece by @noupside.bsky.social (who's new book is excellent) responding to the nonsense cinematic universe created by the Twitter Files Boys, in which she is apparently some sort of CIA censorship mastermind. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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A Bluesky screenshot with the beginnings of some serious jpeg artifacting posted to reddit. We are at the dawning of a new age. @iboudreau.bsky.social

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I felt this in my fucking soul

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holy SHIT John Oliver

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I don’t think the people still out there boosting AI as a world-changing technology really get how many people think this is just one more shitty idea with huge downsides.

If you live in #Germany, #Italy, or #Greece, vote for #MERA25 candidates in the European Elections! #Ελλάς #Ελλάδα #Deutschland #Italia #euelections2024 #diem25

Today, #ANTIFA had a meeting in #Normandy (not OP)

Mikael Branting 🇸🇪 (@[email protected])social.spejset.org Attached: 1 image Today, ANTIFA had a meeting in Normandy #normandylanding

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Signal’s @meredithmeredith.bsky.social with an excellent response to tech bros complaining that regulation impedes innovation. techcrunch.com/2024/05/24/s...

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Wilhoit’s Law: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

The Governor who oversaw the reversal of a referendum to restore felon voting rights and created a police force to ensure they could not vote has a different standard for one particular felons