Luke VanderHart

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This Westworld casting is absolutely top notch.

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every day I feel like I'm losing my mind as people look at a statistically tied race where one guy is a felon with deeply unpopular positions who ALREADY LOST THIS EXACT RACE and are like "he is 100% for sure going to win"

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Please note the wildly incorrect polling in France. No matter what the cacophony of pundits keep saying, polls are not predictive, and are never the end of the story. Organizing, volunteering, engaging in conversation, and direct action are effective tools. Let's use them here too.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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NPR

That's a pretty big disconnect. A due date can be got wrong... but reporting he actually reported...?

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Shiv Ramdas

As someone with (regrettably) the same ancestry as this dude, and a figure that trends in that direction if I don't keep on top of it... His physical shape is the least unattractive thing about him.

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It would be super cool if the tech media would simply stop credulously repeating every value-juicing statement C-Suites make like they’re the in-house PR department. The only difference between these hollow promises and the guy crying, “The end is near!” on the street corner is funding.

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Dan Davis

Not ones that can handle the ambiguities of natural language well.

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John Scalzi

As a software developer, I'm pretty keen on using them to build systems that can handle a level of ambiguity and fuzziness. That's a pretty cool new capability that computers haven't had until now. Anyone who expects me to read LLM-generated prose can die in a fire.

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code's haunted

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Rose Hayes

Look that makes sense, but from a Tolkien lore POV every single character had a much longer-than-the-average-human lifespan.

In other words I don’t think that prospect was unalluring to Tolkien. It was the mechanisms to obtain it.

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Also thinking about how there’s a billionaire Tolkien fan who names all his stuff after Tolkien things, and wants to extend his life unnaturally and funds weapons and the surveillance and centralized/corporatized authoritarian control

But definitely withholding a vote for Biden will Teach Dems an Important Lesson.

I somehow totally missed this NYmag story about Miriam Adelson's price tag for supporting cash-strapped Trump: Support for West Bank annexation. And it sounds like she might get her asking price. nymag.com/intelligence...

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Randall Munroe

If you add a "fun to operate" axis, hot air balloons make a little more sense. And motorcycles become the clear winner 🙂

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No other nation has ever prosecuted a former leader, except for about half of them, so you can see why this is so outrageous.

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From LinkedIn; it’s what we’ve all been thinking. No strategy, just a panic to be first to market. For a product category next-to-no end user even wants!

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As far as I'm concerned, Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig can keep making Benoit Blanc Mysteries until he's up there with Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, you know? We need at least 5 of these. 8 to 10 would be divine.

If more software people had a background in philosophy, not only would we have far fewer tech-caused social problems, but we'd also have far better and more capable systems.

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Luke VanderHart

I work on climate professionally. Django is right.

Look. I care about climate change a lot. I'm close to a single-issue voter on the subject! But we have GOT to stop worrying about what are, in the scheme of things, rounding errors. I hate, hate, hate this kind of personal-responsibility climate stuff, it's deeply counterproductive.

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Kristy Koth

The trend has been underway since the industrial revolution. Technology lets us produce more value with less effort. Without UBI, the benefits of that accrue only to owners, not workers. If the benefits of technology were evenly distributed we would all be working 10 hour weeks already.

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Mr. Am I Being Detained

I mean if he’s coming out as advocating for UBI, sure. I’m all about that luxury automated communism. Somehow I doubt that though.

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Nato (Nate Orshan)

Optimistically, It's possible that this is the beginning of the end of social media. Once the field is completely flooded, people might finally begin to abandon it. Optimistically.

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People who were repeatedly vaccinated for COVID-19 — initially receiving shots aimed at the original variant, followed by boosters and updated vaccines targeting variants — generated antibodies capable of neutralizing a wide range of SARS-CoV-2 variants and even some distantly related coronaviruses.

Repeat COVID-19 vaccinations elicit antibodies that neutralize variants, other viruses | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louismedicine.wustl.edu Response to updated vaccine is shaped by earlier vaccines yet generates broadly neutralizing antibodies

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cait

This doesn't even make sense according to his own (incorrect) premises. If you're going to chop down the forests, you may as well build something useful with the wood, which would sequester it even better than the ocean.

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Ian Coldwater 📦💥

I mean I'm excited about it as a tool for building systems that can automatically translate between structured and unstructured data. As *language models*, I think they're pretty neat. I totally agree with you with respect to calling it "AI" and shoving generated text in human's faces.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin

I wouldn't even credit them with being beliefs. I see these people as having taken sides in a cultural conflict, and they are happy to use "free speech" as a bludgeon for their cultural opponents. But I'm not sure they ever believed in it for its own sake.

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Molly White

This makes no goddamn sense even from a purely technical perspective.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky

Previously I'd have said no, but what with some of the adaptations that have come out since Christopher passed, who knows? Shoot your shot. I'd totally read a "Heirs of Shelob" trilogy.

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Luke VanderHart

Oh this is a way better way of putting it:

the energy i try to bring the skyline, despite my intentions