Thomas A. Fink

@thomasafink.bsky.social

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nerd • amateur geopol • astro • #design • devops software engineering • data science • neural networks • fiat enthusiast • occasional shitposting • Luv birbs🦜🇺🇸🇪🇺

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Young men need successful and empathetic men to talk to them. Unfortunately the grifters charlatans and gurus are the loudest in the online information sphere. Many young men have guns as a hobby. Young men are uneducated, reckless and goofy. They certainly shouldn’t have access to weapons of war.

"Truly, from the bottom of my heart, thank you." — An AR-15

It’s An Honor To Continue Being Valued Over Countless Human Liveswww.theonion.com Look, I’m not the type who needs constant validation, and I have never sought preferential treatment from anyone. I just try to focus on doing what I do and not get too caught up in what people think ...

America's story could have been vastly different. We might have developed a culture much richer in empathy, but instead, we let cruelty prevail and resonate unanswered, now tearing ever deeper at the fabric of our friendships, families, and institutions, leaving us deep anxiety.

"Violence stalks the president who has rejoiced in violence to others" From @davidfrum h/t: @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The differences between Bloomberg TV and CNBC are like a frozen planet and the sun. One is asking questions about policy, outcomes, doubts, etc. The latter is full MAGA.

Small caps could easily clear out the highs from the previous cycle here.. 🔥

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To be clear, republicans tried to kidnap Michigan governor, to torture and kill her, they laughed when Pelosi’s husband was attacked… there’s plenty more

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So this is bad. www.cnn.com/2024/07/12/b...

Nearly all AT&T cell customers’ call and text records exposed in a massive breach | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com The call and text message records of hundreds of millions of AT&T cellphone customers in mid-to-late 2022 were exposed in a massive data breach, the telecom company revealed Friday.

Can’t from the good of my soul support that site any longer.

Twitter is deleted forever..

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The answer to political anxiety is political organizing.

Old enough to remember when we thought the War Powers Resolution was still too much executive power.

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Jailing people for being homeless is a classic American policy: stupid, brutal, and very expensive.

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It’s a great day to start huffing paint

*SUPREME COURT BACKS JAN. 6 DEFENDANT, CURBING USE OF ENRON LAW No decision link yet, just the headline for now

I can’t believe Europeans have done virtually nothing to prepare for this.

President Joe Biden bet that a debate with Republican Donald Trump would boost his moribund reelection campaign. His gamble failed.

Biden’s Disastrous Debate Accelerates Doubts Over His Candidacywww.bloomberg.com President Joe Biden bet that a debate with Republican Donald Trump would boost his moribund reelection campaign. His gamble failed.

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I just dumped twitter. Couldn't handle it any more.

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This is probably a sign of my steadily increasing age, but one of the great adult feelings is showing up to the grocery store and seeing that it is way less busy than you expected

A utopian world where ai becomes your new apathetic boss.

"prompt engineer" is a wonderfully blockable pair of words in a bsky bio

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told you the AI grifters were running out of uncontaminated data and the hallucinations are getting worse apnews.com/article/meta...

Meta's newest AI model beats some peers. But its amped-up AI agents are confusing Facebook usersapnews.com Generative AI is advancing so quickly that the latest chatbots available today could be out of date tomorrow.

So many promised to raise their voice have failed to utter a single word. The greatest disappointment has been the silence of those with the power to shape moral clarity. Leaders not so much in courage.

President Biden on Tuesday blamed Republicans’ fear of their 2024 front-runner, Donald Trump, for thwarting a bipartisan immigration agreement. Biden called on congressional Republicans to “show some spine.”

Biden Tells Congress to ‘Show Some Spine’ Against Trump on Border Dealwww.nytimes.com President Biden blamed Republicans’ fear of their 2024 front-runner, Donald Trump, for thwarting the legislation.

Are we going to let the agitators and grifters sack one institution after another? @anneapplebaum.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?featur...

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Altogether, the exercise reinforced my previous opinion: LLMs are terrible writers, but decent editorial rubber ducks. www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/...

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#opensource Software is an important pillar for us at the City of Munich. As of today, our IT service provider it@M is an official sponsor of the OSS framework @vuejs.bsky.social

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Whenever you see a crypto headline that says “x to do y” check on it in a year and 95% of the time x did not do y

In an era of institutional crisis data privacy and trust really are important.

In most instances, what you really need is a straightforward i18n translation, not a chatbot. However, chatbots are the hot new thing and tend to burn through budgets quickly.

Just keep coding..

Should be barred from share buybacks until they’ve invested in their rail and locomotives. Regulatory standards should be raised, but they lobby against them. Broken system. $NSC www.justice.gov/opa/pr/unite...

What the deuce.. not creepy at all

This gets crazier and crazier: Sam Altman actually messaged Scarlett Johansson multiple times to ask if they could license her *actual voice* for their GPT-4o chatbot and when she said no, they hired a soundalike to do a ScarJo impression instead. www.thewrap.com/scarlett-joh...

Scarlett Johansson Shocked ChatGPT Seemingly Used Her Voicewww.thewrap.com Scarlett Johansson was "shocked" after ChatGPT created an AI voice that sounded "eerily" like her after she declined to voice it herself

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Oh – and people are collecting screenshots of ChatGPT saying that Sam Altman has no sister

reminder that Sam Altman’s sister Annie has publicly stated he abused her when he was 13 and she was 4 *mysteriously* her story has failed to gain traction. Lots of men online have called her a liar and a clout chaser tho!