Tom Thorogood

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I'm a mid-tier corporate nobody doing nothing for no one.

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These are bad things! The intermediary liability carveout for copyright is a bad thing! The DMCA is horribly abused and the legal system cannot handle, account for, or ameliorate the abuses! I do not want more FOSTA/SESTA or DMCA!

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go.dev/issue/66869 goes on my "parser alignment is impossible in the face of adversarial inputs" list. Always reencode. Always.

archive/zip: EOCDR comment length handling is inconsistent with other ZIP implementations · Issue #66869 · golang/gogo.dev This has been reported in email and accepted as a PUBLIC track security issue. Go version go version go1.22.2 linux/amd64 Output of go env in your module/workspace: GO111MODULE='' GOARCH='amd64' GO...

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Cursive Letters xkcd.com/2912

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also, to double down in the way you know me best for: "prompt engineering" is just chud-speak for getting around the issues LLMs have. like, GPT-3 should just be able to do math, why should i have to tell it it's a "brilliant mathematician who can solve any problem?" it's complete bullshit

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Fucking hell, elon just straight up explicitly agreeing with white supremacist stuff and then deleting it archive.is/7G9qH

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Mark Robinson has a long history of public comments about how Jews are greedy and they control the world. He suggested the Holocaust was "liberal media" propaganda and put "6 million Jews" in sneer quotes. But sure, "fiery outsider" with comments merely "perceived as antisemitic."

LEFT: NYT HEADLINE/SUBHED: Mark Robinson is a "fiery outsider" PARAGAPH 23 (OF 23 TOTAL): Oh by the way he's kinda Hitler-curious

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"Dopak said her married supervisor pressured her into having a sexual relationship that resulted in a pregnancy. He offered her $100,000 to have an abortion, which she declined, and then SpaceX allowed him to transfer $3.7 million in stock options out of his name to avoid paying child support" 🤢

SpaceX worker alleges severe sex bias, retaliation in U.S. lawsuitwww.cnbc.com The worker said her married supervisor pressured her into having a sexual relationship that resulted in a pregnancy.

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It's stuff like this that makes me think Biden is going to win reelection, deeply shocking a media establishment that's been trying to tank his presidency since he pulled troops out of Afghanistan

NYT: Biden “facing significant opposition,” 78-16. Trump “again coasting,” 65-31.

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Lawyer for Moody correctly spots that arguing with Roberts about a decision he authored is perhaps not the smartest tactical move

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the lawyer representing the state of TX just shouted "sir this is a wendy's" at the fucking supreme court of the united states

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the level of vitriol i've seen about this woman for the last 3 days is one of the more disturbing things i've seen grip this site

GUYS. What @taylorlorenz.bsky.social has endured in the past 72 hours is not okay. She did a fantastic job with her story and her interview and I am so proud of her! I came to know Taylor through working on her book - she is an extremely thoughtful, empathetic & careful journalist.

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Why isn’t AI doing the tedious shit for creative people instead of doing the creative shit for tedious people

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- Gary Provost

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tried drawing a dragon from memory

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The pace at which the media has rehabilitated almost every liar from the Trump era suggests there's some sort of competition among news outlets to catch them all like pokemon

Interestingly, "who" and "why" are the two questions I asked myself when I got this push notification

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If you want to know how the current leadership of the other site is doing, here's Linda Yaccarino with an excited reply to an account that is not Tracy Chapman retweeting obviously copyrighted video posted by a former revenge porn site operator

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Had a big old rage about the journalism and AI initiative Microsoft announced today--we simply have to stop falling for this aftermath.site/ai-journalis...

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This is what blows me away every time. There's no one who NEEDS predictive text machines. It's not curing cancer or feeding people or producing clean energy. It's just sucking up resources, convincing CEOs to fire humans who do better jobs than it can do, and allowing founders to siphon VC money

"will require a breakthrough energy source" my dude, it requires nothing because it doesn't need to exist. you WANT a breakthrough energy source to keep playing, and you can get in line behind the people who actually need it #comemierda

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So far it turns out the major use cases for generative AI appear to be non consensual porn, scams and spams. The people doing the bad things with it would not have been able to develop it from scratch. This is absolutely the responsibility of tech bros not caring about the harms that can be done

guy gets on a zoom with his cfo and several other coworkers he knows, gets told to transfer $200m hkd, does it, and then finds out everyone who he spoke to was a deepfake www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/a...

Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ | C...www.cnn.com A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call, ...

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if you ever feel bad about your abandoned side-projects, just remember that Google probably has more

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I'd like C-suites do normal bad stuff like this video, instead of comic-villain bad stuff

PaqRap - Compaq VPs, 1990www.youtube.com Here's Rod Canion and (most of) the original senior VPs for Compaq Computer Corporation, rapping(!) and acting goofy for the cameras in a music video, circa ...

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can't fund journalism or academia, but a racist c-tier comic can nab a quarter billion to pull uninformed gibberish out of his ass in three hour chunks nice heartwarming

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Billionaire board members feeling peer pressure to take drugs with Elon because if they don't they think Musk will be angry and cut them out of his companies and life. The world is so stupid.

Sources: some Tesla and SpaceX directors have consumed drugs with Elon Musk feeling there is an expectation to do so, raising concerns about their independence (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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This is going to sound more flip than I mean it, but when I was a kid I watched the Blues Brothers running Illinois Nazis off a bridge and the Nazis on Hogan's Heroes being pathetic dimwits every damn day, and I do feel like we need to get back to constant, vicious cultural ridicule of open racists.

The racists are just so unafraid right now.

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Yes, yes, love it, beautiful, keep up the good work darlings futurism.com/the-byte/ai-...

AI Companies Lose $190 Billion After Dismal Google Reportfuturism.com Reuters reports that AI-related companies lost $190 billion in stock market value on Tuesday following disappointing earnings reports.

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peter thiel continuing his streak of just being a cartoonishly evil man

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For fuck sake, writers, STOP USING AI ART. Stop using it on your book covers, stop using it in your book promos, stop using it to show what your OCs look like, stop using it as "inspiration," STOP USING IT. You want your artform respected, respect other artforms. There is no ethical use. None.

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Honestly, this is way cooler than the Vision Pro Vanity Fair cover