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Fernando Gallo
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'Wow, you know a lot about Batman' -a student;
Adviser to The State Hornet at Sac State. Cal/CSUS alum. Raiders/As/Kings #SellTheTeam #FisherOut #BruceMaxwell #Calgorithm
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fernandog.bsky.social
The hell you doing up there, pop pop
drewharwell.com Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Aug 5
Reporters shouted to ask what he was doing up there and he said he was "taking a little walk." He said something about the White House ballroom and made some gestures but it's not really making a ton of sense yet. Normal stuff
August 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
fernandog.bsky.social
I think about this all the time. I was convinced I would eventually get lost in the Bermuda Triangle
August 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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sofarrsogud.bsky.social
Be the reason they stop using the phrase 'there's no such thing as a stupid question'
August 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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terencelau.bsky.social Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · Aug 3
Dir Woo is back today
The best action director of all time, John Woo
August 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
fernandog.bsky.social
You didnt have to say it like that
carnitas.bsky.social Cru @carnitas.bsky.social · Aug 3
hey make sure you’re the first person to check the faxes tomorrow, got a lotta hole coming your way
August 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
fernandog.bsky.social
Republicans no longer question his mental acuity. Weird, huh?
craigbrittain.com Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · Aug 2
John Fetterman: Trump is absolutely winning the trade war. I'm a huge fan of Bill Maher, he's one of the oracles for the Democratic Party. He thought that the tariffs we're going to tank the economy, and he acknowledged that they didn't.
August 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
fernandog.bsky.social
Banana Republic behavior
August 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
Principal Skinner saying “are tariffs bad for the economy? No, it’s the data that is wrong”
August 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
fernandog.bsky.social
Kojima, how many people have you killed
culturecrave.co Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Jul 31
Hideo Kojima says big-budget games today are safe and tremendously boring 🎮💤

“People making military games probably don't know how to dismantle or shoot a gun… that's kind of sad”

“[I do], because I've been doing this training … and I learned so many ways to kill people”

He did not elaborate
July 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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whiteroseafa.bsky.social
Editor: You get those photos of Ed Zitron?
Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
Editor: what
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Jul 31
I got interviewed by KNPR, the local Vegas NPR affiliate, and they put the interview in their Desert Companion magazine. I'll post the web version when it's out
I’LL NEVER FORGIVE THEM’ Vegas-based tech observer Ed Zitron on the empty hype of AI, clueless tech lords, and what he thinks of Las Vegas By Lissa Townsend Rodgers have heard about artificial intelligence and how it’s In 2025, even those who can barely operate a cell phone going to shape the future. But while many are excited about the promise, tech journalist and podcaster Ed Zitron is suspicious of the hype. “All of these companies are claiming that large language models, OpenAI, ChatGPT, and the like, is the next big thing,” he says. “The problem is, the actual efficacy, the actual abilities of these programs, have been the same for about two years now. These companies keep growing, their stock valuations keep going up. But it’s not coming from any AI sales.” Born in England, Zitron attended college in Pennsylvania and settled in Las Vegas, where he founded a public relations company. In 2020, he began the “Where’s Your Ed At” news- letter, a caustic, clever examination of the ways we’re failed by the tech that’s supposed to improve our lives. Last year, he began the award-winning Better Offline podcast, which has featured guests from former FTC chair Lina Khan to MIT economist Daron Acemoglu to comedian Andy Richter. Zitron spoke to Desert Companion about the AI bubble, the business idiot, and the honesty of Las Vegas. Here’s an edited version of that conversation. What were your early experiences with technology? I was the dumbest kid in private school and did not have friends. So tech really was my lifeline. ... I was fascinated by the fact that you could connect with people all over the world, that you could play games with them. I was actually a games journalist at 16, one of the first people to cover online gaming, MMORPGs like World of Warcraft, in England. Yeah, tech was a big part of my childhood. Is that why you’re so vexed by what’s happening to technology? It’s personal? Absolutely. I hate these bastards. I’ll never forgive them for what they’ve done… complete nonsense. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, claimed that 50 percent of white-collar jobs will be gone in the next one to five years. Complete nonsense based on nothing. … The AI bubble is a hysterical event where these com- panies pretend — and straight-up lie — about what their products can do in the hopes that they can keep boosting their stock valuations. So, you’ve got all of these compa- nies, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and the like, spending hundreds of billions of dollars in capital expen- ditures to build these massive data centers and filling them full of these GPUs sold by one company, Nvidia. But no one’s making any money. In fact, these things are extremely unprofitable. OpenAI in 2024 spent $9 billion to lose $5 billion. Imagine if you or I did that. Would we be able to get more money out of the bank? Of course not. So how are they getting away with it? I have this grander theory called the business idiot. I believe our economy and the large structures behind it, the people in power, are completely disconnected from any kind of production or understanding of their customers. Not just MBAs, also the middle managers that you hate — the people that don’t seem to do anything, but always seem busy. They’re like the people inside the cave that Plato talked about. They see the shadows: “Oh, AI’s big now!” And I think you’re seeing a war between the business idiots and those of us who actually do the work. I’ve heard so many stories about bosses telling people to use AI. Why don’t the bosses use it, if AI is so good? Because it doesn’t work. The main paradigm all of this is built on is large language models. They are probabilistic, which means that they generate the next thing based on how likely it’s the right one. So if you ask it for an image of a cat, these things don’t have con- sciousness. It says, “I’ve been asked for a picture of a cat; based on my training data, this is the thing that approximates cat.” And it’s pretty good at guessing, but it d…
July 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
fernandog.bsky.social
What an unbelievable loser
July 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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July 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
fernandog.bsky.social
Thought loan forgiveness was socialism
July 31, 2025 at 10:22 PM
fernandog.bsky.social
Just saw a study that says 76 percent of X users are bots, so I guess I'll be shitposting over here more.
July 31, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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gaius.bsky.social
110% tax on all income over $200k
July 31, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
They were waving
“Mass deportation now” signs at the Republican national convention
kevinbuist.com Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · May 31
Yes, you did vote to deport moms.
May 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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We're no. 1!
ericgoldman.bsky.social Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · May 31
Ever wonder how many court opinions have (so far) addressed filings with AI-hallucinated material? According to this page, the tally is...

129 across the globe since mid-2023; of which ~90 are from the US

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www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...

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AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin
Database tracking legal cases where generative AI produced hallucinated citations submitted in court filings.
www.damiencharlotin.com
May 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
fernandog.bsky.social
What are we doing here
May 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
fernandog.bsky.social
This sucks
May 31, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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astrokatie.com
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
fernandog.bsky.social
Average wide receiver tweet:
January 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
fernandog.bsky.social
Truly damning
iwriteok.bsky.social Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · Jan 12
South Africans: too racist for Steve Bannon
"Peter Thiel, Davis Sachs, Elon Musk, are all white South Africans," Bannon observed. "he should go back to South Africa. Why do we have south africans, the most racist people on earth, white south Africans. We have them making any comments at all on what goes on in the United States?"
January 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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I would never have guessed the name on the back of that shirt in a million years
drobny.bsky.social Eric Drobny @drobny.bsky.social · Dec 30
In one of the more entertaining Fanatics flubs I’ve ever seen, I ordered my nephew a Kuminga Warriors shirsey and instead ended up with…
December 31, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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kentremendous.bsky.social Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · Dec 26
Warriors going full heel-turn and trading for Butler, though unlikely, would supercharge this NBA season. Like imagine Draymond and Butler on the same team for a second. Think of how hatable that line-up is, how irritating, and (also) how tough and good.
December 26, 2024 at 5:16 AM