@jasonmehmel.bsky.social
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mamdani is a maxed-out charisma level 20 bard with inspiring leader
November 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
mamdani is a maxed-out charisma level 20 bard with inspiring leader
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Living by the sword: yes, hahaha, this rules
Dying by the sword: wtf is this shit
Dying by the sword: wtf is this shit
MTG: “.. “I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world. .. The man I supported and helped get elected.”
@mediaite.com #GA14
www.mediaite.com/media/news/m...
@mediaite.com #GA14
www.mediaite.com/media/news/m...
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Living by the sword: yes, hahaha, this rules
Dying by the sword: wtf is this shit
Dying by the sword: wtf is this shit
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OpenAI's new "AGI" criterion is actually quite simply and easy to understand:
"Which Goal Post Position Will Make Everyone Give Us Money With Zero Oversight Or Responsibilities?"
That's it. That's all it's ever been & the only way they've ever done it, even if they refuse to admit it to themselves
"Which Goal Post Position Will Make Everyone Give Us Money With Zero Oversight Or Responsibilities?"
That's it. That's all it's ever been & the only way they've ever done it, even if they refuse to admit it to themselves
The lack of details about the panel’s composition leaves open questions about what criteria the experts will actually use to verify that artificial general intelligence has been achieved.
Expert panel will determine AGI arrival in new Microsoft-OpenAI agreement
New deal extends Microsoft IP rights until 2032 or until AGI arrives.
arstechnica.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:47 AM
OpenAI's new "AGI" criterion is actually quite simply and easy to understand:
"Which Goal Post Position Will Make Everyone Give Us Money With Zero Oversight Or Responsibilities?"
That's it. That's all it's ever been & the only way they've ever done it, even if they refuse to admit it to themselves
"Which Goal Post Position Will Make Everyone Give Us Money With Zero Oversight Or Responsibilities?"
That's it. That's all it's ever been & the only way they've ever done it, even if they refuse to admit it to themselves
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
I love my job! This time around, Olga and Oleks are giving us tools and ideas to deal with the constant turmoil of this current era: your permacrisis playbook.
Coaching their talks has been a delight.
You should come check it out!
haskayne.ucalgary.ca/research-and...
Coaching their talks has been a delight.
You should come check it out!
haskayne.ucalgary.ca/research-and...
October 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I love my job! This time around, Olga and Oleks are giving us tools and ideas to deal with the constant turmoil of this current era: your permacrisis playbook.
Coaching their talks has been a delight.
You should come check it out!
haskayne.ucalgary.ca/research-and...
Coaching their talks has been a delight.
You should come check it out!
haskayne.ucalgary.ca/research-and...
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Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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I think we should establish an understanding in the United States that if you order the military to carry out a lethal strike against something that is not an imminent threat without congressional authorization, what you did was murder and the entire chain of command is guilty.
October 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I think we should establish an understanding in the United States that if you order the military to carry out a lethal strike against something that is not an imminent threat without congressional authorization, what you did was murder and the entire chain of command is guilty.
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This whole section really.
September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This whole section really.
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A 12-foot statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein frolicking and holding hands appeared on the National Mall in Washington, DC on Tuesday, September 23.
A plaque under the statue states that it has been erected “In Honor of Friendship Month."
A plaque under the statue states that it has been erected “In Honor of Friendship Month."
September 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A 12-foot statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein frolicking and holding hands appeared on the National Mall in Washington, DC on Tuesday, September 23.
A plaque under the statue states that it has been erected “In Honor of Friendship Month."
A plaque under the statue states that it has been erected “In Honor of Friendship Month."
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A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.”
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...
AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable
AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."
www.404media.co
September 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.”
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...
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In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit.
So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.
So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.
September 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit.
So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.
So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.
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There is no more timely show than Andor.
September 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
There is no more timely show than Andor.
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A while back I got the chance to talk with @jasonmehmel.bsky.social about the intersections of "generative AI," magic, esoteric, and culture, and many of the dangers and possibilities in their components and conjunctions. Always be aware of what you bring into the Work— and what the tools bring, too
[Talk Gnosis] Generative Glamour: Risks of Esoteric AI w/Damien P Williams
YouTube video by Gnostic Wisdom Network
www.youtube.com
September 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A while back I got the chance to talk with @jasonmehmel.bsky.social about the intersections of "generative AI," magic, esoteric, and culture, and many of the dangers and possibilities in their components and conjunctions. Always be aware of what you bring into the Work— and what the tools bring, too
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It's been a while.
Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs.
store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...
Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs.
store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...
Australia Did It - Reveal Trailer
YouTube video by MysticForge
www.youtube.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It's been a while.
Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs.
store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...
Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs.
store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Me: take hours to read a book
You: have your super hot ChatGPT girlfriend download a million books, read them, then summarize them all to you in a barrage of lies that you can't even tell are lies because you don't read books; also you have the critical thinking skills of a shovel-struck donkey
You: have your super hot ChatGPT girlfriend download a million books, read them, then summarize them all to you in a barrage of lies that you can't even tell are lies because you don't read books; also you have the critical thinking skills of a shovel-struck donkey
June 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Me: take hours to read a book
You: have your super hot ChatGPT girlfriend download a million books, read them, then summarize them all to you in a barrage of lies that you can't even tell are lies because you don't read books; also you have the critical thinking skills of a shovel-struck donkey
You: have your super hot ChatGPT girlfriend download a million books, read them, then summarize them all to you in a barrage of lies that you can't even tell are lies because you don't read books; also you have the critical thinking skills of a shovel-struck donkey
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This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets
June 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets
I'm crowdsourcing a rebuttal to the below point! (not mine)
"[...] empires are cool. [...] the Roman brought civilization, Ottoman kept peace in most contentious area of the world, [...] the Austrian Hungarian empire was better than what came next. There are no counter examples in history."
"[...] empires are cool. [...] the Roman brought civilization, Ottoman kept peace in most contentious area of the world, [...] the Austrian Hungarian empire was better than what came next. There are no counter examples in history."
May 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I'm crowdsourcing a rebuttal to the below point! (not mine)
"[...] empires are cool. [...] the Roman brought civilization, Ottoman kept peace in most contentious area of the world, [...] the Austrian Hungarian empire was better than what came next. There are no counter examples in history."
"[...] empires are cool. [...] the Roman brought civilization, Ottoman kept peace in most contentious area of the world, [...] the Austrian Hungarian empire was better than what came next. There are no counter examples in history."
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Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
April 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
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so they're mycoblogging
April 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
so they're mycoblogging
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I think the truth is much more complicated. Manufacturing overseas can create certain jobs here by offering a more affordable product. In the end, you may actually see a *loss* of US jobs as fewer people pay for $240 sneakers, both at home and abroad.
April 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I think the truth is much more complicated. Manufacturing overseas can create certain jobs here by offering a more affordable product. In the end, you may actually see a *loss* of US jobs as fewer people pay for $240 sneakers, both at home and abroad.
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WHERE WAS GONDOR WHEN THE DOW JONES FELL??
April 9, 2025 at 3:31 AM
WHERE WAS GONDOR WHEN THE DOW JONES FELL??