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Bud Gibson
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I connect students with their futures.
I’m hoping we can all just get along.

ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘢. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.
September 25, 2025 at 4:28 AM
People who complain about the intensity of trolling on bluesky never experienced the early days of twitter. When people go overboard, just block them. They magically disappear from your universe, no harm, no fuss.
July 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Chicago wrap #Chicago
July 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Mental arithmetic
Addition and subtraction.
June 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Does any company really have a coherent #AI story?
June 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This guy draws attention right up to the salient points that need to be made.
Most people think trade is “cars for wine.” But the moment you realize that trade is mostly in intermediate goods—stuff like steel, or aluminum—your whole perspective changes. Tariffs aren’t taxes on “them.” They’re taxes on your own country's production line.
June 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Currently experimenting with chatGPT as my default search on Safari in iPad. Able to set it that way for just my personal profile. My observation is that you’ve never been able to “just trust” what comes back in search results, but this seems like a better start than what I get with Google.
April 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
youtube.com/watch?v=o_1G... This is hilarious and also very dark.
The White Potus - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
youtube.com
April 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
@besteerel.bsky.social this is a good app
April 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I generally think Apple Intelligence is on its way to being good enough. If you want more, I think you need to use a cloud-based service.
March 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I'm experimenting with using Kagi.com as my main search engine. What I like is that I get higher quality results though perhaps less tailored to me. Those higher quality results can then be used to create DRAMATICALLY better AI summaries.
Kagi Search - A Premium Search Engine
Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.
Kagi.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A couple of thoughts on non-reasoning AI models:
1. Summarizing (a form of pattern matching) works extremely well.
2. If you can translate categorizing to a pattern matching exercise, that also works well.
March 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Reposted by Bud Gibson
Ramadan Mubarak!
March 1, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Musk’s crew and their attempts to reeducate government workers remind me of the Gang of Four. That didn’t end well. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of...
Gang of Four - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Why on-device models are attractive.
ChatGPT appeared to be disrupted Thursday morning, as thousands of users reported problems with the site.
ChatGPT Outage Reported by Thousands of Users
The site was unavailable to many people early Thursday.
nytimes.com
January 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
My first presidential election was 1980. I was an angry young man and voted third party. It was only later that I came to hold him as a model. RIP.

BTW, first saw this in the news firehose on bluesky.
ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who tried to restore virtue to the White House after the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, then rebounded from a landslide defeat to become a global advocate of human rights and democracy, has died. He was 100 years old.
Jimmy Carter, 39th US president, Nobel winner, dies at 100
ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who tried to restore virtue to the White House after the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, then rebounded from a landslide defeat to become a global advocate of human rights and democracy, has died. He was 100 years old.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
December 29, 2024 at 9:45 PM
I think the next step for Laura Loomer is to join bluesky.
December 28, 2024 at 1:45 AM
By far the biggest strength of bluesky is the amount of random novelty on the platform. The trending topics and feeds are wowza.
December 26, 2024 at 4:52 AM
Just too good.
December 26, 2024 at 4:38 AM
This really is the way to go. Blocking is easy here.
Once a network reaches a certain scale there is a percentage of folks on it who are there because they are so unpleasant, both off-line and online, that this is the only place left where they can still find people to needle.

The only way to keep your feed nontoxic is to block block block.
Got a guy in my mentions telling me I need to use proper punctuation on my posts, this place really is like old Twitter
December 20, 2024 at 1:34 PM
I remember thinking to myself, “This is all you need to live the American dream” after driving up to a California store in 1979 where you could gas up your car and buy an uzi with a fifth of crown royal. Only in 2024 is it getting to be an opportunity for everyone.
Candy, ice and lottery tickets have long been impulse items sold at checkouts in American grocery stores. Now bullets are joining the list of merchandise peddled to consumers as they exit at a growing number of stores around the country.
Start-up putting ammo vending machines in grocery stores plans to grow
Dallas-based American Rounds says it makes selling ammo safer and more convenient, but some public officials and health experts worry about impulse bullet buying.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 15, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Vaccines are really good. Plus, you should look to data when you make decisions. It’s not about removing uncertainty, which is impossible. It’s about making the (very high) percentage play.
Sometimes you don’t need to do your own research. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
December 14, 2024 at 3:40 PM
I actually think they’re right on this score. The time shifts really mess things up.
December 13, 2024 at 9:57 PM
This is the kind of thing AI is really good at.
December 9, 2024 at 1:56 PM
@chrisprucha.bsky.social need content. Also, do you really think academics are all listing after Nobel prizes?
December 9, 2024 at 11:17 AM