gnperdue
@gnperdue.bsky.social
I am an assemblage of carbon-based nanomachines that transmutes coffee into science. My other computer is in a superposition of states, etc.
Today I defeated Bayle on my #EldenRing RL1 run. It took 89 attempts. Now I have only Promised Consort Radahn on my All Remembrances RL1 run. I don’t know how I’ll ever get him, but I thought that about a dozen bosses on this run, and managed to get them, so… hopefully I find a way.
January 31, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Today I defeated Bayle on my #EldenRing RL1 run. It took 89 attempts. Now I have only Promised Consort Radahn on my All Remembrances RL1 run. I don’t know how I’ll ever get him, but I thought that about a dozen bosses on this run, and managed to get them, so… hopefully I find a way.
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Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…
January 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…
I defeated Malenia on my #EldenRing RL1 run today. That was a win I thought I’d never get. 379 attempts required. Now I’m down to just Bayle and Consort Radahn on my all Remembrances run.
January 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I defeated Malenia on my #EldenRing RL1 run today. That was a win I thought I’d never get. 379 attempts required. Now I’m down to just Bayle and Consort Radahn on my all Remembrances run.
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Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
January 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
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"I don't remember there being so many big fires in the past!"
"Weird to see so many fires this time of year!"
Wow, yeah, it is almost as if something is CHANGING.
"Weird to see so many fires this time of year!"
Wow, yeah, it is almost as if something is CHANGING.
January 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
"I don't remember there being so many big fires in the past!"
"Weird to see so many fires this time of year!"
Wow, yeah, it is almost as if something is CHANGING.
"Weird to see so many fires this time of year!"
Wow, yeah, it is almost as if something is CHANGING.
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organisations need to have policies about wearables and about AI transcription of meetings and how to turn them off for meetings that count as confidential - especially if a topic wasn't on the agenda but needs to be covered - and how to sanitise recordings done by accident/block devices that can't
I'm just going to go head and template / prep a few office policies for a section on wearables, and to turn them off during confidential meetings & appointments.
*your* next wearable.
January 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
organisations need to have policies about wearables and about AI transcription of meetings and how to turn them off for meetings that count as confidential - especially if a topic wasn't on the agenda but needs to be covered - and how to sanitise recordings done by accident/block devices that can't
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I very much agree w/this. It’s why Invisible Rulers focused on factional realities, group identities, & divergent publics created via the influencer-algorithm-crowd triad — not problems of fact.
Group identity negotiation happens within the factions, with no easy way to see across the expanse.
Group identity negotiation happens within the factions, with no easy way to see across the expanse.
We're getting the social media crisis wrong
The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics. On Zuckerberg today and Musk over the last few weeks. www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...
The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics. On Zuckerberg today and Musk over the last few weeks. www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...
We're getting the social media crisis wrong
The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics
www.programmablemutter.com
January 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I very much agree w/this. It’s why Invisible Rulers focused on factional realities, group identities, & divergent publics created via the influencer-algorithm-crowd triad — not problems of fact.
Group identity negotiation happens within the factions, with no easy way to see across the expanse.
Group identity negotiation happens within the factions, with no easy way to see across the expanse.
Deleted my Instagram and Threads accounts this morning. I'm not going to participate in a social media ecosystem that doesn't do basic community moderation.
www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/243...
www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/243...
Here are some of the horrible things that you can now say on Instagram and Facebook
New rules.
www.theverge.com
January 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Deleted my Instagram and Threads accounts this morning. I'm not going to participate in a social media ecosystem that doesn't do basic community moderation.
www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/243...
www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/243...
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These are the key facts everyone needs to know about climate change, according to @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social.
I shared this post across 7 different social media platforms, including FB, LI, Mastodon, Threads, X and Twitter both pre-and post-Musk.
Here's how their engagement stacked up. 🧵
I shared this post across 7 different social media platforms, including FB, LI, Mastodon, Threads, X and Twitter both pre-and post-Musk.
Here's how their engagement stacked up. 🧵
Climate Change:
It's real.
It's us.
It's serious - and already dangerous.
But there are solutions.
The science is clear: the faster we cut emissions, the less suffering we will cause, and the better off we'll all be.
It's real.
It's us.
It's serious - and already dangerous.
But there are solutions.
The science is clear: the faster we cut emissions, the less suffering we will cause, and the better off we'll all be.
January 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
These are the key facts everyone needs to know about climate change, according to @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social.
I shared this post across 7 different social media platforms, including FB, LI, Mastodon, Threads, X and Twitter both pre-and post-Musk.
Here's how their engagement stacked up. 🧵
I shared this post across 7 different social media platforms, including FB, LI, Mastodon, Threads, X and Twitter both pre-and post-Musk.
Here's how their engagement stacked up. 🧵
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I also looked at personal posts (on food, cats, holidays). Although the sample is much smaller, I see a similar trend.
This evidence suggests recent algorithm changes on Threads significantly down-weighted climate content as well as altering what people see.
techcrunch.com/2024/11/21/t...
This evidence suggests recent algorithm changes on Threads significantly down-weighted climate content as well as altering what people see.
techcrunch.com/2024/11/21/t...
Threads adjusts its algorithm to show you more content from accounts you follow | TechCrunch
After several complaints about its algorithm, Meta's X competitor Instagram Threads is making changes that will allow it to surface more content from
techcrunch.com
January 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I also looked at personal posts (on food, cats, holidays). Although the sample is much smaller, I see a similar trend.
This evidence suggests recent algorithm changes on Threads significantly down-weighted climate content as well as altering what people see.
techcrunch.com/2024/11/21/t...
This evidence suggests recent algorithm changes on Threads significantly down-weighted climate content as well as altering what people see.
techcrunch.com/2024/11/21/t...
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my contribution to the "does law matter" discourse that's been going on here over the last few weeks:
Yes, the Law Can Still Constrain Trump
It’s not a magic wand to save America—but neither is it entirely useless.
www.theatlantic.com
January 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
my contribution to the "does law matter" discourse that's been going on here over the last few weeks:
Good. We need to be on-shoring more, and owning more of our own production and industry, not less...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/u...
Biden Blocks Takeover Bid of U.S. Steel by Japan’s Nippon
The president said he was moving to protect national security in deciding the fate of the iconic Pennsylvania-based company, which became a contentious political issue in an election year.
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Good. We need to be on-shoring more, and owning more of our own production and industry, not less...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/u...
That chart is wild.
i hate to be a monocausal guy but i really think this discussion of masculinity, trade school, the gendering of education etc is beating around the bush. male democrats have seen no sizable drop in their desire to attend college. female republicans have. it’s about politics.
January 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
That chart is wild.
I defeated Messmer on my #EldenRing RL1 run today. That just leaves Malenia, Bayle, and Consort Radahn for my All Remembrances run (yes, Bayle technically doesn’t count and my lean on that fact at some point, LOL). Malenia seems impossible for RL1, but I guess I’ll start trying her next.
December 31, 2024 at 10:15 PM
I defeated Messmer on my #EldenRing RL1 run today. That just leaves Malenia, Bayle, and Consort Radahn for my All Remembrances run (yes, Bayle technically doesn’t count and my lean on that fact at some point, LOL). Malenia seems impossible for RL1, but I guess I’ll start trying her next.
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In this Philly diner, Adrian still means Talia Shire. But they do know this: if you can’t admit that Americans are too retarded to work in tech, you should step back and fuck yourself in the face.
December 29, 2024 at 4:48 PM
In this Philly diner, Adrian still means Talia Shire. But they do know this: if you can’t admit that Americans are too retarded to work in tech, you should step back and fuck yourself in the face.
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Rebranding spam and slop is going to be a really heavy lift.
Meta envisages social media filled with AI-generated users
US tech group is rolling out a range of artificial intelligence tools to drive engagement
www.ft.com
December 27, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Rebranding spam and slop is going to be a really heavy lift.
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Chatted with Adam Lowenstein for The Ink about how to fight an epidemic of bad faith.
Not sure I have the answers here, but a lot of good people are trying to figure it out…
the.ink/p/how-to-fig...
Not sure I have the answers here, but a lot of good people are trying to figure it out…
the.ink/p/how-to-fig...
How to fight an epidemic of bad faith
Disinformation researcher Renée DiResta on the "invisible rulers" shaping politics and reality in our very online world
the.ink
December 24, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Chatted with Adam Lowenstein for The Ink about how to fight an epidemic of bad faith.
Not sure I have the answers here, but a lot of good people are trying to figure it out…
the.ink/p/how-to-fig...
Not sure I have the answers here, but a lot of good people are trying to figure it out…
the.ink/p/how-to-fig...
I really don’t like the “Training Load” feature in #AppleHealth. I don’t believe subjective ratings like that hold value and I’m irked there is no way to turn it off and completely hide it. Please, either calculate it for me with some objective metric or let me make it disappear *completely*.
December 24, 2024 at 5:51 PM
I really don’t like the “Training Load” feature in #AppleHealth. I don’t believe subjective ratings like that hold value and I’m irked there is no way to turn it off and completely hide it. Please, either calculate it for me with some objective metric or let me make it disappear *completely*.
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I sure hope some circuit court judge doesn’t say anything about this or they could be in danger of an ethics violation.
Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose two additional trips from a billionaire patron, Senate Democrats revealed on Saturday after conducting a 20-month investigation into ethics practices at the Supreme Court.
Justice Clarence Thomas Did Not Disclose Additional Trips From Billionaire Patron, Democrats Say
The revelation was included in a report by Democratic staff members on the Senate Judiciary Committee who had conducted a 20-month investigation into ethics practices at the Supreme Court.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 2:58 PM
I sure hope some circuit court judge doesn’t say anything about this or they could be in danger of an ethics violation.
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Here's the truth: Elon Musk doesn't want any restrictions on his investments in China, and that's why we're on the brink of a government shutdown.
This is the first scandal of Trump's second term, and it'll look like a lot of the others: putting personal financial interests above the country's.
This is the first scandal of Trump's second term, and it'll look like a lot of the others: putting personal financial interests above the country's.
The Government Is Shutting Down Because Elon Musk Has Factories in China
There’s a mundane reason for the late-term chaos, and it’s called a conflict of interest.
prospect.org
December 20, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Here's the truth: Elon Musk doesn't want any restrictions on his investments in China, and that's why we're on the brink of a government shutdown.
This is the first scandal of Trump's second term, and it'll look like a lot of the others: putting personal financial interests above the country's.
This is the first scandal of Trump's second term, and it'll look like a lot of the others: putting personal financial interests above the country's.