Max Bourke
@maxbourke.bsky.social
Documentary filmmaker by day.
AI power to the people by night.
AI power to the people by night.
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A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.
September 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.
Dayam. Way too easy to make some pretty awful content now. au.pcmag.com/ai/111879/ti...
TikTok Flooded With Racist AI Videos, Likely Made With Google's Veo 3
Harmful stereotypes are used in the clips to generate outrage. Some of these AI-generated videos racked up tens of millions of views before being removed.
au.pcmag.com
July 22, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Dayam. Way too easy to make some pretty awful content now. au.pcmag.com/ai/111879/ti...
Despite their “benefits all of humanity” mission statement, OpenAI has picked sides and is following Leopold Aschenbrenner’s US security state aligned playbook. And, on this first point re fair use, they’re at least transparent.
March 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Despite their “benefits all of humanity” mission statement, OpenAI has picked sides and is following Leopold Aschenbrenner’s US security state aligned playbook. And, on this first point re fair use, they’re at least transparent.
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“Anti-DEI” is just pro-racism. Always has been, always will be.
The Air Force is stripping Tuskegee Airmen lessons from basic training curriculum because of our White supremacist government.
Put that in a headline.
www.expressnews.com/news/article...
Put that in a headline.
www.expressnews.com/news/article...
January 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“Anti-DEI” is just pro-racism. Always has been, always will be.
Grant Sanderson's speed run through the mathematics of transformers and attention powering most LLMs, drawn from his 3blue1brown Youtube series on neural networks more broadly. I keep being surprised by how good he is at making dense and complex ideas accessible.
Visualizing transformers and attention | Talk for TNG Big Tech Day '24
Based on the 3blue1brown deep learning series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_ZCJB-3pi
buff.ly
January 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Grant Sanderson's speed run through the mathematics of transformers and attention powering most LLMs, drawn from his 3blue1brown Youtube series on neural networks more broadly. I keep being surprised by how good he is at making dense and complex ideas accessible.
Damn. Google Photos search is either completely broken, or hopelessly undocumented. Seems to be semantic, no control.
December 25, 2024 at 5:01 AM
Damn. Google Photos search is either completely broken, or hopelessly undocumented. Seems to be semantic, no control.
Seriously Apple? If we want to use your AI we have to accept spelling errors everywhere?
December 18, 2024 at 3:32 AM
Seriously Apple? If we want to use your AI we have to accept spelling errors everywhere?
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Yo @jay.bsky.team @support.bsky.team why did you content block author and organizer Vicky Osterweil’s account???
Free @vickyacab.bsky.social!
Free @vickyacab.bsky.social!
December 14, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Entertaining, but for real. All of these also apply in Australia.
I feel it’s time to rewrite my Rules for Criminal Plots for this new platform.
Rule One: look at the shoes. If the new co-conspirator is dressed shabby like the rest of you but his or her shoes are neat and well-maintained, they’re a fed.
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Rule One: look at the shoes. If the new co-conspirator is dressed shabby like the rest of you but his or her shoes are neat and well-maintained, they’re a fed.
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Say it with me: even if you’re the Indian government, the hit man you’re trying to hire is ALWAYS THE FBI cc @gabrielmalor.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/n...
December 2, 2024 at 12:04 AM
Entertaining, but for real. All of these also apply in Australia.
This is a real shot across the bow of the firehose philosophy. Not maliciously I would guess, but it’s definitely going to get people thinking about the downsides to open protocols.
November 28, 2024 at 12:00 AM
This is a real shot across the bow of the firehose philosophy. Not maliciously I would guess, but it’s definitely going to get people thinking about the downsides to open protocols.
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ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
Move by international criminal court puts Netanyahu at risk of detention if he travels to certain other countries
The international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the county’s former defence…
dlvr.it
November 21, 2024 at 12:26 PM
ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
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someone needs to put this in a development economics lecture
November 20, 2024 at 1:04 PM
someone needs to put this in a development economics lecture
I’m gonna need a new bingo card
Poland: "Health authorities in Poland have warned that a mutated polio virus that is potentially harmful to humans has been found in the capital’s sewage system."
tvpworld.com/83550127/get...
tvpworld.com/83550127/get...
‘Get vaccinated now,’ Polish officials warn
Polio has no cure and treatment is purely symptomatic.
tvpworld.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:36 AM
I’m gonna need a new bingo card
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No SHIT!!???! 😱😱😱
😏
'A new study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich.'
www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cut...
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'A new study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich.'
www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cut...
50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says
Tax cuts for the wealthy didn't boost the economies of the U.S. and 17 other countries — but they did worsen income inequality.
www.cbsnews.com
August 16, 2024 at 5:46 AM
No SHIT!!???! 😱😱😱
😏
'A new study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich.'
www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cut...
😏
'A new study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich.'
www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cut...
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New from 404 Media: Google is now the only search engine that works on Reddit thanks to its AI deal. Try to search for Reddit results with Bing, DuckDuckGo, or a bunch of others you won't get full results. Further monopoly on valuable information www.404media.co/google-is-th...
Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal
DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.
www.404media.co
July 24, 2024 at 1:23 PM
New from 404 Media: Google is now the only search engine that works on Reddit thanks to its AI deal. Try to search for Reddit results with Bing, DuckDuckGo, or a bunch of others you won't get full results. Further monopoly on valuable information www.404media.co/google-is-th...
Any First Nations queer researchers (etc) looking for a great project? Friend just forwarded me this: ACON is looking for someone to lead their First Nations Listening and Truth Telling Project www.acon.org.au/who-we-are-h...
Aboriginal People
We’re here to help improve the health of LGBTQ+ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including Sistergirls, Brotherboys, trans mob and living with HIV. General Support & Services HIV Preventi...
www.acon.org.au
July 11, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Any First Nations queer researchers (etc) looking for a great project? Friend just forwarded me this: ACON is looking for someone to lead their First Nations Listening and Truth Telling Project www.acon.org.au/who-we-are-h...
Damn I signed up for this and never post here. The platform inertia things is pretty real.
May 1, 2024 at 4:13 AM
Damn I signed up for this and never post here. The platform inertia things is pretty real.
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❤️ I am forever haunted by the couple of interviews I’ve seen with Long Covid researchers who said that it’s very hard to create a control group bc once they start interviewing people they uncover all the ways they’ve re-routed their lives around their symptoms rather than “recovered.”
March 11, 2024 at 8:45 PM
❤️ I am forever haunted by the couple of interviews I’ve seen with Long Covid researchers who said that it’s very hard to create a control group bc once they start interviewing people they uncover all the ways they’ve re-routed their lives around their symptoms rather than “recovered.”
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This is outrageous. Israel's government has denied Rolling Stone a press credential after our critical coverage of Netanyahu and the widening conflict. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Israeli Govt. Denies Rolling Stone a Press Credential After Critical Coverage
The Israeli government has denied a press credential to Rolling Stone amid Jesse Rosenfeld's coverage of Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israel-Hamas war.
www.rollingstone.com
October 30, 2023 at 9:44 PM
This is outrageous. Israel's government has denied Rolling Stone a press credential after our critical coverage of Netanyahu and the widening conflict. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...