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Let's all try and have a good time.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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it's not hard to understand it just doesn't really convey anything concrete like, "we are going to blow up Ballroom and confiscate elon musks money and give it to you"
November 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
it's not hard to understand it just doesn't really convey anything concrete like, "we are going to blow up Ballroom and confiscate elon musks money and give it to you"
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im of the opinion that any narrative right now needs to have a villain and address the rank inequality and corruption going on. doesn't feel like utopian vision time
the "high/low floor, high/low ceiling" thing is a pretty common sports analogy, I don't know if it's a good or bad slogan and I don't trust the people pitching it but I don't think it's as impenetrable to understand as some people are trying to make it sound
November 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
im of the opinion that any narrative right now needs to have a villain and address the rank inequality and corruption going on. doesn't feel like utopian vision time
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Atleast nobody will have to question if my works are ai or not so enjoy these practical effect wings I made after 7 years of building different animatronic wings!
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Atleast nobody will have to question if my works are ai or not so enjoy these practical effect wings I made after 7 years of building different animatronic wings!
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I would collude with the other capitalists to raise prices and fees until we had scooped up everyone's Universal Basic Income. We'd get it pretty quick.
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
November 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I would collude with the other capitalists to raise prices and fees until we had scooped up everyone's Universal Basic Income. We'd get it pretty quick.
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sure thing boss 🫡
November 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
sure thing boss 🫡
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Besides fighting the left, I’m pretty sure the only other function of the Democratic Party is to sloganeer neoliberal austerity for an audience of party hacks.
November 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Besides fighting the left, I’m pretty sure the only other function of the Democratic Party is to sloganeer neoliberal austerity for an audience of party hacks.
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this is where I am at, because I feel like the mindset that we need to "explore" "AI" and "what it has to offer" just leads to an unresolvable contradiction. it's basically this dril tweet tbh, I'm sure I'm not the first to make this comparison
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
this is where I am at, because I feel like the mindset that we need to "explore" "AI" and "what it has to offer" just leads to an unresolvable contradiction. it's basically this dril tweet tbh, I'm sure I'm not the first to make this comparison
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"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."
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Time to invoice the telegraph for using my illustration, I guess
A game where you can do anything and they’re mad that people are doing anything.
November 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Time to invoice the telegraph for using my illustration, I guess
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Watched some northern shovelers swimming in circles earlier today. They do this to stir invertebrates and other food up from the bottom
November 30, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Watched some northern shovelers swimming in circles earlier today. They do this to stir invertebrates and other food up from the bottom
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I took my glasses off for a second and thought the pope told her that
November 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I took my glasses off for a second and thought the pope told her that
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i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle
it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago
November 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle
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I think it’s reasonable to hypothesize that evangelicalism causes brain damage. Someone should study their brains after they die like they do with football players.
November 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I think it’s reasonable to hypothesize that evangelicalism causes brain damage. Someone should study their brains after they die like they do with football players.
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It does basically suck that you can't be an actual abolitionist and be mayor in any place in the US really, because you will be brutally and probably openly murdered by your own cops
We are so fucked when Mamdani inevitably does something a typical Major Blue City mayor would do, like sic cops on protesters or cut the ribbon on Goldman Sachs' new building or whatever.
We're all going to need to get real cool with how much weird parochialism comes with this particular job.
We're all going to need to get real cool with how much weird parochialism comes with this particular job.
October 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
It does basically suck that you can't be an actual abolitionist and be mayor in any place in the US really, because you will be brutally and probably openly murdered by your own cops
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“During days of torture and abuse, an Israeli soldier carved a Star of David into Ahmad’s back with a knife. Another soldier carved a smiley face into Nadia’s father’s neck.”
This happened *at a university* in Gaza.
And yet our institutions still collaborate with Israeli schools.
This happened *at a university* in Gaza.
And yet our institutions still collaborate with Israeli schools.
November 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“During days of torture and abuse, an Israeli soldier carved a Star of David into Ahmad’s back with a knife. Another soldier carved a smiley face into Nadia’s father’s neck.”
This happened *at a university* in Gaza.
And yet our institutions still collaborate with Israeli schools.
This happened *at a university* in Gaza.
And yet our institutions still collaborate with Israeli schools.
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I still reflexively scan the lot for good sleeping spots when I pull into a Walmart, and also shudder at the thought of ever living that life again. It's been years. And yes, I had a full time job at better than minimum wage.
"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside."
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
November 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I still reflexively scan the lot for good sleeping spots when I pull into a Walmart, and also shudder at the thought of ever living that life again. It's been years. And yes, I had a full time job at better than minimum wage.
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This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology.
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting. n.pr/49MFa1M
As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ends, the future of forecasting is AI
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting.
n.pr
November 30, 2025 at 5:55 AM
This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology.
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
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No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
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Then came the push to start using AI as part of our subtitling flows.
"It'll save time and money, because translators can just post-edit!"
Never mind the fact that we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on purchasing AI licenses, it didn't lead to much improvement in translation speed.
"It'll save time and money, because translators can just post-edit!"
Never mind the fact that we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on purchasing AI licenses, it didn't lead to much improvement in translation speed.
November 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Then came the push to start using AI as part of our subtitling flows.
"It'll save time and money, because translators can just post-edit!"
Never mind the fact that we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on purchasing AI licenses, it didn't lead to much improvement in translation speed.
"It'll save time and money, because translators can just post-edit!"
Never mind the fact that we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on purchasing AI licenses, it didn't lead to much improvement in translation speed.
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At least two years ago, we got word from upper management that they want us to "start using more AI".
Why? Because "they want to save time and money".
Why? Because "they want to save time and money".
November 30, 2025 at 4:58 AM
At least two years ago, we got word from upper management that they want us to "start using more AI".
Why? Because "they want to save time and money".
Why? Because "they want to save time and money".
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Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
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tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
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The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️