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hushkit.bsky.social
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As someone who has actually jumped out of a Boeing 727 I can say D.B. Cooper was a fucking idiot, here's why...
The sheer stupidity of the unknown jumper
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November 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
AI cannot fail, it can only be sabotaged. You must stay ever-vigilant against Trotskyist wreckers.
Are your employees sabotaging your AI strategy? As AI transforms the workplace, one-third of resistant employees cite fears of devaluation rather than technological concerns—revealing the deeply human challenge at the heart of digital transformation. Your employees are sabotaging your AI strategy. (41% admit to doing that, but there's more) I've just read the 2025 AI adoption report by WRITER. This point immediately caught my eye: "41% 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘦𝘯 𝘡 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺’𝘴 𝘈𝘐 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘺, 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘈𝘐 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘴. 31% of employees are ‘sabotaging’ your gen AI strategy Why Your IT Team Is Sabotaging Your AI Strategy Jake Dunlap 0 Likes 41 Views Apr 2 2025 AI-Powered Seller EP9 - IT is blocking AI adoption in sales, and it’s costing your company more than you realize.
September 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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felicityhannah.bsky.social
Oh my god
Wired and Business Insider remove 'AI-written' freelance articles
Wired and Business Insider have removed freelance articles over concerns they were written by AI under a fake name.
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August 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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accidentalflyer.bsky.social
At least in the fields I’m familiar with, literally written by blood and tears.
madhattermn.bsky.social madhattermn.bsky.social @madhattermn.bsky.social · Jul 12
"regulations are bad!" has been do drummed into our heads for so long that many seem to forget *why* regulation exists.
July 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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florilegia.bsky.social
Call me a prude, but the beak and talons would scare me
r/AskReddit u/RocketDraco24 • 17m 19 NSFW Do you prefer sex with or without a condor? why?
June 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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channel4.bsky.social
As retaliation for the Tariffs we will now be showing any American made TV show without the last five minutes. Good luck finding out how Frasier got out of that one.
April 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD ...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."
March 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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bretdevereaux.bsky.social
You may be angry.

But I do not believe you can be angry enough. Some of the material getting ghosted out of the Arlington website are for medal of honor recipients.

I mean this very literally: the Nazis have come and they are defiling the graves of our most honored dead.
March 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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germanyinirl.bsky.social
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Außenministerin Annalena Baerbock on X: "Ukraine is not alone. Germany together with our European allies stands united alongside #Ukraine - and against the Russian aggression. Ukraine can build on unwavering support from Germany, Europe and beyond. Their defence of democracy & their quest for peace & security is ours." / X
Ukraine is not alone. Germany together with our European allies stands united alongside #Ukraine - and against the Russian aggression. Ukraine can build on unwavering support from Germany, Europe and beyond. Their defence of democracy & their quest for peace & security is ours.
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February 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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garius.bsky.social
Always wondered how the Star Wars Emperor could start with a battle-hardened army and end up with an "entire legion of his best troops" being beaten to death by teddybears with sticks.

Then Hegseth ended up as US Defence Sec. And now yeah that makes sense.
February 27, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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theonion.com
RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
WASHINGTON—Addressing the ongoing outbreak in Texas that has infected at least 124 state residents and killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed Thursday to mak...
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February 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.

Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
www.wired.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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petridishes.bsky.social
I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM
The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers. But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world. Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out. The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it. Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know. I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!
October 26, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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wellerstein.bsky.social
Leo Szilard, on escaping Germany the day before the Nazis closed the borders:

"In order to succeed in this life, you do not have to be clever. You don't have to know what the future may bring. All you have to do is understand what the future may bring one day before most of the others do."
Typewritten manuscript of what was probably an oral dictation that Szilard made in 1960: "Perhaps because such an important part of my life evolved during the first World War. I had the tendency to limit my possessions to what could be held in two suitcases. I think I would have preferred to have roots, but I couldn't have roots I wanted to have wings and to be able to move at a moment's notice came to be important to me." (continued) "Now that, for a second time, there was a major upheaval in Europe — now that there was war again — I benefited from having wings and of not having roots. After the Reichstag was put on fire, I lingered for few more days in Berlin. Having given up my apartment there, I lived in the Secretary House of Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin Garden (?), and was thus in close touch with the scientific community of this Institute. My colleagues found it difficult to bring themselves to believe that the Reichstag was set on fire on orders of the German Government. Germany has always been a very orderly country and setting fire to the Reichstag appeared to be a very disorderly thing." (continued) "After a few days, having listened to all of my friends give their interpretation of the situation, I took a taxi — I locked my two suitcases, I picked up my two suitcases and drove to the railroad station where I took the night train to Vienna. I expected the train to be packed; it was empty. There were Nazi guards on the frontier but they didn't bother any of the few passengers who were on the train. In contrast to this, the same train which reached the Austrian frontier on day later, was jampacked. The passenger were asked to leave the train on the Austrian frontier and their luggage was searched and their purses were searched. Many were turned back and were refused permission to leave." (continued) "All this goes to show that in order to succeed in this life, you do not have to be clever. All you have to be is a tiny little bit cleverer than most other people are. You don't have to know what the future may bring. All you have to do is understand what the future may bring one day before most of the others do. As a result of a chance encounter in Vienna - by the time the wholesale dismissal of professors of the Germans got under way, I found myself in London."
October 14, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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tinselfire.bsky.social
To paraphrase Adam Something, every industry that is plagued by overregulation was previously plagued by DEATH.
September 19, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Don’t worry about the #boeing strike. Their CEO is open to negotiations. His “door is always open”..
September 13, 2024 at 7:47 AM
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Burglars Plead That They Can’t Make Money Without Breaking Into Houses
Burglars are begging parliament to allow them to break into people’s houses because it’s impossible for them to make money without it
September 2, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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funranium.bsky.social
If you knew enough to do the thing you want to do, you don't need the LLM. If you don't know enough, you won't be able to call the LLM on it's bullshit and are at it's mercy.

I just realized that LLMs are the equivalent of the Anarchist's Cookbook.
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Aug 27
LLMs like ChatGPT have actually done the thing people claimed Google or Wikipedia would do, in that LLMs have stopped people being curious and actually learning how stuff works, or how one gets the answer to a question. Superficial intelligence for the superficially intelligent
August 27, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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atherton.bsky.social
topping off a glass of lemonade with seltzer as I keep drinking it until eventually it's a wholly different drink, call that the sip of Theseus
August 17, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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"Over the course of the war the U.S. produced around 325,000 airplanes... Not only is this more aircraft than what Germany, Japan, and Italy combined produced during the war — it’s also more aircraft than have been built for commercial transport in the entire history of aviation."
How to Build 300,000 Airplanes in Five Years
It’s no secret that the Allies won World War II on the back of the U.S.’s enormous industrial output. Even before the U.S. entered the war, the Americans provided hundreds of millions of dollars’ wort...
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May 23, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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Driving PSA xkcd.com/2932
May 15, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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nnedi.bsky.social
This sums it up perfectly. It’s not a conversation.
“There is no ethical way to use the major AI image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real human artists.”
March 4, 2024 at 2:20 AM
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leonardpierce.bsky.social
THE PROBLEM: Most forms of energy are harming the environment

THE SOLUTION: Switch to alternative forms of renewab...

THE PROBLEM: Hold on, I have an idea, what if we made invisible valueless money that eats electricity

THE SOLUTION: ...what?

THE PROBLEM: Also I have this plagiarism machine
February 2, 2024 at 3:38 PM