bryyyyguy.bsky.social
The musings of an Ohio-based Professional Spreadsheet Jockey.
Also interested in video games, music production, and photography.
Writing at https://pullinglevers.site/
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C-suite hoping some new configuration of leaders will make AGI happen
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Did AI write this? That's not who Pullman played in the original
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I think people have simply forgotten that early Twitter required a lot of work to build your feed. Most of the time if I end up on the Discover feed it was by accident when I'm scrolling on mobile.
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On top of being insulting to the writers, what's the actual business play here? Put more ads in front of the audio summaries?
(I'm sure this is it because its always find more ways to insert ads)
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A burner for international travel feels like the "best" option and you'd still have to be very conscious about what you even install on it.
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LMAO I didn't even notice that
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*Chef's Kiss*
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I say this as someone with a Whoop strap on their wrist right now but cameras on my face are where I draw the line with this stuff.
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Didn’t a cockroach literally crawl on him during a stream once because he lives in such filth?
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Remarkable tension between his obsession with talking groceries and the undocumented labor that underpins huge swaths of the food system. Can't have it both ways.
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The economy is a bunch of loops. Payroll at one company gets spent at countless others. There would absolutely be a breaking where if enough "email jobs" got replaced by AI, if even for a short period of time, that the economic cycle would break down.
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Sunshine is a dour ass movie but I really like the cast. The horror twist in the final act is where the movie really stumbles but there are still some very striking scenes.
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While the reality is far more depressing, every time I read one of those Frank Luntz focus group panels I think he has to be growing those people in a lab.
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From the band The Outside Agitator Collective
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And here's another branch of that same tree.
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Combined with the surveillance powers and systems that grew out of that era, any would be autocrat had a weapon just sitting there waiting to be used.
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I really want to know how this interview happened at all. Does Dave have PR flacks out trying to burnish his image?
On top of being a misogynist cesspool, a huge part of their current business is promoting gambling.
Why should anyone want to know what this man thinks.
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Those first three albums have so many bangers.
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Depends on how small we are talking, but the crimes rates in those "small towns" is often waaaay worse than cities they are so scared of.
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“Associate Professor of economics and business Subbu Kumarappan said students enjoyed AI projects, but told him they did not always feel like the work was really theirs…”
At least some students appear to get it. The rest of that article is depressing platitudes from admin
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Just like many hobbies, PC gaming specifically “can” be a very expensive hobby if you go chasing max performance. My 3070 was expensive at the time I built my current machine, but it still runs anything I’m interested more than capably.
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Synthesizers are another super expensive one. That said, for PC gaming specifically if you start chasing max performance then you can end up dropping thousands. Consoles are way more cost effective comparatively.
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As always, publishing contrarian drivel like this is a choice and the Atlantic/NYT opinion sections continue to do it. Don’t give them money.
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At least the NYT byline might include that this author is a defense wonk for AEI. The Atlantic can’t even be bothered other than a very brief line at the bottom that 99% of people won’t see.
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The writer works for the American Enterprise Institute and specifically covers defense. That gives most of the game away, but you’re right that The Atlantic still picks who to publish.
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Also available in podcast form. A frequently horrific bit of essential listening.
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It’s so interesting because I’ve seen interviews where he seems well reasoned and informed but then the blinders immediately go on when it comes to tech, and in a way that should be in tension with other things I’ve seen him say. Can’t decide if it’s extreme naïveté or cynical political positioning.
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Ro Khanna?
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A lot of the tech oligarchs have made comments implying (in some cases quite explicitly) they think most people outside their wealth strata are NPCs and do not matter whatsoever. Simulation theory absolutely rotting brains.
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For all the "AI safety" discourse, none of these tech ghouls seem to be reckoning with the idea that consumer spending is the bedrock of the economy. Every job destroyed is less money likely circulating. All the supposed "value" of these companies would get eroded by their own work.