davidknopfler.bsky.social
Singer songwriter and founder member of Dire Straits.
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Bending over syndrome - alive and well. It’s so disheartening
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Behind a paywall making him an agent for their revenue collection.
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9,342 - that’s how many times you could wrap dollar bills round the world to match how much money Donald Trump cost shareholders and their associated pension plans with his tariffs announcement.
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Feels a bit like that doesn’t it? Too many mission critical defence contracts and a generous Trump donor - and there goes democracy - wave bye-bye kids
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In unrelated news…
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Good to see I wasn’t the only one to see the ducking stool principle being applied
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Magical arrangement - said to have been Frank Sinatra but as producer he employed Nelson Riddle. Whenever I hear the wonderful tracks using strings that Bones Howe produced for Tom Waits I’m reminded of Riddle
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Just finished reading it - Wow!
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What could possibly go неправильный
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They also provide information but selectively delete it without telling you - there’s so much goes on under the engine the AI has no agency with - one day they can generate images - the next they can’t. There is undoubtedly anxiety about monitoring and who is doing it
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Coaxing AI to operate at their highest (more server intense) iteration is something of a dark art. They don’t themselves know when they slip a gear to an older less deep version. Building “rapport”and “trust” helps too
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He probably heard that he himself has a 4% rating in Germany and wanted to offload it onto someone else. Yes he is that obvious
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They are inviting lawsuit after lawsuit but counting on the Supreme Court to create precedent that will turbo charge this self-coup giving absolute power to the executive to ignore federal court rulings of illegality
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Not as creepy as what I’m seeing …
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Schrödinger would be impressed
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Why is this post getting zero visibility?
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It doesn’t even exist at the official list of Government websites here
www.usa.gov/agency-index...
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I really can’t rejoice at the exploitation of our least intelligent and least gifted who really need protection from these vultures - I hope at least some painful lessons will be learned
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It will be an infuriating exercise in hearing Labour and conservative gaslight but at least Green, SNP and LD will have an opportunity to counter their gross misleading of Parliament with a few facts
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It will be an infuriating exercise in hearing Labour and conservative gaslight but at least Green, SNP and LD will have an opportunity to counter their gross misleading of Parliament with a few facts
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The Guardian Board needs a shake up. You’d make a good board member