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TRUMP: fires black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; fires female chief of naval operations; hires unqualified replacement, a white man NYT:

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@clairewillett.bsky.social does a great job of capturing how it can feel to see the coverage of Pope Francis; as someone raised deeply catholic who feels the church abandoned me, Francis has been a ray of hope.

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despite how much he has frustrated me over the years, all the times when he fell short and I expected better, and even without factoring in my anxieties about possible successors - I find myself significantly more fucked up than I anticipated by the very real possibility that Pope Francis is dying

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thus far have failed to find a way get calibre to pick up the downloads...i'm failing the drm test somehow.

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Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

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with help from sixcolors.com/post/2025/02... and github.com/treetrum/ama... was able to bulk download all my kindle books. Got 'em before the deadline!

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TikTok served me up this great cover of the Counting Crows "Long December" from Gracie Abrams at the FireAid concert and well, it's nice to start a friday with a smile and warm heart. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgIb...

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1/2: Empowering game creators with innovative research that could unlock groundbreaking ideas ✨ Muse - our new generative AI model done in collaboration between Xbox and Microsoft Research, is a new kind of generative AI model that’s trained on gameplay to simulate gameplay.

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Mary's piece on Microsoft's new Majorana 1 quantum processor. Mine is out tomorrow.

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behind the scenes www.instagram.com/reel/DGQqv0w...

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back to the WHAM model! www.theverge.com/news/615048/...

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Looking for longer form? Dwarkesh has you covered. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GLS...

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Back to quantum all the deets are here: news.microsoft.com/azure-quantum/

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Thing two! Really interesting new AI model out of Microsoft Research -- one trained on in-game and controller inputs! blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/02...

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Here come a bunch of links on super interesting things! Thing 1: Quantum! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/t...

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love the feeling of waking up and knowing we've got some interesting news coming. :)

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The Washington Supreme Court decided that the J6-insurrectionist SPD officers can be identified by name. They are: Jacob Briskey Jason Marchione Alexander Everett Caitlin Rochelle-Everett Michael Settle Scotty Bach The Everetts were fired by SPD for the part they played at the insurrection.

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He's right behind us, isn't he. 🤣

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Good morning SF

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first trip of the new year! SF and then NYC...lots to talk about. :)

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Yum. I can hear it crackling!!!

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It's that kind of evening.

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Go. To. The. Treasury. And. Demand. Entry. You are the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee.

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First test roll on the camera complete! Voigtlander prominent camera with a 35mm lens, thus requiring the Turnit 3 viewfinder on the top to be able to see the correct frame. This roll mostly for shutter speed accuracy (mechanical), focus and framing.

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@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point

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Some interesting points from CEO Satya Nadella from earnings: 1. AI scaling laws are continuing to compound across both pre-training and inference-time compute. We ourselves have been seeing significant efficiency gains in both training and inference for years now.

TRUMP: fires black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; fires female chief of naval operations; hires unqualified replacement, a white man NYT:

@clairewillett.bsky.social does a great job of capturing how it can feel to see the coverage of Pope Francis; as someone raised deeply catholic who feels the church abandoned me, Francis has been a ray of hope.

despite how much he has frustrated me over the years, all the times when he fell short and I expected better, and even without factoring in my anxieties about possible successors - I find myself significantly more fucked up than I anticipated by the very real possibility that Pope Francis is dying

thus far have failed to find a way get calibre to pick up the downloads...i'm failing the drm test somehow.

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

with help from sixcolors.com/post/2025/02... and github.com/treetrum/ama... was able to bulk download all my kindle books. Got 'em before the deadline!

TikTok served me up this great cover of the Counting Crows "Long December" from Gracie Abrams at the FireAid concert and well, it's nice to start a friday with a smile and warm heart. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgIb...

1/2: Empowering game creators with innovative research that could unlock groundbreaking ideas ✨ Muse - our new generative AI model done in collaboration between Xbox and Microsoft Research, is a new kind of generative AI model that’s trained on gameplay to simulate gameplay.

Mary's piece on Microsoft's new Majorana 1 quantum processor. Mine is out tomorrow.

behind the scenes www.instagram.com/reel/DGQqv0w...

back to the WHAM model! www.theverge.com/news/615048/...

Looking for longer form? Dwarkesh has you covered. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GLS...

Back to quantum all the deets are here: news.microsoft.com/azure-quantum/

Thing two! Really interesting new AI model out of Microsoft Research -- one trained on in-game and controller inputs! blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/02...

Here come a bunch of links on super interesting things! Thing 1: Quantum! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/t...

love the feeling of waking up and knowing we've got some interesting news coming. :)

The Washington Supreme Court decided that the J6-insurrectionist SPD officers can be identified by name. They are: Jacob Briskey Jason Marchione Alexander Everett Caitlin Rochelle-Everett Michael Settle Scotty Bach The Everetts were fired by SPD for the part they played at the insurrection.

He's right behind us, isn't he. 🤣

Good morning SF

first trip of the new year! SF and then NYC...lots to talk about. :)

Yum. I can hear it crackling!!!

It's that kind of evening.

Go. To. The. Treasury. And. Demand. Entry. You are the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee.

First test roll on the camera complete! Voigtlander prominent camera with a 35mm lens, thus requiring the Turnit 3 viewfinder on the top to be able to see the correct frame. This roll mostly for shutter speed accuracy (mechanical), focus and framing.

@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point

Some interesting points from CEO Satya Nadella from earnings: 1. AI scaling laws are continuing to compound across both pre-training and inference-time compute. We ourselves have been seeing significant efficiency gains in both training and inference for years now.

next up is our earnings call. :) maybe i'll do a thread.

lot going on up here in redmond.