gtlt.bsky.social
Native/pollinator Gardener. Electrical engineer. Tinkerer. DIY homeowner. Minnesota resident. Trekkie. Gamer.
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No one is gonna read 2.3m emails, they'll feed it into Grok. A prompt like "list the 10% least productive people". Muskrat and the kids at DOGE all pat each other on the back with their heads so far up their ass they can't smell the smoke from all the fires they've started.
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Note how "if you don't respond we'll treat that as a resignation" is not in the actual email
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The media took them literally in 2024 when they swore up and down they have no idea what P2025 was, and said "okay! We trust you."
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Even if it was $55b that's less than 1% of yearly federal spending. $8.8b is 0.1%.
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It's the deleterious effects. LLMs are a tool like any other but they excel at flooding social media with convincing bots and search results with slop articles.
They can aid in research but we've had web search for decades and books and libraries for centuries.
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What you said has equally been true in the past. Read a text book or manual and you can learn a lot about a subject without needing formal education. Except I trust the stuff humans have written way more.
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Pihole as well takes it a step further but slightly more technical.
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2010: you have a problem and have to navigate through an unhelpful phone maze that has no options relevant to your issue to get to a human
2025: the same, but now the phone maze consumes 11 gigawatts of power
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Looks like you're showing up
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Something being illegal doesn't matter if no one does anything about it.
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The heights of depravity know no bounds
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My exact frustrations with political discourse over energy technology. There's a lot of people chiming in that probably don't even know Ohm's Law, but because they don't know the solutions, certainly no one else does.
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There's a new gardening feed which doesn't need signup
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Someone named Mario has the opportunity to do the funniest thing in history
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Always got to remind myself that the people doing stuff like preventing toddlers from getting crushed outnumber the weirdoes in government by probably 500:1
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No way his 20-something lackeys know COBOL
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The feed is here
I just added you to the feed. This means that any post you make that contains the emoji "🌱" will appear in the feed.
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Hey man we got plenty of good craft stuff.
Ones large enough that they're exporting.. yeah pretty trash though
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I freely admit my wife, a fed employee, works way harder than I do working at my private job.
That FAQ statement pissed her off, and I'm sure plenty of other fed employees.
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I don't know why but the first thing that popped into my head is 'it looks like those trees are dancing'
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And if he does say something, like 'journalists should be jailed', Harris was being misleading in saying he would do that, as it wasn't part of his 'official platform'
Actual example I vividly remember from @npr.org . Media failed us and failed democracy.
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Used business-class laptops can be a pretty good deal
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See: Apple Intelligence summarizing texts, saving you seconds of reading..
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People love being pedantic
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Consistently on the losing side. Hopefully the earning of another L comes without too much hassle.
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Thanks for setting this up
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You can't just post a picture of me like that
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What a weird implication the OP of that first picture has... that history has had an exactly equal amount of far-right and far-left activity so obviously it's bias to skew it one way.
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Not just the media, I am feeling motivated to avoid giving any money to mega corps. Especially the tech giants.
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I'd say it's 50/50 we have warp drive this century or astronauts die on their way to Mars in a Cybertruck shaped ship.
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The frustrating thing is that the people online who will come and tell you you didn't see what you saw probably aren't real, just AI bots. It's very disorienting and everyone should be cautious and take care of themselves
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Wake me up in 2100, please.
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Most of the problems that exist today with our modern technology and scientific knowledge still exist because they are just that hard to solve
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Then both should be addressed
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The microprocessors often used in systems like this (PLCs) often use a language called Ladder Logic which is designed to emulate the relay logic it replaced. Those PLCs are also highly resilient and designed to operate continuously for decades - and it's common to find ones that have.
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It wouldn't be popular but paying for access feels like it would solve so many problems. Ad-supported models are just not sustainable and fighting bots is always an arms race.
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Captchas don't stop bots anymore.
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"weird" - that's one thing I hope doesn't get forgotten from Kamala's failed campaign. There are some downright weird people in the spotlight right now, and they need to be called what they are.
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From a technology aspect, it's an interesting discussion to have surrounding limitations/failings of infrastructure and how they can be improved -- and it's frustrating to have that clouded by nonsense like "DEI hires didn't fill the water tanks" or whatever the hell they're on about
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Unfortunately I don't know what the status of the other regional feeds is. Eepy might.
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If you click someone's referral link, if Honey is used before the purchase, it nullifies that referral even if it found no coupons.
Also it just doesn't do what it says it does, which is find 'the best' coupon codes. So it provides little value and just skims off the top from everyone else.
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I've been getting a trickle of people joining the midwest feed, but not very much.