Steve Anichini

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If these AI products being pushed everywhere are so good and have such a productivity boost, why are AI startups having to work their employees to the bone? Undercuts their entire sales message.

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Paramount’s Trump Settlement: A Big Fat Bribe | Jeffrey Epstein Never Dies | FIFA Trophy Row

Two days ago Colbert called out Paramount's bribe to Trump.

Today Paramount cancelled his show.

youtu.be/zzvx3L3DQb8

YouTube video by Warner Bros. Mortal Kombat II | Official Trailer

Mortal Kombat 2 movie trailer here....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdC5...

I Do Not Want To Think About Factories So Big That Their Scale Is Physically Sickening - Aftermath Paul Chadeisson has long been one of my favourite artists working in and around video games, having most recently lent his talents to stuff like Cyberpunk 2077 and the upcoming Homeworld 3. The latter...

foundation is back, which means lovers of @paulchadeisson.bsky.social megastructures and big spaceships are in for a treat

(first ep has BIG JUMPGATES and HUGE SPACE STATIONS)

Many worse things going on but merging Trump's corruption with FIFA's corruption is a corruption black hole.

A building size screen projects a "Shutting Down" screen from the Windows operating system.

Not even Crown Fountain in Chicago is immune to a surprise update.

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

I've never really played anything Warhammer 40k until Rogue Trader but the way the tech priests use computers in that game reminds me a lot of how vibe coders use prompts.

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

Here's what I care about as a non-NYC resident - the bad faith, concerted effort by dem leadership to attack the winner of a democratic primary, particularly when the party's attacks on trump have been weak and disorganized. It's a slap in the face to dem voters nationwide. Primary everyone.

she's the chair of the DSCC so I think it is fair for us all to call our Dem senators to express dismay that the chair of the DSCC is performing vile attacks on the winner of a democratic primary, and demand she step down from her leadership role. Not just a NY issue.

All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight

Why the Democratic Tea Party Failed (and How It Could Succeed) For the left to win, it must blame fascism on the actual fascists.

i think the mamdani campaign also vindicates @polphilpod.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1953...

Primary every Democrat who is not meeting this moment. Get rid of them all.

It’s hard to overstate how angry rank and file Dems are at the Dem establishment right now. And if I were a self-preservationist incumbent I would take note.

I switched to using Kagi for search recently, which is subscription based. Even though I was using DuckDuckGo before, it's so much better - no AI summaries or ads to wade through just search results right away.

It’s not 2003 anymore anywhere in America except for CNN, Fox News, and the New York Times opinion page.

As mentioned before, the least realistic part of T2 is when a tech guy learns that his project is going to have negative consequences, and *agrees to help shut it down.*

YouTube video by ukandanz uKanDanZ - WAR PIGS (Official Music Video)

For no reason at all here's an Ethiopian cover of 'War Pigs' I happened to run into today

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

YouTube video by Yuta Sugiura Foldy: Graphical Instruction for Garment Folding Robot (SIGGRAPH 2009 Emerging Technologies)

apparently it was 15 years ago!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkRB...

I remember at SIGGRAPH 5+ years back there was a student project that built a clothes-folding robot.

AI research went off the rails since then.

"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!

Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

Illinois follows the law — we expect the federal government to follow the law, too.

We won't participate in abuses of power.
We won't violate court orders.
We won't ignore the Constitution.
We won't defy the Supreme Court.
We won't take away people’s right to peacefully protest.

Blue states should start offering voluntary electronic payment services for federal taxes fee-free or for a state tax deduction, and use their leverage over those financial flows to fight back.

The Strategic Logic of the No Kings Protests By Leah Greenberg, Indivisible Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director

Why another protest? What is it going to accomplish? Shouldn’t we be [insert alternate tactic] instead?

These are good-faith questions, and they stem from very reasonable concerns. So let’s take a step back and talk about the role of a peaceful mass mobilization like No Kings.

ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600 And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.

ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.