Steven

I heard Ezra Klein is being cancelled over here on Bluesky…

He’s a treasure of civility and pragmatism, ya’ll are the embodiment of the political horseshoe over here, extremism begets extremism.

An anonymous Democratic group leaked a poll that shows swing voters deeply dislike Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the left wing, widening the party's rift The poll found that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a 22% approval rating among 1,003 white non-college-educated voters who knew of her.

Old but indicative www.businessinsider.com/democratic-g...

Introducing Apple’s On-Device and Server Foundation Models At the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference, we introduced Apple Intelligence, a personal intelligence system integrated deeply into iOS 18…

@viticci.macstories.net @ismh86.net on Connected this week, Ticci mentioned Apple doesn’t have a foundational LLM of their own, but they do! A 3b parameter local model & larger model served via private cloud compute. Not as performant by they exist.

machinelearning.apple.com/research/int...

My bad, I forgot this place is not up for earnest discussion, snark only! As you were…

History indicates otherwise, of course, but as much as he would suffer a PR disaster if coffee prices skyrocketed, Colombia would be left in a far worse position.

Like him or not, it’s a strong negotiation tactic. Unfair? Yes, but effective.

Did you read the piece? Colombia acquiesced, so it’s actually a win for Trump?

Meanwhile the Dems are hassling CEOs who contributed to Trump’s inauguration fund…

Why weren’t these types of letters sent to the companies who contributed to Biden’s inauguration?

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so my take on zuck rolling back moderation at meta is that he’s right.

moderation at scale is an impossibly utopian ideal and every company that has tried has failed. worse yet it has fuelled polarisation and public distrust of *everything*.

more speech should be the default.

Whichever way you cut it, this is a bad idea.

Put that statement in reverse and you’re right.

The noise of drones and stuff is intentional in order to obfuscate UAP activity.

So AGI has been achieved and few people seem to realise it.

Happy holidays!

Fitzcarraldo! I got Herzog-pilled during COVID with my housemates and Happy People: A Year in the Taiga was a particular favourite, too.

An almost unparalleled filmography.

Is the five-second rule true? Don't push your luck. The scientific research on floor food has a clear answer.

I remain convinced that my good health is directly attributable to observing the five-second rule.

www.popsci.com/health/five-...

This mind-boggling number exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe. It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch.

We are not prepared for how weird the next decade is going to get.

No better time to read David Deutsch’s “The Beginning of Infinity”.

blog.google/technology/r...

Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

says the person with an anonymous account, so brave.

It’s an open question as to who is defending the defenseless on this topic.

Good luck with your films!

Chinese martial arts? Interesting. Pretty sure the core tenets of that practice include humility, respect, and self control.

None of which you exemplify with threats of violence against untrained individuals based on their opinions.

Chances you’ve ever actually landed a blow on another person are slim to none.

You could imagine the issue in reverse, perhaps. Would you support a Dem motion to revoke, say, Fox News affiliate licenses for doing the public a disservice?

Genuine question, politics aside, shouldn’t the public interest be a factor in determining whether broadcast licenses should be renewed or not?

You’re all over the place.

Ah yes, well known far right racist conspiracy theorist: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer

Have a read through this thread, not only did you set the discussion on “immigrants” but you haven’t specified anything relating to asylum until now. In effect, you’re arguing with yourself.

Have a nice day.

You know there is actual data on this, right?

Maybe have a read, you’ll find that Ukraine is not in the top 5 non-EU countries of origin…

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

Opinion | A Bird Flu Pandemic Would Be One of the Most Foreseeable Catastrophes in History (Gift Article) It’s not too late for President Biden to give the U.S. a life-changing gift.

We’re entering flu season with bird flu raging among US dairy cattle: ~third of CA herds infected.

The danger is flu viruses have a trick: they can swap segments —one farmworker co-infected by human and avian flu— to cause pandemics.

We may get lucky. I hope so.

🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/o...

I mean, the data backs him up. You first have to acknowledge that a problem exists before it can fixed. The Conservatives led an experiment in open borders whilst simultaneously creating a hostile environment for those migrants to arrive to. That is totally unsustainable.

The Enclosure of the Human Psyche The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 13

This by @lmsacasas.bsky.social gets at similar themes, worth your time :)

theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-enclos...

YouTube video by Apple Heartstrings | Apple Holiday | Hearing Aid feature on AirPods Pro 2

Great ad for AirPods Pro hearing aid mode, it’s not often a feature can legitimately be called life changing, but this one qualifies and then some.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

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