A sad mirror of our culture - you can murder ten people with an AR-15 during prime time, as long as you donβt swear while youβre doing it.
02.08.2025 19:41 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@acitrano.bsky.social
Maine kid in LA. Opinions mine. Communications, technology, public policy. Rap sheet: CEO, Acquicent; VP Communications, Verizon; EdgeCast; aide, Senator Angus King; chair, PopTech. I'm the guy who infuriated Trump with a tweet about hot dog skin.
A sad mirror of our culture - you can murder ten people with an AR-15 during prime time, as long as you donβt swear while youβre doing it.
02.08.2025 19:41 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Motherfucking wind farmsβ¦
30.07.2025 17:02 β π 45908 π 17332 π¬ 1145 π 2301I always got this weird sense of pity watching him in front of a camera, not entirely unlike what one might feel seeing an animal performing for treats.
28.07.2025 19:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Next up: βthis is the well-established responsibility of the junior senator from Illinois, and has been for generationsβ
27.07.2025 22:18 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βThe Biden ministrationβ
27.07.2025 19:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Next up: βthis is the well-established responsibility of the junior senator from Illinois, and has been for generationsβ
27.07.2025 19:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0To be fair it doesnβt understand anything π
27.07.2025 19:41 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0a six-letter word is a "big word" to these people, but not "dadgum"
20.07.2025 20:16 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Feedback seems to be lacking on her Facebook post of the article:
www.facebook.com/615602566860...
Watters is a funny name for an empty vessel
17.07.2025 13:51 β π 131 π 4 π¬ 3 π 0I feel like this tidbit from @carolleonnig.bsky.social's excellent reporting on #ButlerPA is being overlooked by the #cryptography community.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
#encryption
an AI factory - just think of it
15.07.2025 23:02 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So $3M per employee?
15.07.2025 23:02 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I feel like this tidbit from @carolleonnig.bsky.social's excellent reporting on #ButlerPA is being overlooked by the #cryptography community.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
#encryption
I do think itβs interesting that the White Houseβs official position is that God killed a volunteer fireman in front of his family
13.07.2025 19:15 β π 4129 π 1120 π¬ 267 π 66This is not only correct, but it's my favorite kind of correct.
13.07.2025 08:16 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0"ICE is arresting people based on accent" is an absolutely wild sentence to read
12.07.2025 19:11 β π 2387 π 491 π¬ 45 π 12βFor years, it's Epstein over and over againβ reads so much like βRussia, Russia, Russiaβ.
13.07.2025 01:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0(2/3 of the people mentioned there aren't cabinet members, but) I say:
11.07.2025 21:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sadly, being early is very rarely rewarded by the marketplace! π
11.07.2025 18:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Immigration raid at cannabis farm leads to chaos, one farmworker reportedly suffers grave injuries -- archive.is/MBd7j#select... via LATimes www.latimes.com/california/s...
11.07.2025 18:25 β π 22 π 8 π¬ 3 π 1This would be fascinating. If you do it, don't miss the Casco Bay Weekly (Portland, Maine).
09.07.2025 19:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0if Trump were actively trying to impoverish and deskill the united states for the sake of our competitors, what would he be doing differently?
09.07.2025 19:19 β π 9055 π 2675 π¬ 220 π 124Jim!! I still remember your phone number.
09.07.2025 18:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I don't think it's our fault - it must be something about how we've evolved to process language (and to reflexively associate it with cognition).
We may not be biologically equipped to properly assess/interact with an entity that's very good at language, but totally devoid of thinking ability. π€
Generative AIs are just probabilistic text engines - sorta like autocorrect on steroids. I wouldn't trust my autocorrect with anything that mattered. No offense intended, I am just really freaked out by how quickly people are putting their trust in these things! π¨
09.07.2025 17:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It's not doing anything you can't do much better! Generative AI models are wrong about facts a very high % of the time because they have no thinking or reasoning abilities. Even OpenAI's own research shows this (attached).
09.07.2025 17:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Indeed yes, I am rather familiar.
09.07.2025 17:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0>Asking an AI
And there's the big fumble! π
(Yes I know I am annoying.)
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