Riverboatjack

Riverboatjack

@riverboatjack.bsky.social

streamer and political organizer socialist transgender former: game informer, extra life, xbox mag she/her business email: jack@penslingers.org

4,795 Followers 2,345 Following 3,924 Posts Joined Jul 2023
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Cities in Vermont and Maine are experiencing some of the same tactics that ICE has been using across Minnesota since December, and facing lots of resistance.

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JUST IN: Judge Shah in Illinois has blocked the Trump admin from yanking $600m in public health funds from four blue states, saying it appeared to be a “contrived” and illegal effort to punish them for sanctuary immigration policies storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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They... they just didn't think of the most obvious first response Iran would have?

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Anti-trans hate groups petitioning FDA for registry of trans women, crackdown on transition, newly revealed document shows In the short term, this is not as dangerous as an outright ban on estrogen. If implemented and then combined with other methods of suppressing trans people, it might be far more destructive in the lon...

An assortment of groups has submitted a set of awful proposals to the FDA concerning estrogen as HRT. theneedlenews.com/anti-trans-h...

Public comment is still open. If you comment opposing these proposals and send me a screenshot, I'll draw you a sketch in this thread (link+examples below).

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John Solly Is the DOGE Operative Accused of Planning to Take Social Security Data to His New Job A whistleblower complaint alleges John Solly claimed to have stored highly sensitive Social Security data on a thumb drive. Solly and Leidos, his current employer, strongly deny the allegations.

SCOOP: John Solly Is the DOGE Operative Accused of Planning to Take Social Security Data to His New Job

w/ @telliotter.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/john-s...

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This is the reality of what AI companies want for the future: where EVERYONE is unable to function without relying on them for "intelligence as a utility."

In order for them to sell this to us, they need to convince us our brains are never creative, interesting, able enough.

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This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.

They’ll play this in museums in future.

(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

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Living my best life despite the horrors.

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Ok, I will admit that of all the patterns my ADHD recognized and followed through on, none of them led to this one.

Not one.

A week ago, I'd've laughed at anyone suggesting this.

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18 hours ago

This shit should be illegal in policing.

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1 day ago

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

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Court order ordering work to cease at Williamsport ICE detention warehouse.

JUDGE GRANTS TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER, HALTING PROGRESS ON WILLIAMSPORT, MD. DETENTION WAREHOUSE.

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With Venezuela, going "hey oil companies, go get oil that needs a lot of refining, lacks infrastructure, and is in a volatile security situation" didn't work.

Going "hey shipping and insurance companies, take your flammable commodity through a strait where things are blowing up" won't work either.

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tough look for a man with a line of antiperspirant deodorant

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"I've been following your podcast for a while and y'all manage to feel earnest, respectful of both devs and consumers' rights, and just generally kind." #whysupportminnmax www.patreon.com/c/minnmax

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its only been like a week and this is already one of the stupidest things anyone's ever posted

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ICE is still acting like ICE. Abolish ICE.

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Again, this is a feature of Tomahawk route planning. Tomahawk doesn’t know where it is unless it makes a number of unique terrain matches over an ingress route that must extend for several hundred kilometers. In 2003 routes over Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran were used during strikes on Iraq.

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"Macrohard or Digital Optimus is a joint xAI-Tesla project, coming as part of Tesla’s investment agreement with xAI. 

Grok is the master conductor/navigator with deep understanding of the world to direct digital Optimus, which is processing and actioning the past 5 secs of real-time computer screen video and keyboard/mouse actions. Grok is like a much more advanced and sophisticated version of turn-by-turn navigation software. 

You can think of it as Digital Optimus AI being System 1 (instinctive part of the mind) and Grok being System 2. (thinking part of the mind). 

This will run very competitively on the super low cost Tesla AI4 ($650) paired with relatively frugal use of the much more expensive xAI Nvidia hardware. And it will be the only real-time smart AI system. This is a big deal. 

In principle, it is capable of emulating the function of entire companies. That is why the program is called MACROHARD, a funny reference to Microsoft. 

No other company can yet do this."

as Tesla unravels Elon Musk will be forced to be increasingly incoherent with his vaporware hype slop until he's just left screaming incoherent strings of non sequiturs about GLORMS and interdimensional portals

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"Hopefully the world economy can just spin up again in a few weeks"

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This is why it's infuriating to see Frey held up on the national stage as some powerful resistance figure. He's also just obfuscation the truth here, which is that COVID 19 eviction moratoriums improved health and reduced evictions.

This cowardice never would have happened under Omar Fateh.

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Rock fire department turns down $250K Google donation At the end of Highway 97 you'll find Charley Pearson taking care of his cattle in the peace and quiet of the Rock community."That’s what all the people out here

An Oklahoma fire department turned down $250,000 from Google because they didn't want to betray public trust as Google tries to build a data center in their community.

The Rock Volunteer Fire Department chief got a standing ovation for speaking out against the data center.

ktul.com/news/local/r...

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Pentagon Report: U.S. Military Fired Missile at Elementary School in Iran A U.S. military “targeting error” triggered the killing of at least 175 at a school in Iran, the highest civilian death toll in Trump’s war.

Despite attempts by Trump to claim otherwise, the U.S. military was responsible for killing at least 175 in a strike on a school in Iran.

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you can tell Wired has been doing good journalism lately because there's been increased whining by the extraction class about how Wired mysteriously changed in the decade since tech titans fully revealed themselves as sociopaths

from this recent Dorsey interview:

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Hello, I am looking for freelance writing gigs quite urgently due to being a victim - now twice - of theft. Any help is appreciated. I have written widely on games, TV shows and film for a variety of outlets - IGN, The Verge, Slate. If you have or know anything, plz DM me ASAP.

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“In my 15 years in the Senate, I have never left a briefing this angry. We are heading down a path toward sending U.S. troops to Iran as ground forces,” — Sen. Richard Blumenthal

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Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

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We are LIVE to talk about the mining of the Strait of Hormuz and sundry other catastrophes.

GWT IN THE BOAT!! Twitch, YouTube, and Riverboat.gg

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Tbh, Roberts needs to be held accountable for this lawlessness.

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