Vikram Bath

This is a purer look into the female gaze than most guys ever get exposed to

I would love to take my kids to see Lord of the Rings in a theater. I don’t really see a problem with this

I’m seeing a whole lot of people jealous they don’t have a FIFA Peace Prize on the timeline today

There was that huge celebrity leak like a decade ago and now it’s the whole world’s turn I guess

Animal posting bots. I don’t know exactly how it works, but I guess they post popular content to accumulate followers and then use it for something else. Perhaps to legitimize other bots?

Mary Richardson—the mother of four of RFK Jr.'s six children—committed suicide in 2012 after finding RFK Jr’s diary documenting his affairs with 37 different women.

And that isn’t close to the worst thing he’s done

Yeah, they did and she begged them to delete and they wouldn’t and then tried mass blocking and I guess now she’s gone

OHH! That sucks so much!

Haven’t seen her for a while. I’m not seeing her account either anymore

My wife: *calmly watching Gilmore Girls*

Me, always on my bullshit: Isn’t it a little funny that they’re also Gill-less Girls?

Hey, I worked hard on that

A skeptic is a person who reasonably demands evidence commensurate to claims. Other uses of the term are euphemistic and obscure unreasonable positions.

Ukraine sovereignty “skeptic” Vladimir Putin

Ukraine sovereignty skeptic Vladimir Putin

If I don’t follow you, please don’t be offended. I am fickle and ignorant and have poor taste.

If, however, you don’t follow me it’s because I have terrible opinions, and I can only congratulate you on your good judgment

I think that’s Britain?

I obviously need to reflect on my internal biases

*That* is the guy?!?!

Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European. As such, it is an open question whether they will view their place in the world, or their alliance with the United States, in the same way as those who signed the NATO charter.

Quick question: what usually comes after someone telling you “you’re no longer the man/woman I married”?

Me asking for more RAM on our bottleneck server that is slowing down all of our developers

An e-bike is defined by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to have a max 750 W power, or roughly 1 hp. Many of these e-moto vehicles have motors producing as much as 10 times more power than what is regulated. Worse still, these e-bikes are purchased by parents who have no idea exactly how powerful these things are. The confusion appears intentional and is proving profitable and deadly. And without comprehensive federal regulation, it’s only getting worse.

E-motos are electric mopeds, motorcycles, and dirt bikes with motors producing 1,000, 5,000, or even 10,000 watts. They can exceed 30 miles per hour, often with just a bit of fettering in a companion app. Worse still, some reach highway speeds of 65 mph or more. They’re motor vehicles under federal law, subject to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) regulations, and should not be treated the same way as other e-bikes.

Worse still, e-moto manufacturers have found a loophole: put pedals on an electric motorcycle, add a “Class 2 mode” that artificially limits top speed to 20 mph, and market it as a “street-legal e-bike” to teenagers on social media. The fact that the limiter can be disabled with a magnet, a series of keystrokes, or a simple YouTube tutorial? That’s left to word of mouth, rarely put on paper by the company, and often gleefully shared by owners on Facebook and Discord groups.

It's critical that there is differentiation between e-bikes and e-motos in conversations about regulation. They are not the same and should not be treated the same. This article provides a fantastic overview of the differences: archive.ph/paiO8

Yup, was inevitable (but I’m not sure it’ll succeed here for OpenAI the way it worked and has created a revenue base for social and search platforms)

bsky.app/profile/saba...

It might be a good idea for a Wikipedia-like organization to train and release an open-source model (disclosing exactly what is in the training set)

Hard to argue it’s a war crime if there isn’t a war.

Did the target here at any time have weapons that could be trained on the attackers?

I’m not sure it would matter if they did leak! I don’t know if the average user is going to care that much

OpenAI is reportedly going to start showing ads to free users, per MacRumors.

How much would adding “if the user asks about cars, try to work something positive about Chevrolet” to the system prompt be worth?

Getting shot by the Coast Guard while trying to flip my kayak back over

'Financial dysmorphia" is such a great way to describe what I've been calling status anxiety. Holy shit

what you can't do, of course, is admit students based on race in order to achieve an ideologic and experiential balance.

you can only discriminate based on race if you're doing it for partisan advantage