@hastifliche.bsky.social borges

The Female Loneliness Epidemic is larger than the Male Loneliness Epidemic, but you do not hear about it.

The reason, to me, seems to be rooted in the fact that lonely females are far less likely to shoot you.

given one of the few good uses for LLMs is coding assistance maybe tech council members should immediately open source all their code under a permissive license. to do otherwise would risk harming investment in the AI industry in Australia, imo

There are basic but fundamental errors at the heart of the Wolf-Pettis thesis. Most importantly, there is a misunderstanding of the meaning and definition of 'saving'. 1/

Starmerism Down Under Anthony Albanese’s Australian Labor Party is competing with Starmer’s for blandness and capitulation — and in doing so, proving the importance of rebuilding international working-class power.

"If New Labour learned how to win from Hawke and Keating, Albanese taught Starmer how not to lose."

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/06/star...

Your screenshot is irrelevant. ChatGPT would do the same thing for any writer. If it’s doing a good job of emulating your style it probably has been trained on your articles but that was almost certainly the case before the official partnership.

Sorry i mean the Trumpet of Patriots

Look into the United Australia Party, they’ll change your mind

The source of the ad revenue was Google to begin with. It’s a brutal and very damaging move to be sure, but I’m not sure these site owners have ‘rights’ to maximise revenue from Google. I see it more as an issue of a massive power imbalance.

ChatGPT is one thing, but Google Overview is definitely not theft, it’s just a summary

If you're a journalist in the US and you're not speaking out against the ongoing killing of Palestinian journalists, at record levels, by a US-funded foreign military, then you should hang your head in shame.

FUCK MY LIFE!

I just read Abundance. Yes, we need to build faster. To do so, we need to be precise about what causes delays.

Imprecision risks a co-opting of "abundance" by deregulation fans – a smokescreen to jettison labor & equity standards that aren’t the source of delay.

For example:🧵

This Is Uvalde | Defector Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics, coverage, and consequences of Campaign 2024. Should Democrats att...

The window for this @tomscocca.bsky.social column to avoid being the defining piece of political commentary for this era is rapidly closing.

defector.com/this-is-uvalde

This Is Uvalde | Defector Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics, coverage, and consequences of Campaign 2024. Should Democrats att...

"Some of them are executing what they think is the protocol for this type of situation even though it's obvious to their own eyes and ears that the protocol and the situation are a mismatch....Someone somewhere is looking for the right tools, the appropriate key. " defector.com/this-is-uvalde

How Covid Sickened the National Psyche While the US was a troubled nation long before the coronavirus, our failure to treat the pandemic as an enduring emergency helped birth this nasty moment.

Covid made the world sicker, angrier, and more fragmented. There has been no recovery from the social and medical consequences. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

New policy question just landed on the Direct Democracy Forum: "Should Australia abolish the 50% Capital Gains Tax (CGT) discount?"
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The Boomerang Comes Back - Boston Review How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.

"What if, rather than blaming Palestinians, Arab Americans, and American Muslims, these pundits had seen their treatment—under Biden and for decades before him—as central to the Trump-led repression looming before us?"

Noura Erakat on the imperial boomerang

www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

The Coming Showdown in Trumpworld Trump’s elite backers—economic nationalists, Wall Street, and the techno-right—may soon fracture over conflicting agendas.

Excellent, by @drodrik.bsky.social : why 'Trump’s elite backers—economic nationalists, Wall Street, and the techno-right—may soon fracture over conflicting agendas.'
www.socialeurope.eu/the-coming-s...

Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Well-Informed? Global temperature leaped more than 0.4°C (0.7°F) during the past two years, the 12-month average peaking in August 2024 at +1.6°C relative to the temperature at the beginning of last century (the ...

China's desulphurization definitely led to regional warming and (extreme) precipitation increase.

Shipping SOx is over the oceans, which likely causes a very strong regional and global forcing.

Hansen et al. estimate +0.5 W/m² from shipping desulphurization:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My main thing is people shouldn’t be hoodwinked by Ed’s doom narrative

Ok this wasn’t phrased perfectly and I was dealing with space constraints. What I meant was that the biggest source of non-recuperable costs is the research, infrastructure development and then compute costs of creating a foundation model. Whereas the unit economics of inference are not doomed

Ed Zitron is full of bluster but completely clueless!

Unit economics of LLM APIs — LessWrong Disclaimer 1: Our calculations are rough in places; information is sparse, guesstimates abound. …

Unit economics are favourable now for inference: www.lesswrong.com/posts/SJESBW...

This is simplistic at best. The training process, which is the bulk of the cost, doesn’t depend on how many users there are. And I believe they’re now profiting on inference (daily usage) at least with lower-end models.
If you blindly trust Ed Zitron, you will be endlessly confused and disappointed.

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

This is the message we need to send at #TeslaTakedown protests today: we know Tesla's trillion dollar valuation is built on fraud and abuse, and we are coming for it. We will make Tesla ownership a taboo, cars and stock, unthinkable to anyone who believes in the basic values of the U.S. constitution