Jake Beard retweeted
Jake Beard
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Jake Beard retweeted
so the tiktok ban is just a huge internet restriction bill?
it says using a VPN to access "banned apps" lands you a minimum imprisonment 20 years + a fine of either $250k or $1 mil. the president appoints someone to head a group that monitors anything that access the internet
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Jake Beard retweeted
the "TikTok" ban is a backdoor to basically full government surveillance of any computer "transaction". You do anything the government didn't like on the computer? Bam, 20 years or massive fines.
Greg Price@greg_price11
The bill to ban TikTok is absolutely terrifying. It gives the government the ability to go after anyone they deem as a national security risk at which point they can access everything from their computer to video games to their ring light. This is a Patriot Act for the internet.
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Jake Beard retweeted
DISASTER: President Biden today approved the Willow oil project in Alaska on the largest tract of pristine land in the US. This will create catastrophic pollution for decades just as the planet reaches the tipping point.
Willow will have deadly results.
theguardian.com/us-news/2023/m…
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Jake Beard retweeted
It's depressing to consider, but I suspect the demise of skiing in the Alps will prove to be far more consequential to the rich world's awareness of climate change than news that one third of Pakistan is underwater.
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@AenderLara Amazing work! Are you using any software to simulate the physics?
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Jake Beard retweeted
I've seen enough: Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) defeats Herschel Walker (R) in the #GASEN runoff, giving Democrats a 51-49 majority in the Senate.
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He just posted a poll asking whether to reinstate tr*mp and I just want to be clear: if tr*mp comes back on Twitter, this account is going away. I’ve found my community on Mastodon. I’ve put up the archive. I did it all with an eye toward this moment; I’ve prepared as best I can.
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I was bitten by the knowledge management bug in 2020 but didn't like any of the apps I tried, including ones I made for myself. I recently tried a new approach: everything's on the filesystem, all relationships are represented with symlinks.
It's working really well!
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Jake Beard retweeted
@anothercohen There is a coffee shop for sale in Lyons, CO: coloproperty.com/listing/detail…
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I don't know a single person who works in tech and hasn't seriously thought about quitting and opening up a coffee shop in a small town in the middle of nowhere
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@hillelogram I once wrote a paper called “Operating Systems as Normative Universes in the Context of Spinoza’s Metaphysics”
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Are there any good philosophers of software out there?
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Jake Beard retweeted
Nobody wants to talk about abortion. I hear this daily.
And it’s true. And we shouldn’t have to talk about it - it should be medical care that is available when needed.
But it’s not.
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If someone gives you a CSV file with 100,000 rows in it, what tools do you use to start exploring and understanding that data?
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2022: “WOW you can write a prompt and an AI will draw it!”
2028: “You want to write a prompt? First you need to hire 10-15 promptOps Engineers to build out your PromptFlow pipelines which sends promptjobs to your PromptLake from the PromptQueue using the EventPrompt stream”
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Jake Beard retweeted
The stuff happening on the Stable Diffusion subreddit right now is pretty wild - since the model can be run by anyone on their own machine if they have a decent GPU reddit.com/r/StableDiffus…
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