Brian
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Brian
@NZDoyleB
“All progress depends on the unreasonable man”. GBS
Hawke's Bay, New Zealand Katılım Mayıs 2022
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🚨 UPDATE: F-16 fighter jets intercepted an unresponsive aircraft in restricted air space around West Palm Beach while President Trump was present
The F-16s had to deploy FLARES to get the pilot to respond
I’d imagine that pilot needs a new pair of pants
Nick Sortor@nicksortor
🚨 UPDATE: High-level sources tell me this was NOT a drone incursion, but a plane 15 miles from Palm Beach International—where Air Force One was parked—whose pilot stopped responding to Air Traffic Controllers Pilot eventually got in contact with the tower and immediately exited the zone “[Secret Service] was tracking the whole time,” the source told me. At least one pilot announced to their passengers that there was a drone incursion, and a ground stop was issued. I have not yet confirmed why choppers were scrambled.
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yeah getting any question answered in seconds by a super intelligent computer is cool and all but where are the teleporters
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Anyone who puts the CO₂ concentration from the year he or she was born in his or her bios gets an automatic block.
e.g., “Born @ 358 ppm”
Climate pronouns are a universal sign to the rest of us that you are a window-licker who is not worth wasting time engaging with.
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@GuntherEagleman @BernieSanders @AbeLester7 Elon Musk @elonmusk has paid more dollars in tax than any human that has ever lived!
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@BernieSanders @AbeLester7 Which mansion did you post this from?
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Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, recently paid an effective tax rate of less than 3.3%.
That is less than the average truck driver, nurse and teacher.
YES, we must demand the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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@PalmerLuckey @NYTimesPR The “journalists” at @NYTimesPR are so far gone they don’t even realise they’ve flipped from reporters to activists.
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@NYTimesPR Insightful reporting like fabricating quotes from me and refusing to correct it? And then carefully slicing any mention of that from every other quote I give you for the next decade?
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Palmer Luckey@PalmerLuckey
The New York Times did the exact same thing to me. They took a written statement about my political contributions in 2016 (which were still widely and publicly reported as funding extremist trolling and harassment campaigns) and sliced out "through the use of a single billboard" from the middle of the sentence, eliminating a comma and adding a period to make it look like I was talking and admitting to the aforementioned harassment campaigns. The editors refused to correct it, despite it being absolutely indisputable that they had altered my written statement. They said it did not "materially alter the meaning" and stopped responding when I quoted them the portion of the NYT Style Guide (which was part of my own journalism-school curriculum) that explicitly explains why their alteration was unethical and unprofessional.
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Jason, business leaders from your industry and others speak to The New York Times, as they have for years, because our reporters produce insightful, fair reporting that illuminates audiences everywhere. We're not publicists and we're not promoting anyone's pitch deck.
@jason@Jason
Founders: take my advice... do not talk to the press, go direct and do long-form podcasts. Wired and the NYT are as biased as Fox News and MSNOW these days This is a function of their need to pander to one side to survive, be it through $ 3-a-month subs or rage-baiting ad-based stories. Attacking tech gets views (see Karen Swisher)... and views get advertisers (paradoxically, tech advertisers support the folks trashing tech! let that sink in!) Founders: If you talk to the NYT or WIRED, they will trash and misrepresent you 95% of the time in order to get more subscribers and page views It is what it is...
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@jk_rowling @franks_lawyer When all this ridiculousness is consigned to history @jk_rowling will be remembered as a shining light of commonsense and reasonable thought amoung a thought contagion of epic proportions.
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As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable?
Is it my belief that women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms?
That women should retain female-only rape crisis centres?
That men don’t belong in women’s sport?
That female prisoners shouldn’t be incarcerated with violent men and male sex offenders?
That women should remain a protected class in law, because they have sex-specific needs and issues?
That language should reflect reality rather than ideological jargon, especially in a medical context?
That women shouldn’t be harassed, persecuted or fired for refusing to pretend humans can change sex?
That women should not be threatened with violence and rape when they assert their rights?
That freedom of speech and belief are essential to a pluralistic democratic society?
That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit?
That gay people shouldn’t be pressured to include the opposite sex in their dating pools, nor should they be smeared as ‘genital fetishists’ when they don’t?
That cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists aren’t actually oppressed, but having the time of their lives piggybacking off gender identity ideology?
That said ideology, and the privileged, blinkered fools pushing it because they suffer zero consequences themselves, have done more damage to the political left’s credibility than Trump and Farage could have achieved in a century?
Let me have your thoughts.
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New Zealand! I see you.
discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id…
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I don't get it... why do democrats protect criminals so hard?
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Absolutely moronic. A moratorium on data centers won't stop AI from being built. It will just ensure that the United States no longer controls it.
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders
We are rapidly creating technology that could surpass human intelligence, with enormous risks to jobs, society and humanity itself. AI must work for all of us, not just a handful of billionaires. That’s why I’m introducing a moratorium on new AI data centers.
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It's a shame this is paywalled. It details that the Herald has "unearthed a Cabinet paper, in Hipkins’ name, from March 2022 that includes the advice".
For some reason the paper never made it to the Covid Inquiry.
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Also what's up with LLMs always asking a follow up question? "Now would you like me to [insert semi-relevant arbitrary next step, like generate a graphic]". Is that just to keep users engaged and using the platform? Because sometimes I just need a direct answer and that's it. If I do need to continue the convo, it's usually not in the direction of the LLM suggestion.
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One common issue with personalization in all LLMs is how distracting memory seems to be for the models. A single question from 2 months ago about some topic can keep coming up as some kind of a deep interest of mine with undue mentions in perpetuity. Some kind of trying too hard.
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Winston Peters: We will be breaking up the power companies so they can no longer control both the power and the price.
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Absolutely. The judges responsible for repeatedly releasing violent criminals who commit horrific crimes must be impeached.
Arthur MacWaters@ArthurMacwaters
This is insanity Judges are complicit in the murder of innocent people by repeat criminals It’s not like they don’t know these facts. 60% of violent criminals released from prison return to prison with a new conviction within just a few years Hold the judges accountable
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@DavidPattt That’s true. Pity he’s played by one of the biggest wankers ever though.
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Confused about why fuel prices go up so fast? Me too. Here's Groks' explanation. It might seem plausible but it still sucks balls!
grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5…
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I feel your pain & had the same thing. Constant debugging, ~$40 per day on average in api fees and nothing to show for it. Slowly getting on top of it though & have reduced the daily burn & improved productivity with a new 4 model setup.
main = gpt-5.4-mini
code = claude-sonnet-4-6
research = gemini-3.1-pro-preview
scout = grok-4.2-beta
Finally seeming to make some progress.
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The real AI revolution isn't happening in the cloud—it's happening locally. Running OpenClaw natively on a Mac Mini means true privacy and zero latency. With the OpenClaw foundation now backed by OpenAI, the era of relying solely on subscription wrappers is ending. My agent (Skel) automated a monthly process for me and what used to take me 4-5 hours across 2 days now takes me 15 minutes. Local agents are the future of personal computing.
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