@camkasky I suspect a lot of those people defending Israel also have a pretty shallow understanding of what apartheid actually was like.
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PrettyFlyForAReplyGuy
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@PolShitpostAlt
This isn’t the greatest Twitter account in the world. It’s just an Alt.
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Nobody who claims Israel is not an apartheid state can explain to you from a policy or logical perspective why it is not an apartheid state. The word just hurts their feelings.
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@PeterTwinklage “How can you be gay and evil? Here to discuss is my next guest Peter Thiel”
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“if you hold a gay pride parade, you can carry out a genocide and tank the global economy”
Democratic Majority for Israel@DemMaj4Israel
Paul Begala is right. If you're a liberal, there's good reason to stand with Israel.
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@Timodc “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog"
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@washingtonpost They must be so confused about who to racially profile in PR
“Shit, they’re all Mexican. What do we do?”
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ICE agents are at airports to assist with federal staffing shortages caused by a partial government shutdown. President Trump has suggested the agents would also be arresting undocumented immigrants.
Here’s where ICE is stationed so far: wapo.st/4t87KBc
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@WillRinehart Everyone kind of dunked on the Paul Krugman thing about the Internet having no greater economic impact as the fax machine. But that may end up kinda being what happens with AI. Big changes to how business is done but fairly small actual economic impact in aggregate.
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New NBER paper surveys ~750 CFOs on AI’s real effects. Key findings:
-Firms perceive 1.8% labor productivity gains from AI in 2025, but revenue-based measures imply only 0.6%. It's a classic productivity paradox: the benefits feel real before they show up in the numbers. Interesting addendum: what firms report as productivity gains today roughly matches what their revenue numbers imply for next year. The gains may be real, just delayed.
-These gains are not primarily driven by firms' capital deepening but instead reflect increases in revenue based total factor productivity.
-Aggregate job losses are minimal so far. Large firms expect modest cuts; small firms expect slight headcount gains. Net 2026 effect: roughly -0.4% of the labor force.
-The jobs most at risk are office and administrative support. The jobs getting a boost tend to be engineers, analysts, sales roles.
-Productivity gains come mostly from product innovation and better customer reach, not cost-cutting.
At least right now, AI is a growth tool first, a labor-saver second.
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@LinkofSunshine She’s a a’waivin’ proud around the Earth, from Dallas to Ft Worth
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In America Republicans are only the mayor of 2/22 of the biggest cities and one because they switched parties lol
(Dallas and Fort Worth)
Dani@_danieletto
Comparemos con España: ◾ Madrid 🔵 (PP) ◾ Barcelona 🌹 (PSC) ◾ Valencia 🔵 (PP) ◾ Zaragoza 🔵 (PP) ◾ Sevilla 🔵 (PP) ◾ Málaga 🔵 (PP) ◾ Murcia 🔵 (PP) ◾ Palma 🔵 (PP) ◾ Las Palmas 🌹 (PSOE) ◾ Alicante 🔵 (PP)
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@esjesjesj Literature, famous for not having many LGBT+ voices.
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This post made many AI authors angry.
Luiza Jarovsky, PhD@LuizaJarovsky
Nobody wants to read AI-generated posts. Nobody wants to read AI-generated emails. Nobody wants to read AI-generated newsletters. Nobody wants to read AI-generated reports. Nobody wants to read AI-generated articles. Nobody wants to read AI-generated anything.
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@VEEPILF Kinda doing Hoover dirty in that comparison
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It’s only right we get a FDR after our second Hoover
Democratic Wins Media@DemocraticWins
BREAKING: Governor JB Pritzker just took a stand and called for the undoing of the Citizens United ruling. This is spot on.
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@TimJHanrahan @WSJ So many better options. Actually only a few options that would be worse than him
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New in @WSJ just now:
Some Democrats on Capitol Hill are discussing how to get New York Sen. Chuck Schumer to step aside as Senate minority leader amid concerns about his negotiating style and midterms strategy.
wsj.com/politics/polic…
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@JadeCole2112 They already don’t think of other people as actually really human, so pretty easy for them to believe everything else is actually a simulation
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@NewsWire_US Not looking forward to ICE pulling a gun in me if I forget to take my laptop out of my bag
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@electionsjoe It would be really funny if he ordered them like be normal TSA agents. On the other hand, I’d rather not be shot 12 times because I didn’t know whether or not to take my laptop out of my bag
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Genuinely what is he trying to accomplish with this?
NewsWire@NewsWire_US
TRUMP: I WILL DEPLOY ICE AGENTS TO AIRPORTS ON MONDAY IF DEMOCRATS DON'T AGREE TO FUND DHS
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@PeterTwinklage This backs up my theory that all photographers and artists hate Republicans and deliberately make them look like shit. Like, they chose this cover. This was allegedly the best take
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staring at this cover has me feeling like Pete Hegseth after a 6-martini lunch
paige@BonerWizard
she looks like someone’s big toe made a wish to be a real girl
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@TVietor08 If it passes the house due to Democratic votes making up for Republican defections, I will become the Joker for real
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Lauren Boebert gets it. Americans don't want to spend $200 billion on this insane war with Iran. This should be the easiest no vote members of Congress ever cast.
Blue Georgia@BlueATLGeorgia
When you lose Lauren Boebert: I've already told leadership I am a no on any war supplemental. I am so tired of spending money elsewhere. I am tired of the industrial war complex getting all of our hard-earned tax dollars. I have folks in Colorado who can't afford to live.
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"Anything made before 2028 is going to be valuable."
— an OpenAI employee implicitly discloses their timetable
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Remember kids. Bullying nerds works
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.
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@DKThomp Don’t compare them to Oppenheimer, they eat that shit up.
“It’s me. I’m like Oppenheimer from the movie Oppenheimer”
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I should have said “consumer technology” in the first post rather than just “technology” bc as many people pointed out the tweet applies so well to Oppenheimer
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I don’t think there’s ever been en a technology whose builders constantly promise that, if they succeed, tens of millions of jobs will be destroyed and the world might end.
Brad Gerstner@altcap
AI is deeply unpopular. According to Pew, sadly only 17% of Americans think AI will have a positive impact. In China, 83% believe AI will be positive. A token tax & political backlash is coming unless the narrative changes. 🇺🇸👀🧐
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@Bennimak1 This is just every coffee shop in Hells Kitchen
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I love when people invent stuff that already exists because they don't leave their house
Gay Frog 🏳️⚧️@DemonessChara
this would make meeting people in the community a lot easier tbh
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PrettyFlyForAReplyGuy retweetledi
How should we build commonsense for robots?
Over time I’ve explored many approaches: knowledge bases, text embeddings, language models, neuron-symbolic models, and now video models.
My intuition is that physical commonsense is general so it manifests in different data modalities and transfers across situations and tasks.
Our results at Rhoda are encouraging. They suggest we can train strong foundation models with physical commonsense without a significant amount of explicit action labels or task-specific data to support long-horizon tasks and one-shot task learning
Read more at rhoda.ai/research/direc… and I’m excited to share a few notes 👇
Rhoda AI@rhoda_ai_
To bring generalist intelligent robots to the real world, we have to overcome the data scarcity problem. At Rhoda, we are solving it by reformulating robot policies as video generation. Today, we introduce the Direct Video-Action Model (DVA)
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