Martin Snyder
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Martin Snyder
@bluelaser2
Google my Funky. Hint: I'm not Moe the Gimp. I'm crabby and hungry* *odds are at the moment you are reading this
Katılım Ocak 2008
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@Acyn AOC has proven by her voting record that she is just a younger Nancy Pelosi.
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AOC on why she’s considered controversial: When you fight really entrenched power, that power will fight you back. They cannot be seen attacking the message because that makes them look bad, so they attack the messenger. There will never be an uncontroversial messenger for challenging the structures of power keeping wages low.
Secondly, I think my presence at someone who was a waitress… I’m not supposed to be there according to them and I’m not bought. There’s a real class aspect to this. There is a lot of people who think if you don’t make a lot of money, it’s reflective of your intelligence and your capacity as a human being.
And of course, I’m a woman and I’m Latina. My mere existence is subversive in the place that is am. I also don’t act in a way that women are supposed to act in a society like this. You’re coming at me crazy, I’m not going to be deferential to you.
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Axelrod: There are a lot of people who would like you to run for president in 2028. And there are others who would like you to run for the senate.
AOC: In this op-ed that Bezos paid for in The Washington Post, there was a veiled threat—it was the elite saying if you want this job, you just stepped out of line. What’s funny about that is they assume my ambition is positional. They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.
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@mcuban Word for word, except change the words/decades to *computer literacy* or *Internet* or *digital native*. It's always something, it will always be something, and it will always unfold at the natural speed of normal people's ability to adapt, whatever that may be at the time.
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There are always challenges that apply to every business and its employees.
1. Is your company growing ?
2. As an employee, what is it that you do and can do in the future, to better contribute to those profits/goals
3. Are you intellectually challenged in your job ?
4. Are you spending as much time as you can find to learn all you can about AI ?
5. Does your CEO understand AI ?
If the company can grow, and the CEO has taken the time to understand AI, rather than delegate that skill, that’s the first step towards knowing how AI will be used by your company.
If the CEO has no clue, start to think about another job. Your company is going to be challenged over the next few years.
If the CEO has invested the time to learn…
If the company can’t grow, it will use AI to cut costs.
If it can grow, and you are intellectually challenged by your job, AI will further enable you to contribute to that growth.
The company will need as many people like you as it can get. It has a really good chance to outperform its competitors , because it has an AI literate workforce.
More AI that leads to market success will lead to more employees. Not less.
AI is not easy to implement. It’s new to everyone. It’s not a silver bullet that guarantees success. It’s a tool that can accelerate growth and help smart people make smarter decisions
It also leads to flatter organizations. Which allows companies to get “wider”, using AI literate employees to find every possibly opportunity and optimization.
Which means, there will be more competition in industries , not less.
Which also means there will be more competition to hire those that can stay up to speed and implement AI in personal and corporate workflows.
How business is done is changing and will change more.
Where there is change there is opportunity
Am I right ?
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@zarathustra5150 Read The True Believer. Many, many fanatics follow that path, including the Base. Especially the Base. The real TDS.
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Dostoevsky captures the essence of the modern, downwardly mobile progressive activist, 150 years early. A conviction of higher destiny, no path to reach it, and a misery that converts into hatred of the surrounding world. Politics is downstream of psychology, and this is the psychology.
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@Acyn Yes, small arms in civilian hands make for an unstoppable militant force. Everyone knows that.
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Lindsey Graham on Iran:
I love the idea of a second amendment solution for the Iranian people. If I were President Trump and Israel, I would load the Iranian people up with weapons so they can go to the streets armed and turn the tide of battle inside Iran. We don't need American boots on the ground. We've got millions of boots on the ground in Iran with no weapons. Give them the weapons.
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@mcuban A huge amount of economic activity is not symbolic and not amenable to AI automation in the near term. AI changes the world, but it does not clear a clogged drain or change sheets in a hotel room, et alone assemble an airliner or output a coil of steel. Scale still matters.
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AI Native vs Innovator’s AI Dilemma. Big tries to protect their turf. AI Native is non stop to disintermediate that turf
Anotida Msiiwa@anomsiiwa
@mcuban @mcuban If scale actually becomes a boat anchor as you predict, does this mean the next decade of enterprise dominance heavily favors the lean, 50-person AI startup over the sluggish Fortune 500 giant?
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@mcuban To an extent that data and information gaps/silos/mismatches are efficiency or competitive problems, AI will not make them worse: it makes them better. All three steps- extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of data interchange are radically faster and cheaper with AI.
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I will also GUESS that conglomerates that made acquisitions for financial engineering purposes, or foreconomies of scale , or that made "bolt on" acquisitions, are going to face real competitive problems in an AI world
They wont be able to make AI work. AI isn't about economies of scale. In fact, at least for now, it can be the opposite.
They are going to be divesting assets/subsidiaries probably sooner than they realize.
Am I wrong ?
(and thanks for all the technical feedback. Really helps me learn !)
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Every LLM is a walled garden in a race to beat the hell out of the next foundational model. They all are hoping it’s not like search with one dominant player. They have to invest like it might be. That won’t change for ????
Every enterprise has to keep up with their changing and new models and decide when to move. When to go side by side. When to delete. That’s going to be stressful.
And as long as those models don’t truly integrate, and will that ever happen, the amount of work for enterprises to maintain AI and be competitive is going to keep on growing and getting more expensive.
And there will be a time when genAI models will be superseded by world view models and who knows what comes after that
It’s going to take so many people specializing in various layers and levels of AI
In the next 5 years enterprise AI is going to be a mess, with all the different implementations and flavors and sources and models.
It’s not inconceivable there can be hundreds of different models in each big enterprise. Just because the company got overwhelmed trying to keep everything tied together.
Which in turn could lead very large companies to choose to divest subsidiaries rather than thinking there is benefit from scale. Scale may be a boat anchor to your business. Purely because of AI
Curious what everyone thinks ?
Aaron Levie@levie
Whether it’s existing consulting firms, new ones that emerge, FDEs from agent vendors, or new internal agent engineering roles, the amount of work that is going to be created to implement agents in enterprises will exceed anything we imagine today. The complexity of implementing agents in any existing organizations is very real. When I talk to large enterprises, as you move from a chat paradigm to agents that participate in meaningful workflows, there are a number of things they need to do. First, you have to get agents to be able to talk to your data securely across your systems. In many cases, enterprises have decades of legacy infrastructure that contain the valuable context for AI agents. That’s going to take a ton of work to go modernize and move to systems that work well with agents. Then, you need to ensure that you’ve implemented agents with the right access controls and entitlements, the right scopes to be safely used, and have ways of monitoring, logging, and securing the work that they do. Next, you need to actually document the processes in the organization in a way that agents can utilize for doing the work. You also need to figure out what the new workflow looks like when agents and people are working together on a process, and who steps in where. Just replicating the old workflow will mute the gains. Oh and you likely need to create evals for your top new end-state processes. Finally, you have to keep up with a rapidly changing set of best practices and architectural shifts happening in the agent space. While it’s fun for people to change their personal productivity tools on a dime, it’s 100X harder to do this in a business process. The speed of change is a blessing and a curse right now for anyone trying to keep a stable system design. All of this means that individuals and companies that develop expertise on the above set of components (and more) are going to be needed to help organizations actually implement agents at scale. This is also the rationale for vertical AI agents right now that can go in deep on a business domain and help bring automation to it. This is a huge opportunity right now whether you’re doing this internally or as an external business provider.
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@clevelanddotcom I think we can fairly say that JB Bickerstaff was not holding us back.
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Game 7. Everything on the line. Does Cleveland have enough to pull it out tonight?
Picture: AP
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@clevelanddotcom Raging Six Flags infection. The former unit holders were totally scammed.
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🔗: cleveland.com/travel/2026/05…
Heading to Cedar Point after its opening day on May 9? Walking up without a ticket could cost you $105 — the park’s highest gate price ever.
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@ruthbenghiat That would be Dwight Eisenhower, a position never likely to be repeated, at least in the foreseeable future.
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Megalomania alert- autocrats in this state of mind grow more reckless. It's time for enablers and complicit elites to act patriotically and denounce the harm he is doing to the country.
Ashley Parker@AshleyRParker
NEW: Trump has begun talking about how he “is the most powerful person to ever live.” Our look at how Trump’s view of himself as one of history’s Great Men is shaping the second term of what has now become his YOLO Presidency. theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…
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@AaronBlake It's a disgusting abuse, but karma considering Comey's role in the 2016 election. If only he knew what he was unleashing. Zero chance of conviction on this charge, of course.
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We have not seen the indictment, of course. Maybe there is some silver bullet piece of evidence here.
But we've certainly seen the DOJ chase indictments of Trump's foes based on very little.
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The main problem with indicting Comey over "86 47" is that it's not self-evidently a threat. "86" has plenty of non-threatening meanings. During Biden years, it was used to mean impeachment.
The second problem is that recent Supreme Court precedent means prosecutors need to show Comey had "some subjective understanding of the threatening nature of his statements."
When informed of the potential threatening meaning, Comey said he didn't know that and deleted it.
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@IAmPoliticsGirl Far, far from proven danger, at all, of Roundup. It's a field day for lawyers, at least until better science says otherwise.
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@lionel_trolling 25 years ago may as well have been the 1800's That age has passed away.
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AOC: I believe in guaranteed single-payer healthcare. We need to drive toward an America where every single person in this country can see a doctor without fear of having to choose between their insulin and their rent.
I believe in an America where we are actively transitioning ourselves out of dependency on Russian and Middle Eastern oil, and the volatility of that, so our energy prices can be lower.
I think we need to be talking about universal gun safety and very common-sense measures—background checks, making sure that the people most likely to kill people with assault weapons don’t get those weapons in their hands, and holding people responsible who put those weapons in their hands.
We’ve got a lot of work to do, and I think that for me as a progressive, having a very clear vision for that means making sure we don’t get into foreign wars that are just endless entanglements, that we’re actually fighting for everyday people, and for the love of God, getting big money out of politics.
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@RadioFreeTom I've bought dozens of copies of The True Believer from Amazon. When I encounter people who want to understand Trump and the moment, I send them that little volume.
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Fukuyama said it before I did, and Eric Hoffer said it long before both of us, in his 1951 book The True Believer.
comchia.asm 🇺🇦🇹🇼🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@ComChia430
@magi_jay Tom Nichols and Francis Fukuyama pretty much had it down when they talked about boredom and the eternal need to struggle being our downfall trait.
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@MikeRGlenn "Shut up, Mike," I explained, "it's cool."
But don't get me started about the yellow sneakers in Moonraker
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I was watching the James Bond movie, "You Only Live Twice," and noticed all the people working in Blofeld's volcano lair. I was wondering if the place had a cafeteria for the employees. What about all the jump suits? Who had the contract to supply them? Is there an HR Department?
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Rep. Byron Donalds: "Look what they did to Northern Virginia. If you look at their new map, they basically take pieces of Northern Virginia and strip them out to the suburbs and rural Virginia to make Democrat seats. I mean, this is insanity."
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@OrinKerr For those three years, the people who spent the 3K could do a LOT more math.
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