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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

If the U.S. wants to run a genuine tech embargo, it cannot allow even one qualified engineer, technical document, or machine part through. It may take a few years, but I'm confident the U.S. has already lost.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Trying to stop China’s semiconductor progress by letting them keep DUV machines and allowing “technical talks” is exactly like trying to stop Japanese clockmaking by letting in one Jesuit clock repairman.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I hope that there will not be AI in Nirvāṇa.😅

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

For however advanced is YouTube's AI, it still gets things hilariously wrong sometimes. For example, it put a suicide notice on a video from a Buddhist monk talking about extreme tantric practices like self-immolation in Buddhism.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The more people you can hire, the more plausible deniability you can create. At the highest level of income, you can create essentially infinite plausible deniability. Even given this, some wealthy men are so debased, that essentially infinite is not enough for them.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The Epstein files are the definition of what Marx called false consciousness. If you care more about them, than about inequality, you are playing their game. The further back in time the events therein recede into the past, the more discussion of them drowns out actual political concerns.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

A 50-year mortgage has to be the stupidest thing Donald Trump has come up with so far. To live at the same address for 30 years in this economy is barely achievable for most people. But 50? Who even knows what the world will look like in 50 years? Survey says much of Florida will be underwater

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Talk to it long enough and it's not so hard to get it to respond as if its politics are in the red corner. You've just got to use the right framing device.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at how easy it is to make ChatGPT repeat communist ideology back to me. Something tells me that it will not be an ally in actually building that communism, though.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I think the main problem is that the eyes are too small. Something that makes things cute is having big eyes. I don't know why they went with small beady eyes.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

But they aren't interested in doing anything to help the world like this, just in lining their own pockets. Because under modern capitalism, it's no longer enough to create a fantastically successful piece of robotic hardware. You want to control the software lifespan of that robot forever.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

You can even imagine a version of this where volunteers help people that are elderly or physically disabled that have one of these and operate the robot for them. And each client of the charity has, let's say, a certain number of uses of the robot per day.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

What upsets me the most about this is that if this were an open platform where you were in charge of finding someone to control Neo, be it yourself or somebody that you would either directly hire over freelancing or just someone you know irl, it could be incredibly useful as an accessibility tool.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The clauses 'a chance of' and 'in the mind of' are doing all of the work.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Yeah, I should have written, all that matters is that it has a chance of being profitable, in the mind of an insane billionaire like Elon Musk.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

That corporation can be a shareholder in a startup, and that gives them just enough plausible deniability to take the profit.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I think with the concept of startups, people no longer care if something is tasteful. All that matters is that it's profitable. Because the capital does not need to be associated anymore with a large corporation.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

"We have to keep developing child-killing death ray technology because if we don't, then China will and China can't be the only one to have that kind of technology."

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I think that the fact that people in China are also developing AI systems is just an instant thought-stopping cliche in their mind. That means that they have to keep developing these systems no matter what harms they cause. Because, God forbid the Chinese get ahead of us technologically in anything.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

At least, I have not seen anything stating this, and the vibes feel very much to the contrary. So prove me wrong if you can.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

For me, I think this is really the biggest red flag. That their employees are allowed to control the robot and see all of what it can do. But you are not allowed to control the robot with the software they have, even if you buy one. That's insane to me.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This is not like a hackable system or an open system. You aren't allowed to, for example, take control of the robot body. They say that that's some kind of safety violation I'm sure. But if we take things to that extreme, how is the whole thing not a safety violation?

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This robot called Neo is essentially a robotic body with cameras in the eyes that allow workers (perhaps originally in the United States, but if economies of scales take over, it will definitely be in the cheapest labour markets) to peer inside of your home and to do chores for you.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

We spend a lot of time teaching kids outdoor survival skills, such as with the Boy Scouts, but none at all teaching digital survival skills. And let me tell you, if you invite this thing into your house, you have absolutely zero digital survival skills.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I was finally recommended a YouTube short that was educational, funny, and well put together. I did not think such a thing could exist. How to Mug a Utilitarian? www.youtube.com/shorts/g34si...

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How to Mug a Utilitarian?

YouTube video by Carle

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Jay Brandstabber 🐼🔪🎃 @jaybrandstetter.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

you know it's a good movie when the first ten minutes are the star/writer/director/executive producer talking down the barrel of a camera about how successful she is and how much she loves donald trump

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The waterfall plot is nothing special. You can make one out of any audio file you have. It's just used to visualize the audio coming in so I can tune it correctly. But I guess some people might find it for if they've never seen it before. I assume you already know, just writing for people who don't~

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

(That's something I can't do on my car radio, but just because it's old. It's a 2013 model. lol)

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I just got a much better signal by taking advantage of the fact that La Mega WEMG is also available as an HD radio stream alongside 97.3 (HD1). I can decode it with `nrsc5` and then I can listen to it. :D nrsc5 97.3 1 -g 1.4 -o - | ffmpeg -i - -f s16le -ar 44100 -ac 2 -f wav - | ffplay -

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

(That's something I can't do on my car radio, but just because it's old. It's a 2013 model. lol)

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

When it comes to English language FM radio stations in my area, I really don't find any of them to be that enjoyable, but I am lucky enough to live near WRTQ, which plays classical music and opera on FM and is run out of Temple University in Ocean City.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I have a bit of an unhealthy obsession with my local Spanish hits radio station, which is WEMG La Mega 93.9. I like listening to it because sometimes it has the news from my area, South Jersey, in Spanish, and I can also practice even when it's ads or music. So I like listening to it for practice.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Every time I rewatch this film I can't help but cringe at the violence the cat suffers. I'm pretty sure it's just a case of practical effects, but I do appreciate the fact that Hollywood films now are mostly cruelty-free.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I guess this is technically a Halloween scene, isn't it? The one where they steal the masks from the 5 and 10 shop, which, without Googling it, I think, was a place in the 1960s where you could get things for 5 cents or 10 cents. A name for a store that no longer works due to inflation.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Been messing around with software-defined radio. It's fun, but a lot more complicated than I thought to get good reception. I have managed to get passable reception of my favorite FM station, 93.9, but to receive digital television or AM radio is going to take a more complex antenna setup, I think

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The film I'm (re)watching this morning is Breakfast at Tiffany's. I like how it starts with an actual breakfast at Tiffany & Co. I always forget that funny little joke in the beginning.

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Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) 🦝🔣📗 @copypaste.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Am I a dick for thinking that when the Ukraine war is firmly in the rear view, we're going to get a bunch of cool video games where you are a drone pilot? I mean they'll have to get the next generation excited about flying drones somehow.

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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