Reposted by DallyBobWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5hI do think that ‘Hi-def video of horrible shit’ is our generation’s version of smoking or leaded gasoline tbh. As in it’s something that future generations will look back on and be appalled that we thought it was ok to have as an environmental hazard. 420031
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 23hI think it’s interesting to consider what modes/forms of authorship are enabled by AI/LLM’s; to what extent does originality result from oneself, as opposed to the contingencies of one’s reality? If you author an original observation, are you really “being” original or merely recording it occurrence 000
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I don’t get why there needs to be a special drug for the death penalty. Slam that IV drip full of morphine and be done with it why get cute with “this drug is to paralyze your body, this one to anesthetize, this one to stop your heart” 000
Reposted by DallyBobIvy @poisonivy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026i love when these creeps are stupid enough to fuck up their own PR all the 'well there's no proof the CNC orgy is an AI networking event' people in shambles 3666788
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It is your patriotic duty as a red blooded American to use open-source and Chinese models so as to undermine these bloodsucking vampires 030
Reposted by DallyBobOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 29/09/2026> Capitalist elites hate workers and despise worker expertise. [I] have decades of experience, sitting in rooms with (mostly) men who [...] hated that a wage servant possessed technical expertise they needed, but were too lazy, arrogant or stupid to grasp. — @cloudquistador.eurosky.socialmonroelab.comThe Tech Industry: An AutopsyThe tech Industry, and the fields that grew from it, are dead. The Industry, which, as Yasha Levine details in his book, ‘Surveillance Valley’, was always a tool of oppression, and never R… 59037
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ald Bennett Lawson decided it was better to raise property taxes and municipal fees rather than raise taxes on corporations, while representing a ward/neighborhood which voted for Harris at Assad-like margins With democrats like Bennett, who needs republicans! 011
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026After the market crashes I feel like we’re guna look back in 10 or 20 years and recognize that American investors are performing a “self-less” act by inadvertently subsidizing AI research for the rest of the world, cuz there’s no way OpenAI exists after the crash 010
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Our techno-feudal executive class are gearing up to install a caste society, and it’s not very subtle anymore Peter Thiel is a household name 042
Reposted by DallyBobae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026and those qualities dovetail with the physical and economic contingency you see in industrialized states, creating a sort of 'network man' to replace hitler's "mass man." network man is isolated from his fellows and watches andrew tate videos www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...tabletmag.comJapan’s Cynical Romantics, Precursors to the Alt-RightI still remember when I encountered my first far-right netizen in the wild. It happened in 2011 while I was living in Japan. Internet citizens, netizens for short, referred to Japanese who practically... 112919
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This this this this we nEEEEd corporate law reform because what do you mean private companies of thousands of employees are not bound by federal regulations?? Also—introducing “one person one vote” to stock voting rights. None of this non-voting bullshit 000
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’ve been spending a full week installing various programs to ensure consistency over time and it’s so fucking hard to do using natural language and with minimal knowledge of code, there’s just no way to ensure quality control. 000
Reposted by DallyBobFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...iankduncan.comSex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian DuncanHow a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ... 571936467
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It’s become increasingly apparent that capitalism has created a perverse incentive to weaponize autism and cultivate amorality 040
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This all makes me so, so sad. We need to launch congressional investigations into these people 010
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My most libbed out belief is that Elon Musk somehow found a way to hack the vote in 2024 062
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026American political economy makes sense when one contemplates the Roman definition of addiction: we don’t make products, we produce addicts 020
Reposted by DallyBobFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026You know what, I’m getting the sense the US AI industry really shouldn’t be trusted. 317234
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My hottest crank take is that the future of America depends on Chicago gaining a foothold in the tech economy as a center of production because it means people other than San fransickos making investment decisions in technological development 121
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Xiaomi really does win for best named model “MiMo” is such a cute name 000
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026In light of the hype, I went to their website to see what a Xiaomi subscription costs and I instantly purchased a years subscription at the ‘lite’ tier—$52 for 49 billion tokens is an insane discount 000
Reposted by DallyBob#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 22/09/2026*Who is the medieval philosopher who has the most AI-weirdness going on, probably Ramon Llull #Balearic #Catalan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_L...en.wikipedia.orgRamon Llull - Wikipedia 2278
Reposted by DallyBobCenter for Strategic Politics @stratpolitics.org · 21/09/2026We use small donations from everyday people, not big grants from foundations, to power our work. Support our research and help us fund more surveys: stratpolitics.org/donatestratpolitics.orgDonate – Center for Strategic Politics 061
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026You can help fund such insightful poll questions by donating at stratpolitics.org/donate/ pleasestratpolitics.orgDonate – Center for Strategic Politics 000
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026There’s such a fascinating way in which using AI/LLM’s via API is like playing an MMORPG and dealing with server load issues 010
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Does Nikole Hannah-Jones’ daughter need to go to Harvard or NYU for her to live a happy, successful, or fulfilling life? Like, the inciting incident her essay is her daughter looking at school rankings as she is applying for college. Are we worried about her education or her employment? 100
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I do think it’s interesting that the caucus most interested in a type of internationalist politics is also least interested in pursuing a labor strategy which addresses an international coalition of workers 100
Reposted by DallyBob1st Minnesota Volunteers Stan Account @himdogson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026too much jeffersonianism: mao, hitler, khomeini, pol pot, trump healthy jeffersonianism: paine, mandela, nehru, lula perfect balance: franklin delano roosevelt healthy hamiltonianism: carney, tito, lincoln, de gaulle too much hamiltonianism: stalin, park chung-hee, chiang, mussolini 810021
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I think this is an interesting argument, an appeal toward ecology 000
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“AI safety” is also a misnomer for interpretability research a lot of the time 000
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Expropriate SV and send the money to Chicago we will not do weird sex cult stuff 000
Reposted by DallyBobonion person @junlper.beer · 17/09/2026went to my first (chicago) DSA meeting tonight, it was genuinely so great. join DSA, its worth itact.dsausa.orgJoin DSA. Become a member today.Democratic socialists have an historic opportunity and responsibility to play a central role in continuing the political revolution for the long term. As a democratic, grassroots organization, DSA is ... 371271145
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Had a first convo with a founder and it went well :) Dally might be an entrepreneur soon 100
Reposted by DallyBobMichael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 16/09/2026I've made a ward scorecard for Divvy bikeshare infrastructure, inspired by the @chiwho.bike dashboard. You can drill into a ward and look at the station deployment and ridership trends. michaelmclean.me/chicago-divv... 43511
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026What’s cool about LLM’s is they can be used to explain themselves. No I do not understand how to calculate jacobian space but thank you Mr robot for walking me through the logic 010
Reposted by DallyBobKalen Luciano @kalenfor44.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We are just about one month out from the deadline to get me on the ballot. Now is the time to come out and canvass if you want your next 44th Ward Alderman to represent the people not corporations! Sign up for a shift this week: www.mobilize.us/palsinforkal... 031
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026@vortexegg.com I’ve been playing around with the idea of training a “guest axis” into a model and I’m stuck wondering what is the corpus which is capable of manifesting the many faces of a visiting stranger? What do you think is a body of work which could be a source of inspiration? 110
Reposted by DallyBobKevin Fishbain @kfishbain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Caleb Williams with the best performance for a Bears QB in a season opener since at least 2000 by passer rating (124.1), completion percentage (72.4%) and EPA per dropback (0.48) per @TruMediaSports. Bears 59, Panthers 37 The Bears are 1-0 522933
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I think Ben Johnson is a mad man who thinks “fuck it we can outscore em” 000
DallyBob @dallybob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This is where I think it’s productive to invoke esoteric traditions because the idea that one would commune with spirits or angels or demons without proper ‘guardrails’ is exactly the type of irresponsible behavior which mystics criticized for centuries 110