maize2man.bsky.social @maize2man.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I guess so. Then again, there so so so many books, movies, graphic novels...Maybe it is the flattening effect as he morphed into the ultimate baddy, head honcho of the uber evil nazis. 010
maize2man.bsky.social @maize2man.bsky.social · 06/10/2026and there is not much hope on the horizon on either the left or right.... 000
maize2man.bsky.social @maize2man.bsky.social · 02/10/2026shout out to the classic German dachfenster 010
maize2man.bsky.social @maize2man.bsky.social · 28/09/2026he's just repeating what david sacks has told him 000
maize2man.bsky.social @maize2man.bsky.social · 28/09/2026when put to the test, it is cringe how thin the platform is. 010
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/09/2026guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls” 431663432
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialGautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 16/09/2026Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them. 5293117
maize2man.bsky.social @maize2man.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I get the impression there just isn't much interaction between elites in London and Brussels. 000
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 12/09/2026...we said "a prompt management program". There are not separate chatbots at work, they are not "interacting" or forming civilizations god help us. It is *one* LLM, being repeatedly queried by a program which uses the results of queries to build new queries in a structured way 619324
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/09/2026Spain on the other hand needs to install a lot more batteries quickly if it wants its own solar boom to continue.bloomberg.comSpain Got a Head Start on Renewables — Now It Needs a Battery RevolutionAs a brutal European summer underscores the energy transition’s urgency, the Spanish model is reaching its limits. 16510
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/09/2026This is pretty catastrophic and I'm not sure how either of these companies reverse the trend. It really appears the AI bubble is based on the whims of maybe a few hundred companies spending money on two companies to justify five companies spending money with one company. 401201331
maize2man.bsky.social @maize2man.bsky.social · 02/09/2026by origin, or schooling? as in we need a KU grad to add some intellectual diversity? 010
maize2man.bsky.social @maize2man.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The collective butthurt, as expressed on the Allin podcast, is delicious to listen to. Also hilarious how they lean into conspiracy, claiming it is chinese psyops. 010
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Large portions of the data center backlash are based on moral panic, but the the tech right VC types upset by it are very funny considering how gleeful they were about the demise of ‘legacy’ media. What’s that? You’re missing epistemic gatekeepers who would place complex facts in context? Tough shit 391764322
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialIva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's the 1st of September and the new academic year is starting! #Academia #Teaching #University #Research 336356
maize2man.bsky.social @maize2man.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Probably Charles VII had the same knee-jerk reaction to the earnest zeal of Joan of Arc 010
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialDaniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times. 131363640
maize2man.bsky.social @maize2man.bsky.social · 28/08/2026a1solarstore.com/blog/solar-r...a1solarstore.comSolar Roadways: Why This Revolutionary Concept FailedDiscover why solar roadways failed despite $4M+ funding. Learn about real installations, technical challenges, and why conventional solar beats road-embedded panels by 10-20x in cost-effectiveness. 030
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Of course the UK government did have folk in from Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc to tell them about negotiations. But it was all about the technical stuff, when the real substance is building the right senior official / political level frameworks. Still not sorted. 1382
maize2man.bsky.social @maize2man.bsky.social · 19/08/2026comparable to opinions on the USSR probably 040
maize2man.bsky.social @maize2man.bsky.social · 19/08/2026then again, Mao actually fought in a war. 160
maize2man.bsky.social @maize2man.bsky.social · 19/08/2026it should be discussed like the NHS. Sure, it's net negative, but fundamentally essential. 000
maize2man.bsky.social @maize2man.bsky.social · 18/08/2026that looks similar to his daughter to boot 000
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 15/08/2026One of the guys who helps me out on the farm said "The one thing nobody tells you about farming is how much of it is texting people" it's nice to know nothing has changed 7761107
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialRiver_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 13/08/2026People are gonna be mad about this but yes it's a MASSIVE failure that the Biden admin failed to do the basic mechanics of engaging with the press and pissed them all off. "The press shouldn't base its coverage on whether we answer their emails on time" ok but they do. So answer the fucking emails. 3219615
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialFinbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 04/08/2026What of innovation? "It reduces capacity that produces the model cycle arriving 2029-2031, because product planning, powertrain engineering, software development are the functions being thinned." 2102
maize2man.bsky.social @maize2man.bsky.social · 29/07/2026i sympathise with how they got to where they are. Most developed countries are having to bite the bullet to do the unsexy work of repairing and modernising infrastructure. Then again DB never had much imagination for high speed rail. Imagine Stuggi-Berlin in 2 hrs. 120
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialSte Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 23/07/2026So, who wants to vote for the next euro banknote designs??? There are only two groups of design (culture, or nature), but there are a few design variants in each group and I have to respect some of them for being more interesting than the usual banknote design. surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknote... 462
maize2man.bsky.social @maize2man.bsky.social · 21/07/2026joins the line with other toothless, ineffectual multilateral organisations. 000
maize2man.bsky.social @maize2man.bsky.social · 21/07/2026it seems the persistent issue with EU relations is a fundamental lack of expertise, experience, and network in Brussels. Someone with none of the above isn't ideal. 000
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15/07/2026Ossoff: “You refuse to answer a simple matter of the fact about the 2020 election.” Clayton: “I’ve given you my answer.” Ossoff: “What is your answer?” Clayton: *doesn’t answer* Ossoff: “Isn’t it humiliating to be unable to answer this question?” 922522604
maize2man.bsky.social @maize2man.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Deschamps should have been fired after the Euros. He just wasn't at the level. 000
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026historians, what's the *factual* question in your period you'd most like an answer to? Not a matter of interpretation, just something we don't know but would love to. 13668
maize2man.bsky.social @maize2man.bsky.social · 08/07/2026she also doesnt fit the current rightoid zeitgeist, neither the version as represented by Trump nor that of Vance 000
maize2man.bsky.social @maize2man.bsky.social · 08/07/2026but...she is still not the brightest bulb 1 meter outside of cultural issues, as exposed when debating Macron 100
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialM.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Weizenbaum was an MIT computer scientist who built one of the first chatbots, ELIZA. He wrote the book out of a growing sense of horror as he saw how “extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people” ... 825867
maize2man.bsky.social @maize2man.bsky.social · 04/07/2026 Nagelsmann was neither conservative enough nor radical enough and thus the resulting team was mediocre. 000
Reposted by @maize2man.bsky.socialDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026That the media keep running cakeist pieces by politicians with regard to the EU is really quite the sign of a lack of seriousness all round. 511218
