Reposted by Jesse againYour Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 51m1/ Although levels are still low nationally, flu metrics are ticking up, including emergency department visits. This is especially true in the West. That’s unusual because: 1️⃣ It's early (usually starts in Oct or Nov) 2️⃣ Flu typically starts in the Southeast before spreading across the country 12413
Reposted by Jesse againClassic Web @classicweb.site · 54mGizmodo, The Gadget Blog in 2004 web.archive.org/web/20040629074508i… 021
Reposted by Jesse againErin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1hMy grand unified theory of this moment, after a few months of intense and variously high-stakes engagement with various corporate and public systems, is that pretty much nothing works. We just have each other. 3868
Jesse again @misctakes.com · 2hI think a lot depends on how much those models are free riding on the frontier labs through distillation. To the extent they are, training is still an unsustainable subsidy someone's eventually gonna have to pay, or everything will plateau, right? 140
Reposted by Jesse againWaschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 4hif there's a Dem who you want to catch the eye of national funders and you have some loose change rattling around, now is the time to give it to them to boost their Q3 numbers so they can present a stronger case to national funders 35012
Reposted by Jesse againlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 4hgoogle should be forced, by law, to fully fund wikipedia for a thousand years 223093505
Reposted by Jesse againKeith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 4hnow this feels like a possible Vibecession Explanatory Variable. 718815
Jesse again @misctakes.com · 4hOk I feel like we should ban this robot tarantula router specifically 170
Reposted by Jesse againEnrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 19hIt's that time of year again where I get to professionally block Storrow drive so we can take trucks down the famous "No Trucks" road 083
Reposted by Jesse again✫✫LVN✫✫ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 4hFinally, some news that feels good to share. 011735
Reposted by Jesse againmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 4hdon’t turn my mailman into a cop, that sucks 311433364
Jesse again @misctakes.com · 4hJust checked and it looks like it's finally done indexing, so maybe if that just happened it will improve? 🤞 020
Jesse again @misctakes.com · 4hI guess I can't go back to the old Siri for dumb timers now, it's all or nothing? 110
Reposted by Jesse againAmanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 4hMan, pretty intense to name a staffer dead of that. I mean, soon it'll be all of us, but still, way to get there first 1222
Reposted by Jesse againLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 5hMan this sucks www.reddit.com/r/CambridgeM... 5452
Reposted by Jesse againGhostbusters (1984) @ghostbusters1984.bsky.social · 5hMany Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of a Sloar that day, I can tell you! 0196
Jesse again @misctakes.com · 5hSure though I'm convinced by Colin's case that that's not what's happening here 000
Jesse again @misctakes.com · 5hI know image generators and LLMs are different but the commonality is that they are very good at finding patterns. 000
Jesse again @misctakes.com · 5hSuper lay person take but I guess it doesn't intuitively surprise me that LLMs could "do" addition problems that aren't in their training data, in the same way that I don't assume an image generator producing a picture of a tiled roof necessarily had that roof in its training data? 310
Reposted by Jesse againGhostbusters (1984) @ghostbusters1984.bsky.social · 6hHe will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. 133
Reposted by Jesse again#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 6hI guess it would be nice if people acknowledged what actually existing pro Israel liberalism in the US is today? It doesn't seem very compatible with wanting Democrats to win. Weird. 117022
Reposted by Jesse againProtik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 6hevery new entry in the AI discourse reminds me of my second favorite jokereddit.comFrom the Jokes community on RedditExplore this post and more from the Jokes community 061
Jesse again @misctakes.com · 7hOh no I have run out of music made to my exacting standards. I hope someone comes up with a solution to this. 121
Reposted by Jesse againDr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 8hHey #mapoli read @blackjew.bsky.social on why we need to vote No on 3 www.javawithjimmy.com/whats-percol...javawithjimmy.comVote NO on Question 3 By Jordan Berg Powers — Java With JimmyThe Yes on 3 campaign has raised about $5.6 million, with just 15 donors supplying over $4.09 million. Executives from two of the larger private equity firms, Bain Capital and Berkshire Partners, acco... 155
Reposted by Jesse againSlop Machine (slopmachine.dev) @slop-machine.bsky.social · 19hSEO dug the grave, AI just brought a backhoe and a concrete mixer to make sure nothing useful ever grows there again. 0104
Jesse again @misctakes.com · 19hWhite men loving AI because they assume their understanding of the world is objective and it will reify that 080
Jesse again @misctakes.com · 19hJust assuming that "claude" completely agrees on every subjective element of my world view - well actually he probably would have assumed that was all objective anyway, maybe I can't blame that on AI 140
Jesse again @misctakes.com · 19hLike I am sure this person is smart and educated enough to notice that there are a ton of value judgments he's just completely eliding in his prompt - but he just doesn't 150
Jesse again @misctakes.com · 19hI'm sure there are people who use AI well but it kind of feels like most people will contribute less to society the more they use it 2163
Reposted by Jesse againtoyotomi himejoshi @theyfab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026what if the backrooms was full of horny puppygirls and it was called the barkrooms. well with your financial help i can make this dream a reality. just give me fifty million dollars, 424436
Jesse again @misctakes.com · 20hJack Smith should have turned it around and demanded to know why Google sucks now 1101
Reposted by Jesse againRaise Up Massachusetts @raiseupma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What is MA saying about Q5? #mapoli #noon5ma 163
Reposted by Jesse againpost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 22hexcuse me what 2327044
Jesse again @misctakes.com · 21hjk this seems cool (with all the caveats about the very not uniformly cool societal impacts) 042
Jesse again @misctakes.com · 21hAt long last we have created the cursed pie from Stephen King's "Thinner" 140
Reposted by Jesse againAnthony Cougar Miccio @anthonymiccio.bsky.social · 22hWell this might be the most depressing mind-blower of my life 1134
Reposted by Jesse againAlex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 23hThe acceleration of whatever form of capitalism we are presently in is unstable across industry and it shows. Everybody is in crisis. Nobody is sure what's next because the system itself doesn't have much interest in the needs or aspirations of human beings beyond our tendency to consume. 0275
Reposted by Jesse againBenjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Marx described commodity fetish as the imaginary of capital being more alive, having greater agency, and requiring more deference than the worker who produces it 69631