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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah true. It’s another instance of going backwards. bsky.app/profile/stev...

Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 6h

I think it’s less that it was lost and more that people have unprocessed trauma and flinch away from anything that reminds them of 2020.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I am glad that some Dems are figuring out that the electorate wants to see them bully the GOP bullies.

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It is okay to let people dislike things. It is also okay to let them vent their dislike in public and on social media. It is okay to dislike things without having a moral and political reason for doing so. I need you all to please stop tying your entire identities up in the things you consume.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Okay doc you’ve sold me on it.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh goodie, someone built a paperclip maximizer.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The man is bravely exploring uncharted waters of horndoggedness.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

@techconnectify.bsky.social it doesn’t count as snitch tagging if folks are singing your praises, right?

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wait, what happened with openai?

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Second, the whole point of the lynching spectacle was to indict and implicate the white community involved the lynching. It tied them together; it implicated them; it bound them to each other in guilt and shame.

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s over Mike Rogers. Ive already depicted you as the MAGA soyjack and myself as the Chad Normie Dem

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There’s probably gonna be lots of wannabe producers given how many of these guys are failed entertainment industry types.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They wouldn’t need to when Rumble is right there.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He’ll just blame social contagion.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

America doesn’t give a damn about the wellbeing of its children, does it?

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A wealthy Republican being out of touch?? Imagine my shock.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have no clue who you’re talking about but this sounds like common sense.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is shaped like a joke but it is not a joke. He literally did this. It’s in the public record.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Maybe you just like to rotate while you sleep? The easiest way to test it would be to fall asleep with your head due north and see if you wake up heading east or west. I’d try that before bothering to move the bed.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And before any of you assholes try to come at me over it, you will have to pry my very human em-dashes from my cold dead hands.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Maybe that’s a good thing. I don’t know. I liked being able to pay money once to own a piece of software instead of paying a monthly subscription for the rest of my life, but maybe that’s just me.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s the end of closed source software.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That seems like a stupid example, but do you realize what happens in a world where every .exe and .app file can be decompiled—a process that used to take programmers literal years—in a single day by anyone with an AI subscription?

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Over on the hellsite they’ve got Spider-Man swinging through Arkham City but y’all are too busy arguing dualism with Stancil to notice.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

People on here are quick to blame social media in their freak out about today’s Brazilian elections and the rise of global fascism, but are studiously ignoring the technology changing the social media landscape under their feet.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If nothing else, do you really expect me to believe that the government is simply going to drop the greatest mass propaganda tool mankind has ever created?

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That toothpaste ain’t going back in the tube, y’all.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

After the bubble pops, sure, the frontier research will likely slow down. But all of the models that are already out there will still be there. At their core, the existing models are just vector calculus in an embedding space. The math will keep mathing, even when the funding inevitably dries up.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Don’t get me wrong—it IS a bubble. To give a sense of scale, just after the dotcom bubble popped a quarter century ago, a big tech CEO chastised Wall Street for the insanity of investing at a 10x revenue multiple. Now, one of the frontier AI labs is expected to go public at a 31x revenue multiple.

Excerpt from a 2002 Bloomberg interview with Sun Microsystems founder and CEO Scott McNealy:

At 10 times revenues, to give you a 10-year payback, l have to pay you 100% of revenues for 10 straight years in dividends. That assumes I can get that by my shareholders. That assumes I have zero cost of goods sold, which is very hard for a computer company.
That assumes zero expenses, which is really hard with 39,000 employees. That assumes I pay no taxes, which is very hard. And that assumes you pay no taxes on your dividends, which is kind of illegal. And that assumes with zero R&D for the next 10 years, I can maintain the current revenue run rate. Now, having done that, would any of you like to buy my stock at $64? Do you realize how ridiculous those basic assumptions are? You don't need any transparency. You don't need any footnotes. What were you thinking?

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s just a bubble. It will pop, a few companies will go under, and eventually we’ll go back to how things used to be. It’s just a cold. Go back to normal, everything’s fine.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s baffles me how folks on here keep talking about stochastic parrots without reckoning with the power said parrots represent. It’s a weird sort of minimization that, to me, seems to be rooted in fear and discomfort. It reminds me of covid.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

2) Generative AI is an incredibly powerful technology whose transformative impacts are already being felt and will continue shaping our lives for the foreseeable future.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

1) Generative AI is an ethical nightmare top to bottom, from its inception in the theft of the collective creative work of humanity to the environmental catastrophes behind the data center buildout to the ongoing market bubble that is going to wipe out a massive chunk of the economy when it pops.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I know the skyline is a bad place for nuance, but multiple things can be true at the same time:

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’ll check those out. Thanks!

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kilometres d’avis @wwwwww.website · 05/10/2026

the lesson of the Civil War is that aesthetic warrior-cult societies get their shit rocked by schoolteachers and store clerks who'd much rather be doing anything else

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It pains me to think about the ways we went backwards. Cancer wards with no one masking. People refusing to wash their hands.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In that case you will appreciate this essay. bsky.app/profile/stev...

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Of course you would be the one to Milkshake Duck our beloved friend the computer.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As annoying as it is, I feel a lot more understanding of it ever since someone on here taught me about three cue reading.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was blown away when I learned that frat bros have to pay for the privilege of hanging out with a bunch of assholes.

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Same here. It’s why I never played WoW, either.

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