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XaiaX ̆̈ (🎃) @xaiax.net · 31/10/2024

“According to my model the election could be very close with a slight edge to either candidate, but there is also a small chance that it could be very one sided, favoring both candidates equally, or somewhere in between. I am very smart please give me money for further analyses.”

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

An important VP note is that Sen. Kelly is a twin, thus having a built in body double that can be used for schemes.

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 22/06/2024

The Iliad is famously all about problems caused by capitalism

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 06/02/2024

You can now sign up for Bluesky without an invite! 🎉 bsky.social/about/blog/0...

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Join Bluesky Today (Bye, Invites!) - Bluesky

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 02/02/2024

This new Popvox report about the Afghanistan withdrawal and the Congressional caseworkers who put in countless hours helping Afghans and their families get the visas they needed to escape death at the hands of the Taliban is a fascinating read: www.popvox.org/events/afgha...

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Event: Congressional Casework in the Afghanistan Withdrawal — POPVOX Foundation

Join us as POPVOX Foundation brings together current and former caseworkers and experts from #AfghanEvac to discuss the findings and recommendations from “American Ingenuity: Congressional Casewor...

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 24/07/2023

DSVA is now a fantastic team doing excellent digital services work for Veterans. It's the best such team in the federal government these days. I'd be there now if I weren't doing this other thing.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20/07/2023

people who have loud boring conversations with each other at the gym are going to mega-hell, sorry, I don’t make the rules

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Gale Anne Hurd @galeannehurd.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

I was never that idealistic. Jim and I named the night club in THE TERMINATOR Tech Noir in 1982 when writing the script. It’s where the seminal encounter between The Terminator and Sarah Connor occurred — we envisioned the dark side of tech way back then.

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alex 🐀 @tinysnekcomics.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

i neeeeed dune part two in the meantime enjoy my dune simpsons comics, might draw some more soon

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 03/05/2023

Have you ever had a coworker that mindlessly repeats whatever an exec says? And have you ever had an exec that thinks that person is a genius? Ok - you know understand LLMs. You're welcome.

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 24/06/2023

Does anyone know if Putin consulted the Delphic oracle prior to invading Ukraine? If so, was he told he would "destroy a great kingdom"?

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 23/06/2023

"Mercenaries... are useless and dangerous; and if one holds his state based on these arms, he will stand neither firm nor safe; for they are disunited, ambitious, and without discipline, unfaithful, valiant before friends, cowardly before enemies..." - Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 16/06/2023

Over the next few years, every search engine is going to become a delivery mechanism for AI generated argle bargle nonsense and there are folks arguing that physical media curated by skilled and dedicated professionals is somehow obsolete. Log off. Touch books.

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 16/06/2023

D'oh. Apparently you can't add that afterwards.

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 08/06/2023

Hey @washingtonpost.com why is it that whenever I create a link card to one of your stories in bsky, the link card says Access Denied instead of showing a pretty open graph preview? I see the og: meta tags in the page, and it seems to work fine whenever you post one... am I doing it wrong somehow?

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 08/06/2023

Doesn't seem like the solution for stolen food is to stop sending food. People still need to eat. If food theft is such a problem, maybe we should send more? Send so much food they can't even handle it and will have to beg people to take as much as they can carry.

washingtonpost.com

Access Denied

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 08/06/2023

I really expected dystopia to be more stylish

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 07/06/2023

Yeah, I figured that was the case. It's too bad though, because I think you're onto a very interesting story here about how HVAC is moving northward.

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 07/06/2023

You might also want to break up your regions a little more by lattitude... the AC situation in San Diego is very different than Seattle, and very different in Albuquerque than in Boise. Cities all over the northern half of the U.S. never needed AC before, but they do now...

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 07/06/2023

@faineg.bsky.social the link is broken in your substack for the digital version of your map... good a reason as any to update it! I suspect these numbers are going to be changing a lot every year for the foreseeable future.

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 07/06/2023

People can be more than one thing!

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Rosemare “Eek” Looney 🎃 @bsky.dad · 06/06/2023

This is what AI thinks of us. 1. “Bluesky user” 2. “Twitter user”

Beautiful carefree woman on an Italian beach posting from her phone

Slovenly nerd eating mustard straight from the jar in his weird dark computer cave

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 06/06/2023

What gets me about Vision Pro is that Apple must have looked at the sales numbers for Microsoft's HoloLens and thought, "we've gotta get in on that!"

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 06/06/2023

Now this is a really cool use of generative tools...

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 06/06/2023

yeah the aliens are feeling pretty smug about the Prime Directive right about now

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/06/2023

just put on my apple glasses and oh man

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 06/06/2023

I think I'm going to start collecting journalistic attempts to explain "AI" (these examples are from WaPo). They're all so naïvely circular... AI "does things computers normally can't do" or "can perform 'intelligent' tasks." Here, try this: "clever uses for computationally intensive statistics."

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 04/06/2023

Now look at VC captial raised for AI firms

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 04/06/2023

It worries me how often Photoshop says this when I'm trying to use generative fill without providing it any kind of prompt.

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 03/06/2023

@pwnallthethings.bsky.social they have to vigorously defend those security updates or else we'd all go back to building hacs

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 02/06/2023

I didn't think anything could be better than her outfit. The opening of her lecture is. Love the surprise in this. :)

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 02/06/2023

Why am I just now hearing that the Library of Congress uploaded Lewis Carroll's scrapbook last month???

loc.gov

Attention Required! | Cloudflare

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 01/06/2023

The secret is that there is no secret.

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Gale Anne Hurd @galeannehurd.bsky.social · 01/06/2023

Nice work, AI… This is for all of you naysayers who think I’m being way too much of a Cassandra worrying about AI. I’ve been concerned since 1982 when Jim and I first envisioned THE TERMINATOR.

vice.com

AI-Controlled Drone Goes Rogue, Kills Human Operator in USAF Simulated Test

The Air Force's Chief of AI Test and Operations said "it killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective."

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 01/06/2023

Everything temporary is permanent.

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 01/06/2023

Debt ceiling deal passed in the House! Off to the Senate!

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 31/05/2023

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” - Some Guy

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 31/05/2023

The vote to approve the rule for floor debate on the actual bill. This isn't a huge deal but it is good sign for the vote later tonight. The House will reconvene at 7:15 PM for one hour of debate and then vote on H.R. 3746, the Bipartisan Budget Agreement. 🤞🏻🤞🏻

congress.gov

Just a moment...

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Craig A. Butler @suspicious.download · 28/05/2023

Well, this was inevitable... a lawyer decided to let ChatGPT handle their legal research, and ended up citing a bunch of made-up cases in a real court filing. 🤦‍♂️

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/05/2023

enroll your child in ska immersion school today

Ska immersion school ad featuring two very cool children in sunglasses and trilby hats

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