I've had this headline rattling around in my brain since January and I finally wrote it. Been hearing too many people in the startup world buying into the neoractionary nonsense that maybe a little light fascism is good for silicon valley. It's not. It's very, very bad. RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
Fascism For First Time Founders Over the last year or so I've seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary...
Perhaps if you'd raised a stink about some of the previous nominations that you voted in favor of, the GOP wouldn't think that it was so easy to get across anyone they wanted... RE:
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Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar.com)
Emil Bove is up for a lifetime appointment. This is not a time to rush through the process, violate the rules, and end debate. But that’s what Re...
This is hilarious if you know the crew of folks who insist that Polymarket can never be wrong. RE:
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D Lavoie (@djlavoie.bsky.social)
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For years I used to point to his "truckload of vegetables" descriptor of online arguments which was a handy tool. It's long since been deleted from the interwebs but it was showing how online arguments get stupid fast. I'll post a paraphrased version below but I find it especially ironic... RE:
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) (@iwriteok.bsky.social)
back in the early 90s Scott Adams was clearly a somewhat bright guy who was deeply offended by the inhumanity of modern office life (i first learne...
Look, I know that Krogers is upset about the FTC blocking their Albertson's merger via antitrust laws, but it seems a bit extreme to ground up Judge Bork, whose views on antitrust... RE:
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fishu @ coms open Feb 5 (@goldfishu.bsky.social)
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This is totally going to happen, isn't it? RE:
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Lux in the Bronx (@rlux.nyc)
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I'm way more optimistic about LLM tech than a lot of people around here, and find it *personally* incredibly useful. But I also find it takes a lot of work & careful thought to make it useful, and forcing people to use it guarantees it will be used very, very badly. RE:
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Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social)
"Nobody in the company has to explain in the company why she or he is using A.I. to do something—whether to prepare a presentation or analyze a d...
Is there any newspaper who has failed the "don't print lies in the newspaper" test more than the NY Times? RE:
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Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
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The other possible explanations I have are: 1. "everyone involved is pretty stupid" or 2. "there were never really any such files but Trump/Bondi played up that there were to keep rubes happy and now they're fucked" but... the "he's implicated" version keeps seeming more and more likely. RE:
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Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social)
Is there any remotely plausible explanation for the way Trump is handling the Epstein stuff other than “he’s implicated”? Because I’m tryin...
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Dr. Casey Fiesler (@cfiesler.bsky.social)
This is fascinating: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I7Qbvo3I95 Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Re...
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