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We’ve gone from people idolising CEOs as heroes, to the public laughing when a VC/startup-oriented bank fails, to CEO assassins becoming spontaneous folk heroes in fairly short order

I think it’s a fair guess that the US is in for a wild ride over the next decade

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I just can't stop thinking about how boring rich people are. I like having money, getting cool stuff, traveling, but mostly it would be nice not to have to stress about making it, but if you manage to achieve that, why would you possibly want more than that? Like you can do basically anything, and your plan is to make more money?! That is just baffling! And then you want people to like you for that?! When you could legitimately spend every single day making people's lives better, and it wouldn't even make you not rich, but you just don't, and you wonder why people don't like you.

I'm sorry, I'm on a rant tonight, but seriously, some people would rather buy a President than just do one thing that would make them likable and interesting.

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south korea president: I DECLARE MARTIAL LAW

south korean youth on the streets at 3am: u wat m8

south korea president: I UNDECLARE MARTIAL LAW

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@An_laetificat alguien ha recomendado ya “Lies of Locke Lamora”? Me lo recomendó un amigo y me está encantando. Es de la saga de Gentleman Bastards, de Scott Lynch.

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People arguing that LLMs can create good summaries of texts don't seem to understand what a good summary is. Hint: It's not just a shorter version of the text.

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This toot encapsulates everything wrong with $ in politics.

*80% of the public wants something, but nope, can’t have it.

*Donors (those with $$$) get the ultimate say.

*Pols do whatever the $$$ tells them because if they don’t, they lose their job.

*Those with the $$$ (corporations & corp owners) get to dictate the policies that govern them.

*This leads to monopolies that make our lives more expensive and much worse since there’s no regulation & no competition.
press.coop/@WIRED/113209298383

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And now I officially hate this bubble more than the crypto bubble.
ivory.ai/home

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Today is the autumn equinox 🍂

As autumn arrives in the northern hemisphere leaves will soon be turning shades of yellow, orange and red on their way to brown.

This graphic is an old favourite that looks at the colour chemistry involved: bit.ly/3Zx6Li6

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Just seen something referring to academics as "unpaid content creators for Elsevier" and I am dead ⚰️.

@academicsunite @academicchatter
#Academia #Macademia #Science

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Looks like Western media is already attempting to normalise Israel’s supply-chain-based terrorist attack from yesterday that indiscriminately and savagely wounded ~3,000 people (yes, they’re people, as hard as it might be for some white folks to understand), some 300 of them critically, and killed others, including a 10-year-old girl.

But don’t worry, it’s not like many USians/Europeans carry personal electronic devices made in foreign countries or anything… what’s the worst that could happen?

@coffeegeek totally agree. The iteration on the 2009 with the 5k and much thinner computer was amazing. Improved the look on every aspect and that monitor was top. I wish the Studio Display was a bit cheaper, because it’s better than any other monitor around 1000$, but I can’t justify paying almost 2000$ for just a screen…

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The Internet Archive losing its appeal means one thing: pirate stuff. Pirate brazenly. There’s no point trying to do it the nice way - you’ll get shut down anyway. Copy, share, and archive to your heart’s content. It’s the only way we’re keeping digital media and our cultural memory intact.

@coffeegeek two things: 1) you’re a true coffee geek 😅 2) that iMac’s design was sheer perfection. I had the 27” model and that thing looks modern even 15 years later. It was the pinnacle of Ive’s design team.

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This is very sad, and an example of what happens when the collective public relies on dubious 2 minute shorts on TikTok and Youtube to get their "information" from, more and more, and lose the ability to absorb long form content by people who actually know what they're talking about.

anandtech.com/show/21542/end-o

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If it sounds like the composer might be a vampire, it's Bach.

If it sounds like the composer is trying to set the violins on fire, it's Vivaldi.

If it sounds like the composer is trying to sell you fancy mustard, it's Haydn

If it sounds like the composer is making fun of you, it's Mozart.

If it sounds like the composer is trying to make you as deaf as he is, it's Beethoven.

If it sounds like the composer is trying to shoot you, it's Tchaikovsky.

If it sounds like the composer is mansplaining to you, it's Wagner.

If it sounds like you bought Star Wars on Temu, it's Holst.

If it sounds like the composer is trying to incite a riot, it's Stravinsky.

If it sounds like there's 10 hands playing a single piano, it’s Liszt.

If it sounds like there's 10 hands playing a single piano and all of them are clinically depressed, it's Chopin.

If it sounds like two marching bands playing different songs meeting at the 0 yard line, it's Ives.

If it sounds like , it's Cage.

What could go wrong with an AI trained on Twitter’s posts and interactions…

Not really looking forward to an extremely aggressive, fascist-leaning AI. I wonder when big lenders will stop funding Musk’s ideas. Or is this exactly what they’re looking for when they give him unlimited amounts of money?

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