tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
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What's an "AIV?" Autonomous Information Vehicle, that's what.
It's our term for animated graphics we created to easily share in various locations, wherever the seemingly universal and immortal animated GIF scheme works.
AIVs present climate myth debunkings in step-by-step fashion. They can quickly stand in for laborious and endless typing when "somebody on the internet is wrong."
Here's an example. The rest are at the link, ready to release!
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The IDF are just murderous bastards aren't they? How have we let it get to this?
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In the 1660s, this French philosopher came up with an invention that solved the problem of urban transport forever.
It had nothing to do with Robo-taxis, flying cars, or Tesla Tunnels.
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The Overton window for climate action just changed. Turns out it's A-OK to make polluters pay: $3 billion a year, for a total of $75 billion. And that's just New York State
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/nyregion/hochul-climate-change-superfund-law.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kk4.QV2c.dLUnZAy8s6vp
This holiday season, the hands at the wheel in Microsoft and OpenAI has finally gifted us a robust and honest definition of #agi: An Artificial General Intelligence is "a system that can generate $100 billion in profits"
Such refreshing clarity! The lofty words about the fluffy but indistinct benefits of the artificial intelligence OpenAI has sought to ("safely") create has, by the unexpected vehicle of contract law, finally solidified into a solid, calcified, objective: a lot of money should go from you to Sam Altman.
Happy holidays from the visionaries of #capitalism!
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/microsoft-and-openai-have-a-financial-definition-of-agi-report/
"UTHealth Houston had leased four bodies to Med Ed Labs. But when the company shipped them back to Houston, it sent a fifth unidentified and badly decomposing corpse. The extra body — packaged in a box that, according to one official, resembled cardboard pulled out of the trash — hadn’t come from Houston and shouldn’t have been delivered to the school, emails show.
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If you own a power saw, “you can run a body broker business,” said Thomas Champney, an anatomy professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine who researches the ethical use of human bodies.
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Unlike becoming, say, a hairdresser, massage therapist or social worker, Nassiri’s entry into the body business required no formal training, no state certification and no professional license.
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In December 2023, a Health Science Center official wrote to notify Nassiri that an internal audit had found that the center was missing nine pairs of ankles and feet that had been sent to Las Vegas more than two years earlier.
It’s unclear from the emails if the feet were ever found, and Nassiri told NBC News he had no memory of the incident. The Health Science Center didn’t answer questions about the status of the missing appendages."
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Elon Musk’s Twitter backers gain windfall from xAI deal - Investors hit by losses following Musk's takeover reap rewards from shares in AI start-up - Musk has given investors that backed his $44bn Twitter acquisition 25% of shares in xAI
xAI is set to close a new $5bn fundraising round doubling valuation to $50bn in 6 months. Those to benefit include Fidelity, Larry Ellison, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Jack Dorsey, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz.
https://www.ft.com/content/5c9ca1f6-b6fe-4c96-84e2-38e3eee90f3b
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Felon #Musk's attacks on #Wikipedia have done more for their fundraising in three days than Jimmy's constant guilt-tripping in the last three years
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Happy birthday Jesus, inventor of the poisson distribution
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uspol / trans genocide
Joe Biden just signed the most significant anti-trans law ever.
This is Joe Biden's legacy. This is the most significant thing he did in four years as President. His final act, his final fuck you on the way out the door, will be to reify— and make bipartisan— the notion that the Federal government should be instrumentalized to exterminate trans children. He could have let Trump do that. But no, he did it himself.
I repeat: https://mastodon.social/deck/@mcc/113501640933213236
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in switzerland you aren't allowed to have a train with exactly 256 axles because of an integer overflow in the axle counting machine
i wish i could fix my software bugs by making it illegal to cause them
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"Genocides can happen with gas chambers. Or with machetes. Or they can be carried out with 2,000lb bombs and aid blockades. Genocides rarely look the same. But they are all designed to arrive at the same endpoint: the elimination of a people"
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) agree that Israel is striving for extermination. It has not hidden its intent, and that intent is confirmed by its actions on the ground.
#Israel #Gaza
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/another-expert-report-finds-israel?publication_id=476450&post_id=153574998&isFreemail=true&r=96cfk&triedRedirect=true
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Very aptly put, David Frum.
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https://bsky.app/profile/davidfrum.bsky.social/post/3ldtps2hxps2m
#Politics #Bitcoin
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Take care to follow the instructions carefully for maintenance of your slotin-loader iMac g4.
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Long thread/37
Because we aren't engaged in economically rational activity. We're doing something essential - essential to us, first and foremost, and essential to the audiences and peers our work reaches and changes and challenges.
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Long thread/36
These writers - the ones who are still alive - are living proof of the fact that you have to break our fingers to get us to stop writing. Some of them haven't had a mainstream publisher in *decades*, but they're *still* writing, and self-publishing, or publishing with small presses, and often they're doing the best work of their careers, and almost no one is seeing it, and they're *still* doing it.
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“It is a great shame that Ireland is a special case, but the shame is not Ireland’s.”
~Mark O’Connell
The Irish Times
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@Mabande Viktiga information! Ständigt Aktuell!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi6zorMyhVU
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Luigi Mangione fan art, merch, and photos are getting hit with bogus copyright takedown requests all over the internet. Artists and journalists affected. Very difficult to tell who is doing it, but one company says they received a request from United Healthcare:
https://www.404media.co/copyright-abuse-is-getting-luigi-mangione-merch-removed-from-the-internet/
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
