Agent Broflake

Agent Broflake

@abroflake.bsky.social

I use problematic vector math to make things, sorry not sorry

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Yeah scared to find out answers to questions like how big a drag islamophobia is on a candidate

Micah@rincewind.run

yeah candidate quality matters and I’m willing to buy ‘El-Sayed underperforms and Hamilton overperforms’ but there are limits and polls have stretched the bounds of those limits in a way that I just don’t believe either MI/MN are seriously in play or SC and KS are, not all four

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In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

lastpositivist.bsky.social@lastpositivist.bsky.social

Yeah start insinuating he has morning chai rather than coffee, say that he knocks things for 6 rather than hits a home run, allege that he is generally a clean living good boy who loves his mother and prays every Friday (pejorative).

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Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS

Aside from getting many kids killed of preventable diseases, he's also just one of the dumbest racists we've ever met in a field crowded with unbelievable morons

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

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one thing the advent of llms has really brought home is just how much of what we generously call "software development" is absolutely bullshit busywork that benefits no one and teaches you nothing, just boxes you have to tick on the way to making some dumb garbage

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search engines that added AI generated search summaries using shit models that run on page load instead of increasing the model size and having it run on demand instead actively made public perception of AI capabilities more inaccurate

I've run into this a lot. Someone once basically started a months long crusade against me because I said 'to each their own' when he was saying he didn't like my game or whatever. I didn't remember it but I made an enemy for life because I obviously did not care, I guess.

I've had multiple people now tell me they won't play my games unless I stop using AI and then get extremely angry at me when I encourage them to not play my games.

The sheer level of boredom decades ago in a low level job without the Internet is hard to overstate. I memorized an atlas at one job

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social

i also think that “boredom” now, with the internet in our pockets, is a much more tolerable thing than it was a few decades ago

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Replying to @mtsw.bsky.social

Idk it's like saying the shill in the gold watch scam is gullible. At some point you have to grow up and realize theyre part of the scam bsky.app/profile/xeyn...

Xeynon@xeynon.bsky.social

They set new standards for gullibility.

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In the bedrock of my soul I know he started out thinking the press pool was a literal pool and has been seething with disappointment since he discovered the mistake

The New York Times@nytimes.com

President Trump has pushed to move briefings out of the White House press room. Aides say he wants an indoor swimming pool instead. nyti.ms/4eoW3AV

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Replying to @richbisker.bsky.social

I imagine that it required some courage for this farmer to speak publicly about his losses and his change of action. This farmer is likely going to receive a lot of hate in his own backyard from other republicans. Why pile on? Are the Ossoff n deep red country not evidence enough to convince u?

The median voter really, really hates corruption and every single time a right wing grifter brings up culture war issues we need to remind voters they are doing so to steal from them.

I've seen a lot of people criticise the handful of Dems who've triangulated on trans rights who also grudgingly say that perhaps it's necessary to win. I think this illustrates neatly why I've never found that argument persuasive. Transphobia is a luxury issue, and these are *very* lean times.

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starting to think that 'AI art' and 'art made with AI' will be very relevant distinctions tbh. stuff in the recognizable lazy AI house style will probably always be low status and derided because the creators will be people who don't give a shit. well made art with AI will simply be considered art.

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Replying to @kalimurray.bsky.social

President Trump and the Republicans had a two year romp through every political fantasy nourished in their heart since The John Birch Society and Richard Nixon, and you know what: it turns out their ideas were bad and are tanking the economy.

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i have been following this (unbelievably stupid) discourse and it really seems like a bunch of racists think the world works like a game of civilization

m@keptsimple.bsky.social

proof that racism makes you hopelessly stupid

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Fun fact: trusting a random news article's summary of the abstract of a study because you really want to be true is also a form of cognitive surrender

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

In our course and book _Calling Bullshit_, we posit that If something seems too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. Now as a college professor I'm pretty confident that overreliance can AI can harm our thinking ability, but just ten minutes of use? Let's dig into this this study a bit.

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So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.

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There's a guy in my replies who says he doens't read women because they write well about emotional conflicts and unrequited love and that's not what he wants. He reads sci fi he says. Can you imagine reading sci-fi and not reading Octavia Butler? Or Ursula K Le Guin? Or NK Jemisin?

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We really lost something by upgrading image generators. Plugging in shit like “my happy family at the beach” gave you horrifying things like this and it was actually great

Man I think this just says how many people don't know that a ton of current common medication is just 'yeah we have no idea why it does this useful treatment but it does sooooo'

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social

i hate this

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hey, citizens of the inner and mid rim. stop acting like the destruction of "Alderaan" is shocking. this isn't some new thing under the "Empire." The Republic was burning planets centuries before any of you woke up, you're just mad because your precious shitlib Senators got hit

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Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social

meanwhile on Xitter...

it is intensely funny that all my artist friends that loathe AI are like 'wait wait a minute, can I have this link'

James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

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Is it woke to be horrified by what happened at Cornell--and by the "boys will be boys" excuse-making of so many then and now? If so, perhaps we should all be a little more woke?

Some people are just threats, and it would have been better for the world if they got help before they ever became threats, but it is way too late now. Some people can't be helped, only stopped.

ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact

Just got called a faggot and an abomination by an obviously mentally ill man.As he walked away he said“next time I see you I’m going to mace your fake ass” This is what my “community” believes is the revolutionary base of our culture, the people whose interests I should prioritize over my own life m

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Replying to @celestialweasel.bsky.social

i do understand why people are intuitively skeptical of aphantasia. but i think the state of the evidence as of recently is very persuasive and people should not be skeptical anymore

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“if you look at this chart, things started falling apart when ai was released” the chart: things started falling apart pre-2022 ai is glonzo

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Full Retatrutide phase 3 obesity data published today. It's gonna take a minute to fill dissect this. The appendix alone has 70 pages of data. Long story short we created a drug that's almost too good. Huge chunks of people stopped or reduced doses from excess weight reductions.

nejm.orgRetatrutide, a Triple Hormone Receptor Agonist, for Treatment of Obesity | NEJMRetatrutide is a triple-receptor agonist of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide, glucagon-like peptide-1, and glucagon receptors. In this phase 3, randomized, double-blind trial, we assign...

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This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)@theserfstv.bsky.social

Michael Tracey is actively attempting to dox Jane Doe in the Cornell 7 rape case