Adam Lasnik

Wow... always nice to see some good news that counterbalances the worrisome trends in France, Canada (BC), and other places!

This statement, sadly, is pretty evergreen in social media.

"But...but... what if Trump tampers with the elections? What if he doesn't honor them?" These are possibilities, sure. But the MOST POWERFUL thing we could do NOW is to forkin' vote and encourage others to vote as well. It's much easier to manipulate, litigate, or deny close vs. blowout races!

Personal note: Sometimes little things really help :) When waiting for water to boil or cooking stuff in my microwave, I've been working to improve my balance & stability by standing on one foot at a time and positioning my leg back and forth. It's made a surprising dif in weeks! Highly recommend!

One of the most humbling facts from my time in Community Ops at Meta was the realization that, at 99% accuracy, we made more than a million moderation mistakes a day. Purely because of the scale of the platform. You can’t six sigma the work because the cost would be unfathomable for any company.

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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, but am I the only one who feels it's EASIER than ever to find awesomely useful and interesting stuff on the internet? Yes, there's orders of magnitude more crap, but there are ALSO tuvan throat singing vids and info on how to fix any home appliance...

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Kind of stunned how many people in my mentions still believe that the point of Section 230 is that if you edit, you lose its protections. That's literally the exact opposite of why the law was written and the exact opposite of what courts have said. But tons of people here believe it. Weird.

“I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.” ESPN wasn’t an easy place to leave. Noren had worked there for twenty-four years, winning Emmy, Murrow, and Peabody awards 👏👏👏👏👏 www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

MacOS 27 has been out for more than a month, and the vast majority of audio plugins & tools are STILL not vetted as compatible (!) 😡 www.production-expert.com/apple-macos-... This seems different than other sw swgments. Is that right, or is the music tools space just really behind, & if so, why?

Everyone I don’t like is a bot/Russian agent/conspiratorial bad actor is a pretty useless way to sort through online interactions

I saw someone the other day remark that San Francisco is the only city in the country where the left is reactionary and the center is progressive.

Laws/lawsuits "...for the children!!" nowadays are depressingly so often performative at best, harmful to children at worst.

Whatever clout you think you get for always asserting the maximally cynical "it's always been bad and I've always known as much" perspective is worthless and actually making you much stupider as a person and more useless as a political agent.

From The Lancet: in an urgent care setting, the advice of the obsolete Gemini 2.5 Pro & Gemini 2.5 Flash (without access to patient medical records) were rated of similar quality to doctors by other physicians. There was no safety issues spotted. Models have gotten significantly better since.

You do NOT want the flu. It is not just a cold, it is way, WAY worse. Get vaxxed.

I am super-excited and a bit scared to be singing this incredible a cappella arrangement of "715 - CR∑∑KS" later this month youtu.be/tffl66nJPWY?... Wish me good luck (and smart practicing ahead of time!) #acappella #singers

There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...

I mean, if my friend was constantly making siri say it wanted to kill itself, I would probably worry for that friend and make sure they were doing ok. I wouldn’t be concerned for Siri.

I don't think we've seen someone with the combo of such evilness and imbecility in our lifetime, though Trump's admittedly got a lot of competition with his lackeys and appointed cronies.