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This means that the increased price of RAM and consumer electronics was a result of an artificial "supply chain crisis" created by Jensen Huang pushing NVIDIA's customers to take early delivery of GPUs. Jensen Huang is responsible for making life worse for everyone.

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the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning

depending on the way the winds blow, it could make a vast difference

If Biden or Obama had started a war that led to attacks like these on American bases—and then covered it up for months—the political backlash would eclipse Benghazi. One service member: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed." www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...

Songwriter of I Will Always Love You, Jolene and 9 to 5 also invested millions in child literacy, Covid-19 vaccine development and other causes

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@rodcampbell.bsky.social calls out the Mob Boss vibe on #koalas for #coal. ‘Nice forest you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if somebody messed with it.’ The NSW koalas-for-coal shakedown – and what it reveals about the carbon #offset market . #auspol reneweconomy.com.au/the-nsw-koal...

A senior figure in New Zealand First’s youth wing has been linked to a neo-Nazi group and online accounts that praised Adolf Hitler. Great work from @comingupcharlie.bsky.social www.thepress.co.nz/politics/361...

Any of you using the ios version of Patreon to support me, switch to the browser version instead, cuz the apple fees have actually taken over 3000 usd from me in the course of a year

It's for a teenage girl who doesn't know what the name is for the feelings she has and is so happy to discover that queer means you don't have to fit in a box. It's for someone who needs to hear that the violence they experienced is not their fault, and the fears it unleashed aren't theirs to hold.

Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.

Somehow we need to monetise this - and quickly

I've never seen anything like it. Salta, Argentina, has just recorded its hottest night on record during the climatologically coldest time of the year. The minimum overnight temperature did not fall below 26°C (78.8°F), pulverizing the previous monthly record by 7°C.

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This is relevant I think olivia.science/entryism/

AGAIN: the #1 predictor of a mass shooter is violence against women. Cops perpetrate VAW at higher % (though exact # unknown ofc) than the gen population. At some point our culture must take seriously the fact that this is a real red flag. It requires hating women less, though.

When the weather gets hot, please take special care for the goths in your life. With their floor-length coats, platform shoes, and velvet capes, it’s hard for them to thermoregulate as we do.

Feels m me an unforced error

I think the subtext counter argument here for vibecoding then, if I was to make one, is that since the subtext is a channel *for programmers* then if they accept a corrupted subchannel in exchange for some other boon *for programmers* that might be ok it's up to them. (externalities aside of course)

has there ever been a man so effective at demolishing the vibe. historic scarer of the hoes

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

Wow -- one of the climbers atop the Empire State Building appears to have gotten down on one knee and proposed to the other

A pretty interesting thesis from a well thought out guy, @bennjordan.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZy...

They're trying to call unstaffed libraries 'open' libraries, and when they do, the people who really need them are excluded. Please sign www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/un...

Guys after 10 years of searching thru my files and hard drives and old computers, I finally found it again; the single best Missed Connections listing I've ever seen

my face when I googled something about my game darkwebSTREAMER and the genAI response declared that a man designed the pioneering language system that I, a woman, designed we were talking about erasure of women's achievements by LLMs YESTERDAY and today i see this? goddamn.

“The Albanese Government has been fooled by crocodile tears from management consultants, forgiving PwC for its abuse of government information and only banning KPMG from new work for three months,” said Bill Browne, The Australia Institute. Read more ➡️ https://theaus.in/4gsn0p8

It’s okay if you can’t blend in with everyone. Because your own unique path is the most beautiful one🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Cherish the parts of you that are different from others. Let’s treasure those differences and keep moving forward. Your world is shining with beautiful, vibrant colors🌈

A lot of the “kids online safety” proponents actually are anti-LGBTQ extremists and fundamentalists who want kids to have less freedom and don’t care if that actually makes them tremendously less safe too

The graph below with its non-existent parties caused much mirth. But the analysis in the article has a number of faults including assertions about strong flows of Green preferences to One Nation at the SA election. antonygreen.com.au/the-financia...

Allowing consenting adults purchase adult things: ❌ Letting one of the greatest cybersecurity risks ever have access to financial infrastructure to make transactions: ✅