Sterling Hammer
Sterling Hammer
@sterlinghammer.com
Senior Reliability Engineer Azure / Technologist / Gamer / Photographer Washington by way of Massachusetts. Here you can find my latest #Photography and thoughts on the world of #Tech and #Politics https://www.hammerti.me These are my personal thoughts.
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See? There is no secret “defeat fascism once and for all” belief system. You just do the work, every election. Far left, center left, it doesn’t matter. Learn the lesson: Stop pretending you’re special and just fucking vote for Democrats.
Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.
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Secretary of the interior Doug Burgum talking about getting rid of hazardous trees. The man in charge of federal public lands and charged with conserving them 🤣
Burgum doesn't answer a question on Fox about whether green fees for the DC public golf course will go up after Trump's redesign, and says the administration is "getting rid of hazardous trees"
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NEW - DHS appointees made an unusual request of CISA, its agency that protects election systems: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. Though not acted on, the request shows how the Trump administration has tried to use CISA for its own ends.
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Made a little video about my reporting on “Tommy” from the viral @abdulelsayed.bsky.social town hall
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Top Trump adviser Ric Grenell allegedly outlined a stunning pay-for-influence offer to a Turkish billionaire last year that included access to Trump, according to a text message reviewed by Axios that the White House counsel is investigating.
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Except he didn't fund it, I did, paying a much higher tax rate than the white supremacist. Those thrusters are SpaceX tech for which we—not him—have paid ~$31 billion. I paid for those cold gas thrusters and the software running them, and what I get in exchange is a short video and white supremacy.
do think there's a danger of looking at extremely cool shit like a car driving upside down then doing a kickflip before landing, and convincing yourself it's actually lame because the guy funding it is a white supremacist
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Replying to @bencollins.bsky.social
Anyway, good case study here. You can be as evil as you want, you can kill as many people as is possible, you can shove churro ladies into vans then off to black sites in countries they've never even heard of, but if you can't do the performance of fascism — that's when you're in real trouble.
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There it is!
I don't think she's gonna make it. She seems roughly two bad questions away from losing it already. Could be fun.
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Documents released by a watchdog group suggest that despite Trump's promise to fund Freedom 250 events through private donations, taxpayers largely footed the bill. The budget estimates leave open questions about where tens of millions in private donations ended up.
Nothing quite says peace like starting a war of choice.
Trump: "The United States of America, represented by me as your president, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn't. This is an indelible stain on the country of Norway. We will not forget, Norway." (note how tepid the crowd response is to this whining)
These tech bros are absolutely blitzed on their own supply. GenAI is not conscious it’s not even really AI.
Anthropic wrote that the new policy update “is meant to apply only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose. It does not apply to common versions of user frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, or model testing and research.”
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Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
Over the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”
Ah yes the Trump defense. Keep trying until you get your cherry picked prosecutor or judge.
One of the Cornell Chi Phi fraternity members alleged to have gang raped "Jane Doe" is trying to get AG Letitia James disqualified from her role investigating what happened in October 2024. I explain his legal filing & why he’s unlikely to succeed at this point: youtu.be/rUlWY5XeuOM?...
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Apparently for the MAGA true believers, there is no discernible difference between Trump and Jesus, and the animating force that unites them is hatred for and a desire to exterminate Muslims (or you can substitute trans people, Blacks, Hispanics, gays, Indian-Americans... as necessary).
"He's gonna fix it. Believe in him ... all the abortion, it's evil ... I want to see 2 people -- Trump & Jesus...we do not want Muslims taking over...I have horrible thoughts. I don't think they should be here. This isn't their country...they need to pack up & go back where they came from."
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Russle Vought confuses himself with Congress.
Russ Vought: "We fund what we need to fund. I'm not at all shy about we want to spend billions of dollars on a new shipyard. We're up there defending the $1.5t that the Department of War needs. But it's also coming at a ton of reduction on the non-defense side"
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National Jewish Survey, Sep 1, 2026 Generic congressional ballot: 67% D, 26% R Approvals JD Vance: -68 MAGA: -59 Donald Trump: -53 ICE: -50 Benjamin Netanyahu: -40 Marco Rubio: -33 "Israeli policy in Gaza": -30 Barack Obama +32 jewishvoters.org/wp-content/u...
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"Hi there! I'm the Secretary of Agriculture in a nation where just about every single kind of food has been recalled because it will give you explosive shits and then kill you dead. Well, I'm here to tell you about how government regulation and oversight is baaaaaaaad."
Brooke Rollins: "Do you remember, especially the moms out there, when they told us what light bulbs that we could screw into our light fixtures, which washing machines we could use, and which toilets we could flush?"
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This Jacob Coxon thing is weird. He worked at Anthropic for six weeks and OpenAI for nearly three years. He’s doing a whole media tour without any real statements about what it is he’s scared of other than vague references to recursive self improvement, a theoretical ai that teaches itself.
ANTHROPIC EXEC: “.. I personally think it is >10% within the next decade.”
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So this man is leasing a jet… from himself using campaign funds to fly around… Ohio? The actual fuck?
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Why does CNN think Mace is noteworthy? She’s a lame duck. She ran for governor, came in fifth place (not a typo), and got 12% of the vote in the primary. She’s a nobody, hungry for a few fleeting moments of fame.
CNN’s Omar Jimenez attempts to explain the 1st Amendment to the preposterously Islamophobic Nancy Mace
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Forcing leaders to take incredibly unpopular and damaging positions like this is the side effect of how narrow control is in the house rn.
Mike Johnson defends Max Miller despite horrible abuse allegations: "We don't take disciplinary action against members for allegations. It's in his own words 'a nasty divorce proceeding' ... he thinks it's a hit job on him."
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This is the key thing that so many debates about AI replacing jobs miss. Whether AI can do your job is not relevant. What's relevant is whether your boss believes (almost certainly incorrectly) that AI can do your job, or whether your boss wants to use AI as an excuse to let you go to 'cut costs'.
Finally, there's an *economic* coin-trick: "AI will destroy jobs." Sure, yes, AI is destroying jobs. But there's a vast difference between "You got fired because an AI can do your job" and "You got fired because your boss was convinced that the AI can do your job, even though it *cannot*." 45/
We’ve got to end this folks. That’s why I’m choosing to advance his nomination 🤣
Tillis admits Trump is weaponizing the DOJ during his speech announcing he'll vote for Todd Blanche: "Maybe it's a little bit more intense in this administration than the last one ... I'm going to support Mr Blanche's nomination"
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At this point, Thom Tillis has nothing left to lose but his principles, so he made sure to toss them overboard too.
Tillis admits Trump is weaponizing the DOJ during his speech announcing he'll vote for Todd Blanche: "Maybe it's a little bit more intense in this administration than the last one ... I'm going to support Mr Blanche's nomination"
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One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.
Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
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You can read entire articles by commentators about how Dems should handle immigration that literally don't mention ICE at all. It's as if the last 18 months never happened. It's utterly baffling.
To be making the argument in 2026 that immigration is a Republican leaning issue so Democrats shouldn’t campaign on it, and especially Trump’s overreach on deportations, is to be completely ignorant of the data and events of the last 18 months
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This is an outrageously false statement that ought to disqualify this wingnut from holding public office. By the way, 40 percent of the covid deaths in US could have been prevented with better management of the pandemic by Trump, according to a Lancet commission. abcnews.com/Health/lance...
Tuberville: "I'll be the governor of Alabama and I promise you we will find out if there's a possibility that we can bring him to Alabama to put him in front of a court and a jury to see if we can put this guy in prison. He killed millions of people, folks."
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