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denster retweeted
Jun 16
“Where is Vader today?”
“He’s paying the Rebel Alliance $300 billion dollars after defeating them completely, every day for the last four months, sir.”
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Seems like the Sun may already be sentient and it's us that needs to understand the universe but let the light shine and may there be songs fill the air
Make our Sun sentient to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars
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The president and his friends are making money off this stuff, which is swampy as all getout, but otherwise this looks cool!
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Just plain old consumer confidence and consumers powers basically all this stuff, from a certain perspective.
Now we can easily bet on it thanks to prediction markets, which ironically makes the trust/confidence bit yet more abstract.
The system you describe does not exist without everyone else. 1st responders, soldiers, police, city workers.
NASA is controlled by "us" so I like it better than SpaceX (which the US government made possible), but all rocketry rocks!
If Elon literally gave back that'd be cool.
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denster retweeted
Jun 13
The United States has always fought this tension between what it is and what it claims to be. The wall is empty right now. That doesn't mean it stays empty. But the people trying to keep it empty are counting on the rest of us getting tired first.
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denster retweeted
Jun 12
Hegseth removed Chappie James's portrait from the Air Force Art Gallery and left the wall empty.
James flew 179 combat missions across two wars. First Black four-star general in US military history.
Curry passed that portrait every day for a decade. When it came down, he retired.
The wall is still empty.
Jun 9
Sec. Hegseth’s actions continue to be despicable – and they certainly aren’t representative of the Army I served in.
We’ve repeatedly seen how this White House has disparaged and mistreated both active-duty service members and the veterans who raised their hand to serve this country. I’m glad that people are continuing to stand up and speak out.
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He says we need to bust up massive monopolies every now and again
Something Americans know deep down
Jun 13
The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did.
And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves.
One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults.
Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life.
If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever.
Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen.
Alternatively
There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all.
To start -
If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers.
It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail)
Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability.
Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up
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They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks
Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.
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Some Dems return the favor. There is an ideological difference in that many Republicans think being coarse is being honest. Perhaps because society is different in rural and metro areas as much as anything. Social grease is most handy in cities and with strangers.
Jun 12
Republicans do this, but on the basis of slander instead of truth. They exploit media to smear their opponents, while Dems root partisan appeals in policy and ideology. In other words Republicans say Dems are shitty people; Dems don’t return the favor. offmessage.net/p/black-mold-…
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I love how they show them how to win gracefully too! Teaching good sportsmanship! The world can always use more of that!
Jun 12
One of the best scenes in SECONDHAND LIONS (2003) is watching a group of teenage punks mistake Hub McCann for a harmless old man. Five minutes later they’re all picking themselves up off the ground.
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denster retweeted
Jun 13
Bro is out here leaking model weights on main.
Careful they might just ban math altogether.
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denster retweeted
Jun 13
Because this is happening to Anthropic, the temptation for many will be to say: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. They have relentlessly raised the regulatory temperature in Washington by inviting far-reaching controls of frontier models. They made this bed and now they have to lay in it.
But this decision by the Trump administration should not be judged on a desire for payback politics, but on the merits, and specifically what it means for America's broader AI objectives.
In that regard, this action is truly outrageous. How exactly is the government planning on even going about verifying everyone who uses this specific model to ensure compliance? That alone raises huge flags.
Between the latest Executive Order shifting more control to NSA, and the recent chatter about quasi-nationalization / equity stakes, and now this action, we are talking about a significant escalation in the politicization of AI and centralization of control over advanced computation in this country. And this is all being done by an administration that had previously made acceleration and winning the great AI race a priority.
We're moving backwards now.
Jun 13
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Ben Affleck says actors have no job security because 130K people are in the actors union and only 30,000 work each year
"I got real cold and had a couple of movies that didn't work... all of a sudden it can be kind of over for you"
"there's no seniority, there's no tenure, there's no retirement. There's no gold watch"
"if your show doesn't work or your movie doesn't work and nobody wants to hire you, they're just gonna hire someone else"
"there's 130,000 people in SAG and there's only 30,000 people that work every year"
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denster retweeted
Jun 12
Godspeed Gene Shalit. 100 years of being your own person and doing things your way.
My tribute is the SCTV Gene Shalit's Critics Special.
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denster retweeted
Jun 12
Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.
If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.
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I love how we tend to think we have figured out the loops!
"If we stop here, the answer is clear as to how much of what is what, and which is which!"
"Innate versus learned? Willpower versus determinism? Child's play baby!"
(Note these are not actual quotes. I made them up)
Jun 12
lib pundits: only believe stuff because their reasoning abilities have been perverted by ideology and groupthink and social pressure and the desire for attention
online leftists: only believe stuff that is Objectively True; unaffected by other human dynamics
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Talarico: There's been a lot of talk in this race about what it means to be a real man. Here's what real men don't do. They don't lie and cheat their way through life. They don't sell their soul to the highest bidder. They don't steal from other people in order to enrich themselves. Real men serve others, weak men serve themselves. And so I welcome this debate about what it means to be a man.
And I don't think Ken Paxton or Ted Cruz are in a position to tell anybody what a real man is.
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Maybe we can leverage the hype to get paper ballots in the 5 states that still do not have them, and fix the problems with our voting software, etc.!
Every conversation with "respectable" conservatives about election fraud is basically this comic now
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