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I like when electricity is a little bit "slow". Like when you remove power from an appliance and it takes a couple seconds for all lights to go dark.
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funniest thing @sama could do is have codex produce a working theranos machine
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that quavo-takeoff orange room AI trend has the fastest “cringe upon arrival” timeline I’ve ever witnessed
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I wonder if the approach will be to make the band contain the actual brains / sensors, and then the display would just some kind of detachable module or do they just get rid of the display all together, and treat it as an "air" part of the lineup?
NEW: Apple is developing a screenless fitness tracker to rival Whoop.
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4月のNY開催が話題を呼んだAI Psycosis Summit @AIPSummit を今回日本に招聘しました。 NEORTは日本サイドからインストール・運営サポートなどを担当しています。 NY・日本のデジタルアート勢、DJ陣が集う入場無料のフリーパーティーです。 📅 9月27日(日)18:00–23:00 📍 渋谷・宮下公園 ParkinPark(1F、横丁隣) 🎟 入場無料 🎨Artists @kitasenjudesign @WTTDOTM @jonsarkin @Misositaworks @Sko_hr @kitvolta @gettles @ConejoCapital @quasimatt @kev_esh @juujuumama @artficialisabel James Concannon @isthisanart_ @joshuawolk @thatabdou Brennan Wojtyla @dave_krugman 🎧 DJ MELEETIME / Luna Woelle/Bunny *日本にはダイエットコークはないのでコーらゼロを用意します。 詳細(RSVP)はこちら👇
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Notice how Ticketmaster is getting away right now without massive pressure to boycott. They refunded everyone whose feelings were hurt by Macklemore’s humanity. Let’s cut their breath short and drop the hammer on their business.
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And this is the bigger picture people need to lock in and keep in mind. This is not just about Ed Sheeran or Macklemore. Censorship is getting dangerous by the elite.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells TMZ that the Ed Sheeran controversy is a gateway to a much bigger threat to artists’ freedom of speech: “You see what Robert Kraft did to line up all of the stadium [owners] to censor speech in that one specific way, it becomes clear this is not just about one music artist or two music artists. This is about how just a handful of stadium owners and the elites could prevent an entire massive issue like the genocide in Gaza [from being discussed]. It doesn’t stop there; it could be speaking about AI or any issue. You can just get a handful of stadium owners to ensure that an entire person’s career can be jeopardized if they speak out about any issues.”
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Replying to @memoLovesDawit
like the ppl are so close to realizing where their anger should really be directed in the grand scheme of things… the stadium owners are lowkey sitting back reveling that ed is getting all the attention for their action
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now i’m getting frustrated thinking no one else is catching on to this. it doesn’t make sense to “cancel” ed sheeran, but then still go to Gillette Stadium for ur favs next tour. we should be cancelling kraft group 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️
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I’ll take care of his fine
#Texans Pro Bowl middle linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair fined $11,492 for unauthorized message on eye black Sunday vs. #Bills Hind Rajab was a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israeli military firing several bullets along with six family members in Gaza City on January 29, 2024. Audio recordings of Hind calling for help sparked international outrage. In August, Israeli military confirmed soldiers fired on the vehicle and ordered an internal criminal investigation into the incident. Al-Shaair was previously fined $11,593
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FINNEAS has withdrawn from Ed Sheeran’s tour in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore: “Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed. I have decided to withdraw from my upcoming tour dates with Ed Sheeran. I stand with Palestine and its people.”
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According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history. How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing. Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs. An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians. For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated. It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings. By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do. So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951. How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it. At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform. It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.
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Kraft feeling compelled to release a statement like this is a good temperature check on just how far the I/P consensus has shifted
Patriots owner Bob Kraft has released a statement addressing his decision to block Macklemore from performing with Ed Sheeran at Gillette Stadium, a move that ultimately led Sheeran to drop Macklemore from his tour.
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to boil it down to "Robert Kraft called the stadium owner, and the stadium owner likes Ye more than Ed Sheeran" is retarded (excuse my language). what actually happened is Robert's team likely went after every single aspect of what builds up the "tour" for a big label artist. from the providers of AV equipment, to the concession stand owners, and formed a checkmate environment from which Ed Sheeran either had to comply with demands, or instantly end the tour (if you have no lights, sound, venue, food, PR, hotels, funds, etc.. you have no tour). so no, this isn't stadium owners playing favorites. it's just the fact that Ed Sheeran had the same setup that Ye had many years ago, where things can indeed get pulled with one call, because he doesn't own any of it. and if things get pulled, you're not replacing it on the road, unless you live in fantasyland. Ed doesn't have the pull to recover from losing all of that. It literally and metaphorically cost Ye billions to get back to this point, you should not expect to see a comeback like that very often.
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a tour is a company, with vendors, directors, techs, payroll, operators, etc. the reason why Ye is able to tour again is because he has rebuilt that entire operation with his own people / money instead of having it provided by a label. this isn't rocket science.
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to boil it down to "Robert Kraft called the stadium owner, and the stadium owner likes Ye more than Ed Sheeran" is retarded (excuse my language). what actually happened is Robert's team likely went after every single aspect of what builds up the "tour" for a big label artist. from the providers of AV equipment, to the concession stand owners, and formed a checkmate environment from which Ed Sheeran either had to comply with demands, or instantly end the tour (if you have no lights, sound, venue, food, PR, hotels, funds, etc.. you have no tour). so no, this isn't stadium owners playing favorites. it's just the fact that Ed Sheeran had the same setup that Ye had many years ago, where things can indeed get pulled with one call, because he doesn't own any of it. and if things get pulled, you're not replacing it on the road, unless you live in fantasyland. Ed doesn't have the pull to recover from losing all of that. It literally and metaphorically cost Ye billions to get back to this point, you should not expect to see a comeback like that very often.
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Damn I’m in such a tough spot. I really want to say that it’s wrong to kill children but I don’t want to upset my agent Josh Childkiller
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lmao at the thought that there's people out there genuinely scared of a computer. if AI nukes cyberspace will it suck? yes. will we all die? no. we've been through worse as a species, and have embarked on riskier shit, have some chutzpah brother.
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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Killed it on company slack lads
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