Mini Duck • •

Dylan!

just a Mini Duck trying to survive
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[Mini Duck • • @ItMiniDuck]

Yo yo new friends, definitely new to Stan Twitter, got tired of having a boring feed but here's some starter info for ya!

My name's Dylan!
I'm from the Chicago area
My favorite artists are Taylor Swift and TØP!
Favorite Taylor album is reputation or Midnights
And tøp is vessel!

[Lyn🦋 @_ayandamay]

I want a refund on every minute I spent in 8th grade learning that monopolies are illegal and that our government would protect us from greedy men....

[Mountain Ğeneral @MountainGenera]

Since Pope Leo XIV mentioned this in encyclical, this means if your employer is pushing you to use AI, you can cite religious conserns as a reason to not use it at work

[marcus @marcusyul]

> la IA contaba mal el inventario en Starbucks

> Microsoft bloqueó claude code para sus propios ingenieros

> Uber no encuentra el ROI después de gastar miles de millones en IA

3 derrotas de la IA esta semana en el sector laboral.

WE ARE SO BACK

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Variety @Variety]

Josh Dun and Tyler Joseph of Twenty One Pilots say they're both Swifties, and that Dun's wife, Debby Ryan, discovered that "Enchanted" is the one song that calms their baby down. #AMAs

[The Modern Boethius @ModernBoethius]

“Public opinion is gradually being shaped and conditioned by polarizing media narratives, which are often amplified by algorithms that prioritize conflict and confrontation.” -Pope Leo

The pope just exposed the entire grifting social media influencer class

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This is from an IBM presentation

In 1979

[Mini Duck • • @ItMiniDuck]

@Semoahui @messeduppcs

[nora 🐞 iso noah dc @norazseason]

i KNOWWW you’ve seen this one

[Mini Duck • • @ItMiniDuck]

@buterflysoup @ftwgd It would be hilarious if it was just silence while Josh was walking up and they cut it because they know the fans don’t have the attention span for it

[Mini Duck • • @ItMiniDuck]

@far_middle @x06ak2 @treyimeson @FoxNews Is temu advertising steaks and water?

[Mini Duck • • @ItMiniDuck]

@far_middle @RyanBissonnett1 @FoxNews Tell me youve never had a conversation with an ESL speaker with out telling me:

[Mini Duck • • @ItMiniDuck]

@desertveteran @Fat_Electrician Why only Military Veterans be allowed to “teach” these supposed 13th-15th grades? Not only is there 1:) not enough veterans to cover millions of young adults, 2:) many of these veterans are diagnosed with some kind of mental illness that may put them in unpredictable environments

[The Fat Electrician @Fat_Electrician]

14 year old: I got my first part-time job!

Society: Congrats, don’t forget to pay taxes

17 year old: I want to join the military

Society: Hell yeah, go for it

18 year old: I can’t afford college

Society: Here’s a predatory loan you’ll pay back for 40 years, and you can’t bankrupt.

18 year old: I want to vote

Society: Absolutely, you should honestly be voting at 16!

19 year old: I want to become a porn star and have those images of me on the internet forever.

Society: Your body, your choice

20-year-old with 6 years of work experience, a deployment in Afghanistan, and $300k in debt: Can I have a beer and a cigarette?

Society: WHOA!!!!! absolutely not, your brain isn’t fully developed!

[WIRED @WIRED]

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. https://t.co/XWEZr6Q0DF

[Annelisa J. Purdie 🐏 📜 🌾 @RosyShepherdess]

Y’ALL. This is not a drill. The Wayback Machine is often the only source of webpages that have been scrubbed from the Internet.

[Ravens Realest 🐦‍⬛ @Ravens_Realest]

@DakotaBoutIt Bo Burnham

[Taylor🌸 @TaylortheReader]

@JeffTheeShark This is not necessarily true. Sony made a COVID era deal involving several animated projects where Netflix guaranteed that the projects would get their budgets back and 20% of another profit up to 20 million. This was a good decision for every other project but Sony—