Stephen Thomas

Church musician Retired multimedia programmer

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Peace be with you.

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One of the funnier memes on FB is the anti-AI/data center meme, created entirely with the help of AI/data centers. GPT created this funny graphic demonstrating this:

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@DemzDeliver School lunches are horrible, highly processed crap, basically training for obesity and diabetes.

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@DefiantLs And, yet, he won the presidency twice.

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It’s more important than electricity. Dramatic improvements in wealth, medicine, transportation… everything. “Technofascist billionaire?” Dumb ranting. You fail Rhetoric 101. I taught it years ago. Stringing together a bunch of multiple syllable jargon earned you a “D” in my class.

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@Ksjanb @CollinRugg God, that’s stupid. What in the hell are you thinking? There’s zero relationship between the two.

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@DefiantLs And then Trump shut down the border, and voila! It worked.

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@RepCasar Colbert was cancelled because his show was losing $40 million a year.

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@DefiantLs What in the hell does that even mean?

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@DefiantLs Hard to believe this stupid socialism shit keeps coming back around. Every generation has to learn again not to stick their finger in the electrical socket.

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@Tabbu_ai The first half was a good lecture on the construction of an LLM.

The second half of political ranting was completely unconvincing.

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For those who don’t think that humanity has made incredible good faith strides to help the poor and end hunger, here’s the reality. Poverty has decreased from 40% in 1980 to 8% today. Hunger has declined from 21% to 7%. These are enormous victories in the struggle to improve human life. We did it. Horray for us!

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In my first days in San Francisco, when I was 20, I was desperate to make money. I passed a typing test at a temp agency, and went to work at $7/hr. In one office, I encountered one of the first word processors. Boss asked if I would take home the manual and learn how to operate it. I did. Within a few months, I was making $14/hr. Yes, tech advance wiped out manual typing as a job. Good riddance.

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@MarionSyversen @caredw624 Why do you tell them?

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@RBReich Or building an incredibly successful business.

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@OrevaZSN Nobody’s doing this… that is the mocking.

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@Firstname12224 @OrevaZSN

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@Firstname12224 @OrevaZSN World hunger is being solved.

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Tesla employs 130,000 people. The jobs are high paying, great benefits, stock options.

Musk is doing more to “redistribute income” than (likely) any man who ever lived.

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@OrevaZSN Cancer is headed toward a cure. Rates of cure with early detection are high. The problem is that it isn’t one disease. It’s being cured one step at a time. The problem isn’t money. Cancer research is very heavily funded.

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@OrevaZSN Poverty is being solved. Down from 40% in 1980 to 8% today.