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this space not for hire

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@aelfred_D Eh call me a philistine if you like, but: Frost.

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@ShamashAran But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao you aren’t going to make it with anyone anyhow.

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@BizballMaury @JTTheBrick Presto was amazing.

And, yes, I’d like to see them record as well. Geddy has already admitted he was writing lyrics, it almost seems inevitable. 🤞

[TheHistoryOfTheAmericans @TheHistoryOfTh2]

If you believe that nat'l leaders damage the foreign reputation of their own countries when they do and say bad things, who in your estimation has most damaged their own country's reputation abroad? Three obvious choices below, put others in the comments, and share it around!

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@James_West_PhD @DanielCDolmar @Hebro_Steele My preference would be to celebrate the ratification of the 13th Amendment. Juneteenth seems like a regional touchstone rather than a national one. But, 🤷‍♂️

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@DanielCDolmar @JTLonsdale Musk has called Fuentes a Fed. I think he might be right. Maybe.

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@DanielCDolmar @DavidMKeyes I don’t know, man. Even if it’s something that should happen, considering how unpopular this was, you really think they’re gonna go back to it as we head into an election year?

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@alwaysDandie @DaddyWarpig I think we should value the ambition even if it doesn’t land for all readers. I thought it was great.

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@AltCulture Perhaps you’re pointing at lazy thinkers and then noticing that they don’t know, have never really known, where their ideas come from.

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@TheHistoryOfTh2 What do you think about the idea that the war has further increased, possibly totalized, the regime’s motivation to get a nuclear weapon?

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@sheminary Hmm. Maybe next year.

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@sheminary How true would you say this is?

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

I was wrong

I've been saying for months that open source AI models are 6 months behind frontier

They caught up. GLM 5.2 is as good as Opus 4.8

This changes everything. If you run GLM 5.2 locally no government can take it away. You become sovereign

And even if you run through APIs, its a fraction of the cost

The battlefield is different now. If open source is as good as frontier, and people have cheaper alternatives, governments can't be as quick to regulate. It will destroy the frontier AI labs

All of this is such a massive win for the people

If you are not paying attention to local models yet, you are making a tremendous mistake

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@crash_matrix https://t.co/TbPaGk1jJy

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Watching Britain turn into the setting of V for Vendetta, but there’s nothing we can do because Anonymous used up all the masks last decade.

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@sheminary @TheCartoonLoon … fair.

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@sheminary @TheCartoonLoon I’m pretty sure I called you a communist for suggesting it should accompany my fish and chips.

That said, in the interest of international relations, I would be willing to make the attempt.

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@sheminary Ach.

[Per Bylund @PerBylund]

Great piece by @PhilWMagness: "No, Marx Was Not an Important Economist" https://t.co/Umq7cTiDfS

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@BroJoeChiRho @CAgovernor I would be nice if either party had a moral, ethical, or even practical high ground.

Or even anything above sea level. Metaphorically.

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@DanielCDolmar Tale as old as time…

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@glukianoff I found George Will persuasive on this point. Wilson did immense damage to our nation.