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  a thing i don't see mentioned much about generative AI is that it can't make anything new. basically by definition. no one is even arguing this point, but they're also ignoring the implications. replace all the graphic designers, musicians, writers, and coders with LLM output and what? we just stay in ~2024 forever? everything is a scrap book for the rest of our lives?

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  X is so fucking stupid. social media for the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.

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  pst hey the United States is already televising public executions. hundreds of them. the executions are extrajudicial and take place in the Caribbean and the Pacific. the executioner is the US Navy. the executions are broadcast on the White House's X account.

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  "He was then shot by a person at the scene who followed him inside." ❓❓🧐❓❓https://apnews.com/article/oregon-school-shooting-silver-rail-elementary-b0642ec5cd3da0db24227a2798e2c6ce

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  so cool that Musk's engineers have figured out how to attach compressed air thrusters to jingling keys. truly some impressive advances in jingling-keys technology.

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  sorry, that Tesla demo is fake as shit. that fucking thing is suspended on cables or something, that's the fakest shit I've ever seen. I'm calling it now. the guy who lies all the time for financial gain is lying for financial gain.

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  RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/117451136824268328 when i say the demo was fake, i don't mean every part of it was fake. i mean there is significant deception regarding what we are looking at and what it is doing. how much did this weigh? does it have a full battery? how much of the inside of the vehicle is jammed with thrusters and fuel? and obviously, the real car isn't going to do **any** of this lmao

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  love the Spanish concept of the cuñado, we don't have anything quite like it in English. racist uncle, kinda, but it's not the same.

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  people on Bluesky are saying "Zionist" is anti-semitic, and ok, maybe it is the way Certain People use it, but genuine question: then what's the correct word for the political position of supporting the genocide of Palestine? it's obviously not Jews; "Israelis" has the problem that lots of Israelis **don't** support the genocide, plus it doesn't include Americans and Christian freaks like Mike Huckabee. I feel like Zionists is still a pretty accurate word that...

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  an interesting map

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  RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117325356932250166 if i told people that Muse was surveilling them and drawing up Stasi-like graphs of their groups of family and friends, all easily available to Meta, they would assume i was overreacting.

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  i should start a sex cult.

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  lmao eat shit.

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  wow huh, so it turns out Trump did **not** end the war in Iran, interesting.

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  "The Flock Sock is a slip on cover designed to help protect a Flock camera from the harmful radiation of the sun. Your city spent their very own hard earned tax dollars scattering these cameras everywhere to keep you safe, all it cost you was a little privacy. The very least you can do is help protect these valuable civil servants from getting a bad sunburn." https://makerworld.com/en/models/3107766-flock-sock-flock-camera-cover#profileId-3503858

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  and why might this be happening?? https://abcnews.com/Politics/top-us-general-europe-abruptly-removed-command/story?id=135461842

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  lol not only was it a guillotine, it was a **bike** guillotine 🥰 https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/salem-brought-guillotine-oppose-data-151045877.html

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  lol I went down a RAG/semantic search rabbithole one time and it was soooo cool until I realized this has existed for **decades** and you can just implement elastisearch. difference was this took me a couple days, not many months and thousands of dollars. https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1vd0m4w/comment/p15jssv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=share_button

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  in the future, it's going to be important to find a doctor who graduated before 2022.

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  this is a new one for me.

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  it's fascinating to me how many old, powerful people are rushing to doom the thing they are in charge of by squeezing extra lucre out of it now. the boomer generation doesn't believe in the future. https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-boycott-uefa-emergency-meeting-news-b3024441.html

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  the thing about the vibesession/Charts Guys/economic data discourse is that the kind of insecurity people feel in the US isn't going to show up on a chart. you can be making comfortable six figures, own a home, and have some savings and still know that college for your kids is the Hunger Games, you'll never be able to save enough for retirement, you can lose your job at any second, and bad medical news will bankrupt you.

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  lol awesome. great. cooooooool. https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1v6djg3/corporate_america_has_suddenly_decided_to_stop/

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  if you have any information about these incidents, shut the fuck up. https://www.gadgetreview.com/two-flock-cameras-exploded-on-a-georgia-road

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  Ars nails it. meanwhile, every financial media outlet is burying the lede. https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/07/google-just-had-its-first-negative-cash-flow-quarter-ever-due-to-massive-ai-spending/

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  tech is pivoting to humanoid robots!! the humanoid robots:

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  some good news: https://apnews.com/article/tate-brothers-social-influencers-arrest-82b6638219839dcf653c09309da66f16

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@CuratedHackerNews/116934983260409282 this is pretty cool and really makes me think most back-ends are **vastly** over-engineered.

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  tokens are VERY expensive (lol). enterprises want to bring those costs under control. only thing is, they kinda can't. https://www.endnotes.net/token-tangle/#the-unknowable-cost-of-unending-tokens

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  "The Odyssey" is a story about a middle-aged dad who's still got it.