I'm what used to be called a machine learning engineer, originally from London (the English one), living in the SF Bay Area for the past 20 years.
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Last Notes npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 I'm still looking for someone to vote for governor. Just saying. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 he's not though. It will require Democrats with balls. They're going to try him for four years until the fascist regime returns and pardons him as a hero-patriot of the new billion-year reich. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 am I just horribly biased because I like the sound of anything that Israel is not particularly thrilled with? npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 Even reading the word "fentanyl" halves your lifespan. That's why we need to give police more guns. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 scanned it, clicked the link, sent the money to the nice Nigerian prince. I think it's failed though because he hasn't got back to me with my exclusive business opportunity yet. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 I'm drafting a strongly worded pamphlet. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 I'm not convinced that Trump won't just keep the money to himself and stiff these guys, like he always does. But I don't think these guys will learn from the fact that Trump will screw everyone. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 if I had my way, basic human rights would cover 90% of the shit I care about. I think voting on the rest would be fine. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 Surely Aulë would be a better name for a dwarf planet. 🤓 npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 if the supreme court doesn't block it, like they did with the ERA. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 This whole "keep an open mind" attitude about whether LLMs are sentient is just dumb to begin with. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 can i pet the doctor instead? npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 do we know what time the results are supposed to start coming in? npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 I can think of 1312 reasons why this is not alright. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 i have a ci/cd trigger connected to Mastodon that pushes all branches to prod whenever anyone posts these memes. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 all your pictures are worth taking time to view, but this is remarkable even by those standards. Thank you for sharing. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 The males sing so beautifully. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 Which birds make the best drinks? npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 A game theory explanation of this, that I read a while back, is that communities play a complex version of the iterated prisoner's dilemma - which has a very successful strategy of being nice to people unless they're shitty to you - but as the community grows it devolves into an independent series of simple prisoner's dilemmas (which have a dominant strategy of being a dick) as the proportion of repeated interactions between individuals drops. So this is why big subreddits are toxic but small ones retain community. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 i always wanted a Blue Peter badge, but could never be bothered to do the things you needed to do to get one. In that small way, I am just like Trump. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 Thanks for that. Some days it feels like hope is about as abundant as toilet paper during COVID. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 The best, most succinct, explanation of the difference here came from @npub1fdr…lvhs: npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 I'm sure that there's a massive covid bias in this study as people who got the vaccine were much less likely to die as a result, but I wonder if they controlled for selection bias, in that people who believe in the objective fact of vaccination saving lives are also more likely to survive generally. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 i understand the "I don't trust Big Pharma" instinct, but the conclusion to not vaccinate kids as a result is like saying: "I don't trust Big Ag, so I'm just going to stop giving my kids food" npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 Vaccines are a cost-effective way to have smaller child cemeteries. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 So, I'm at my regular antifa meeting (you know how you have to go regularly otherwise they revoke your membership and it's a real pain filling in all those forms to get it reinstated) and I'm just browsing the balaclava merch stall, when this guy comes up to me and asks if I want a job as a protestor - pays $100k a year, medical, dental, in-house shiatsu masseur, may require frog attire. Heck yeah, I do. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 I work in the front line trenches of this bubble and I think what you say is correct. I do think that this is the result of the need to burn off excess capital, shrink the market, and then give the system room to grow again. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 I feel sorry for billionaires. These are people who will never write a poem, who will never pay taxes, and who probably have someone help them when they go to the toilet. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 This is the essence of Taylorism - something that Vonnegut was consciously satirizing - where the process for making something is centralized so skilled workers can be replaced by cheaper, unskilled manual labour or by automation. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 I read everything voraciously. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 This is a feature of the liberal compromise. While we allow extremely wealthy people to exist (or even the possibility of their existence), the possibility (or perhaps inevitably) of fascism will coexist. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 Return of the Nightmarish Zuckerdoll. Your war on peaceful sleep continues. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 interesting. I may finally join bluesky after all. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 Also, famously, Dr Krieger from the television show Archer. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 this sounds a lot like early Marxist thinking. Marx originally thought the bourgeois class would help bring in a more egalitarian society, but in the failed revolution of 1848 they just grabbed power and turned it on the workers who helped them. npub1kemyz33zh2z2dqv45ypemtn4fkkus8wq7sucnzupk0e8m536ruusxtn8eu Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈 "To make changes, you have to exist in society. Yes, the Democratic Party is a weak and pathetic failed gerontocracy, but the Democratic Socialists, the Sunrise Movement, and other political groups that are independent of the Dems but still drag them into doing something good, sometimes, all deserve your support."
