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Opinion: Chuck it, Schumer! | Steve Schmidt
The Democratic leader in the United States Senate is even less popular than the president whose politics the country has so decisively rejected... just 24% of registered voters approved of Chuck Schumer’s performance as Senate Democratic leader, while 54% disapproved.
The question is whether he possesses the humility to recognize that his time as leader has come to an end.
AI will “significantly disrupt the economic and therefore political power of one party's base, highly educated often female voters who vote mostly Democrat…and increase the power economic power of working class male voters” - Alex Karp, Palantir’s CEO, self described progressive & lifelong Democrat
@mackuba As well, since I am Canadian U.S. politics is not an overwhelming intense interest although the orange fascist is of concern.
As you pointed out, it seems bluesky is very u.s. centric.eh?
@Dianora yes, sadly - UK politics is also visible, but US dominates. (Although I have to admit I don't really miss being more up to date with any Polish political Twitter dramas of the day…)
@tinker I think Hitchhiker's Guide and Fifth Element are the only 2 "space" movies on my regular rotation, and those are more comedy than anything.
I think a lot of good space stories are just kinda unfilmable and remain in book form.
@vpg - Yeah, I'm noticing that. Either space opera or bust 😂
@louisemichel @ilumium Alt text: the images show the boat and some of the crew and are overlaid with the text in the post.
Thank you, and you might also add the #alttext tag to help people find your text.
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Unsure what you mean as the link works for me but here archive.ph/vd9um
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I expected tech CEOs to start pivoting away from their embrace of MAGA but this is a harder pivot than I expected.
Palantir’s CEO recently described himself as a Democrat his entire life who grew up in a far-left environment.
“Palantir is essentially progressive” he said.
@carnage4life 😂 the audacity is killing me!
The All-In podcast contemplates the "ornery mood" of America's "bottom half of non-equity holders."
https://www.404media.co/silicon-valley-podcast-hosts-try-to-understand-why-regular-people-are-mad/
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Be the change you want to see. Reddit Secret Santa was always a pretty big logistical undertaking, it would take effort to make a Fediverse one.
Also Fediverse users might be less keen on the idea generally, as it involves personal information and addresses. A very cynical take is that harvesting this data was the real purpose of the Reddit SS, which can’t really be ruled out.
If you are using an iPhone and would like to contribute to OpenStreetMap in a very easy and gamified way: @streetcomplete is now out for iOS!
Your contributions will not only improve CoMaps, but a whole range of OSM-based applications:
@CoMaps @streetcomplete I've been using StreetComplete for quite a few months now on Android (although not as much recently for lack of time, sorry), and indeed it's a very fun AND useful app. It makes it so easy to contribute to OSM "on the go". Nice to see it ported to iOS. Congrats for your work!
@larsmb zero marginal cost (that is making a new copy of the work is free) is a completely different beast from cheap
And the effect when combined with automatically generated designs (that is code) that can also be infinitely copied for free and have limited protections from intellectual property law is likely to be a much stronger pressure to drive the price to zero.
@baldur Generation is trending towards "cheap" (at least for now, who knows what price it will settle on once "externals" need to be paid for rather than via infinite debt, sorry, venture capital). It also takes time.
But prompting still needs humans, and humans ain't free¹.
But yes, the way we've chosen to go about this clearly was the most human value destroying approach possible.
¹ the double-entendre wasn't intended, but I'm keeping it
It's very important to call out, criticize and push out LLM usage for creative expression (writing, art, music, code).
But we also should not make "hunting LLM usage" our identity because it can also bind so much energy we could invest in building something better.
(I am in the target audience for this post)
@tante how about teaching people ways to express themselves creatively and how LLM can be a tool with potential to both support but also limit that process. It's a technology with a narrative and currently big corp writes it. Instead it needs to be a common good whose uses, harms and limits need to be learned and educated about. By making #NoAI an identity we will neither prevent nor improve that technology.
@ai6yr @W6KME @EugestShirley
Adventist World Radio appears to have (multiple?) yearly competitions to design pins, with multiple winners, and collecting them seems to be the expectation. So they've likely had hundreds of designs over the years. They're picky about the trumpets logo presentation when it is used, but that seems to be optional.
So obscure pins from that group wouldn't be unexpected. Someone might have an online catalogue of them somewhere, but I haven't seen anything. Seems to currently be more of a hype-for-kids thing than collectibles.
ETA: The gaps in the rings are also evocative of a cross 🤔
@me_valentijn @W6KME @EugestShirley Yeah, it's not impossible, we are located in the town that radio station was based, too... so probability goes up very high. Just not documented anywhere!
@glynmoody
Short term help for a dying industry. Who does that benefit?
@OneInterestingFact old managers retiring soon, I suppose...
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@adapalmer I've been harboring a secret dream that the US will get rid of ICE and put in place a massive behavioral health force.
Probably not, but a girl can dream.
@alisynthesis Yes, me too! It would be better in every way, more effective, more just, more respectful of human dignity, safer, better at getting people to happy, productive lives, and (as if that weren’t enough) an order of magnitude cheaper.
I often think of the environmentalist saying “Saving the planet is cheaper than wrecking it” something proved time and again by the good outcomes of conservation efforts, and it’s so very much the same with human beings too!
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