If you build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. If you set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life -Terry Pratchett (RIP)
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Sean Sanders retweeted
It’s just crazy how literally nothing can break the perception that republicans are fiscally conservative. It does not matter that republicans have exploded the debt and deficit every time for the last 50 years, people still insist they’re fiscally conservative
Sean Sanders retweeted
Sounds bad
For @WIRED, I spoke with Macmillan and PRH staff about AI at the rest of the Big Five.
I also spoke with bestselling authors who've gone to "war" with publishers over AI use and are now demanding disclosures and threatening to leave their publishers altogether.
Sean Sanders retweeted
National Tight Ends Day isn't even a real holiday. the NFL adapted it from a pagan fullback festival held each year at the time of the fall equinox
Sean Sanders retweeted
It’s great that the AI companies can keep the conversation on whether their tech is sentient or not when its main function so far is to expand the surveillance state and maximize state power, whether that’s with the police, ICE, or the military.
New: an AI company now lets cops identify specific houses, using data from Zillow/Airbnb, based on a single photo. It's part of Raven, previously called Geospy. Company previously demoed its tools to catch people vandalizing Flock cameras or protesters
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Sean Sanders retweeted
I think people would have reacted to the railroad very differently if Cornelius Vanderbilt kept saying the trains are alive and want to kill you.
Sean Sanders retweeted
Every Republican in every red state is convinced that their state is run by a secret cabal of democrats who are the source of all wrong and that they must reelect the incumbent republicans to get rid of that cabal, which they did not do in their previous term
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Sean Sanders retweeted
Comic book nerds are the worst at dealing with media. They don’t care about the story or the creative desires of the storytellers. They want it to be what they want, and if it’s not exactly that, they cry and pretend that not getting what they want is a creative failure.
Sean Sanders retweeted
It doesn't really sink in how insane the Roman Empire was until you write a sentence like "We have the skeleton of a man in York who was bitten by a lion."
Sean Sanders retweeted
So the Liberation Day tariffs that were supposed to raise all this government revenue were instead a huge wealth transfer from regular people to huge corporations. Got it.
Sean Sanders retweeted
Called a guy to remove a tree from my yard
He charged $750
Asked how many he does per week
“Oh God, are you one of those morons who post about how easy it is to make six figures in the trades by assuming I’m fully booked and have zero costs? You know what, I’m actually going to charge you $1,750 for this job or I’ll just let the tree fall into your roof.”
Incredible.
$1,750 for just a few minutes of work.
Imagine if he does just 10 other jobs a week.
That’s $70k+ per month. Almost a million a year.
I need to get into tree trimming!
Sean Sanders retweeted
This is just insane shit
Police in Wisconsin used Flock to track a man who traveled to Michigan, where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisc., where it is illegal
They then used his travel as part of the probable cause justification to search his car for weed and he was arrested 404media.co/cops-used-flock-…
Sean Sanders retweeted
i'm sure the ability to fabricate convincing historical footage that eventually drifts across the internet, where it's picked up by people who present them as real, at a time when trust in educational and media institutions is already eroding, will prove to be a net positive
Or you could just talk to your kids, like a normal person
