Everything posted by Captainant
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Well yeah, gas TURBINE generators are the same thing that goes on an airplane. An Arleigh Burke destroyer runs on four jet engines that produce electricity and in turn power the ship. xAI's Memphis project has been breaking Clean Air regulation left right and center by trucking in dozens and dozens of those gas turbine plants and running them 24/7. Collosus 1 used around 35 turbines, each producing around 500MW. Collosus 2 is planned to use 40+ turbines to power their cluster. That's a TITANIC amount of NOx emissions and noise and CO2 for that area, and for zero economic gain or benefit to the local community. Oh yeah, and did you hear? They're planning on destroying Dinosaur Park to build more datacenters up new Fort Worth!
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
It really drives home how many lives could have been saved had Elon given enough of a shit to block Russian usage of starlink terminals
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Trump’s America
Epstein files keep getting harder to ignore, so the distractions must get bigger. Plus trump has been obsessed with being a wartime president, so this all broadly tracks
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Trump’s America
Epstein files keep getting harder to ignore, so the distractions must get bigger. Plus trump has been obsessed with being a wartime president, so this all broadly tracks
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Trump’s America
Kinda reminds me of my late pug. Dude has some serious east-west eye going
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Epstein and Maxwell
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01660622.pdf Trump45 AG William Barr described by the FBI as participating in abuse of minors along side Leon Black.
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Trump’s America
Especially with Giannis' taking a stake in Kalshi after the fact too. It's just so blatant
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Will UT Bend the Knee?
Whoof. Texas posted an opening for an assistant dean for """expressive activity support and engagement""". Read: Dean of Tattling on protesters https://www.higheredjobs.com/admin/details.cfm?JobCode=179363335 Purpose: The Assistant Dean is responsible for safeguarding the expressive rights of students, faculty, and staff while ensuring compliance with institutional policy and applicable law. The position requires exceptional skills in proactive monitoring, crisis response, and stakeholder collaboration. This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of law, public safety, and student engagement, making a meaningful impact on the campus. Job Responsibilities: Strategic Planning and Policy Develop and implement strategies to uphold expressive rights while ensuring compliance with institutional policy and state law. Lead readiness planning and manage all aspects of creating an environment that is supportive of expressive rights for protests, demonstrations, and relevant events that are within the bounds of the law and University policy. Develop, test and update detailed management plans. Work closely with Vice President of Legal Affairs to implement chapter 13 policies from a neutral point of view. Monitor and report on emerging and ongoing issues in higher education, both locally and nationally. Work with Vice President for Legal Affairs to proactively monitor for potential situations that may violate policy or create harm.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Donald Trump working with Russian oligarchs to facilitate money laundering and human trafficking seems to fit his past pattern of behavior as documented in the Epstein files and public records. But sorry, I just wanted to keep things focused on the human chattel treatment happening with our taxpayer funds.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Don't strain yourself ignoring that this was procured in order to build a human stockyard for torturing and disappearing uncooperative citizens and immigrants
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
They bought this warehouse to stack human beings into and treat them like animals, witholding food and water and hygenic spaces. Address that before you get too excited with your tut-tutting, counselor.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
As ever, never miss a chance to normalize trump and extend him the benefit of the doubt eh? He overpaid by a hundred million to a Russian oligarch, which is going to directly fund the 5 year invasion of Ukraine. He over paid a Russian to buy land to build his fucking concentration camps. Keep that in mind as you grope for the presumption of regularity
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Jeffrey Epstein needs his own thread
Sheeeeeiiiitttt if he's saying "totally exonerated" ala Russian collusion and election interference, then holy shit this dude fucked so many children and he is our president
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
I can tell you from a platform perspective, anything that's "deleted" is really just marked for deletion and put onto a digital trash pile until garbage collection (that's the actual computer science term) actually purges it off the disk. If it's within a close enough window, and with the correct legal CYA, you can "break glass" and reach into the pile to grab something before it's purged. I had customer accidentally delete 50TB's of just migrated data that they got SUPER lucky on and the cloud provider was able to "undelete" about 80% of the data. In this case, since the servie auto-snapshots movement and stores it for 24hrs (or however long it is) for unpaid users, I can see technically how this happened without a backdoor being built in. It's just how these platforms work when customer data is unencrypted
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Trump’s America
You're telling me that the company named after an all-seeing artifact and source of corruption, would lead to a surveilance state and corruption???
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Israel vs everyone war thread
The article says the opposite of your assertion, unless every gazan family is just default Hamas to you. The Hamas-run Interior Ministry said in a statement it was committed to preventing any armed presence inside hospitals, and that legal action would be taken against violators. It suggested that armed members of certain Gazan families had recently entered hospitals, but did not identify those involved.
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Shit's Borked
Not sure if anything changed on the surly side or on my side, but the "clear text" thing is sticking around now 🤘
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Trump’s America
- ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Unironically if you would like to learn more about the actual HOW of how machine learning generally, and LLMs in particular work, I can't recommend enough 3Blue1Brown's course series on the fundamentals of neural networks. It starts from the most basic problem we first proposed in the 50s and actually implemented in the 80s, and goes all the way through the crazy vector differential equations that are the foundation of machine learning and "AI"- Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
Tbh Bitcoin is on a clock already since SHA256 isn't quantum-safe. The bigger problem is the fundamental mechanism of proof of work as a solution to the trust problem. The basic premise of crypto is to have a decentralized trustless currency, and every "enhancement" for it like lightning or other side chains are just adding an inefficient trust mechanism. In your mind what IS the "original purpose" of Bitcoin, if not to replace trust with proof of expending a constrained resource (compute cycles)?- Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Sidenote, the MAGA feds fucking lied under oath in court. That's a big fuckin difference in scope and scale to disabuse the #bothsides lie https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/13/ice-minneapolis-shooting-assault-00780839 “A joint review by ICE and the Department of Justice (DOJ) of video evidence has revealed that sworn testimony provided by two separate officers appears to have made untruthful statements,” Lyons said in a statement. “Both officers have been immediately placed on administrative leave pending the completion of a thorough internal investigation….The U.S. Attorney’s Office is actively investigating these false statements.” Agents had initially said that two men — Alfredo Aljorna and Julio Sosa Celis – assaulted them with a broom and a shovel before one of them shot Sosa Celis. But that account was quickly called into question, and prosecutors now say “newly discovered evidence” contradicts the officers’ story. Local law enforcement and prosecutors are also investigating the incident. The reversal by ICE comes a day after the White House announced it was ending its surge of federal immigration enforcement officers in the Twin Cities and after a judge excoriated the Trump administration for violating rights of immigration detainees held at a local facility.- Ballmer alleged to have paid Kawhi Leonard 28m under the table to avoid the salary cap
I don't think that, no. I was saying that flippantly in response to GFY's nihilistic comment on "well billionaires get away with everything soooo"- Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Jesus fuckin Christ. We're paying out tens of millions to deport hundreds of people. Nearly a hundred grand of taxpayer funds after the other untold massive amounts of waste and hate https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/13/us-paid-32m-to-five-countries-to-accept-about-300-deportees-report-shows- ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
It's a common phrase in the machine learning world - part of how gradient descent works is you pick a random (stochastic) point to start from in order to help avoid local min/max and find the true system min/max for whatever parameter you are training for- ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
This is literally the reason why some folks prefer live albums to studio recordings. The stochastic chaos of reality leaves a fingerprint on art as it's made - ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
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