codehappy lives!
SWE/MLE, rodent whisperer, writer. ex-MSFT, Xoogler. Timeline features gestalt reasoning, verifiable rewards, and unlabeled infohazard. Adults only, but not for any fun reasons. We could all be Green Lantern, but instead we're fighting to be Lex Luthor.
- Reposted by codehappy lives!FT exclusive: “The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.” via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues
- Reposted by codehappy lives!I just learned that one of my early 1990s coworkers, Adrian King has tragically left us. Adrian was an amazing individual and was responsible for possibly one of the most epic Microsoft promotional videos ever made. He shows up at about 11 minutes into the video.
- Reposted by codehappy lives![claremont voice] ordered liberty means it's illegal to be gay
- Reposted by codehappy lives!Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #AbolishICE #ICEOut #Palantir #PaloAlto
- Reposted by codehappy lives!I'll be a hundred percent real with you right now, if your number one takeaway from the Epstein files isn't at least parallel to the idea that billionaires simply should not exist, then idk what you're doing.
- Reposted by codehappy lives!Times article has an incredible illustration
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- Reposted by codehappy lives!to all of u moaning about "purity politics," how many trans children's lives is a gavin newsom presidency worth? i want a number
- Reposted by codehappy lives!I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.
- Reposted by codehappy lives!i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org
- Reposted by codehappy lives!Binary Star xkcd.com/3203/
- Reposted by codehappy lives!I am *not* in the Epstein files but I'm gonna be making reasonable assumptions about the people who *are* and type emails like "Hay wut up Jeffry"
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- Reposted by codehappy lives!Somehow it's only just hitting me that like, wow, crewed lunar missions are like actually happening again huh - one of those things that has been oscillating around variously distant 'Real Soon Now's for my whole life. You get used to something being on the horizon!
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- Reposted by codehappy lives!A good thing you can do about this instead of dooming is Google “how to become a poll observer in [your town]”
- Reposted by codehappy lives!If you’re a CMO at OpenAI, at least know your product enough that you don’t make posts clearly written by your product. And that’s not even getting into how publicly steamed up they are online.
- Reposted by codehappy lives!people underestimate how much U.S. power depends on its agricultural base (even more historically)
- "Former Farming Leaders Warn U.S. Agriculture Could Face ‘Widespread Collapse’" share.google/svEBl00zajXY...
- Reposted by codehappy lives!golden age of committing crimes you’ll probably get away with
- Reposted by codehappy lives!the construction of which data are most relevant to the political economy discussion, and thus deemed facts, is itself a normative claim and an exercise of politics, and yet we all argue as if we assert enough facts we will sway hearts and minds
- Reposted by codehappy lives!the government: we will continue to commit extrajudicial kidnapping and murder with zero repercussions kamala hq: we have a content hub
- Reposted by codehappy lives!FAFO, Tigers. FAFO.
- Reposted by codehappy lives!the POTUS should be anonymous and you only get a new POTUS if you can figure out who they are, at which point the person who got it correct becomes the new POTUS and the old POTUS goes straight to jail for the rest of their lives
- Reposted by codehappy lives!Dorothea Lange. Kern County, California (1938)
- Reposted by codehappy lives!Whether it’s right wing billionaires turning America’s most important media institutions into outlets for right wing propaganda or the Oberlin student council condemning the use of racial slurs, both sides seem to have lost interest in free speech.
- Reposted by codehappy lives!People say printers have a mind of their own but it's actually the plotters you have to worry about
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- Reposted by codehappy lives!This took several years and I'm so happy it is finally out. We just released an open-source dataset of nearly 2M African speech records for speech recognition and vocalization (27 languages). Blog: blog.google/intl/en-afri... Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.02734 Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/goo...
- Reposted by codehappy lives!i assume from your unexploded cranium you haven't received my latest psychic transmissions,
- Reposted by codehappy lives!like fr sorry AI folks, im just a grumpy meosmist, midtopia yearning, biocosmist social media addict. aggravating to many in the tech or engineering fields, poster. get ready for Ising model informed systems thinking, 'yes, but' instead of riffing, and lamentations for the death of the Long 90s
- Reposted by codehappy lives!Democracy Dies in Oligarchy
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- Reposted by codehappy lives!Someone wrote the lyrics to Tyler Childers' song Long Violent History in chalk on my campus. "It's the worst that it's been since the last time it happened It's happening again right in front of our eyes There's updated footage, wild speculation Tall tales and hearsay and absolute lies"
- Reposted by codehappy lives!Need some data hoarders to save the CIA's World Factbook—a definitive source on many topics—since they're now killing it www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
- Reposted by codehappy lives!with the Olympics coming up, I cannot recommend enough just picking random sports and getting really into them at a moment's notice did I know anything about women's foil before the last Olympics? I did not did I become the world's biggest Lee Kiefer fan immediately? absolutely I did
- Reposted by codehappy lives!The evaporation of the news industry happens drip by drip in tragedies like this, but they all add up to one big straight line down.
- the most bleak posts are staying in the drafts. only suitably ethereal optimistic posts. living a little longer is great! we suck a great deal less than all of this. institutions and nations go septic much faster than communities; humans are huddling social mammals.
- Reposted by codehappy lives!Heart Day! Six years ago a team of doctors removed my old heart and put in a replacement It's been a wild journey, and I appreciate and love all my friends and family who have helped me along the way
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- Reposted by codehappy lives!I'm buying a kitchen and they sent a sample of the marble counter top with a metal ball showing what the sink will be like. Now my desk looks like a 90s 3D rendering tool demo image.
- Reposted by codehappy lives!UBI works 🤝 safe injection sites work 🤝 trans people existing isn't 'unfair' 🤝 unhoused people benefit from being provided with housing IF WE DO ANOTHER STUDY IT'LL PROVE IT THIS TIME
- you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
- Reposted by codehappy lives!Mariners announce the Donovan trade as official. Dipoto: “It’s tough to imagine a better fit for our current team than Brendan” Hollander: “Brendan brings a unique blend of elite top-of-the-lineup traits and versatility that makes him a perfect fit for our roster”
- Reposted by codehappy lives!A lot of us are skeptical and even cynical about the possibility of reform, but Chuck Schumer has the vision to dream of an America that is capable of infinitesimal and not the least bit noticeable change.
- Reposted by codehappy lives!When animals like hedgehogs, pangolins and potato bugs (AKA rolly pollies or sow bugs) curl up into a defensive little ball it's called "Conglobation." Because they roll up into a cute little globe. In related news, here's an Armadillo Projection map: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadil...
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- my occupation? caltrops and cantrips
- Reposted by codehappy lives!Parents are afraid to send their kids to school, classrooms sit half-empty, children are being taken to detention facilities. We’ve crossed a line. I stood with education leaders to discuss the growing harm federal actions are causing to children, families, and our schools.
- Reposted by codehappy lives!illustration, login, magazine (1984) archive.org/details/logi...
- Reposted by codehappy lives!i can’t imagine having a subjective experience of consciousness and wasting so much of my subjective experience of consciousness arguing about what other things do or do not have that same subjective experience of consciousness
- Reposted by codehappy lives!q: why was yoda afraid of 7? a: because 6 7 8
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