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head of the austin startup society


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🏳️‍⚧️ The Josie Zone's avatar 🏳️‍⚧️ The Josie Zone @josie.zone
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The quotes from sf writer Ted Chiang are GOLD

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John Herrman's avatar John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social
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Honestly impressed with the deranged persistence of Meta’s Science Experiment Sidekick bot

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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦's avatar Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu
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Uhhhh… this is probably bad 😬😬

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Shiny Quagsire's avatar Shiny Quagsire @shinyquagsire.bowser.gay
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odd finding while shader optimizing for ALVR, the Metal VRR decoder functions are surprisingly taxing in a fragment shader? Halves my texture write throughput. - Just writing a fixed constant to target = ~860μs - My shader, no VRR = ~860μs - My shader w/ VRR = ~1420μs, 50% ALU

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niiiice, thank you! I think I subbed for the MagicBand hacking, vids are all really cool

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it's pretty dang good right now, only took me a few hours to get ZZZ running

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Caræsten 🇵🇸's avatar Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city
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a series of glitch art versions of famous works, photographed in the Louvre with a GameBoy Camera. will be posting one of these a day for the next few days. first, The Death Of Marat by Jacques-Louis David

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the claws made em good fidgets though

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Nicholas Slayton's avatar Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social
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Well don't fucking do AI then!!!

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he should probably do something about that then, eh?

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Amanda Marcotte's avatar Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social
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The Biden panic distracted from it, but the SCOTUS decision on the January 6 defendants matters.

The legal impact will be slight. But the political impact could be huge.

MAGA will read it as a license to commit domestic terrorism.

www.salon.com/2024/07/01/d...

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Blue Heron Farm's avatar Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social
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I wrote to the Tractor Supply board today. Here is what I sent. Even if you've only ever bought one thing there, I encourage you to write, as a customer.

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Ashley M. Gjøvik's avatar Ashley M. Gjøvik @ashleygjovik.bsky.social
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🧵 In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my apartment. Later, I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste into our windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off US EPA, who then raided them in 2023. EPA sent me the report on Friday. 💀 ⬇️

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glad u can still trust local reporting to really dig in for the facts

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baby shark?

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how is 'Only """prompters""" can compete in the art market' any better? why do you suppose there's no market or appetite for art actually made by humans? if linear algebra can do fair use then why can't I horizontally flip an episode of seinfeld, upload it to youtube, and expect to not get DMCA'd?

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Tim Onion's avatar Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social
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Here’s a miracle solution: stop fuckin doing it

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pwf's avatar pwf @ass.business
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hell yeah, quince robots going mainstream

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futur's avatar futur @futur.blue
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what the fuck

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is the discord public? i've been putting off repairing my old kit oscilloscope for so long...

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Tomalak's avatar Tomalak @tomalak.bsky.social
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...and it was designed for itemizable productivity. Things that are trivially countable, like the number of dishwasher doors you have assembled standing on the factory line for 8 hours That's what management in office jobs *still* is trying to do. That's why abominations like Jira or ITIL exist.

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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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The current plan for this monstrosity is "hope it comes up with a solution for Tesla's failed full self-driving product," which it won't. The separate "xAI" monstrosity, being built outside Memphis, also has no plans except "it's an anti-woke chatbot." Hooray for our broken regulatory state. 🤷‍♂️

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surely this is the exact sort of scenario that Altman keeps his dumbass 'killswitch' backpack around for right? right???

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Shiny Quagsire's avatar Shiny Quagsire @shinyquagsire.bowser.gay
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lolll I found the answer, I was getting fucked by the userexperienced. Apparently it dictates thermal limits based on fan limits, and it sets fan limits based on *how much it hears the fans in the mics* If I blast white noise, fan speeds stay at max + no throttle

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i think the other terms are pronouns

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yooo let's go AA

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it's insane to me that one would become a billionaire and *then* think 'i should become an arms dealer'

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my bet is it's doing AI compute, funny as fuck either way though

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toe-walkers exist, cf. NorthernLion

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rat gundams

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The Official Pulpit of CULT OF THE DEAD COW's avatar The Official Pulpit of CULT OF THE DEAD COW @cultdeadcow.bsky.social
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HELLO FELLOW NERDS AND/OR CLASSY ART COLLECTORZ!

We're opening up the CULT OF THE DEAD COW swag-vault to release some of the remaining stock of cDc buttcoins and challenge dongles! Bargain price of 40 bucks for both (plus some stickerz), with 10% going to the SPLC (!)
www.ebay.com/itm/18649266...

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oh god did you see Scott Adams using chatgpt to 'prove' the election was stolen?

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Ada (cat) and Snoopy (weird creature) and this is Zelda

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Texas!

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Assigned Media's avatar Assigned Media @assigned.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Doctor who trans kids' medical records faces four felony counts. Eithan Haim, who claims to be a victim of political persecution, maintains the records did not contain identifying information. However, an expert in US healthcare law told Assigned this doesn't appear to be the case.

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Elena Kononenko 's avatar Elena Kononenko @kononenko.bsky.social
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Hello, today is my Birthday! ✨And the best gift for an artist is a retweet of his artworks 🌱🍃

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i know what structural color is, but i like to imagine it's 'load-bearing'

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i used to enjoy this channel, but these latest videos made my eyes roll so hard they're still sore

youtu.be/ewLMYLCWvcI?...

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Kameron Hurley's avatar Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.bsky.social
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When we talk about "taxing rich people" there's folks who think we're talking about Aunt Edna who has the second summer home. The astronomical levels of "rich" that now exist are almost unfathomable to people. It's the stuff of vast empirical dynasties. We're talking about taxing emperors.

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also the nonbinary barista accidentally hyperfocused on building a botnet of 10,000 racing drones armed with kitchen knives in between League of Legends matches

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Nigel Bell's avatar Nigel Bell @nigel63.bsky.social
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oh.
wow... so, so VERY BAD.

Are you a JOURNALIST looking to protect a source, or your story?

Are you EXPERIENCING DV and looking for a way out, or just confiding with a friend?

Have you written-then-deleted something deeply HUMILIATING?

THANKS, MICROSOFT.
doublepulsar.com/recall-steal...

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Matt Steinglass's avatar Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social
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So today a question from @faineg.bsky.social led me to rediscover that I wrote the episode of “Arthur” in which a horrified Buster asks “you really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and lie?” Which is interesting in terms of both disinfo and the nature of memory

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air budd dwyer's avatar air budd dwyer @airbudddwyer.bsky.social
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the coolest thing about the internet now is that I have to use a separate, secret browser to look up any concept I have a passing interest in so I don't get five months of Facebook ads for retaining wall solutions or pipe fittings

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my partner got a tomie tattoo while we were there. it's the cheapest tattoo she's had so far, and nearly the biggest

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