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Freek van Ostrand

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The guy you think you know. Whether it's Chris Elliott (I can see that), Chris Evans (thank you...?!?), or your friend's uncle Chris ("Hey, we met at the wedding"), you know you recognize me from somewhere. seize the means of computation


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Thomas Fuchs 🔭🕹️'s avatar Thomas Fuchs 🔭🕹️ @thomasfuchs.at
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Laptops used to come with micro-cassette drives and sherry glasses, we have lost our ways

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Freek van Ostrand's avatar Freek van Ostrand @sullenfish.com
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Thank you! I also agree with your personal belief. Admittedly, change towards that ideal often seems insurmountable. The older I get, the more I think about the systems we have in place, what they actually accomplish, and if people truly believe in them.

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Is there a modern criminal justice system anywhere in the world that truly gets people out of the system? One that isn't exploitative, abusive, and cruel? Genuinely asking because this is way out of scope of my personal knowledge, and I don't know where to begin.

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Freek van Ostrand's avatar Freek van Ostrand @sullenfish.com
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Baseline cost of living in LA appears to be "software engineer, preferably senior or lead"

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I feel like Boimler has a personal log entry on this one

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Comfortably Numb's avatar Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly
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Yo dawg, we heard you liked ChatGPT, so we put ChatGPT into your ChatGPT.

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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy's avatar Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy @ugarles.bsky.social
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the conservative theory of law in one headline

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Greg Pak's avatar Greg Pak @gregpak.bsky.social
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I am incredibly serious about this. If you personally know any politician, any staffer, anyone in power, it is your responsibility to call them up and demand that they do something other than just murmur their disapproval. They care about the contempt of their families and friends. Use that.

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Greg Pak's avatar Greg Pak @gregpak.bsky.social
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If anyone reading this personally knows anyone in the White House or the Biden campaign, I hope you're calling them up and yelling at them right now. They do not seem to grasp the incredible danger of this moment. And I'm not talking about the debate.

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Freek van Ostrand's avatar Freek van Ostrand @sullenfish.com
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Epsilon Guy is still only theoretical but the research looks promising

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough's avatar Kaitlin Has Had Enough @gothamgirlblue.com
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People like me have been weirdos on the edge of society that nobody likes—talking about amending the Constitution and expanding the Court and abolishing the EC and resizing the House—and now if we don’t do these things, we will be destroyed. Radical problems require radical solutions.

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remember when people were like "pack the court" haha wouldn't that have been something

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Corey Brickley Illustration's avatar Corey Brickley Illustration @coreybrickley.bsky.social
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Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear

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Freek van Ostrand's avatar Freek van Ostrand @sullenfish.com
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I guess we won’t all be living out Neuromancer quite yet

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Freek van Ostrand's avatar Freek van Ostrand @sullenfish.com
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For a short time, at least!

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Freek van Ostrand's avatar Freek van Ostrand @sullenfish.com
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This reminds me of a rant one of my CSci professors went on (decades ago, now!) about how desktop PCs were an abomination, the goal was supposed to be for computing devices to be unobtrusive, like the one in your refrigerator.

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For the first time in my life, I did an Excel =RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)-SEARCH("-",A2)) formula right the first time. This is my Alexander Wept moment.

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Freek van Ostrand's avatar Freek van Ostrand @sullenfish.com
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This is great for a techno-conspiracy-thriller that proposes that the two SSIs are one and the same, with a tagline like, "The simulation never ended."

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“Can I get a suggestion from the audience?” “PLAY AS ZELDA!” “I think I heard, ‘Weapon durability.’”

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Freek van Ostrand's avatar Freek van Ostrand @sullenfish.com
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I remember seeing old Venture Bros promos and thinking “Why is Link in this Johnny Quest parody?”

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Freek van Ostrand's avatar Freek van Ostrand @sullenfish.com
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How is Linda getting double-flagged by aegis

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I decided like 15 years ago that all my social media output should only be for my friend Karen which is why I have no followers but when she likes a post I get to think "nailed it"

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“We seek peaceful coexistence” was such a great bit of cognitive dissonance

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It’s just one note if you never end the glissando, right?

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Freek van Ostrand's avatar Freek van Ostrand @sullenfish.com
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The successful marriages are the ones where you obligingly take turns delivering the Rorschach "You're Locked In Here With Me" speech

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Presidential scandal as Aaron Sorkin is discovered typing responses in a White House closet three years into the 2nd term of an LLM trained only on episodes of The West Wing

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Jeff VanderMeer's avatar Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
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family resemblance to the cybertruck is uncanny

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I alone will share, thus reducing the scope of training data to my family, only. They will walk the world, surround by their own generated images. They will be everywhere and nowhere, ubiquitous and anonymous, living ghosts of the digital age.

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Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
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Every single day #onhere there are people absolutely furious about what social media platforms others are using and I really do not get it at all. There are 1 million reasons that you will never know. Just keep it moving and use the ones you like and want to.

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cait 's avatar cait @cait.bsky.social
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well it's another day of bearing witness to atrocities knowing the only people who could actually do something about it flatly refuse to and the rest of us just have to keep going to work and shit

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My college housemate swore his name was Hans Olo. I kind of wish it was.

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Joshua J. Friedman's avatar Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
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NEW: House GOP leadership is whipping support on a bill that would allow former presidents to move state-level cases against them to federal court (so Trump could pardon himself)

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Marisa Kabas's avatar Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social
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there it is.

"The congestion tax is not only a burden on police officers and other essential commuters — it’s bad for public safety,” said Patrick Hendry, president of the city’s police union, in the first of the two releases. nysfocus.com/2024/06/07/h...

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You know Saruman was a truck nuts guy

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Catbus 's avatar Catbus @catbus.bsky.social
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Robert Pattinson has wares, if you have coin

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M.U.L.E.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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a friend of mine just lost her pup to an unleashed dog that attacked it, so this my reminder to you to leash your fucking dog when you’re in public

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Freek van Ostrand's avatar Freek van Ostrand @sullenfish.com
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gloop in the streets squaggle in the sheets

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Freek van Ostrand's avatar Freek van Ostrand @sullenfish.com
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Are any of us truly certain Rasputin's dead

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The only true goal is getting a hug from Saru

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Arjun Basu's avatar Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social
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Instagram actually can get worse apparently.

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When my wife and I moved to Tarzana, we slowly became aware of a cycle in our backyard that goes: crickets --> black widows --> mud daubers. I'm not sure what specifically eats the mud daubers, but I don't plan on disrupting the chain!

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Sharing this because "fail-upward brunchlords" is an all-time great turn of phrase.

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Freek van Ostrand's avatar Freek van Ostrand @sullenfish.com
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Deadfox Ravespace would be a great character name for a Neuromancer homage

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Unlimited breadsticks in this oubliette

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