@br00t4c It’s amazing that most of us weren’t nearly cynical *enough* about the Supreme Court
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Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 04:50:32 JST Peter Butler -
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Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 11:49:03 JST Peter Butler We don’t know yet how Trump’s conviction will impact the November election
We can be pretty sure of 2 things, though
1) Tomorrow, the RNC will report Trump’s biggest fundraising day ever, the media will run with that story, and no one will follow up if/when official election filings contradict it
2) A GOP-sponsored poll will show that Trump's conviction will not lose him any votes, and the media will run with that too
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Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 02:41:09 JST Peter Butler "There’s standard Silicon Valley hubris in the ‘move fast and break things’ mold, and then there’s whatever this is
"Trying to steamroll one of the most famous movie stars alive, one who is notably not afraid to take Disney to court (and win), and then lying to everyone about it ... well that’s another level altogether.”
from @brianmerchant
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/why-is-sam-altman-so-obsessed-with
#AI #OpenAI #SamAltman #Movies #Her LLMs
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Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 01:05:44 JST Peter Butler @WorMP3 @BeAware @TengoHipo Just FYI, they’re not announcing a search engine at their event tomorrow, just the multimodal assistant probably
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Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 00:39:04 JST Peter Butler @ryanc And the argument is based around the claim that it would be too expensive and difficult to add a NB category?
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Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 01:34:16 JST Peter Butler @ryanc TIL that the UK doesn’t recognize nonbinary gender :(
I honestly can’t think of a legitimate reason why the government needs to even track gender at all
Good luck to you!
https://www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/being-non-binary-uk-today
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Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 05:22:31 JST Peter Butler "Saying this looks like garbage would be an insult to garbage.”
TCL prepares to release "the first AI-powered love story”
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Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 12:12:15 JST Peter Butler In conversation from mas.to permalink -
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Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 09:32:19 JST Peter Butler @oliphant @oblomov @thisismissem @seraph
That is my question too. Based on the explained behavior, it should be the other way around
So, I’m gonna say that this claim is BS:
"a URL that appears to be "netflix.com" will actually redirect to "netflitwitter.com" when clicked”
I went thru the trouble of dredging up my burner account and Twitter links to netflix dot com definitely go to netflix dot com 🤷🏼
Seems like misinformation
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Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 05:13:37 JST Peter Butler I shouldn’t be surprised at all, but it’s amazing how little coverage Alexander Smirnov has gotten
This story seems like Watergate on steroids
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/14/company-paying-fbi-informant-trump-connections
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/03/14/a-third-tie-between-trump-world-and-alexander-smirnov/
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Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 05:47:46 JST Peter Butler @tokyo_0 somewhat related, I tried to get our PTA to install an air quality monitor at our elementary school so admin and parents could make informed decisions during heavy wildfire smoke (indoor recess etc)
It was about 50-50 but eventually got voted down bc people didn’t want the info public, I guess so parents wouldn’t have cause to scream “AQI is 300 on campus right now—why isn’t school closed!!” at admin or secretary
I would bet that’s part of it — liability/accountability
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Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 01:59:40 JST Peter Butler POETRY!
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Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 11:25:12 JST Peter Butler If you didn’t order them last fall, you’ve got until Friday to order your 8 free COVID tests from the Postal Service
Program is shutting down on March 8 😞
https://www.cnet.com/health/youve-got-until-march-8-to-order-free-covid-19-tests-from-usps/
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Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 14:40:56 JST Peter Butler Mastodon PROTIP:
When someone posts a gift article to a paywalled site, you need to click on the text *URL* to get the correct gift link
The (default) link preview in Mastodon uses the canonical URL without the gift tags that bypass the paywall
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Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 08:22:31 JST Peter Butler Here’s the cartoon that got Michael de Adder fired from Brunswick News
Not sure which one made WaPo drop him
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/07/de-adder-and-wapo-part-ways/
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Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 06:55:27 JST Peter Butler Short answer is "Studies suggest that COVID-19 vaccines are most effective during the first three months after vaccination”
Longer answer is more complicated. A meta-analysis found that protection was about 30% 9 months after a booster:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2804451
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Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 07:49:28 JST Peter Butler @mmasnick Thanks for posting here. I always enjoy your opinions and commentary and usually don’t see them if they’re not posted here
(Not sure if I understand the dig at Mastodon replies. I haven’t seen many problems aside from the usual that you’d get anywhere)
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Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 06:13:33 JST Peter Butler @kaia "the skull of a woolly rhino, the legs of a woolly mammoth, and the horn of a narwhal”
"The model that you see in the picture is a plastic reconstruction of the drawing, not an actual fossil”
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/guericke-einhorn-magdeburg-unicorn
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Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 02:54:43 JST Peter Butler >> “I can't think of anything I've posted lately that would be worthy of suspensions. Although I have written multiple critical reports about Twitter/X and Elon Musk.”
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Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 01:05:11 JST Peter Butler Because it’s Dublin
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