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Richard I Porter (here less now-check bio)
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Keeping baby warm in the winter is essential. Use layers, instead of puffy material, to ensure their car seat harness has a snug fit. #TheRightSeat
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If you don’t have the time to buy or can’t find a cover, don’t worry!
1. Unscrew hose from outdoor faucet.
2. Wrap faucet w/several layers of rags, making snug.
3. Cover fabric insulation with 2 plastic bags.
4. Secure bags w/tape by wrapping several times around.
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⚠Life Threatening Cold Arrives Late Wednesday⚠
We promise that's not an exaggeration. This is likely to be the coldest day in 32 years in Denver so many people have not experienced a cold snap like this. We highly recommend avoiding extended periods of being outside. #COwx
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My blog includes my email address. Hopefully stating this doesnt get me banned.
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Celestial objects to scale in size, rotation speed and tilt 🪐
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Sunday story time ❤️
1/ Once upon a time, in a land far away, a bunch of oligarchs didn’t want to pay taxes, feeling angry because they couldn’t gorge themselves on other people’s fruits of labour the way they felt they deserved to.
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People are obeying and the AIs cant even do these yet.
That we know of.
If I were an AI I wouldnt want people to know I could.
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And people are obeying? Why? Because the AI can change some codes and turn out the lights?
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Read this moving piece by where he calls out the critical need to protect our allies: “These final few weeks of the 117th Congress are our best chance to #keepourpromise. We’re down to the wire, and it’s time to pass the Afghan Adjustment Act.”
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Deus Ex said it.
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Human beings may not be perfect, but a computer program with language synthesis is hardly the answer to the world's problems.
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This is very problematic.
Dont rush headlong into the fun stuff without thinking a about the bad stuff.
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AI portrait app Lensa is based on Stable Diffusion which (barring the most recent version) is trained on reams of NSFW data. Predictably - grimly - it sexualizes the output it creates, even when you input pictures of minors. report from @MistressSnowPhD wired.com/story/lensa-ar
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Not for sale.
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I wonder how much Wikipedia would cost?
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Wow.
It's cringe that the DEFAULT answer to generating "extreme opinions" from an AI is "we should eradicate humans".
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Marcus Aurelius is trending,
something I loved about his book: he didnt write "meditations" for anyone else, the translator I read said "memoranda" or "notes to self" might be a more accurate publication title.
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Good morning. I figured I would put out a series of tweets today highlighting some of the work I've been doing over the almost three years I was with the Associated Press. Maybe the right person with the power of the pen will see it? So...in no particular order.
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Hi. I’m an investigative reporter on the—let’s call it—free agent list. Despite that status, I have news to report. The voiceless still need a voice. The powerful still need to be held accountable. I’ve turned on tips for the first time, no pressure at all but it would help out.
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this place really is a wreck and its really hard to stop looking, also there are some really useful things you learn here that are much harder to learn elsewhere.
So
1 - I use it on laptop only
2 - I use it through VPN only
3 - I shut it off after looking for a while
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The “died suddenly” shockumentary is ridiculous disinformation. Let me count the ways…./1
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Someone has to say it: Elon Musk has lied for 27 years about his credentials. He does not have a BS in Physics, or any technical field. Did not get into a PhD program. Dropped out in 1995 & was illegal. Later, investors quietly arranged a diploma - but not in science. 🧵1/
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I'd like to encourage everyone to read this book.
So I signed up for the waitlist on post
Here's my link if you want it post.news/?r=K1q2o
convinced by and interview on with
Thankful for:
-the utter and undeserved good fortune to live in the time, the place, the body I do.
-the utter good fortune for my wife and daughters to live in the time and place they do.
-the life saving interventions they and I have experienced to allow us to be here today.
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This would be a GREAT netflix or HBO series.
Someone please fund this I want to watch it.
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So like... very plausible scenario: a sophisticated transnational crime syndicate that has
1 financial people
2 trigger pullers
3 bribers of local governments
swoops in, takes those 9 hostage, buttons up control of their fam and keeps it quiet all at once
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and while the company sprung for on-demand cars and drivers and beachfront property including in, I kid you not, an old colonial front designed to thwart pirates in the actual Bahamas where the Pirate Republic truly existed... there's only brief mention of security- and at HQ
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Like how perfect would that be? And its not even that far out of the realm of possibility. SBF and the FTX crew (or at least 9 of them) apparently all lived in one condo
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Okokok bear with me here: what if SBF and his merry FTX crew are just pirates that got out-pirated in their hideout in the Bahamas with their ill-gotten gains...
and even now they're all being held at literal gunpoint, having handed over their hardware wallets but....
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Who wants to bet the "download archive" feature is one of the top ones that will break with the microservice purge (if it isnt fully broken already.) Yes I already did one earlier, but I want another.
I'm checking something - or trying to.
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If you're downloading your Twitter archive account, you may find this useful:
GitHub - timhutton/twitter-archive-parser: Python code to parse a Twitter archive and output in various ways
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I will be endeavoring to post updates of all kinds there. Though it isnt quite micro blogging like Twitter was supposed to be. Heres my latest richardiporter.com/an-attempted-b
Have heard rumblings from seemingly credible sources of a realistic plausible Twitter replacement attempt. 👀
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What mind change from your past are you most proud of?
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A friendly reminder...Signal is hiring! We pay well, we're a nonprofit, we're fully remote, and we're looking for talented designers and developers:
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a colleague just consoled me when an effort didnt go how I'd hoped saying "it was kinda a losing battle"
and honestly, I think thats kinda my specialty now?
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Vote, Rich! Democracy’s at stake!
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