vicki 🌿
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Joined January 2021
NVIDIA allegedly contacted Anna's Archive directly for access to ~500 terabytes of "pirated" books and papers for pre-training their LLMs Anna's warned them the collections were illegal and copyrighted. NVIDIA's data strategy team pushed anyway; executives gave the green light
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I love that people who don't believe in climate change are actively engaging in strategic political moves that are fully in anticipation of climate change. It's almost like they don't actually believe anything.
Maps show why Greenland is so important as the Arctic warms.
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just noticed this is the sample text for google fonts. kind of cool of them for this
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a naive tendency is to conceive of people in countries undergoing situations like the one in venezuela as either revolutionary or reactionary political agents as opposed to random people who wonder if they'll be able to feed their ailing grandmother or children in the coming week
i just spoke to my father in central caracas, who has been up since two in the morning. he says the streets are completely empty, the feeling among the few people he's spoken to is of bewilderment
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Someone made a Jeffrey Epstein connection database with 500+ different nodes. The website allows you to search for official documents that connect affiliates and co-conspirators. https://t.co/hPx6jET5ZC
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Extremely cool new grant opportunity from @tylercowen + @patrickc. Lots of ink has been spilled about what seems missing from today’s aesthetics. They’re looking to “fund artists, architects, and designers who are consciously working to define New Aesthetics.” Apply!!
A Call for New Aesthetics:
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it was about being into things, a part of things, creating things, knowing about things, ultimately some gatekeeping and elitism… it’s not like everyone was this way by way of being alive. you’d have objectively been a normal guy waiting to be sold to back then just like u r now
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tibetan calligraphy has a crazy aesthetic. would the average person think this was… southeast asian? islamic? clearly has a slightly ancient ur-style while also being its own thing entirely:
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this sob story doesn’t even make sense. a harmonica is $15. singing is free. tutorials on technique and production are everywhere. i almost feel like it’s ragebait
I grew up singing. I sang everywhere I went, I wrote songs in my diary, I told teachers that I wanted to be a singer & songwriter when I grew up. But wanting to be a musician in 2006 required resources that a low-income family didn't have. My parents couldn't afford to get me
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self taught blender artist here. blender is a really intimidating program for beginners so i’d like to share some resources to help people get started 🧵
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@jasminericegirl The low income sob story won’t work to justify ai “music” that was trained on music that real people made. When my family couldn’t afford the rent increases, we’d sometimes live at extended stay hotels and even my broke ass learned piano and guitar as a kid. This is ghoulish.
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“China is not a utopia, but its citizens have a brighter future than ours, and they will be able to read about it, thanks to a sociopolitical system that still sees literacy as necessary and retains primacy over private capital.” https://t.co/7uEhqGst30
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Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
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Damn nobody in New York is killing themselves. City of artists my ass
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i don’t know anything but my experience of aging so far has been a series of sudden& humiliating realizations that every cliche made meaningless by constant exposure (“be yourself” etc) contains a completely overwhelming degree of truth that u can’t understand until you just do
it's weird that at a given age, 45 say, someone can't just write down the compressed/compiled topline notes on everything they've learned about life, and then just hand that to someone at 20, saving them 25 years of lessons. why that doesn't work is a somewhat instructive Q
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accidentally left an order of scallops from osakana on the rockaway bound L… whoever comes across it consider it my gift to you
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For the past 30 days, I conducted a self-experiment to see whether microdosing Ozempic has an off-label effect of boosting discipline and willpower
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Good fucking god
🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
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we’re also running an nyc rabbithole on jul 2!! come come <3
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Join us for an evening of quiet rabbitholing! Dive into a topic of choice and share about it afterward. No requirements other than an interest in something.…
Announcing: Rabbitholeathon 6.0 We invite you to a weekend retreat dedicated to curiosity, exploration, and diving down rabbitholes with other ambitious thinkers. Oct 24-27, 2025
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