Alejandro Alzumondo

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Not my real name, just the most ludicrous pronunciation I’ve heard to date.
I keep the lights on
he/him

So I just learned what "The Stack" is today: an aggregation of GitHub repos for machine learning from which I can opt out.

But I won't.

I won't because they scraped some hot garbage I wrote in bash and Python that would make you faint. Bottom-of-the-barrel throw-away scripts full of coding crimes. Stuff like

find | grep | awk | xargs | ugh

...invoked via subprocess.run() then fed into more garbage.

I want "artificial intelligence" to learn this. It's going to be fantastic.

Folks voted you in, to stop the nazis. You have directly failed at the only relevant part of your mandate, in completely predictable ways - I can show you articles I wrote from 2021 predicting precisely this, say that the DoJ wasn't going to do shit fuck all, and that we'd be right back here in 2024. And I wasn't the only one writing those kinda articles.

At this point I'm not even sure the liberal establishment actually BELIEVES these guys are nazis, because your actions don't show it.

A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco

A Waymo car was destroyed in San Francisco as a crowd began vandalizing it and ultimately set the car on fire. Nobody was in the vehicle at the time.

The Verge
I'm good at making passive-aggressive shade posts. But I don't mind being more clear. I think this is the early dates of figuring out how to co-exist in a federated space. We are working out how to give people the kind of semi-private space that most suites them. I'm all for that, but I think it will take a while. Meanwhile, people are starting where they usually start. "Let me just yell at other people and try to get them to do what I think they should do." That literally never works.

And I should qualify that Biden hasn't really tacked right so much as he's always been a mediocre conservative Democrat with a vocal antipathy toward abortion rights and Palestinians. He hasn't got a selling point for his candidacy beyond rehashing his fight with Trump ad nauseam, and he and his boosters simply feel entitled to votes while telling people to go fuck themselves if they expect better.

What the fuck are we doing, indeed.

The Florida man who fatally shot a gay dog owner earlier this month at a Tampa area park has still not been arrested. The shooter claims he acted in self-defense, but friends say he had been harassing the victim, 52-year-old John Walter Lay, for months with threats and homophobic slurs.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/02/police-know-who-shot-this-gay-man-to-death-they-still-havent-arrested-him/
Police know who shot this gay man to death. They still haven't arrested him. - LGBTQ Nation

"We looked around at each other and I thought, this guy just killed our friend and he is not in handcuffs?"

LGBTQ Nation

NEW: Apple is lobbying against right to repair, six months after lobbying for right to repair. This is the first time an Apple exec has publicly testified; in the past everything happened behind the scenes:

https://www.404media.co/apple-is-lobbying-against-right-to-repair-again/

Apple Is Lobbying Against Right to Repair Six Months After Supporting Right to Repair

"It is our belief that the bill’s current language around parts pairing will undermine the security, safety, and privacy of Oregonians by forcing device manufacturers to allow the use of parts of unknown origin in consumer devices."

404 Media
NEW: Finding an “easy” out today could lead to an even more dangerous crisis that Chief Justice John Roberts and the nation would be unable to avoid in less than a year. Tonight, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-court-must-fully-resolve-sec-3-case
The Supreme Court must fully resolve Trump disqualification case now to avert "chaos"

If the justices dodge full resolution of the Section 3 questions now, they've been warned the issue could “come back with a vengeance” on January 6, 2025.

Law Dork

These outlets all have editors who are old enough to remember Biden being famously “gaff-prone” in his 30s and 40s. There’s no excuse for this. It’s her emails all over again.

They’re making it a profound issue by choice. They’re choosing to make it rise to the center of the campaign.

They could choose to make Trump’s consistent incoherence a profound and rising issue in the campaign but they choose to ignore or even edit his blather into linear form.

Motherboard found that firms linked to a16z and general partner Chris Dixon bought numerous copies of his new book promoting cryptocurrencies, which became an NYT Best Seller.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7emkx/chris-dixon-a16z-read-write-own-nyt-bestseller

#ChrisDixon #andreesenhorrowitz

How Tech Firms Made a Crypto-Boosting Book an NYT Best Seller by Gaming the System

Motherboard found that firms linked to a16z and general partner Chris Dixon bought numerous copies of his new book promoting cryptocurrencies, which became an NYT Best Seller.