josh buermann

@buermann
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"Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either change them or perish."

Profile picture alt text: Nelson Mandela Muntz Sr anchoring the news and armpit farting at camera one, then turning to camera two with another breaking armpit fart.

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josh buermann5h ago
Show threadTimnit Gebru (she/her).6d ago
Bernie has been repeating, almost verbatim, Dario Amodei's talking points, for a while now, even quote tweeting him. Amodei positions Anthropic as the ethical alternative to OpenAI just like OpenAI positioned itself as the ethical alternative to Google in 2015 and everyone ate it up. This was an article from then, the headline says that Muskrat, Thiel, Altman + friends founded an "altruistic AI venture" 🙄
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35082344
Tech giants pledge $1bn for 'altruistic AI' venture, OpenAI

Tech giants pledge $1bn (£659m) for OpenAI, a non-profit venture that aims to develop artificial intelligence to benefit humanity.

BBC News
Show threadjosh buermann7h ago

@andyjennings

I'm mostly tickled by how it is Artificial Intelligence's biggest hype men who constantly commit the ostensible "Luddite's fallacy", itself falsely ascribed but a fallacy nevertheless.

Show threadjosh buermann7h ago
I do not understand why #Jellyfin does not display the artist and album in the current playlist.
Show threadjosh buermann7h ago
Plex has this infuriating infinite-scroll presentation of playlists that makes it effectively impossible to remove a song from one. Jellyfin is sufficiently archaic it just spills thousands of tracks into a simple page. Find in page. Trivial work for today's adware-hardened cores.
josh buermann8h ago

Radiology jobs rose 39% in the 10 years since #AI Nobel laureate Geoff Hinton predicted its end in 5:

"Let me start with the obvious: if you are a radiologist you're like the coyote that's already over the edge of the cliff but hasn't looked down yet; people should stop training Radiologists now. Within 5 years deep learning is going to do better than Radiologists. It might be 10 years but we got plenty of Radiologists already." --Geoff Hinton, Nov 24, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HMPRXstSvQ&t=13s

Show threadjosh buermann9h ago

Kushner and Witkoff getting cucked to the couch-fucker is incredible news. They're both so materially invested in the outcome of their war that it is rather like they are being forced to share the couch JDV is going to spend the next few weeks fucking up.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/24/pakistan-army-chief-iran-peace-talks-trump-call

josh buermann10h ago
the_blackwell_ninja [EST]1d ago

Meta is laying off hundreds of workers so they can claim that their revenues are growing despite a whole chain of poor Zucky decisions that resulted in an enormous amount of expenditure on a series of boondoggles that proved to be utterly unprofitable.

The whole maneuver is such a scam that in any just world Mark would be jailed for fraud. Instead he gets another few million in paper wealth from juicing the stock price while his employees pay for his mistakes.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/900946/meta-layoffs-hundreds-employees

Meta is laying off hundreds of employees as it pours money into AI

Meta is laying off hundreds of workers across its recruiting, social media, sales, and Reality Labs teams, according to reports from the New York Times and NBC News.

The Verge
Show threadjosh buermann19h ago

To make command line aliases to swap the audio back and forth between the system and the pipe you can install switchaudio:

SwitchAudioSource -t input -s 'BlackHole 2ch';SwitchAudioSource -t output -s 'BlackHole 2ch'

https://github.com/deweller/switchaudio-osx

GitHub - deweller/switchaudio-osx: Change the audio source for Mac OS X from the command line.

Change the audio source for Mac OS X from the command line. - deweller/switchaudio-osx

GitHub
Show threadjosh buermann19h ago

The easy way to pipe Jellyfin -- or any audio -- into an Xbox-Discord game chat is to use Blackhole to make your audio out an audio input and then pipe that into the Discord chatroom via a 2nd account that DJ's the music. Other users can control the jukebox by signing into the Jellyfin SyncPlay session.

https://existential.audio/blackhole/

BlackHole: Route Audio Between Apps

Zero Latency. Perfect for Streamers, Podcasters, and Online Instructors.

Show threadjosh buermann21h ago

The Gelatinarm client can stream music from a Jellyfin server in the background but it doesn't support the SyncPlay feature.

People talk about the death of social media but with Plex killing Watch Together last year you can barely tell that anybody ever tried.