David Culley

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I’m a ML Engineer turned Data Engineer living in Germany. My academic background is in geometric deep learning.

I like learning new skills and improving old ones (examples: languages, piano, 3D graphics, chess, Neovim).

My homepagehttps://www.davidculley.com
David CulleyDec 6, 2024

Joe Rogan accepting and spreading rich-people-propaganda and conspiracy theories like he’s a naive fool or intentionally/knowingly spreading harmful misinformation.

The fact that he invited Andreessen, a known fascist and all-in-all disgusting person, suggests the latter.

It’s not a big leap after billionaires openly bought politics (Thiel implanted the Vice President and Musk bought the election) and everyone ought to know there’s no such thing as a decent billionaire.
https://bird.makeup/users/matthewstoller/statuses/1861772103780855891

Matt Stoller

1. There's a fascinating dynamic among Trumpy venture capitalists trying to manipulate the right-wing for their own purposes. For example, here's vc Marc Andreesen saying the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau forces conservatives to lose their bank accounts. https://bird.makeup/@womandefiner/1861553437084627381

David CulleyDec 6, 2024
Tom GauldDec 5, 2024
MY YEAR-END READING STATISTICS #wrapped (originally for @theguardian.com)
David CulleyDec 6, 2024
Show threadAnarchoNinaWritesDec 6, 2024

And you're gonna say I'm wrong because it doesn't "feel right" to you; but I been studying fascists for literally half my life and if you take nothing else from what I shared with you about it, let it be this:

Nazis aren't like you, they don't have full and healthy interior lives, they don't crave love and companionship. They crave power over others. And because they got nothing else going, they LITERALLY spend all their time, every day, plotting how to get you "NPCs" to give that power to them

David CulleyDec 6, 2024
Show threadAnarchoNinaWritesDec 5, 2024

I wish folks would take my word for it when I say "these people don't think like you do, and they don't do things for the reasons you do."

No fascist bigot PoS cares if YOU agree with them; they are fully aware that many people find their views odious. They literally arguing with you about it for the purpose of creating space for their odious ideas and find other shitlords to work with. Ultimately they intend to shoot ppl who won't EVER agree; but first they need to create space for those ideas

David CulleyDec 5, 2024
Joseph CoxDec 5, 2024
New from 404 Media: Yancey Spruill, who at time was Digital Ocean's CEO, told staff in all-hands meeting his former mentor was a member of the KKK, which he said shows how employees can work together despite holding different values. We got recordings https://www.404media.co/ceo-attempted-to-navigate-anti-lgbt-hate-incident-by-telling-employees-his-mentor-was-a-kkk-member/
CEO Attempted to Navigate Anti-LGBT Hate Incident By Telling Employees His Mentor Was a KKK Member

Recordings show that while he was the CEO of Digital Ocean, Yancey Spruill told staff that they should bend their values because "we love the company."

404 Media
David CulleyDec 5, 2024

Yeah, ”think for yourself“.

Don’t trust the experts who warn you about capitalism and the consequences of our irresponsible behavior, and dare to criticize our AI overlords. They only want to instill fear in you!

”Think for yourself“ by heeding the advice of some guy still on the Nazi platform to reject science and logic. And by swallowing whatever the messengers of the AI overlords deliver. And by swallowing against all evidence that climate catastrophe basically has zero chance of threat.

David CulleyDec 5, 2024
Aral BalkanAug 20, 2023

“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”

– Naomi Shulman

David CulleyDec 5, 2024
Aral BalkanDec 5, 2024

Trump, Musk, etc., are the natural result of a system based on conflating money with success. If you don’t like the fucking gods, maybe stop practicing the fucking religion.

#capitalism

David CulleyDec 5, 2024
netzpolitik.orgDec 4, 2024
Alle Jahre wieder kommt Spotify mit einem individualisierten Jahresrückblick um die Ecke. Alle Jahre wieder lassen sich Menschen dazu instrumentalisieren, damit kostenlos Werbung auf Social Media zu machen. Und alle Jahre wieder verhüllt die Marketingaktion erfolgreich, wie problematisch das Unternehmen ist. Ein Kommentar. https://netzpolitik.org/2024/spotify-wrapped-eine-neonfarbene-ablenkung-von-der-eigenen-schaebigkeit/
Spotify Wrapped: Eine neonfarbene Ablenkung von der eigenen Schäbigkeit

Alle Jahre wieder kommt Spotify mit einem individualisierten Jahresrückblick um die Ecke. Alle Jahre wieder lassen sich Menschen dazu instrumentalisieren, damit kostenlos Werbung auf Social Media zu machen. Und alle Jahre wieder verhüllt die Marketingaktion erfolgreich, wie problematisch das Unternehmen ist. Ein Kommentar.

netzpolitik.org
David CulleyDec 3, 2024
Show threadPatrick BreyerDec 2, 2024

🇬🇧🚨Repeat offender Orban: Adoption of #ChatControl is back on the agenda for Thursday's ambassadors meeting: https://www.parlament.gv.at/dokument/XXVIII/EU/4730/imfname_11434222.pdf +++ The well-known disastrous Hungarian proposal is to be adopted without any fixes: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#hungarianproposal

Make sure your government opposes!