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It’s me. @elgreg from the dead bird site. VP of tech at Slate. I like bikes.
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It just seemed like news that Trump was raving in Nassau County about driving out people who came from "the Congo....Africa..the Middle East...Asia," and then it seemed even more like news that none of the coverage mentioned it defector.com/where-racism...

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The former and would-be future president continued: 

They're coming from the Congo, they're coming from Africa, they're coming from the Middle East, they're coming from all over the world—Asia! A lot of it coming from Asia. And what's happening to our country is we're just destroying the fabric of life in our country, and we're not going to take it any longer, and you got to get rid of these people. Give me a shot.

This was spectacularly racist, explicitly racist against the majority of all the nonwhite people on Earth, the most racist thing I'd seen a presidential candidate—Donald Trump included—say in my lifetime. It was a barrage straight out of a Ku Klux Klan rally: Congo! Africa! Middle East! Asia! We're not going to take it any longer! Get rid of these people!
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I would have said it was obviously shocking, except both shock and obviousness have become tenuous concepts in American politics. When I went to look up references to the quote after seeing it go by on social media, I began to worry that the original poster might have made it up for clout; I saw no mention of Trump talking about "the Congo" last night on Google News or in major reporters' Twitter accounts. 

But I went to C-SPAN and there Trump was, saying it. The Nassau County crowd—in what the New York Post recently reported that U.S. News had rated the safest community in the country—cheered as Trump vowed to drive out the immigrant crime menace. "November 5 will be your Liberation Day," he told them.
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He lives in my neighborhood and is constantly replenishing little free libraries. (Sorry about your hoop dreams.)

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Would be great to use AI just once for a real fact question and not find mistakes. I’ve had similar issues with ChatGPT and copilot. They are good if you have no idea what you’re doing and bad if you have some idea.

Me asking Anthropocene what planet has the longest day. It telling me it’s Venus, with 116 earth days and then in the same answer listing Mercury as 176.
Me asking Anthropic why it would do such a thing and it telling me what I want to hear.
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Travel! Bike to Vermont and go swimming!

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Whoever designed the DC public school calendar really wasn’t thinking about it from the kids’ perspective.

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Got interviewed at work about internet archiving as sites like the messenger and dcist get shuttered. Archive it, please! slate.com/business/202...

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In clinical trials of new treatments, when the treatment is clearly and obviously immediately effective it is sometimes considered unethical to continue to withhold it from the control group. Pretty sure we passed that milestone about a decade ago with basic income experiments.

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App hard to find for .5 seconds. Will never notice again. Logo fine. Can change to blue square. Also fine.

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Soon AI will be able to synthesize your voice with just a few seconds of audio. That's why I now answer all spam calls in a varying array of fake accents. 'Allo guv'na, etc.

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Turns on adaptive AirPod feature. Now hears all text messages at deafening volume and cannot turn down with old swipey method. *chef’s kiss*

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Greg
@elgreg.bsky.social
It’s me. @elgreg from the dead bird site. VP of tech at Slate. I like bikes.
77 followers364 following17 posts