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Brandon Hardin retweeted
Scoop: Maybe you read that an election denial group in N. Carolina is making lists of “suspicious” voters, targeting “Hispanic-sounding” names, intending to challenge them on + after Election Day.
Well to do this, they’ve been using tech from EagleAI:
wired.com/story/eagleai-netw…
Brandon Hardin retweeted
When you create ridiculous "We'll give out $1 million to people who sign our petition" campaigns, fraudsters will follow right behind you & target your audience with similar scams. This network has been humming for months but they are scaling up comment spam w/ E-day messages.⤵️
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Brandon Hardin retweeted
I understand math and I basically agree with this. Bayesianism is misguided and the application of the mathematics of proportion (aka, "probability") to modeling the uncertainty around a sui generis event like the election is generally meaningless.
Brandon Hardin retweeted
gf turns to me while i’m driving and goes “they’re making a top gun 2” and i’m like “you mean top gun 3?” and then we basically had the bodybuilding forums argument about days of the week where it turned out that she regarded the first top gun as “top gun 0”
Brandon Hardin retweeted
Watching a Diners Drive Ins and Dives from 2008 and it’s a completely different world. A bacon cheeseburger was braggadociosly only $4.75. I looked up the website and that burger is $17 today.
The Flavortown you were raised to live in no longer exists.
Brandon Hardin retweeted
Just interviewed an older gentleman (he's 83) who forgot to hang up when we finished. Two seconds later, I hear him go "ta-daahhh" as he excitedly calls over to his wife.
"Guess what? Your HERO just gave an interview to the Post and Courier, where I said many things!"
Brandon Hardin retweeted
I am not a monster-movie aficionado and I can confirm that yes, even I know that the monster usually wins. The fact that there are 4 Jaws movies means Jaws the Shark has won at least 3 times
Attending the last big Trump & Harris rallies, @sbg1 found the contrast could not be starker. "It’s T-rex versus the technocrats, Godzilla versus the G-men. You do not have to be a monster-movie aficionado to know that the monster very often wins." newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…
Brandon Hardin retweeted
"Ghost job" listings are far more common than you might have guessed. This is just sickening behavior. We need regulations on this just like we have for false advertising.
sfgate.com/tech/article/ghos…
Brandon Hardin retweeted
Imagine you go out to dinner and there's a goddamn family band playing this in the restaurant until everyone is in tears
Brandon Hardin retweeted
"ChatGPT emits less C02 to write one page of text than a human does"
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"hey why is the source for that study an Excel spreadsheet that looks like it was formatted and authored by a 12-year-old?"
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Brandon Hardin retweeted
"That person who gives their coworkers some sort of weird gummy candy instead of something actually tasty when they come back from an overseas vacation"
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Brandon Hardin retweeted
"Mundane Halloween" returns!
It's that time of year again, when Japanese website @dailyportalz holds its annual contest to dress up as something super ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2024 contest!