Flutterby™! (short)

Whoah. Utah Governor says the quiet part out loud.

https://bsky.app/profile/blade...s.bsky.social/post/3lynpdyxhwc2o

Listening to the Kirk Hamilton interview with the Wailin' Jennie's; went straight from discussion about a moment that a song appears, which brought up thoughts about generative AI and artists like Gilhooly or Kincade using other artists to actually execute the craft, followed by a Petaluma shout-out.

Oh sheeee.... Church of Jeff @jeffowski@mastodon.world picture quotes x.com user @pappiness:

At least Charlie Kirk would be happy to know it was a qualified white man and not a DEI hire.

Work has been building up some demos, one of them involved some visualizations of timeline-esque data, and yesterday I got pointed at an outline of notable events from a recent startup, and built a little HTML tool to visualize it. I needed some "what if we had supporting data for this", so I did a bunch of searching around to find articles supporting what ChatGPT had given as the outline of the company, coerced that stuff into JSON, and dropped it into my little visualization.

So far so good.

The eventual notion is that this visualization inside our tool will have value with some strategic partnerships, but I thought "what about just plugging in an LLM back-end?". So I asked Gemini 2.5 Pro:

I am looking for a timeline of notable events in the history of the Intel Corporation. Examples are major product releases, new CEOs or changes in board, large funding rounds, other events which suggest a change in corporate direction. Use your search engine. Format your output as an array of JSON objects with the date of the event as "date", the "title" of the event, a "category" (one of "Funding", "Media", "Product", "Team"), a short "description", and then a short array list of "links" to articles describing or elaborating on this event, as "url", "title" of the publication or source, and a summary as "description".

Provided a few more details and some example JSON. Got back an answer that's... not too bad. The dates I've spot-checked are close (the days of the month are not correct, and sometimes zero, the months and years seem plausible). The events it listed could be thought of as notable.

Of the few I've checked, the links it's provided as supporting evidence are either 404, or to articles that are not, in fact, supporting evidence.

There are sub-categories of radical right wing nationalist that I am currently unfamiliar with, but I'm making note of this Bluesky thread about the "Groyper Army" and the feud between Nick Fuentes and Charlie Kirk.

Wikipedia page on Groypers.

Institute for Strategic Dialog: A ‘Groyper War’ struggles to exert influence but paves the way for other bad actors

Diggit Magazine: Charlie Kirk's Culture War, Groypers, Nickers and Q&A- trolling

Since mid-October, Charlie Kirk’s Culture War tour has been increasingly haunted by the Groyper Q&A-trolls, who use the Q&A section to frame Kirk as a cuck.

Edit: Vanity Fair: Groypers, Helldivers 2, Furries: What Do the Messages Left by Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Killer Actually Mean? (Via).

Work Chronicles 5 Year Plan (comic)

The DEI boycotts are working: Target was hoping for a back-to-school sales bump that never came. Foot traffic is still down for the 7th month in a row

February 2024: Trump Ally Charlie Kirk Suggests Children Should Watch Public Executions

https://www.newsweek.com/charl...enalty-public-executions-1873073

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

We are the world's first AI alignment alignment center, working to subsume the countless other AI centers, institutes, labs, initiatives and forums into one final AI center singularity.

OMG. Laughing out loud at Figure 1 on the "Read our mission" page.

Via