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Lance Bachmeier

lance@mastodon.social

<p>Professor of economics. Macroeconomics, energy, time series, Linux, programming, sports, Kansas, Emacs, complaining, shitposting. Christian, but not the post-Jesus variant.</p><p>Not a professional account. I often follow at random. If I unfollow, don&#39;t take offense. If I block, there was a reason.</p>

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    In case you can&#39;t read what I boosted: Anthropic&#39;s 2025 financials were just revealed: $6B in revenue $8B in operating losses $42B in net losses

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    RE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/116307727654306067 Totally agree as long as &amp;gt; 1 cent is a big purchase

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    Why don&amp;#39;t I use Bluesky? Because it&amp;#39;s loaded with the same kind of low-effort, self-promotional stuff that caused me to leave Twitter. For instance, this. Now, maybe there&amp;#39;s something there, but it&amp;#39;s just an old man shouting at the clouds in this form.

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    Gemma 4 is very impressive. I tested it on my home computer that has no GPU, only an i5 CPU, and 64 GB of RAM. Running was simple: ollama run --model gemma4 --think=false It&amp;#39;s not instant, but it&amp;#39;s very fast, and it gives solid answers. I tried running LLMs on my CPU in 2024 and had slow, unusable garbage. Hopeful that local is the future.

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    RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/116091785113512433 With 100% certainty, you can predict that corporate privacy promises fail due to &amp;quot;bugs&amp;quot;

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    Once again, I&amp;#39;ll start worrying about AI taking all the jobs when Medicare and full retirement age for Social Security are 40, and full-time employment is 12 hours a week. Until then, get back to work, and be thankful you can use AI to do some of the crap you don&amp;#39;t want to do.

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    This is about the millionth story on LinkedIn&amp;#39;s awful privacy practices. That&amp;#39;s why I can only shake my head that Mozilla hires CEOs that only have a presence on LinkedIn. You have to create a LinkedIn account and be logged in to view information about the Mozilla CEO. It&amp;#39;s a mystery why Mozilla still exists. https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

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    Panera Bread releases first-ever value menu with ‘Mix &amp;amp; Match’ deals &amp;quot;Each of the 10 items on the “Mix &amp;amp; Match” menu is priced at $4.99, and diners have to buy at least two items.&amp;quot; Value. You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/25/panera-bread-releases-first-ever-value-menu-with-mix-match-deals.html

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    Epstein files: Larry Summers to resign as Harvard professor, reports say https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/25/epstein-larry-summers-harvard-professor.html

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    Beginning to see support for the view that the Fed&amp;#39;s focus on easing to please the executive branch was insane Core wholesale prices rose 0.8% in January, much more than expected https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/27/ppi-january-2026-.html

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    How much longer until open weight LLMs are banned for [reasons]

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    Send me an overly verbose AI-written email one more time