Connor Boyle

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An emoji keyboard showing a version of the Spanish flag with a black crest
Screenshot of article: "The transformation element and the poster design appear to reference the politically charged sci-fi film They Live (1988), in which the main character encounters a pair of sunglasses that not only expose the extractive messaging of advertisements but reveal that humanity is being controlled, subdued, and exploited by a secret population of aliens masquerading as people. In the film, it’s later revealed that some humans have accepted monetary bribes to collaborate with the aliens."
The actor Jake Gyllenhaal, standing on the Saturday Night Live stage
Screenshot of the paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big" showing a search box for "agent" with 0 results.
Close up of graffiti-ed wall with many instances of Persian phrase "جاويد شاه"
A trending article list on Hacker News showing the blog post "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations" at #12.
View of mobile browser navigated to website infowars.com, showing the text "Off Air" on an otherwise blank page
A square color display and a dot matrix display on the ceiling of a passenger train car. Both are turned off.
Diagram of 64-bit floating point number in memory; showing 1 bit to the sign, 11 bits dedicated to the exponent, and 52 bits to the fraction
Screenshot of RW article "Lancet flags long-scrutinizied report of infant poisoned by opioids in breast milk"
Screenshot of the linked Retraction Watch article
A transit map inside a Seattle Link light rail train, showing the full Line 1 (green) route from Lynnwood City Center to Angle Lake and the Line 2 (blue) route from Redmond Technology to Lynnwood City Center. The I-90 connection on this 2-line is labeled “Coming Soon.” Icons indicate accessibility, bike parking, buses, Sounder trains, and airport connections. The map is mounted above the train doors, with blue LED lights illuminating the lower part of the interior.
A transit map mounted above the doors inside a Seattle light rail train. The map shows the Link light rail system, with the green Line 1 running from Lynnwood City Center in the north through downtown Seattle to Angle Lake in the south, and the blue Line 2 running east from International District/Chinatown through Mercer Island and Bellevue to Redmond Technology. Several future extensions, including Downtown Redmond and Federal Way Downtown, are marked as “Coming Soon.” Icons indicate connections such as buses, ferries, Amtrak, and airport service.
A trolleybus in Shanghai
A map of Seattle showing rail lines in color. The names of the owners/operators are shown alongside the rail lines
From ABC News: “If you’re going to train people, you’re going to train Americans.” Lutnick said on a conference call with reporters. "If you have a very sophisticated engineer and you want to bring them in ... then you can pay $100,000 a year for your H-1B visa.” https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/trump-signs-proclamation-adding-100k-annual-fee-1b-125749302
From trumpcard.gov: "What legal classification do I receive as a Trump Gold Card holder? As appropriately determined by the Department of Homeland Security and subject to availability, an applicant receives lawful permanent resident status as an EB-1 or EB-2 visa holder."
From the Trump Gold Card website. Under "Special Benefits." [sic]: "Trump Gold Card For a processing fee and, after DHS vetting, a $1 million contribution, receive U.S. residency in record time with the Trump Gold Card." and "Trump Platinum Card Coming Soon Sign up now and secure your place on the waiting list for the Trump Platinum Card. For a processing fee and, after DHS vetting, a $5 million contribution, you will have the ability to spend up to 270 days in the United States without being subject to U.S. taxes on non-U.S. income."
Screenshot of trumpcard.gov, showing the header text "The Trump Gold Card is Here"
Museum display, text: "The whalers would be preparing themselves, praying, bathing, and communicating with the whales. They weren't just hunters. Through their power with nature, they could communicate with everything in the cosmos, and certainly those whales."
Screenshot of website at https://trumpcard.gov. The header of the website shows the text "The Trump Card is Coming"
"The Jewish Chronicle Anti-Israel media rebuffed after a ‘silent majority’ show their love for Israeli Eurovision song"
Table showing the results of the Italian televote by percentage. 34.16% of Italian televotes went to San Marino, 16.52% went to Albania, and 11.44% went to Israel.
"OPT Is a Near-Secret Operation. The AARP lobbyists and researchers are not the only ones who do not know about the OPT programs. In recent years I have, as a volunteer, provided income tax counseling at tax time to graduate students at a major Washington, D.C.-area university; many of the people I saw were both foreign students and in the STEM fields. With one or two exceptions, none of these students were aware of OPT when I talked to them, even though the vast majority were looking forward to working in the United States."
A picture of a hideous 6-story apartment building, with the caption: "Well-balanced horizontal and vertical elements create a pleasing façade that adds interest to the massing of this full-block, mixed-use project."
From a purely economic perspective, the numbers are compelling. If 200,000 Gold Cards are sold at $5 million each, the resulting $1 trillion could make a meaningful dent in the national debt. Scaling the program to 10 million cards would generate $50 trillion, theoretically erasing the debt entirely and freeing up resources for infrastructure, education, healthcare and other critical investments.
CBS News: Mr. Trump suggested that the the U.S. could "sell maybe a million of these cards, maybe more than that." At $5 million each, selling 1 million gold cards could raise $5 trillion, he said. "And if you sell 10 million of the cards, that's a total of $50 trillion," Mr. Trump added. "We have $35 trillion in debt. That'll be nice, so we'll see."
NY Times article text: He predicted that the gold card program would be a moneymaker for the government, reasoning that many companies would pay the $5 million fee to bring in skilled workers. “We’ll be able to sell maybe a million of these cards, maybe more than that,” Mr. Trump said. “If you add up the numbers, they’re pretty good.”
Google search AI overview claims that green traffic lights are less saturated than red traffic lights