It's just fascinating to me how the Bluesky team keeps taking active steps to look bad. They don't just randomly step on rakes. They go into the shed, lift the rake off where it's hanging on the wall, carefully place it on the grass, and then step full force on that motherfucker.
unfortunately, this paragraph of the manifesto is not correct in any way whatsoever.
no existing thing sold as "AI" does this at all. the marketers lie that it does, and then it doesn't.
anyone signing this manifesto, ask them for the software that does this.
as a dynamicist this continued mass hallucination (the pun is intentional but unfunny) that LLMs are somehow adaptive models is starting to really get to me. why do people believe this?? it's just obviously untrue! that's why they keep releasing new ones!!
this is a fantastic thread, not just about how bluesky's turning into a vibecoded empty warehouse of bullshit, but how the mods of this website have all embraced outsourcing their entire jobs and more to claude, an AI for those trying to shirk the bad PR associated with AI usage
When you see all the people labelled rude, essentially shadowbanning them under the default settings, remember that literally *every single* rude label has been manually applied by a mod. All of them.
It's not a filter grepping on cusses, it's someone physically clicking a button.
the fascists have been lying, cheating and changing the rules to their benefit for years. turnabout isn't just fair play, it's the only way to maintain some semblance of a civil society.
Acknowledging the stark, ugly truth that the Republicans basically had no good reason to do what they have done for the last 11 years and have lapsed into vast collective psychosis over totally immaterial and utterly depraved delusions is terrifying, and as such most commentators simply do not do it
So, instead, we get endless made-up bullshit stories about poor little Okies in Michigan or Kentucky upset about the factory jobs going away under Nixon and Hillary Clinton doing Tumblrspeak so we don’t have to acknowledge that “para continuar en Español, oprima 2” made them crash out genocidally
I always thought Sun Tzu's "Art of War" was a little simplistic and obvious but it turns out yes, you do literally need to tell the Secretary of War "you need to feed your troops and keep them from being wiped out by preventable diseases"
Treating US soldiers like a fetus - the right wing in America believes they have more rights than real people, while I believe that in certain conditions they have the capacity to become real thinking human beings but can't take priority over those of us who are already actually people.
Sounds great. I for one am all in favor of removing vaccines from specifically the United States military, such that communicable diseases will weaken them and protect the world from them.
everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"
This is going to be a hot take, but:
If Democrats had the presidency, all 100 seats in the Senate, all 435 seats in the House, all 50 governorships, and a 9-0 liberal majority in the Supreme Court, I would still doubt them.
They're so obviously doing this on purpose. So many times there have just happened to be exactly as many traitor Dems as needed for the Reps to get their way.
They are collaborators, and must be treated as such.
Doctor: Sorry, we need to see you again before we refill your medication you're not allowed requesting to refill until it's one day from empty. We know you need it daily and are at major risk without it.
Me: Okay can I see you—
Doctor: We have availability in late July?
whoever still thinks this website is better than twitter for some reason- a woman made friends with too many starving palestinians so liberals fitted her up as a criminal and hounded her off the website. that's your 'progressive social media' dream bestie
tiktok & IG are making teenagers kill themselves. facebook tipped your nan from daily mail headbanger to thinking she will be stabbed by gay 5G hooligans if she goes outside. twitter is owned by essentially a trillionaire baby king who begged to be let on a paedophiles island. they all spy on you
"Means testing disability right now is putting the cart before the horse. And when that happens in the disability sector, disabled people die. This is not hyperbole, this is the reality we face"
from @normalness.bsky.social
IF YOU BUILD A BIKE LANE THAT DOESN'T CONNECT TO ANOTHER BIKE LANE THEN YOU DIDN'T BUILD A BIKE LANE
my father, an old school doc who worked in the public health system in India, used to describe tetanus (which he saw in unvaccinated, often poor people in India without access to post exposure vaccines) as scary, and agonizing.
one of the greatest things you can do to evil people is seize their legacy and permanently convert it into a joke.
there is little means to recover when an entire new generation only knows your ideas as comedy and your face as a clown.
The Mel Brooks Theory is undefeated.
Whining and cowering and making bullies A BIG DEAL is what the bullies want. When you post "oh no, I'm afraid to go out to a protest because of MAGA hogs" those dweebs get hard. You empowered them.
Mockery robs them of the power they desperately want.
The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.
It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.
The history of this stuff tends to be accessibility people inventing things, tech companies commodifying it, and then accessibility people having to beg for the scraps back
In AAC some people call it being “sidekicked,” after this, which did all the work for mouse support before Apple yoinked it
Accessibility includes fucking everything and the more people try to put it into a little box the worse it gets.
We're hearing a lot about "actual malice" in the Kash Patel libel suit — that is, the legal requirement that Patel prove The Atlantic published its story knowing or strongly suspecting that it was false. (1/2)
But that's a second-order defense — a backstop. The first-order defense is that the story is true. I suspect Patel is going to find it impossible to poke any substantial holes in the story, and in the end that's even more important. (2/2)
In response to some bullshit going around:
Can we please fucking destigmatize men being nice to / caring about / engaging with kids? These are normal adult mammal instincts; what's fucked up is that we beat them out of people based on gender and/or assume they're inherently predatory.
