Speaking as a Coloradan, she doesn't have a prayer. Hick is unbeatable here

A thread from why.bsky.team where the first post reads "New Claude found zero-day's in OpenBSD, ffmpeg, Linux, and FreeBSD", with a link to the anthropic blog post about it and the second post reads "Looking forward to what the 'ai sucks ackshoeally' crowd has to say about this one."

Here's the actual context. What you just typed is "you hate pancakes" on a post about waffles, and is a thing you'd never have tolerated 10 years ago

But you're still doing the bad faith pile-on anyway. It makes me sad. We were mutuals for a long time

Look at what forced Sky Marchini and Parker Malloy to leave the site for a period of time. Look at what happens to people who just analyze SCOTUS rulings without an editorializing. Turning off the ability for bad faith people to grab a post out of context is just smart posting

Turning off quotes for a post that isn't the start of a thread and has prior context seems really smart, especially given the pile-on culture that has evolved on this app

Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865)

Person of Interest (2011-2016), the greatest science fiction TV show of all time

Yeah. Teen moms were horrible sluts who were ushering in the end of civilization as we know it, now these fuckers are nostalgic for it

In 1991, conservatives were 100% certain that teen mothers were degenerate sluts who deserved to starve. There were at least 2 pregnant 8th graders each of the 3 years I was in middle school, and a couple dozen pregnancies per year when I was in high school. It was called a national crisis

I see all these people like "it really disturbs me that I understand this" and, like, that's not how I think about it. I freakin' love that I've gotten to watch language evolve so much over my lifetime. I don't know if language is evolving faster now than it used to, but I think it's great

The not-very-smart account nyktv.itch.io posting a testament to their credulousness reading "When are you going to stop marking gazans as spam accounts"

Real Gazans aren't raising money on social media

A Bloomberg headline reading: Iran's Hormuz Blockade Leaves Stranded Crews Braving Missiles and Signal Jamming. The subhead reads: Tehran's maritime blockade has left a fleet of stranded tankers and 40,000 sailors facing a crossfire of drones and electronic warfare

Bloomberg says there are 40,000 stranded sailors in the areas around the strait

When do the sailors on all the ships stopped on each side of Hormuz become their own crisis? How much fresh water do those ships have? How much food?

Trans Day of Visibility is tomorrow. #TDOV #ProtectTheDolls

I mean, this is the worst case from where we are, right? He tries an amphibious assault into a mountainous nation of 90M without first spending half a year mobilizing a large-enough force, that goes wildly off the rails, rather than admit defeat, he keeps doubling down, and eventually orders a nuke

If Trump nukes Tehran, I don't think China and Russia launch their legs of the MAD cycle. I think both countries would prefer a world where the major powers are allowed to use nukes sometimes over one where everybody has killed everybody

I wonder if Trump's inner circle will tell him that Daddy Vlad is actively working to make him lose his war

Without taking the Golden Path, humanity really was doomed to extinction. It's hard to morally fault the motivation here; we know canonically it was the only option available. Paul was a villain only to the degree that he let his son take on the burden of the Path rather than doing it himself /fin

the messianic figure had were actually true and correct. Paul say the Golden Path and couldn't stomach it. Leto 2 saw it and decided he was going to be the one to sacrifice his own humanity to save all of humanity. But the 6 real Frank Herbert novels are unambiguous on this point 2/

Here's what I hate about the "Paul is the bad guy" takes about Dune: they're not what the actual text says. I get that Herbert insists that his story is about the risk of messianic figures to societies and cultures, but you can't do that when the canonical story is that the visions 1/

Your complaint is that "most tasks that involve sitting down at a computer" was paraphrased as "most or all of white collar tasks". That feels pretty dishonest on your part, I gotta say. What white collar jobs are you thinking of that don't involve sitting down at a computer?

A blocklist called 'Techno-pessimists' with a description reading "people who don't like things like AI, Bitcoin, VR, Robots, or Digital Watches and won't stop complaining about it"

A blocklist called 'AI enjoyers' with a description reading: "This list is manually curated. It includes AI spam bots, people that egregiously post AI images and AI enjoyers. If you think you shouldn't be on this list, get in touch"

I find it amusing that I'm on both of these blocklists

Brandon Sanderson’s Literary Fantasy Universe ‘Cosmere’ Picked Up by Apple TV (Exclusive) It's an unprecedented deal for the author, whose 'Mistborn' series and 'The Stormlight Archive' are being eyed for film and television adaptation, respectively.

This is amazing, wonderful news. Both Mistborn and Stormlight will be coming to screens. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

A large, fluffy black cat named Amelia lays majestically on a tree stump

Have a picture of Amelia the Cat to make your day better

So the guy they murdered is a nurse with an extensive social media history of himself being amazing and supportive and compassionate and humble, am I getting this right?

A screeshot of the Minneapolis weather forecast for the next few days showing a high of 8 and a low of -20 on Thu 1/22, a high of -9 and a low of -20 on Fri 1/23, a high of -2 and a low of -14 on Sat 1/24, and a high of 4 and a low of -3 on Sun 1/25

Hoping the ICE personnel in Minneapolis have a great time outside on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday

Let me get this right, we're at war with Minneapolis and Denmark? Do Trump's people just hate the cold? Is that why they love climate change? Less cold?

This is the exact scenario the 2nd Amend die-hards always gave as the reason it was vital. I always thought it was a bullshit argument, but here's this dude

I think things would go very badly, very quickly if ICE showed up on his block, and I think the risk of an encounter like that is very high rn

Want to feel old? Most high school graduates this spring were born in 2008. Starting next year (class of '27), most graduates will have been born after Obama became President

Note to self: don't engage with the bad faith assholes who drove Sky Marcini and Parker Malloy from BlueSky

Are they assuming they'll be greeted as beloved liberators by the people of Venezuela, like how Bush et al assumed we'd be greeted as beloved liberators by the people of Afghanistan and Iraq? Are they planning contingencies for an insurgency? Have they even thought through any of this?