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Cover of BLUE BEETLE: JAIME REYES BOOK THREE showing Jaime partially in the suit looking distraught.

Looks like DC is releasing my entire Blue Beetle run (main series and Booster Gold backups) as an omnibus! Nice to see it all being collected together. It comes out on September 30, with incredible art by Rafael Albuquerque, Mike Norton, and Andre Coelho! Maybe some other stuff too?

my efforts to self host all media and reading materials was neither wasted nor misguided. find 4 friends and get some storage space bb.

translation: all the fox news viewers need to buy more guns, carry them around, and condition themselves to use them

Oh fun! I wasn't sure how serious you were about the book club angle. I'd join in, if you're still taking on more people

I have a keychron m6. I switched away from logitech because i got tired of them failing every 4-6 months. I like it a lot, but the wireless dongle did die, which 😡

Still, the buttons and scroll wheel all work, so it is an improvement

If it actually works, then yeah, it's an obvious addition to Oculus, and thats a vector to get (limited) real world deployment. But it has to actually work. And since Facebook hasn't actually made anything successful since Facebook, I'm not betting that it does actually work

Except that video game hardware has to actually work. Adtech can be 80% bullshit and the customer will never know the difference

You've probably encountered this, but do you mean like how.complexsystems.fail ?

Are there any good papers with a critical reading of the concept of “safety” and how it is deployed in industry?

Oh, no thank you. That's unpleasant

In 2023, I wrote about the need to translate our fears for an authoritarian crackdown into the language and tools already in use around us.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Skeeted on main, you might say

TFW Uranus is surprisingly hot

Not a dirge, but it is a song sung alone on the shores of an infinite multiverse, and it is kind of heartrending

youtu.be/zSgiXGELjbc?...

Chat, I’m not sure trust and safety is doing the work it conceptualizes itself to be doing

—SEVEN CUSTOMERS

Stories like this always have that Zoolander ring of "died in a freak gasoline-fight accident"

Oh, this could be amazing

Because, there's that phenomenon where people realize elone is an incompetent dipshit as soon as he gets into their area of expertise. And, everyone is an expert on food.

Still thinking of a viral tweet last year that was saying how it's gonna be a great time for system-thinking, pattern spotters. Basically suggesting that a surplus of data requires proper synthesis blah blah

So here's the thing: people ignored this energy *before* AI cuz it's usually a buzzkill. 1/

That pointing and laughing at his misfortune is bad tactics. It will push him and others in his position deeper into the scam.

And that defending him as just a little guy who's really a victim in all this ignores his significant role in perpetuating the scam.

But those are the only responses I see

It's not exactly about that, but looking at the different ways the person in victim/recruiter responded in each case would be very instructive

People who get taken in by a scam are victims

And, people who recruit new victims to a scam are scammers

They can even be the same person. Sometimes at the same time. We need to reckon with that.

Anyway, this is about the "all my database gone" thread

which felt like normal behavior for him because he was regularly sexualizing, abusing, or participating in the trafficking of young girls as sex objects in his beauty pageant and modeling businesses and through his longterm socializing with Epstein

A problem with LLMs is not so much that they shift control or rights over information and knowledge, as things or data, and by doing so degrade them, but rather how they remediate & assert new arrangements of power between how we choose to associate with each other to construct our reality together

You gotta hand one thing to the AI bros, which is that they certainly succeeded at avoiding building the mythically feared utility maximizer.

PSA: Platforming fascist Nazi rhetoric and acting like their viewpoints are worth debating helps no one.

These types of efforts are wholly wasted and only provide them reach, revenue streams, and content fodder.

And Substack seems to be signing people up for newsletters that they didn't explicitly subscribe to

I recently got emails from Shaun King's Substack and I never signed up for it

I imagine someone in the group chat tried to blame Mamdani's victory on the bluesky echo chamber, or something along those lines.

A reminder that this represents all of the money we pay to the government in taxes for educational infrastructure just being straight up stolen from us. We aren’t getting it back and we’ll never stop paying for the services they destroy bc they aren’t lowering OUR taxes (only billionaires’ taxes).

This is like those treeless house developments where they clearcut all the trees and then name the roads after them.

ChatGPT spits out these words because the stolen labor products it was trained on consisted in large part of academics’ writing.