Josh Watson

I had hopes for @bsky.app but if @jay.bsky.team and her shitstain team are going to collude with genocide, then I’m off this fucking site. Fuck you

Hunter Biden of all people said some true shit and it went viral. People are desperate to see some passion. We're desperate to see fight. My message to Dem leaders and consultants is simple. If Hunter fucking Biden can capture our attention and you can't, maybe that's worth reflecting on.

Alaa Salim, @mamafriend.bsky.social has been a thoughtful and incisive commentator on her situation in Gaza. Suspending an important Palestinian voice that people look to for moral clarity on what is happening to her people weakens this community. #RestoreAlaa @bsky.app @moderation.bsky.app

Bluesky just suspended Alaa AGAIN, accusing her of being a "fake account."

SHE IS NOT FAKE.

Hey @support.bsky.team @bsky.app maybe you can explain to me why Jesse Singal is welcome on this platform but a mom in Gaza isn't.

I’m Tired of Talking About AI I don’t want to talk about LLMs anymore.

"GenAI, as it exists, is fundamentally a tool for undercutting labor. And it’s using stolen labor to achieve it, and mandating that labor implement their own replacement."

This post is spot on and mirrors my sentiments perfectly.

The @LemkinInstitute is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT.

Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly:

"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."

"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."

not to wade into the discourse but [proceeds to wade into discourse] I don't think that a broad definition of trans people is why we lost Skrmetti, I think we lost because we live in a state whose main lawmaking body is a reactionary unelected council of nine people who decided that fascism is good

Something monstrous about seeing more and more news confirming intentional deliberate starvation in Gaza and still see people center themselves by saying it makes them ‘uncomfortable’ to acknowledge that this is what it is

More people are considering AI lovers, and we shouldn’t judge

counterpoint: we actually should judge that because it is weird and stupid

An image from the Humble Bundle, advertising "The Unofficial Harry Potter Reference Library" supporting the Trevor Project

i swear at god. I got an email advertising this an hour ago.

@humblebundle.com a disclaimer saying that the charity was "not involved in the selection of the content in this promotion" and that the content "do[es] not reflect or represent the views and opinions" doesn't absolve you of anything

I love when random people compliment my shirt or whatever, and people light up when I compliment their dress or shoes.

Being normal is great and makes everyone involved feel good!

Tip for guys who don’t want to be creeps, *especially* with acquaintances or strangers: complimenting choices, rather than attributes, comes off as much more sincere and normal!

😬 “you have beautiful eyes”
✅ “that smokey eye is awesome!”
🤢 anything about body parts
✅ “that is a really cute dress!”

Yeah one time my wife and I were buying new living room furniture and it took me five visits to furniture stores, three of which were to the same store, and we probably spent 2-3 hours at the store each time before I was finally able to stop stressing and make a decision

i love humans and humanity and hate hierarchy and power

Deus ex Poblano

The truth of the matter is, autistic children learn to mask, and will modify their behaviour based on your demands, means you might think you have taught them to overcome their autistic traits.

You ain't.

What you have done is you've forced them to comply at a high cost to their mental health.

how could it happen here? well reader, with gleeful evil.

You're not wearing a mask because you're Batman. You're wearing a mask because you're a state-sponsored terrorist who lives in the suburbs.

If you can't endure the risk to yourself and your family brought about doing the federal government's work, then simply don't do it. It's a job. Quit if you can't risk people finding out how you put food on the table.

Put simply: ChatGPT gives shitty advice to women because it is imitating the dispositions towards action in its corpus. It does not understand the consequences of those actions nor the context of those actions. It just DOES.

It’s parroting our biases back at us.

Should ICE Agents Be Allowed to Wear Masks? It Depends Whom You Ask. Los Angeles’s mayor said Sunday that masked immigration agents helped create a “reign of terror.” ICE’s director said agents could wear masks to “keep them and their families safe.”

NY Times showing how to both sides the secret police abduction squads story

The utility of the internet was immediately apparent.

Free global communication at a time when long-distance phone calls were charged by the minute and faxes were the only way to send documents quickly? That was adopted at record speed.

But "AI" is a solution in search of a problem.

I mean, they were kind of right, but for the wrong reasons. It turns out it *was* too powerful, but only insofar as how well it could convince capitalists to lose their minds over a shitty product

Kinda fascinating that, presumably, chatbots fed with statistics about the pay gap then reinforce the pay gap as a matter of pattern recognition. And by fascinating I mean what a dumb piece of shit technology.

Eventually, every process on your Windows machine will be a WebView2 process and consume 1.5GB of memory

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

I remember once at work, we had a talk at work about bias in AI models, providing examples against women, LGBT, and immigrants.

The speaker proposed no solution or an attempt at one - we just all kinda walked away with "Cool, glad we're being forced to use these or be terminated from our jobs."