CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘

we are not at a point YET where we can say that these guys are definitely self-dealing like crazy and absolutely lying about everything on their sheets, but there is sooooo much goddamn smoke atm. I just dunno where the hell this ends because there is no such thing as an infinity money glitch, y'all

okay, ngl. this is the first time I've walked away from reading something about OpenAI that has *truly* left me with the impression that they are surely treading into Enron territory here. the key difference tho is that they're baking their deals openly instead of cooking the books after the fact.

I continue to be simply aghast that corporate leadership in the US sits by silently while he's destroying everything that's turned them into the most powerful social class that has ever existed in all of human history. everything they've built, he's undoing, and they're just fuckin letting him.

genuinely insane that the measure is this high while we're not in the middle of an economic calamity or major natural disaster—the *only* two things that have historically managed to drive uncertainty to this level. business owners really do understand he's razing the economy into the ground.

I’m sorry but the fact that this is not everywhere is kind of malpractice

But the kinds of things you do in a failed state because you have no choice - like send out masked federal police detaining whole apartment buildings of people - are the sort of things that also push you towards that status if you're not there already

The Dark Knight was a contractually obligated film for Christopher Nolan. It's arguably the most important film of the 21st century, and it 100% was born from greed on the part of Warner Bros.

I think she sees where this is going (spoiler alert: Dems look like they're gonna win on those supplements.)

Excellent thread. And yeah, being one of the LEOs who went after the mob families during the peak of their power frequently meant someone could actually kill your loved ones. Those guys rarely made empty threats. Contrast this to today's ICE officers, who are more scared of judges than gang members.

there is a well documented phenomenon in linguistics in which overreliance on euphemisms simply attributes to the euphemism the full brunt of the original word, to the point of eventually replacing it in the lexicon entirely. we physically cannot bad-word our way out of talking about hard topics

he genuinely doesn’t remember who she is

and I don't want people to interpret this as me simping for Jack, because fuck that guy!, but the more I think about these things ... damn, I think he might've really been onto something with ATP. it's just that Bluesky is a VERY imperfect iteration of that vision. I'm starting to see why he bailed.

this is why I keep coming back to the idea that the best path forward is a fully commercialized app built on top of ATP with aaaaall its own infrastructure independent of the current appview is really the way forward. that's a heavy lift, tho. you'd need REAL startup resources for that.

right, you'd basically have to build something new on top of ATP from the ground up with its OWN appview, which is ... *a lot* of work. it can be done, but it's not feasible at the scales the ATP hobbyists can do.

yeah, this is likely correct, and that makes it a billion times worse. just means you have a bunch of non-t&s and non-policy folks trying to figure this stuff out on the fly, and that's pretty much the worst thing you can do. they REALLY need to get fully staffed out here, but that requires $$$.

"sorry, we just had to take action that will make your job 10000% harder for the rest of the year! KTHX GOOD LUCK, GUYS!" lol. I would def be demanding as much new internal policy as humanly possible to help alleviate the chances of this happening again.

THAT BEING SAID ... no way in hell would I want to be within a hundred miles of Bluesky's mod team right now. it's already a particularly brutal job in an unforgiving environment with very haphazard leadership lording over you & making your job harder. I honestly feel bad for them.

lots of people are gonna start posting the Kirk pic, you are correct. 1. that's incredibly shitty behavior from ALL those users, ngl. not an appropriate form of protest at all. 2. whether those pics are posted in a way that can be broadly interpreted as a threat or as protest will matter, tho.

"I think you can factor in the effect on the site"

no, absolutely not. health of the site / company comes secondary to the immanent nature of the violation. this is violence we're talking about, there's ZERO wiggle room here. if degradation of user experience happens, you just gotta roll with it.

yeah, this is basically the context we're supposed to take into consideration from a *policy* perspective: does the post rise to threshold of action? (yes, def to the Nth degree, zero room for argument there imho) and does the threshold of action get applied consistently? (no, def not on Bluesky)

yeah, I was not aware that he's been a repeat offender with this kind of stuff, tbf I'm not someone who's paid a lot of attention to him (tho I know plenty who like his content a lot) but I'm seeing LOTS of posts saying that he's been spiraling for a few months, soooo 🤷‍♂️

"yes, I sent that in the heat of the moment, I shouldn't have." okay, go back to your mods, pitch the idea of a termed suspension with graded buybacks if he behaves.

denial? nah man. 86 his ass. at that point it's treading into Liability Land, a place you absolutely cannot go.

I honestly can't imagine any information he could provide that would modulate that determination. "he's a nice guy without a history of doing this," is absolutely not a factor you can consider when it's a threat, but you def CAN factor in whether he admits to it ... which he's not, he's denying.

whenever there's a question of this nature in a fully staffed user delivery environment (to be clear, BSky is NOT fully & appropriately staffed, that is like 90% of the problem!), problems like this get sent to policy people like me from mod teams. professional opinion from me: that's 100% a threat.

One of the myriad ways in which you can tell that Trump is sundowning is that he used to have a good sense of what he could strategically lie about and what he couldn't. Saying that inflation isn't real atm is a very dumb, very bad, very poorly timed lie that he wouldn't have told a few years ago.

Ahhh, well ... that's one way to fix the district. Can't report anything negative when you control all that gets reported! Checkmate libs!

Wait, isn't HISD still running under state controllers?

Oh man, I need to get in a good rewatch of this one. Might try to fit it in this week!

Oh yeah man, those numbers are fucking god awful. There's no context in which those are good! Makes me wonder whether he's genuinely so ignorant of media that he somehow thinks those are good or if he's just straight up being a bad faith operator. Hard to say atm because dude seems REALLY clueless.