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Hey fuck face people have been talking about this for years you mocked them for not taking your dipshit pet concerns more seriously

30.10.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 401    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 1

CEOs: Oops we got πŸ‘€ tricked into laying off half our workforce πŸ‘€ accidentally creating an industry-wide employment crisis πŸ‘€ for tech that does not and cannot even work right πŸ‘€ so we have no choice πŸ‘€ but to rehire human workers πŸ‘€ at much less pay πŸ‘€ this was unintended πŸ‘€ as we said πŸ‘€ we were tricked

30.10.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 339    πŸ” 140    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

30.10.2025 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2382    πŸ” 747    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 47

Oh the longer it goes unbuilt the more he can grift and funnel money through the project.

Never forget his mentor was the Mob's lawyer.

30.10.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A pin depicting a cartoon drawing of Canadian rapper snow under the word Informer and then it says a bunch of gibberish Plus a licky boom boom down

A pin depicting a cartoon drawing of Canadian rapper snow under the word Informer and then it says a bunch of gibberish Plus a licky boom boom down

This is monumental.

30.10.2025 03:47 β€” πŸ‘ 445    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 9

For a few years now I've openly complained about the Democratic Consultancy miasma surrounding the party. It's one of the few endeavors I can think of where abject failure results in promotion. Blew a campaign that should have been competitive? Land a bigger campaign next time.

29.10.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Let's also point out that the odds of this system being vulnerable to a false data injection attack are basically 1. I'd bet money that there is nothing stopping BigBallz from putting the girl who ghosted him on tinder in the system hoping to get her deported.

29.10.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Okay *this* here is terrifying.

@laurajedeed.bsky.social here's some more nightmare fuel for you.

29.10.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ironically, this sounds better when they said it in the original German.

29.10.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I get the impulse. It's fear/anger that other, vital problems will get disregarded, and it's frequently a legitimate concern. But the anger at holding even some space also pushes men away and into the arms of systems and groups that drive the problem and are actively recruiting.

29.10.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!

28.10.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1198    πŸ” 629    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 19

I remember asking my dad when I was a kid what fascism was. He told me, essentially, that it's when authoritarianism gets in bed with business. It's more complicated than that, but that always stuck with me.

29.10.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah not great.

29.10.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh man the idea that your parents loved you *and* messed you up despite their best intentions is ingrained, at least as a guy, so deep that thinking about it ranks up there with almost any taboo I can think of. It makes me physically nauseous to even type out.

29.10.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Working my way through the video and glad you came up in my feed. I'm kind of saddened that to even do the video you have to bend over backwards initially to justify it's existence.

The emotional impulse that compassion is a zero sum game is another way that society sucks.

29.10.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Oh hai sounds like the concentration camps are starting to ramp up.

29.10.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 387    πŸ” 188    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 5

MIDI or MP3?

29.10.2025 06:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I used the opening notes of eurythmic sweet dreams for way longer than I want to admit.

Also the transition from midi ringtones to wav or MP3 ringtones was a big deal.

Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!

29.10.2025 06:33 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A lot of solid follows if you are tired of the AI hype train (they mean goonery in the other sense (I hope));

29.10.2025 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not sending Wired clicks; obvious hit piece is obvious.

Expert, qualified critics of AI goonery:

@timnitgebru.bsky.social
@emilymbender.bsky.social
@abeba.bsky.social
@baldurbjarnason.com
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@olivia.science
@wolvendamien.bsky.social

You should follow them. Learn!

28.10.2025 07:05 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 6

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

But as editorial direction.

28.10.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a suit and tie says you gotta pump those numbers up ALT: a man in a suit and tie says you gotta pump those numbers up
28.10.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They have literally claimed that windmills stop the wind so I'd call this a Poe's Law instance.

28.10.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino, Who Fired Tear Gas at Little Village Crowd, Set to Face Federal Judge U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis ordered Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino to appear in her courtroom at the Dirksen Federal Building in downtown Chicago at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino is set to appear before U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis.
What you need to know, for @wttw.bsky.social:

28.10.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1992    πŸ” 656    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 172

Fair enough that was my phrasing due to space limitations. They specifically say that Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy are the primary personality predictors of AI use.

It's an early, initial study so it's worth taking with a healthy dose of salt as always, but it's not diagnostic.

28.10.2025 04:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(I know it's far more complex than this but I couldn't resist)

28.10.2025 04:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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two men are sitting at a desk and talking to each other with the words the argument clinic above them ALT: two men are sitting at a desk and talking to each other with the words the argument clinic above them
28.10.2025 04:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah that's a good analogy. The essay really goes into step by step the psychic's patter and how it maps pretty clearly onto the AI hype train. It's a good read.

28.10.2025 04:23 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I hope you enjoy! I'm enjoying your video.

It's a really fascinating topic! Before the AI thing I was fascinated by QAnon and conspiracy theories in general. I guess I just am fascinated in the way we have like... cognitive exploits in us from an evolutionary standpoint.

28.10.2025 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

3 minutes and 27 seconds in I see "All sentient recursion bears the Divine image" and already I can see pieces of some of the people who fell down the LLM psychosis rabbit hole that I inadvertently interacted with. They all talk about recursive sentience.

28.10.2025 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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