Michael Paulauski♨️

ChatGPT 5 > How many b's are there in blueberry? Think hard about this. Thought for 17s > 2. You wrote b's (lowercase), and "blueberry" has two of those: blueberry. (If you'd asked for capital B's, it'd be 0.)

Don't worry, when you engage the MEGA MACHINE (the reasoningodel of GPT-5), you get the right answer.

And you only have to wait nearly 20 seconds to get it lmao.

Capital “B” is twice the “b” that lowercase b will ever b.

It’s not some weird coincidence that apathetic non-voters cite the exact same BothSides bullshit that these assholes spread constantly before every major election. Musk and Russia signal-boost them for a reason…

Right. The fact that Uncommitted assholes or Bernie-Bros eventually voted the right way doesn’t exonerate them from the damage of all the people they convinced to sit out the election.

Voters don't support climate action yet sadly as we clearly saw last fall and I worry spreading the lie that they actually do care about environmental issues is leading to a lot of people who do care to not bother voting.

We need to make it clear that if people care about climate they need to vote.

This is so true it hurts:

bsky.app/profile/mike...

Chat, is it generally wise for a burgeoning dictator to fuck over forcibly ejected former soldiers?

Profoundly dishonorable and makes me ashamed to be an American. No matter what you think about trans issues or “woke” or what the fuck ever, *the government gave its goddamn word.*

The cover of a book called “My grandfather’s war” in which an old Vietnam vet shows his medals to a young girl.

How it feels to be a baby trans listening to FtMPhil37 explain an intracommunity feud dating back to a fight on Usenet in 1987:

ChatGPT 5 > How many b's are there in blueberry? In "blueberry," there are three b's: B (uppercase) at the start if you capitalize it • b in the middle ("blue") • b in "berry" If we're talking lowercase only - in that's two b's. "blueberry" So: Capitalized "Blueberry"→ 3 B's (counting uppercase and lowercase) Lowercase "blueberry" 2 b's

We are so back.

That's a neat strawman you've constructed, let me know when you wanna re-engage reality.

What a weird response to a documented event we all saw happen

It's also something that literally no one actually believes, and you know this is true because if they did they wouldn't be continuing to do the same shit as they would realize they had no influence.

They just pretend to believe it to shut people up.

The alternative is these people continue telling young queer people they can survive off of mutual aid and that the community will be there for them when it’s that or move back with their abusive parents (the community was not there for me, I got forced back into abuse bc I believed these fuckers)

I can see why that’s an appealing position, but to me that seems like you’re absolving yourself of the responsibility to hold folks accountable that you *can* by redirecting criticism toward those you don’t feel you can do anything about.

Ellie’s social sanction is what they have the power to do.

I am *so tired* of this narrative that conveniently excuses the people who, yes, we have the power to inflict consequences on

you are making the argument for those people escaping consequences, and I am saying no. they deserve to suffer for what they did.

NO. Stop this shit. Stop telling me who to place the "most blame" on

Imagine this was World War II. Someone in my unit passes communications to the Nazis because they sympathize. We lose but it's not OBVIOUSLY because of those comms. I still hate the traitors more than any other factor.

Let me say this as clearly as possible: I do not care if they are why we lost. I don't think anyone's clearly proved that they weren't, but you constantly insist we should stop talking about them because they weren't decisive, and that's a fucking "waffles" thing. It matters that they are traitors!

yeah, people like you and I are actively marginal in queer communities specifically because we argue for our communities to act in our self interest

I'll never get over the fact far-left queers stopped talking to me because I said the exact same thing but in a Spanish context (about voting for left-leaning parties so VOX doesn't get power)

There are people in the Spanish queer community that label me a "PSOE/Democrats sucker" and I'm like ?????

Lots of people post to me, implicitly or otherwise, that nothing they do or say here matters to anyone. It’s puzzling.

the argument people are really making when they tell me to shut up about this is "there are no parts of our coalition that could have done better, no one on here needs to change their behavior in any way, it's all the Abstract Blob of Voters Who Definitely Aren't on Bluesky"

This is exactly my point.

Pretending like people's words and permission structures didn't break containment and leak into the mainstream is absurd

I saw that shit two days ago. And then they turned around and tried to claim some moral righteousness about it.

GPT-5 regularly asks you why you are not citing its work. GPT-5 always believes your estimator is biased. GPT-5 has more of a comment than a question. Sometimes GPT-5 tells you stories about grad school and expresses regret about getting a PhD. GPT-5's mom wonders when it will start making money.

one of the things that annoys me most about this is that Bernie is correct on the underlying point: housing prices relative to income really have gone up a lot, at least if you don’t adjust for square footage.

you don’t even need to do the chart crime here to make people believe

whichever Democratic politician you’re currently describing as a vile bigot would not have done anything like this

The problem, from a discourse perspective, is that "Harris was a better candidate than Biden", "switching as late as they did looked desperate and weak", "the Trump campaign was a joke", and "it was probably unwinnable due to exogenous factors" are all simultaneously true.

Now from my pov the lesson is to say “wow those ratfuckers really fucked us” and emerge with a better understanding of how important it is to all pull for the same team and aim toward the enemy. That the infighting can be so damaging that even if the result is an improved strategy, it still fails.

sam i have SEVERAL friends with Ph.D.s on speed dial. i talk to them on a regular basis about a variety of topics. don't piss on my hat and tell me it's raining. like among other things that drive me insane, these people never make NORMAL ASS CLAIMS about what their products can do