Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Hey, have you read Kelton’s The Deficit Myth?

The bad talking points about the “national debt” are misleading for even bigger reasons.

FWIW you don’t even have to be an official group, just be willing to give them away

Now, for the alt text for this one, just copy and paste the text part from the original and pop it in the alt text for the screenshot. Easy!

The text “Tennessee’s legislative session starts in January, and we’ll be there to cover it for you” is already in the post so I can read that fine. It’s the hats I can’t see if I’m low vision.

Here’s a quick little guide: bsky.app/profile/wyld...

Thanks for the alt text. A more relevant one would be something like: “4 baseball caps in a variety of colorful combinations with the Tennessee Holler logo”

Pls alt text? I can read this one but I can’t always. Some people never can. Y’all are doing great work, let’s do the easy accessibility stuff, yeah?

Can you please add alt text to your images?

Can y’all alt text stuff like this pls?

Yes thank you for saying this! I have seen this a few places and it’s misleading. The $2k limit is a terrible policy but it doesn’t apply to most people getting social security retirement benefits or who became disabled after having worked.

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.

It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

When it says “AI”, it usually just means “automated”. One million find-and-replace operations? That’s not intelligence; that’s automation. Less impressive and less scary.

Ok so say this to Schumer?

If we believe “oh yes we must make cuts SOMEWHERE” then we’ve accepted their dishonest terms. The Federal govt is not a household. It is not a business.

They can cut social programs without redistributing it to the rich. They can redistribute money to the rich without cutting social programs.

It's about values.

Their talk about balancing the budget is to distract us.

I am begging you to stop saying “taxpayers” when you mean “citizens”.

Julia Sugarbaker has entered the town hall

We know that cutting funding to federal agencies is not about saving money but about consolidating power.

And also! “Saving money” is for individuals, households, private businesses, local governments … and uniquely NOT the job of the Federal government.

Don’t allow them that excuse.

The only debt crisis is the crisis of medical and credit card debt wrought from corporate greed and deregulation. There is no government debt crisis.

Ask yourself, “can I print money?”

Now ask it about the State

If we fall into the trap of “yes the government needs to cut spending but”, we have already lost. Their premise is flat-out wrong. Taxes don’t fund spending at the federal level. The idea of “taxpayer money” is Regan-era propaganda and we need to obliterate that notion. No more hand-wringing!

It is not the government’s job to save money. Government’s only job is to spend money.

Money does not exist until the Federal government spends it.

Anyone who tells you the government needs to save money is trying to save all the money for themselves.

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

Just saw someone say “block anyone without any posts” and that’s reasonable enough but I’m a real person so I’m posting something.

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