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rape apologists?? What did I miss.
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social) reply parent
rape apologists?? What did I miss.
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social) reply parent
did this *really* need an AI illustration? search.creativecommons.org
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
Another thing was an example of extracting information from a picture of some invoice I think. The instructors asked about the name of the person it was sent to. The bot answered (correctly) and "helpfully" added address, postcode and city. Only issue was that the postcode wasn't in the invoice.
The police were there to make certain they went willingly.
Apparently, the scene got upgraded. www.reddit.com/r/dragoncon/...
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
Since going all-in on Bluesky my newsletter has grown faster than it has in years, even though I have maybe 1/6 of the followers I had on the bird site ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ cassidoo.co/newsletter
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Let me remind you viruses mutate. When the US turns off vaccines new, current-vaccine resistant strains of horrible diseases -- of which we only heard of because we were vaccinated against and we vaccinate our children against -- will appear lightning fast and spread globally just as fast.
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social)
Even the NYT parody account can't even any more.
My immediate reaction:
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social) reply parent
Somehow? Sorry but I can't explain empathy and human feelings. That is beyond me.
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social) reply parent
I have seen code I have written and shared under GPL in the output of Claude Sonnet. It was not under GPL. As far as I am concerned, GPL is the fair way of sharing code: you use my code, you share what you ended up with. I am not going to sue Anthropic, it's too expensive.
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social)
Let me repeat my stance on the Gaza genocide: it is genocide and must stop. Beyond that, I am not pro-Israel neither am I pro-Palestine. I am pro-children. No matter which side of an imaginary line they are born they should live and thrive. If you kill children, you are condemned.
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www.politico.com/newsletters/... "and for each of these inflection points thereâs an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto" == Also the very strangely named ChatGPT 3.5 (half of what?) which appeared just three weeks after the FTX collapse. Just in time to rush something half baked to market.
Are we sure this isn't just a four-part interview *with* the antichrist?
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That's a blow, I know all too well how hard it is to get a good tea outside of the UK. Maybe try Canada? I had good experience with davidstea
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social)
Note there was no country on earth, democracy or dictatorship, not Castro, Pol Pot or any other crackpot who would have taken an anti vaxx stance since vaccination is available. I am not even sure whether there's any other public policy which everyone so enthusiastically agreed on.
We Have AI Now www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
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We trust Brandon a hell lot more to actually deliver than those two.
Newsom is proof that if Trump was more clean cut and well spoken liberals wouldnât have a problem with Trump
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social) reply parent
we clearly need class snuggle
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social) reply parent
The solution is simple: focus on indoor air quality. Facilitate legislation requiring filtration in schools, medical facilities etc.
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social) reply parent
I know two very responsible couples who have homeschooled their kids for good reasons and not at all brainwashing them. Yes, that's the norm but not always.
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www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-covid-...
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www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-covid-...
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The CDC... Patient deaths: 396,837 on January 20, 2021.
The main people who got us here cannot get us out. That's what everyone is seeing in real time.
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
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DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON BIDEN'S COVID RECORD!!!! www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-covid-...
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social) reply parent
As much as I hate Trump and Rfk Jr in times like these facts are rather important: Trumpâs Covid legacy is about 400 000 dead, Biden's tally is about 800 000. It was also Biden who preliminarily announced the pandemic is over.
It fills me with rage that we could've spent the last 5yrs overhauling indoor ventilation and just...didn't. Like, it's good for capitalism! Even if that's allll you care about, healthy people are more productive workers! And people don't have to take as much time off work if their kids are healthy!
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they might as well just make it free for everyone then
"Researcher who has distorted voter data appointed to Homeland Security election integrity role" www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social)
Trump is trying to fire Prof Lisa Cook the first Black woman chair of the Fed -- who did groundbreaking research on the economic costs of systemic racism and discrimination in the United States.
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social) reply parent
I know this is a hard concept for you but reporting on bad shit the Dems do does not , in fact , make you a Republican supporter. It makes you a journalist. "Democrats bad" while quite crude, is a fact. Republicans are a million times worse is another.
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the pool would be especially popular with cats.
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social) reply parent
And yes that is a big f*ng deal, the military always puts a huge emphasis on their dead. Look at the Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier, look at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social)
While the exact date is debatable when the US became a fascist dictatorship by Sep 1, 2025 it is: Trump openly declared he can do anything because he is the president and got away with it. The military has shown they will do anything he asks by giving Ashli Babbit a military honors funeral.
In honor of Ashli Babbitt, during her funeral the U.S. Air Force will strafe the U.S. Capitol.
Iâm not kidding when I say I love a formal synthesis. This one is spot-on. Some of whatâs happening is people are trying to have a historical gaze for events that are still happening. Is it definitionally authoritarian? Cannot know until bodies stop dropping. But you can know it feels authoritarian
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I started to see posts and videos in 2023 how the rhetoric and legislation around trans people fits the ten stages of genocide pattern. It's been two, two and a half years. The photo attached is from 2022, too. 2/2
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2015 summer: gay marriage gets legalized 2015 November: the DoE intervenes for the first time to protect a trans student Title IX rights. The school refused to comply. They use these hate campaigns as part of "panem at circenses". Two Minutes Hate and all that. 1/2
who needs chatGPT when we have RFK to assemble accusatory word salad out of thirdhand science drawled by a drunk at a bar, anecdata, and vicious hatred of vaccines!
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask âdo you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.â Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.
You've heard it before, "Time is the one resource we never get back. Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time." What if... you could? Introducing... the 4-D printer.
Absolutely bonkers personalist regime stuff www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
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Those who use their guns won't be posing for photos with them. It would be like an electrician posing with a screwdriver.
Making popular stuff on the internet is like running a pub thatâs always packed but your customers keep yelling at you & trauma dumping across the bar & none of them are buying stuff & then every few days, someone buys a beer or a pack of crisps - but you for some reason you really love that pub.
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It took two hundred years, truly uncountable amount of money, millions of brilliant women and men but Microsoft have achieved what Lady Lovelace and Charles Babbage couldn't even dream of: they made a computer which can't do math.
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I am. I lived through the 1987â2000 AI winter and vividly remember the claims. Funnily enough, one of the most important programs in the history of science came out in that period and if you squint the wrong way then it's AI: Tierra. And almost no one even knows what it was!
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social) reply parent
"evolved LLMs will figure that out" -- that's where Doctorow said no matter how fine prize horses you breed they will never give birth to a locomotive.
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social) reply parent
I am nearly certain I linked you fluxus.io/article/alch... this before: AGI [...] requires mathematics that doesn't exist to model biology we don't understand to implement functions nobody can define. That's "impossible" in any practical sense.
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social)
Especially in times like these factual reporting is incredibly important. This is simply not true. What they suspended is package delivery. Important? Yes. But the truth is still different. Mail delivery continues.
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Yeah, the solution is to ban smartphones. I do not see how this is a problem: if it has a touch screen, ban. If it doesn't, good to go.
It always used to be that the Porn industry was the litmus for new tech being successful - if it was going to actually be useful, they did it first. Things like Credit Card security and encryption, and streaming and 4K are great examples. Until they adopt it, itâs going nowhere.
Donât worry, predictions from orgs directly profiting from hyping bullshit with zero consequences always pan out.
If they invented monopoly today the tokens would be like a labubu, a cyber truck, a mini labradoodle, 150mg of Wellbutrin, a pair of crocs, and an AirPods case with one missing
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this story is fake
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Reminder: the concentration camp was invented by the American Confederate States during the Civil War. The commanding officer of it was the only officer of the Confederate Army to be sentenced to death for crimes during their service.
I donât like that the âgood old daysâ were like 10 years ago, that seems so wrong
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social)
National Guard mobilized in 19 states. If people won't raise to the bait sooner or later there will be a false flag attack then martial law and then comes the police state dictatorship. The playbook is old but always works.
This has been a thing for ages. I remember twenty years ago people with "The Singularity is My Retirement Plan" T-shirts. Of course that was when Ray Kurzweil was predicting AGI by 2012, 2015 at the latest, and human immortality by now...
Legolas implies Legolo, Legola, Legolamos, LegolĂĄis and Legolan (not to be mistaken for Legoland which is a noun)
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social) reply parent
And when you won't be able to search you will be forced to use an AI. Paid, of course.
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social) reply parent
of course that was a joke. apologies if that wasn't clear.
Look at how UK Labour are acting now with a comfortable majority to see how a neoliberal party actually just operates as cryptofascist, masking its commitment to fervent antisocialism behind a posture of feckless naivety so theyâre seen as âfailingâ at being Good rather than effectively being Bad.
good thing bsky is decentralised
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might have been your parents and you inherited it. or some sort of cousin. can you prove otherwise. you can't. see...
Google notified me today that they cannot independently verify my age so I might want to upload documentation to them. Iâve had Gmail since 2002.
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Until they outlaw Tor on CSAM basis. Mark my words.
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social) reply parent
"Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you donât actually have to invest in technology that works [âŚ] metaverse [âŚ] Web3 and crypto, and for each [âŚ] thereâs an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto." Meredith Whittaker www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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Of course. It wasn't lost on anyone paying attention how ChatGPT launched 3.5 (half a what?) three weeks after FTX collapsed. Just enough time to grab something half baked and rush it to market.
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social)
Beware, airbnb now sides with scammers, do not use!
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AOC, Taylor Lorenz, you -- live in these guys head rent free and since they long detached from reality, they make up stories with these people in their heads. The only problem is when this fantasy spills over into threats and violence :(
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Edwin J. Feulner James Dobson If there's a death incarnate reading this you know all too weell who would make this into a very nice trilogy
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To recap, not a week after Putin met Trump, Tulsi Gabbard whom Clinton named a Russian asset announced halving the intelligence staff including eliminating the Foreign Malign Influence Center which monitors foreign efforts to influence the American public.
the entire purpose of this startup is to get zuckerberg to buy them by demonstrating that they have absolutely no ethics whatsoever, the product is garbage
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social)
It took two hundred years, money beyond count, millions of brilliant men and women but Microsoft have achieved what Lady Lovelace and Charles Babbage couldn't even think of: they made a computer which can't do math.
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social) reply parent
she didn't even know what it is :D she was like, I do not know what you need but *pulls out bag from storage* is it any of these ? The bag contains enough cables to open a well stocked computer store :D
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social) reply parent
my mum luckily stashed away all the Ethernet cables over the years so I can link my laptops. I brought Ethernet dongles for both but not an Ethernet cable. *facepalm*
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is the dead cat a certified nutritionist though
the two biggest information polluters on the planet right now -- short-form video and chatbots -- work on exactly the same underlying architecture: delivering highly personalized garbage that has been sweetened by a host of psychological engagement tricks all while concealing the delivery process.
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of course the real one does not look like that youtu.be/HH3GmCokybo but that's just one of the best movies of all time not some ai garbage so what do i know
The people who are *still* making a massive deal about having to go to the doctor and get a shot think historians made too big a deal out of **slavery**
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes but this is missing the fact AGI is impossible: "it requires mathematics that doesn't exist to model biology we don't understand to implement functions nobody can define. That's "impossible" in any practical sense" to quote fluxus.io/article/alch...
Just one more data center fixes this
please...just another 40 billion dollars...my poor data centers
End well, this won't: UK commissioner suggests govt stops kids from using VPNs
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social) reply parent
as long as it's only the label that's yellow...
chx1975.bsky.social (@chx1975.bsky.social) reply parent
"that never comes close to delivering on its grandest promises" -- guaranteed. Read fluxus.io/article/alch... "AGI is ... impossible: it requires mathematics that doesn't exist to model biology we don't understand to implement functions nobody can define. That's "impossible" in any practical sense."
Grim Doonesbury www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2...
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Is this a typo? Did you mean Google technologies?
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From @aby@aus.social
The statement, "in 100 years no one will know the difference between a booty call and a butt dial and that's why we need historians" (or something like that) has been running through my head all week and damned if this didn't pop up today on @askhistorians.bsky.social.
One time I posted a picture of my apartment complex's trash compactor and someone immediately messaged me telling me where I lived.
I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxtonâs 2004 definition of fascism far too often than Iâd like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.
