CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
No.
I basically only exist as a honeypot for follow spam these days.
363 followers 726 following 278 posts
view profile on Bluesky CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
No.
with trump and giuliani edging right up to the border of death, the comedic rule of threes now screams for blood
Undertale
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Brooks has spent his entire career telling you who he is. Not sure why you'd pick this particular moment to not believe him.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Keep in mind running to foreign currencies probably isn't going to help as much as one would hope. International trade is tied to the dollar and everyone is going to eat shit on this to some extent. Again, focus on real goods, real economy, even in foreign funds.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
You want equities with significant pricing power that are involved in the production of real goods. KMB and Dow Chemical have been good. Mining companies (not just gold, but copper). I'd avoid oil and gas (because Trump will fuck with it to try and keep prices low, high public salience).
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Probably the actual right answer. You might see things spike in nominal terms, but everything is getting crushed in real terms.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Inflation is really bad for UTM. You'll have worthless paper in about 3 years.
been offline for an hour or so to reflect on everything and decided that as long as the federal reserve remains independent and we keep getting commercial packages from japan that everything is going to be ok
Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
This is the most American sentiment of all time.
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social)
It's kind of strange that multiple countries just suspended mail service to the United States and that's barely making headlines. Seems kind of like a big deal. I'm never getting my Hololive merch now...
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, dude. Looks awful. Hate it. How could anyone live in such a place.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Turns out Cambridge is a really lovely place and you can't just airlift your picturesque mansion to Boca Raton and expect to still value it the same.
I just wanted to see how bad it really was. perfect, adobe. no notes. great tech.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Amazing. No notes. Who says you can't make art with AI? Would a human... think to that? Huh? That's what I thought.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social)
I still don't know what class free pizza is or why we aren't letting seniors have it.
ME: hey so what's this process consuming all my CPU WINDOWS: oh that's our Microsoft Search Indexer, it's building a search index of your files ME: neat, so if I do a search on my files, will I get prompt, useful resul— WINDOWS: [punches me in the face]
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
I have never so thoroughly not understood something as much as I have no idea what's going on with this. This has to be some kind of AI psycosis right?
Chibi-Robo! available on GameCube - Nintendo Classics (Switch 2)
Y’all should play Chibi Robo.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
I'll join your seed round.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social)
It's wild how much better the "For You" feed is than the "Discover" feed. Maybe this make your own feeds thing will work out in the long run. You don't have to struggle through a bad algorithm! Give it a try! bsky.app/profile/did:...
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Are you doing a split keyboard for Colemak? I've always wanted to try, but I'm pretty committed to my Moonlander split keyboard, and wonder how weird it would feel to scramble the buttons up.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
One of my favorites. This is great news!
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Seriously. What ever happened to the "don't obey in advance" libs on this one?
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't talk to police.
one thing that would help america a lot is if anyone had more than a goldfish memory
bragging about being a giant pussy is integral to the conservative mindset
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Is it taking ridiculous amounts of hallucinogens? The answer may not surprise you!
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social)
Is there a way to block all duckdns.org handles? For some reason, the Discover feed has decided it wants to push an army of OF spam bots today and they are all using randomly generated dynamic DNS addresses from Duck DNS.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
The gun is good!
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
They see it, they just don't think we see them.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Whenever I figure out what the context for this is, I know it will be great.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
I refuse to believe these are real people.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks for helping the marketing campaign amigos. Check is in the mail. 🫡
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh you and your "rule of law"
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess at least it's not yet another "Sound of Silence" remix though. But there's still time.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Battlefield has one of the most iconic musical hooks ever written and I feel like they've spent the last decade trying to pretend it never existed. Like... Just hit me with the "dundundun duh duh duh" and I'm there. Don't bury it in these "who's dad liked this" mixes.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Modern scholars, when describing modern sexual habits, observe that "she feeds my algorithm till I content"
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Lol, and perhaps, lmao
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
VShojo must burn to the ground.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
I was literally about to gasp outloud, "I lived in a city called Irvine! What do you mean nobody has ever branded real estate!"
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Vodka has the mandate of heaven.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
EatSports
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
They are so not racist that they have to invent an extra race to not be racist against, just to make sure you know how you being black doesn't matter to them, because they're not racist.
It's time
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social)
The "Gen Z stare" discourse is the dumbest, most trying to make fetch happen thing I've seen in a long time. Practically a media version of LLM hallucinations that nobody should take seriously.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
www.wired.com/story/big-in...
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Umapyoi, umapyoi, umapyoi, umapyoi!
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social)
Kimi no aiba ga
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh yeah, the not trusting block lists thing makes sense to me. I think it was a well intentioned crowd sourcing feature back when this all started, but I also unsubscribed to lists that weren't mine since there was no way to monitor for abuse or accuracy.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
The fact that this keeps getting shared probably means I need to come up with a less snarky description. As for the discussion, I was pretty sure that like 90% of these were bot accounts when I started this list. I'm sure I caught a few strays, but I intended to automate their detection eventually.
Good morning blue sky.
This was a life changing moment for me
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Trying to figure out how to fight go1 when you should be go finding yourself some bitches.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
She can do in 100m what most horses hope to do in a lifetime.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Waiting for a trend of AAA live service slop-likes.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social)
Contrapoints posting really brings the tankies out of the woodwork.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
The metaphor of slop at least makes sense to me. Pigs at a trough eating slop to make meat. Humans in a content mill to make engagement metrics. Though I agree with the general idea that co-op games are not instant slop, I see how they are increasingly made for content generation on YT/Twitch.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
I mostly saw it show up first with Twitch streamers, but I think it comes from an understanding of "AI slop" and ends up generalized. It's a vibe looking for a definition for a long time, like the Elsagate/Spiderman content. Created for and by the algorithm, with humans harvested for engagement.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Every reply to this skeey should be "Did you even read the post or just saw this screenshot?" I'm not even convinced that Big Joel read the post from this reply.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social)
The Quiet Posters feed is back and Bluesky feels good again.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Oooh, you two are engagement bots. You even got the order of the conversation wrong. Which model are you using? Llama?
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Take your account seriously, buddy.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Wtf are you taking about? You can clearly see Ireland on the left, France on the right. You can see the Isle of Man. You can see the Bristol channel into Wales? Do you not know geography?
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Every time I watch this video, another piece of my spine fuses into a nerve ending.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
If Jeffery Epstein knew this result, he wouldn't have bothered to kill himself, or whatever. Everything just reverts to giggles and pimpin ain't easy jokes.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
I remember heads at a studio going "oh, don't worry, if this goes wrong, we can always get bought by Microsoft" and just being like... that's not a real solution.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social)
How your email finds me
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure thing, that'll be $2 million please.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
It's my longest standing complaint that most people, but especially executives or people in some position of trust or authority, will see some post with five likes or two upvotes and go "this is what the people are saying!" and never actually interrogate if that's true beyond they read it.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
White liberals pushing their "Caturday" and "Indiana Jones" agendas again, when they could be talking about Hot Girl Summer and Megalopolis. Liberals will never change, smh. And by liberals, I mean a single half assed algorithm that is picking up words it saw among millions of conversations.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
...vs "no they won't"
Yoho~! #art #sabart
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
I appreciate your whole threads on why and which Discover clusters are generating slop. I guess I don't understand yet what the technical limitations are of creating competing Discover/For You/high retention algo feeds. I'd hoped atproto would enable feed competition more than it has.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
You see... Uhh.... Uhh... If you live forever you have infinite time to be happy... I am very smart for thinking this and am willing to throw away my entire life on this thought experiment. Uhh... please make me god emperor now.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social)
I'm really enjoying Death Stranding 2, except at some point Kojima's pregnancy and birthing fetish gets a bit excessive. Is Fragile the only female character (including the whales) that isn't pregnant or having some kind of miscarriage trauma?
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Steve Jobs died for this.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Also wasn't the modern American supermarket mostly a cold war propaganda invention? The federal government was heavily involved in creating and presenting "free market" supermarkets up until the 90s.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
A new strand type game? Already got one this week.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social)
The Zohran pending victory makes the Annie Lowry "this isn't democratic" take look even more insane in retrospect. Not only did he win a plurality of votes, but people expressed their support for another candidate without worry about throwing away a vote to Cuomo. The name for this is democracy.
Lavos, the alien monster intent on destroying all life, has emerged from beneath the planet's surface to endorse Andrew Cuomo in the New York City mayoral race. "Cuomo has the experience and character necessary to lead," said Lavos, while fire rained from the sky
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
As soon as they figure out the right text message to send, then they will solve everything.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
You can be assured that he will send a very strongly worded letter later about he agrees with the action, but wishes Trump just wasn't such a meanie about it.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social)
The flimsy Brookings way of saying "There is no war in Ba Sing Se"
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm convinced, again. Though everything you post does that.
I post my "Bluesky is dying" article on Twitter and sit back smugly as it's shown to 274 of my 80,000 followers, receiving two likes, on retweet, and an anime avatar called lolitas1488 telling me my inferior skullshape means I belong in the camps.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Kojima, my brother in Christ you built the factories.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social)
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, yes you do.
CitizenPhnix (@citizenphnix.bsky.social) reply parent
Won't someone think of the brunch invite list!
