Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
Even ignoring the fact generative AI is just a noise maker, and doesn't do anything, it hasn't existed long enough for anyone to even have curriculum that isn't just "here is how you use my product".
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Even ignoring the fact generative AI is just a noise maker, and doesn't do anything, it hasn't existed long enough for anyone to even have curriculum that isn't just "here is how you use my product".
Micah (@rincewind.run) reposted reply parent
they're the ex-evangelicals speaking out on church abuses, the ex-scientologists telling us what goes on in auditing sessions on this subject and this subject only they are the experts
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
What the actual fuck?
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
So, he just left out the part where he is an authoritarian.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
Reminder: Corporations only exist to avoid accountability.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
"This must be what going mad feels like."
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
Unions will have your back.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
Yes, via their weasel words.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
"Democrats need to stand for even less" is a wild position for anyone, much less people whose voices are this loud.
Dr. Vin Gupta (@vinguptamd.bsky.social) reposted
Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years. Speaks for itself.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
It is wild that a reasonable lede would be "T* dodges question about his wealth", considering his history.
Molly Crane-Newman (@mollycranenewman.bsky.social) reposted
BREAKING: Justice Gregory Carro has dismissed the first degree murder charge against Luigi Mangione in his state case, finding the DA put legally insufficient evidence before the grand jury. More TK.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
s/gutter/gutted/ 🤦♀️
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
Every agency I care about was either gutter, or has now been repurposed to work against what it is supposed to. What is the government doing for the people anymore?
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
Why the fuck is there any conversation about a shutdown? NOT shutting it down implies Democrats want this Government to keep doing what it is doing. We already know they will do whatever the fuck they want with any money they are given, appropriations be damned.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
For a death cult, they are surprisingly scared of death...
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
No person doing street level law enforcement should ever have a gun.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
Also, pretty sure most people can remember who they are talking to without AI whispering in their ear.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
🫂💚
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
It makes more sense to me when I applied as an eng interested in working on CI/Moderation at bluesky last year they said they had no interest in that.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
🫂 I'm so sorry 💚
may (@maysuser.name) reposted
charlie kirk has received infinitely more sympathy and support from liberals than every single trans person, immigrant, and palestinian combined
Soraya Nadia McDonald (@sorayanadiamcdonald.com) reposted
Zohran dares us to imagine a city of artists being governed by someone who actually appreciates artists
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
Yep. Food poisoning kicked my ass today.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
Yeah...
Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) reposted
"I’ve never seen the Democratic leadership not endorse the Democratic candidate. It’s so ugly, it’s so cowardly, it’s so stupid." @timothypmurphy.bsky.social talked to Democratic voters who want their leaders to stop running from Zohran Mamdani
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
I think that is the professional service he offered
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
This really reads like they can't imagine sex without kids.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
Joy. Like 80% sure I got some form of food poisoning last night.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
I will not be hearing anything against Sherma or the Bell Beast. They are my perfect little friends,
Philip and Rollie TF, rememberer of Aggie (@ripperelse.bsky.social) reposted
remember to rob someone in your dream tonight. Then, slip the stolen dream coin under your pillow when you wake. Never check later if it's still there, that will dispel the dream coins. I don't know if I should be a children's author or a deeply ill person.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
People, finally realizing functionally everyone is a "loser" in capitalism:
John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) reposted
I see some of you dragging a shit take from the fascist site over here to dunk on it, a) why are you still on the fascist site to find that shit, b) why are dropping shit onto this site, c) when you dunk on it you just give it a new audience. Leave shitty fascist takes on the shitty fascist site.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
He is really charming. I wonder who he might have gotten that from? 🤔
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
I think you've trained your kids to want to adopt all queer adults
Alyssa Long (@measuredandslow.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Secondarily but also importantly, the kids AROUND those little trans kids *also* saw her get on a stage and do that, and it’s going to influence how they see the trans kids around them. It a world where every 4th famous person is saying they’re not important at best and evil at worst, it matters.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
Oh, you're *not* the one that keeps finding new people? I'm shocked!
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
Though if it were responsible to have outdoor cats, I'm sure Odin might give you a run for your money!
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
I assume you are the big person they know most likely to come home with new friends!
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
Presentations yet? Pro con lists?
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
If you played it very recently, changing your muscle memory might be painful
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
💚 I had suspicions!
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
Apparently I finished BG3 at exactly the right time. I was bored for a week, and now I'm eaten by Silksong
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
Who is leading this campaign?
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
I noticed that! I'm looking forward to trying
sam henri gold (@samhenri.gold) reposted
Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
Labor Notes (@labornotes.bsky.social) reposted
Last month, workers at Sugared + Bronzed locations in Los Angeles and Santa Monica voted to unionize with Communications Workers Local 9505—forming the first salon chain union in the country. @nataschaelena.bsky.social reports labornotes.org/2025/09/how-...
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
(KPop Demon Hunters) I have a special fondness for the scenes which show Mira being happy. She isn't my most relatable character, but she is a character who I like they don't have stress in their life.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
I love how, on Netflix, for KPOP Demon Hunters, the next suggested watch is the sing-a-long version, and for that version, it is the standard release.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
💯💯💯
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
Thanks a lot!
Prisonculture (@prisonculture.bsky.social) reposted
Do people not recognize how people who aren't from NYC talk about NYC???? They talk about us terribly, all of the time. LOL.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
I have never seen this island art!
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
😯 I keep wanting to get into making pretzels! Do you have a recipe you can share?
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
Capitalism makes it hard for people to understand that the value of a solution with no body count is, in a very real sense, priceless. It is so valuable that capitalism has no way to conceptualize how valuable life is. So the con is to treat life as having no intrinsic value.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
Felt.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reposted
If you value any thing over any person, I don't understand you.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
You never know what can spark a fire. Complain clearly, simply, and flashily. Something somewhere will resonate loudly and widely enough.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
We seem to be still missing the exact value of branding and pithy prooaganda.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
What they do can't be summerized into talking points, so it is easy to print them as part of conspiracy narratives. And they are old enough and large enough to have lots of mid level scandals.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
This might just be "write a dissertation".
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
With this, much less use the currently degraded information environment to find what I need in a DIY manner. 3/fin.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
But my brain requires that we have language for these concepts so I can ask the questions I really want to ask. This might be a me education or monolingual problem. But I'd love to be able to qa language for this with someone outside my head, but don't even know how to ask if someone is cool 2/
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
I need a word for the process where I am trying to articulate something, but feel I lack the language to discuss it so hard that I also lack the language for me to ask for the word I need. I need fluency between me and foo in hard to articulate concepts that feel pointless, but... 1/
Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) reposted
incredible work. become uncarryable.
Ryan Estrada (@ryanestrada.com) reposted
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
I am looking forward to "misunderstanding your audience" being a core topic in the future analysis of what the fuck has been happening with this regime.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
The replies here seem to assume he isn't a white supremecist himself. I suggest he is, and has been spending money to show it, and even more on the narrative he isn't also happily funding his own personal versions of this himself.
Turducken Carlson (@liberalbubble.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
"Apologies, cunt" is my new default reply
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
Casey Explosion (@caseyexplosion.bsky.social) reposted
We should have a Bluesky main character of the day that everyone is nice to, just pick someone and shower them with appreciation.
Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) reposted
BREAKING: New York Governor Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid-19 vaccines to anyone who requests them, regardless of age or underlying conditions.
Chris Person (@papapishu.bsky.social) reposted
Really not enjoying the combination of “nobody has a job” and “everything is expensive now”
jeeyon shim 심지연 (@jeeyon.bsky.social) reposted
Every single convention organizer, publisher, art director, project manager, etc. who's even once entertained the thought of using genAI imagery or LLM generated text at any stage should be paying *full* attention to how popular DragonCon is becoming for enforcing their "no genAI" policies.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
"Leave me to my demons"
Atul Gawande (@agawande.bsky.social) reposted
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
At least it means you are surviving with your sense of humor 💚
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
It has been a minute since I've seen you here! How is the world treat you?
Micah (@rincewind.run) reposted
Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
This feels like they had to go out of their way to do this...
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
🫂
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
I'm sorry? I mean I *warned* you...
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
The replies to this have a lot of "not all men" energy.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
So, suspicion of lying on a financial document is sufficient to remove someone from office? Anyone taken a look at the guy in the white house for that?
K.B. Spangler (@kbspangler.com) reposted
Pritzker/Walz 2028---Chicago Mob meets Minnesota Nice "The bodies will be buried tastefully"
John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) reposted
This is what stolen valor looks like
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
Ouch! Nice.
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
That just means you still have a working sense of joy!
Prisonculture (@prisonculture.bsky.social) reposted
Acknowledging that we are living under a fascist regime at the Federal level is essential for figuring out how to fight. And I'm sorry but burying one's head in the sand at this moment is actually allowing fascism to be further entrenched & authority more easily consolidated.
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist (@nameshiv.bsky.social) reposted
a 4 person crowd and exactly 2 flags, the amount of work those plurals are doing singlehandedly is a labour rights violation across the UK
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com) reply parent
I recommend trying anyway, but it just ate me for the last few weeks, so ymmv 🤷♀️
Mercurial (@silentconsole.com)
I have 100%'d BG3, and now I don't know what to do with myself again
Autumatopoeia (@isreallytwodogs.bsky.social) reposted
Referring to a mediocre breakfast restaurant as your culture and heritage is one of the whitest things I've ever read.