Elf M. Sternberg
@elfsternberg.bsky.social
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Husband to a gorgeous wife, father to two great kids, greying leatherfairy, infamous furry, and world-class software engineer. If you can read this, you're running code I wrote.
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elfsternberg.bsky.social
Obstagoons are just, "Y'know what? We need a Gene Simmons pokemon," right?
elfsternberg.bsky.social
Hee! Challenge accepted! :-)
elfsternberg.bsky.social
I'm sure whoever owns the furryverse Manic Panic is a very wealthy fur!
elfsternberg.bsky.social
"If someone has assymmetrical facial markings, does that hurt their chances in the dating pool? Is a tail with no stripes off-putting, or hot?"
elfsternberg.bsky.social
Being a furry artist means asking questions like, "Among the skunk-morphs, muzzle fur can be white or black, and the nose is any color from pink to almost-black. What combination is considered sexiest?" Or "What's hotter? A white heart-shape over the ass, or racing stripes along the flanks?"
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ohrobin.bsky.social
This is terrorism. Abolition of ICE and DHS is not enough.

(Photos by Anthony Vasquez, Chicago Sun-Times.)
A trio of cowardly, pathetic ICE agents hold a terrified man at gunpoint. The BORTAC patch, by the way, means Border Patrol Technical Unit. Worthless lumps (ICE agents) pin down an unarmed, young Black man. A domestic terrorism (ICE agent) lobs a canister of gas directly at an unarmed man trying to film the chaos on his phone
elfsternberg.bsky.social
"Adopt the voice of a world-weary 50-something woman who smokes three packs a day and spends her evenings in a dive bar and always gives the worst advice with as much innuendo as she can pack into a sentence. Now ELI5 how AIs are destroying the planet."
davidgerard.co.uk
you must understand, what i want in an AI critic is someone who doesn't shame me about my promptfondling, you know a *real* critic with *substance*
elfsternberg.bsky.social
Yeah, sometimes the heart just means, "I sympathize."
elfsternberg.bsky.social
You're not allowed to make new erotica, which basically prices out at a dinner for two (for inspiration!), but you're welcome to spend eternity enjoying recycled erotica that costs enough coal-fired processor power to shorten the lives of an orphanage.
mattburgess1.bsky.social
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
elfsternberg.bsky.social
Any time this much money is thrown against a candidate, it only makes me want to vote for the guy harder. (Schilling is actively anti-christian, the sort who drives out the homeless because they're unaesthetic.)
A 20x12 inch stiff-board mailer attack ad against Burien mayoral candidate Edwin Obras.
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elfsternberg.bsky.social
(Waiting) To cut out the deadwood
(Waiting) To clean up the city
(Waiting) To put on a black shirt
(Waiting) To weed out the weaklings
(Waiting) To smash in their windows and kick in their doors
(Waiting) For the final solution to strengthen the strain

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMfA...
Pink Floyd - Waiting for the Worms & Stop
YouTube video by Gasha James Dio
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elfsternberg.bsky.social
The Republican Party is a pro-plague party, as part of their soft eugenics project. The poor are more likely to die of infectious diseases than the rich. This is their project to "cut out the deadwood."
fangferric.bsky.social
According to a state epidemiologist, "CDC personnel who normally share information with state officials during outbreaks have been eliminated."
bachynski.bsky.social
“One veteran researcher who still has his job (and, like other public-health workers I spoke with for this story, requested anonymity for fear of losing it) told me he believes that Kennedy’s ultimate goal is to “silence the scientific voice of career CDC scientists.””
elfsternberg.bsky.social
The Republicans are a pro-rape party. "They're just joking. They don't all feel that way."

They're unwilling to push back and say, "We don't talk like that. Don't treat our mothers, wives, and daughters that way."

You know who feels validated by a communal acceptance of rape jokes? Rapists.
elfsternberg.bsky.social
The dream of Kristallnacht is alive and well in their perverse imaginations.
atrupar.com
Trump: "We're dealing with some radical left lunatics. And I just wish Charlie was here to fight us. I think the fight would've been over already. You would've had a march on the Capitol by people whose average age is about 21."
elfsternberg.bsky.social
It won't be a success until it puts 100MT into LEO. It still has not demonstrated an ability to do so. Lots of dog-and-dragon shows don't get to the commercial success stage.
elfsternberg.bsky.social
Saw a My Little Pony fanfic that described the characters as "anthropogenic." Well, technically, yes, but not in-universe.
elfsternberg.bsky.social
Also: the booster did not land, but ditched in the ocean. This was apparently "the plan," but a seawater-soaked booster is going to be a hell of a lot more expensive to clean up and re-use.
elfsternberg.bsky.social
Congratulations to the SpaceX crew for launching Starship and having it not explode while carrying (check notes) 1/6th what it needs to be able to carry in order to be profitable.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8Bu...
Blastoff! SpaceX launches Starship on 11th flight test, booster splashes down
YouTube video by VideoFromSpace
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elfsternberg.bsky.social
@slacktivistfred.bsky.social recently lamented that "Reasons I Would Not Have Been Burned As A Witch In The Early Modern Era No Matter What I Would Like To Believe About Myself And Would Have In Fact Been Among The Witch-Burners" has vanished. However!

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Reasons I Would Not Have Been Burned As A Witch
If I'm honest. Which I do not want to be.
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elfsternberg.bsky.social
• Ransom the captive
• Heal the ill

What we read instead is how Evangelical leadership has joined hands with "conservatism" to starve the hungry, deprive the thirsty, drive out the homeless, deprive the orphan, and arrest the stranger to leave them cold, naked, and solitary on a prison floor.