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Horrific Ali

@grissallia.bsky.social

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Professional nerd. Androgynous misfit. Mood whiplash generator. Three coffees in a trenchcoat. Australian. Parent. AuDHD. Pronouns: any In a time of performative cruelty, kindness is an act of resistance.

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Horrific Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · Nov 26

I've ranted about LLM "AI" elsewhere, and in replies, but to reiterate it in a thread that I can pin now:

One of the fundamentals of computer science is "Garbage In, Garbage Out". I learned this as a child, learning to program, over 40 years ago.

You cannot put bad data in, and get good data out.

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Brian Allen @allenanalysis.bsky.social · 2h

Candace Owens just accused Trump’s team of killing Charlie Kirk — straight face, zero evidence, just conviction.

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Horrific Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 2h

Just to make something clear; AI grifters and slopfans don't trigger my PTSD (while being in a church service does 😔).

The way they talk, however, trips /all/ of the same alarms and warning bells that "prophets" and most Pentecostals do, but there's no trauma there to connect to.

Horrific Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 2h

I occasionally get it into my head that I can maybe have something with a little bit of wheat in it, a square of home-made caramel slice won't cause any problems.

Unrelated*, my stomach hurts.

Horrific Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 2h

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Horrific Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 2h

That previous post in this thread can interchangeably describe Pentecostal “prophets” and their gift of “prophecy”, and the AI “visionaries” and their grift of LLMs, with no changes.

Won’t be fooled again.

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Horrific Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 2h

These people constantly claim to be able to predict the future, that they’ve seen what is to come, and if you just trust and believe, your life will be changed.

When that doesn’t happen, it’s your fault, you’re doing it wrong, and you need to try harder.

Point out specifics, and they lash out.

Horrific Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 2h

That article I added to my AI thread earlier has once again brought me around to prodding at the painful parts.

A significant amount of my CPTSD came from the abuse of “prophecy” over more than two decades of my life in Pentecostalism.

It may be why I’m so resistant to the claims of AI grifters.

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Horrific Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 3h

I'm adding a second Baldur Bjarnason post to this thread. Also good.

I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 3h

I pointed them towards www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trustin... but I doubt anything will change their mind vis their subjective experience (as is true for all of us most of the time right?)

Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’ is a huge risk

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

www.baldurbjarnason.com

Horrific Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 3h

It's as if 8 Gigabytes of SSD space suddenly cried out in terror, and then were suddenly silenced.

Horrific Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 3h

Eh, we’ll fix it in prod.

Horrific Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 3h

My immediate and most basic antipathy towards AI is derailed in my pinned thread, but one of my first thoughts when learning about LLMs was: “wait, they sucked up the web at scale for their training data? Their data sets are polluted. Garbage in, garbage out.”

Didn’t say anything for a long time.

Horrific Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 3h

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Crybaby 💧 @creepyweeper.bsky.social · 7h

"Current attacks upon trans people bear a striking resemblance to those terrible campaigns against so-labeled aberrant lives. [...] It does not take much imagination to see the parallels today."

– The Intermediaries, by @bschillace.brandyschillace.com

Picture of the book The Intermediaries : A Weimar Story by Brandy Schillace.

Page from the book:

"RELIVING HISTORY

The Nazi ideal was based on white, heterosexual, and normative (that is, cisgender) masculinity masquerading as genetic superiority. Any who strayed were considered depraved, immoral, and worthy of eradication. What began as a project of "protecting" German youth and raising healthy families became, under Hitler, a mechanism for genocide. The world saw these horrors and said, "Never again." But the future doesn't guarantee progress.

Current attacks upon trans people bear a striking resemblance to those terrible campaigns against so-labeled aberrant lives. We who continue to fight for rights and representation as homosexual, transgender, and other intermediary identities are heirs to Hirschfeld's hopes-and we have inherited the struggle in a world with its own rising tide of hatred and abuse. Long before the Nazis came to power, the German conservative right banned books; they denounced homosexual and transgender people as immoral criminals; they refused women reproductive rights; they attacked and disenfranchised Jews, immigrants, and refugees; they attempted to overwrite science with politically and racially motivated pseudoscience. They courted the dangerous ideal of toxic white masculinity while chasing a myth of past triumphs. It does not take much imagination to see the parallels today."

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Horrific Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 3h

*may or may not. Damned autocarrot.

Horrific Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 4h

The thing that gets me is that an experienced dev may or most not be more productive, but an inexperienced dev with AI “tools” being jammed down their throat is going to shit out unmaintainable code that may or may not be riddled with security issues, but they definitely won’t be able to debug it.

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Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️‍⚧️ @kiraculous.net · 4h

we're staring down mass starvation and mass homelessness and a resurgence of diseases we rarely see anymore because they thrive on malnutrition.

all of it will be linked to snap failing to be funded. the oligarchs who control the republicans see it as survival of the fittest.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4h

"But buried amid the A.I. division layoffs was a different set of cuts. The company laid off more than 100 people in its risk review organization, according to three people familiar with the move and internal memos viewed by The Times."

Meta Layoffs Included Employees Who Monitored Risks to User Privacy

www.nytimes.com

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James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social · 8h

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

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Horrific Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 4h

“And now, presenting Sydney’s hottest new band…”

Horrific Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 4h

What, pray tell, are some of the known comorbidities that can result after a COVID infection?

Horrific Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 4h

And it got so much harder and made me want to cry.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11h

Americans want to watch charismatic people solve moderately difficult problems on a weekly basis. That’s it. And a group of fomo execs and techbros who don’t watch TV drove one of the most profitable industries in the US off a cliff rather than accept that.

Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 16h

Look what happenes when a TV show releases every year, with more than 8 episodes a season.

High potentioal breaks a ratings record.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 5h

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI.

But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

Generative AI is a societal disaster

Governments are deluding themselves into believing investment justifies allowing AI to upend society

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Horrific Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 5h

This month’s Montage movie is “The Old Oak”, and I can appreciate the quality of the writing, it’s like an emotional beating listening to these angry racist characters.

m.imdb.com/title/tt1988...

The Old Oak (2023) ⭐ 7.1 | Drama

1h 53m

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 1d

This clip is really horrible just fyi the minister just dead eyed refusing to answer pointing at the supreme court and the ehrc claiming they were very clear with the obvious implication

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 1d

Equalities minister Bridget Phillipson unable to tell trans woman which toilet she should use
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/21/bridget-phillipson-trans-student-asks/?utm_content=1761204000&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Bridget Phillipson unable to tell trans woman which toilet she should use

A video online shows Bridget Phillipson awkwardly responding to a trans student's question of where she is allowed to pee.

www.thepinknews.com

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