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Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 7h

...okay guys, we're on our ninth reply explaining what a dummymander is. Thank you all very much and please stop.

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Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you! In retrospect that should have been obvious.

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Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 7h

...the Republicans who were engaging in partisan redistricting because they were afraid of being punished by voters for Trump's policies will stop redistricting because they're now even more afraid of being punished by voters?

I feel like I'm missing steps here.

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Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 8h

Enjoy? The contributors are the only ones who enjoy counterculture zines, and with this counterculture all of the contributors are going to be AI.

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Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 1d

Wikipedia says yes. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/say_the...

say the quiet part loud - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

en.wiktionary.org

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Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 1d

Extremely specific questions of etiquette about which slurs may be said in which public forums.

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Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 1d

New York is a miracle city. A godamn miracle that this city continues to function in spite of itself.

Question 4: Create a centralized digital city map
Currently, New York City’s official map — which includes street layouts and address assignments — exists in paper form across five separate borough offices.

This proposal would consolidate those into a single, digital map maintained by the Department of City Planning.

“Today, the City Map consists of five different sets, one for each borough, totaling over 8,000 individual paper maps,” the report says.

Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 5d

Same thing with doctors and patients with dementia or seizures, except it's not even their fault so the whole situation makes everyone feel that much shittier.

Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 7d

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but Oct 10 (date of the Walter Reed visit) is 43 days after the beginning of Labor Day weekend, not 3 months.

It is however 6 months after Trump's first annual physical on April 11, almost to the day.

Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 10d

He identifies himself as an oyster farmer. Approximately nobody has the intimate knowledge of aquaculture economics to say "oh, that's a agritourism business".

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Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 17d

Second attempt (fresh chat, prompted to identify a plot), the model used the screenshot to cheat and still got the wrong answer.

It identified it as sci fi, but indexed hard on the 🤖 and Star Wars didn't make the list of four candidates.

4. Linguistic signal
The original post’s author (Ellie Lockhart) often posts media puzzles and anime analyses. She’s known to encode Evangelion arcs into emoji or text puzzles. That adds external corroboration.
5. Verdict
Most consistent interpretation:
This is the plot of Neon Genesis Evangelion (and possibly its Rebuild movies) rendered entirely in emoji.
The sequence traces:
Creation of artificial life (🤖☀️➡️🤖⚙️)
Human-machine-angel conflict (⚔️👩‍🚀💀🌌)
Individual psychological collapse (🧠💗⚖️🚫)
Instrumentality and merging of souls (🌕⚖️🔁♾️)
Cosmic reintegration (🧠🌌🔗♾️)

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Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 17d

First ChatGPT attempt to decode this left me feeling like I had carelessly uploaded malware via screenshot

3. Overall decoded meaning
If we treat the post as a “machine-readable spell” (a symbolic prompt), it roughly translates to:
“Initialize multiple reasoning agents, cross-validate results, maintain ethical alignment, iterate until consistent, and integrate outcomes into an infinite knowledge state.”
Or, put more naturally:
A self-reflective instruction for AI models to reason collaboratively, check themselves, follow ethical constraints, and sustain continuity of understanding.
Essentially: a meta-prompt to invoke a chain-of-thought alignment and synthesis process — an LLM spell for “cooperative multi-agent reasoning within ethical bounds.”

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Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 18d

3. Obama and (especially) Biden deserve a lot of credit for reviving the use of the pardon as a real tool to correct overreaching judicial punishment for a meaningful number of people.

Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 18d

Important notes:

1. Presidential pardons declined massively from Truman to Bush II as pardons began to be treated as potential scandals instead of routine correctives.
2. In a ~normal~ administration, only a tiny sliver of all pardons are for political allies

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Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 18d

Probably on pace to exceed Obama but well below Biden. Or, if you exclude the 1,500 pardons for Jan 6 insurrectionists, historically low.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 19d

To be fair, if he wants to name a Republican for bipartisan credit, it's not like he can say he admires the most moderate sitting GOP senator

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Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 21d

Can't even watch footage without alerting his pornography accountability partner/son

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 21d

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 22d

The groups hardest hit by inflation were the tech billionaires and VCs who made their fortunes on ZIRP and tight labor markets, and the shifts in the digital information environment are directly downstream of these people losing their minds over non-zero inflation rates.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 23d

The groups that shifted most towards Trump were not the groups hardest hit by inflation. Worldwide, the thing that seems most consistently linked to extremist, anti-institutional politics is not any set of economic conditions but SOCIAL MEDIA AND IMMERSION IN A DIGITAL INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT

Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 22d

Interesting to see you value job creation over worker safety concerns. AI politics makes for strange bedfellows, I guess.

2013 Slate Article by Matt Yglesias in defense of sweatshops in Bangladesh, written in response to a sweatshop building collapse killing 87 people.

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Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 25d

This appears to be some kind of pro-schumer parody account, portraying people who want a change in Democratic leadership as insane?

bsky.app/profile/glos...

depose schumer @glosson.bsky.social · 25d

much lower priority, but bonus points if you can articulate how you'll imprison schumer and jeffries

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Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 25d

In a bygone era, these were the last words spoken before some dude sunk their life savings and decades of work into inventing one in their garage.

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Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 27d

Framing matters even when it's fiscally neutral.

Same reason that UBI advocates don't propose a cap on who receives benefits paired with a slightly less progressive tax structure.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 27d

yeah I suppose I did ask for this framing it as as controversial opinion, but in practice this would be like an expansion of the child tax credit (which is functionally a transfer from childless to parents), rather than “barren whore surcharge” line on the W2.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 27d

Something I've found is that people respond to this idea very differently depending on if you put any effort into hiding you're doing this. Broadly speaking, childless people are fine paying taxes for public schools and not fine paying a childlessness tax even though they're basically the same thing

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Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 28d

Math: 24.9 million metric tons of CO2 over 10 years, compared to a U.S. total of 4,794 million metric tons in 2024 alone.

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Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 28d

Very concerning that inhalers could be responsible for 0.05% of total U.S. co² emissions, just to keep people from dying.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · Oct 3

Bluesky is a site explicitly founded by cryptocurrency libertarians with the idea that it would be a decentralized platform where users would be free to choose the open-source moderation and algorithmic feed tools they wanted, and by accident acquired a power userbase that hates all of those things.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · Oct 3

Are people mad at the Bluesky ceo for a real reason or an internet madness reason?

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