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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 13h

AI use cases that have found significant product-market fit today:

1. Coding assistants
2. Sycophantic personal vizier
3. Pornography

1. is a B2B product that is expensive but can charge a ton for. 2. Is cheap and can sell targeted ads through. 3. is expensive and generally can’t.

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 13h

this is the start of a horror novel

ad for a "Creative House living with a benevolent AI to foster deep connections, personal growth, and creative outputs"

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 21h

I don't know what to tell you, man, this is just ABDL with more steps.

Solution: a smartphone-based game where a number of adults can "adopt" one of the adults in their city or town to play the role of the child in the game. Then the role of the child rotates to the next adult. Trust gets built, or you can weed out the unserious. The adults provide the “adopted child” player with emotional support, guidance, maybe even food?

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 21h

not gonna link out to it, but saw a blog about having ten strangers co-raise a child because "only afford to have one 10th of a child with the planet's carrying capacity"

If your "climate grief" got you like this, go see a therapist. Psychologically bleeding out is not helping you save the planet

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 22h

"did you just put Texas and Alberta on the same level as Saudi Arabia or Russia"

i see a regressive petrostate ruled by petulant oligarchs, i call a regressive petrostate ruled by petulant oligarchs

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21h

EXCLUSIVE: This tech has been used to track heads of state, journalists, and maybe even you.

@lighthousereports.com uncovered a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries.

It has operated under the radar for decades. Until now.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 22h

Hello~ i wrote something for @theverge.com about the surreal horror of online transness in a fascist surveillance state.

it’s time to change tactics and make ourselves less legible to this machinery of death — but *without* sacrificing our connection and community.

The return of the trans underground

The internet once helped trans people connect and organize. Now it’s a dangerous liability. What comes next?

www.theverge.com

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 23h

guess you could say I'm invested in this one

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 23h

An archbishop praising the "noble calling of law enforcement" is very funny in a medievalist sense

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23h

NEW: Statement from Cardinal Blaise Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, on ICE activities in the city.

Implicitly refers to tactics used by ICE/DHS as “unnecessarily aggressive” and “seem to be intended to terrorize and cause chaos, rather than fulfilling the noble calling of law enforcement.”

Here's Cardinal Cupich's statement:
In this moment it is important to state clearly that keeping the nation safe and respecting human dignity are not mutually exclusive. In fact one cannot exist without the other. The safety of a nation cannot come at the expense of violations of human dignity and surely the dignity of the undocumented can never be violated by unnecessarily aggressive tactics that go far beyond the task of apprehending people and which seem to be intended to terrorize and cause chaos, rather than fulfilling the noble calling of law enforcement. No one working in this noble calling should be put in the position of acting this way. Not only do they risk violating the dignity of others but such activity is beneath their own dignity.

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logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 1d

At Twitter's peak you could post a question and have 18 replies within an hour: 5 automated garbage, 4 bad jokes, 6 confidently wrong, 1 from someone with a PhD on the topic, a set of serial replies from someone with a hyperfixation that provides more useful info than the PhD, and a death threat

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 1d

terra invicta... said trans rights...?

one of the in-game organizations as "Sex Change Company". it gives research income and is headquartered in Seattle

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 1d

got my tickets for the Halloween rave and for the post-Halloween rave

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 1d

General contractors will really just text you "can i bring a couple subs over"

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 2d

"At the time of the detainment, ICE had no knowledge of the individual’s age.” for a 13 year old

MassLive @masslive.bsky.social · 2d

Mass. 13-year-old was picked up by ICE after a police interaction and now he’s hundreds of miles from home

Judge orders release by Tuesday unless ICE can show grounds for continued detention of the Everett minor who was taken into custody after police interaction.

www.masslive.com

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 2d

terra invicta randomly generated landing site name:

Yuri Chaos

Yuri Chaos, a landing site on the main belt asteroid 372 Palma

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3d

one single step that would do a lot to improve reputation of LLMs would be for Google to abandon AI Mode like they do with all of their other products

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 3d

What's holding back the plague of venture capital in Europe? Well, it turns out the VCs can't get the pension fund money. That's where a lotta the money going to these AI companies is coming from - your pensions. pitchbook.com/news/article...

Europe's pension problem is constraining VC ambitions - PitchBook

The continent's retirement funds manage $3.4T in assets yet only allocate 0.1% to VC.

pitchbook.com

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 2d

I'm not invested in this but crazy to have an artist publicly undermine another artist's gig like this. You say that you're thrilled it's the other person, you're gonna watch it, you've always respected their work, whatever

NBC10 Boston @nbcboston.com · 3d

She said the decision not to perform is hers and hers alone. on.nbcboston.com/JGBo7JT

Taylor Swift explains why she's not doing the Super Bowl halftime show

Taylor Swift isn’t about to mix business with pleasure.

on.nbcboston.com

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