crystal
@cim.bsky.social
33 / f / chicago. mechanical engineer / product designer, speedrunner, vaguely leftist, queer / polyam / transfemme. @iscrystalme on Twitter
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crystal
@cim.bsky.social
· Apr 6
most drunk texts: blahhhhhhhh
me: the world is full of beauty and wonder and it is a joy to share it with those close to me
me: the world is full of beauty and wonder and it is a joy to share it with those close to me
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This is so common though! So many people just believe that Someone Will Sort It All Out and that there's ultimately a Boss Of Everything who sort of keeps things in line. They genuinely don't know that politics is real and not just a game they play.
December 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This is so common though! So many people just believe that Someone Will Sort It All Out and that there's ultimately a Boss Of Everything who sort of keeps things in line. They genuinely don't know that politics is real and not just a game they play.
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it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value
New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says
A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work a...
www.404media.co
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value
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a sign people really want a feature and find it good is when companies make turning it off a 12 part process (firefox), require registry modifications (microsoft) or contact support to reveal the real off switch instead of their two decoy toggles (google) so they can claim people don't turn it off 📈
firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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December 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
a sign people really want a feature and find it good is when companies make turning it off a 12 part process (firefox), require registry modifications (microsoft) or contact support to reveal the real off switch instead of their two decoy toggles (google) so they can claim people don't turn it off 📈
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Have you ever said 'soooo good'. 'there's two of them'. 'regular type'. 'burninate'. Referring to your place of employment as your 'jorb'. 'I have a crush on every boy'. Getting the 'jibblies'.
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Have you ever said 'soooo good'. 'there's two of them'. 'regular type'. 'burninate'. Referring to your place of employment as your 'jorb'. 'I have a crush on every boy'. Getting the 'jibblies'.
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Recently, my partner was shocked to discover "I will do it 9 times" was a homestar thing they picked up, and they picked it up *last year*. Via me. I even showed them where I got it from!
HSR has such a unique ability to slip into your language center that it transcends time and space
HSR has such a unique ability to slip into your language center that it transcends time and space
you truly don't want to know how much of your modern lexicon was created by homestar runner, even if you never watched it it inspired all your favorite quirked up white boy comedy shows and podcasts
(A couple days ago my roommate and I were trying to figure out why the phrase “crapfully yours” was in our heads and initially guessed it was an ancient foamy thing. It was not, it was homestar runner, but it’s been re-engaging the old internet video circuitry in my brain, which there’s too much of)
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Recently, my partner was shocked to discover "I will do it 9 times" was a homestar thing they picked up, and they picked it up *last year*. Via me. I even showed them where I got it from!
HSR has such a unique ability to slip into your language center that it transcends time and space
HSR has such a unique ability to slip into your language center that it transcends time and space
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she went to state legislators, TPUSA and conservative media outlets within a few hours of getting her grade, if you can’t identify the bad faith that can be seen from space, you need to get your eyes checked
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
she went to state legislators, TPUSA and conservative media outlets within a few hours of getting her grade, if you can’t identify the bad faith that can be seen from space, you need to get your eyes checked
trying to decide if I should get a refurb iPod Touch or if I should get like an iPhone 12 mini that I just never put a SIM card or social media apps onto. I just want a smaller device that can get my Apple Music stuff saved locally which I'll never put the scrolling apps onto
December 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
trying to decide if I should get a refurb iPod Touch or if I should get like an iPhone 12 mini that I just never put a SIM card or social media apps onto. I just want a smaller device that can get my Apple Music stuff saved locally which I'll never put the scrolling apps onto
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Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
there is a simple way to mostly solve the "guy who listens to phone without earbuds on the bus all the time" problem and that is to legally mandate that phones come with earbuds again
November 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
there is a simple way to mostly solve the "guy who listens to phone without earbuds on the bus all the time" problem and that is to legally mandate that phones come with earbuds again
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
once again the Facebook / Instagram algorithms that listen to everything I say have failed spectacularly. now instead of them thinking I like The Office because I talk about commuting, it thinks I like the show Friends because I talk about my friends
November 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
once again the Facebook / Instagram algorithms that listen to everything I say have failed spectacularly. now instead of them thinking I like The Office because I talk about commuting, it thinks I like the show Friends because I talk about my friends
The Zohran press conference is your regular reminder that the entire administration folds like tissue paper at the slightest hint of confidence and conviction, and thus the fact that national democrats are playing a game of capitulation and weakness is exactly why they're all getting away with it
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The Zohran press conference is your regular reminder that the entire administration folds like tissue paper at the slightest hint of confidence and conviction, and thus the fact that national democrats are playing a game of capitulation and weakness is exactly why they're all getting away with it
starburst are like fortune cookies in that sometimes you open a pack and you just know the universe has it out for you today
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
starburst are like fortune cookies in that sometimes you open a pack and you just know the universe has it out for you today
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This Trans Day of Remembrance, please examine your own impulse to annihilate trans women who have made you angry. Trans women live on a precipice and it doesn't take much for people we thought were friends to be calling for our destruction.
November 20, 2023 at 6:23 PM
This Trans Day of Remembrance, please examine your own impulse to annihilate trans women who have made you angry. Trans women live on a precipice and it doesn't take much for people we thought were friends to be calling for our destruction.
apparently as of Monday, I've been hormonally transitioning for long enough that more than half of the time I have spent transitioning has been after my big messy breakup
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
apparently as of Monday, I've been hormonally transitioning for long enough that more than half of the time I have spent transitioning has been after my big messy breakup
making an Instagram account that just puts the word "Physics." on the screen on top of footage of any random thing anyone ever does
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
making an Instagram account that just puts the word "Physics." on the screen on top of footage of any random thing anyone ever does
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happy gen ai bubble almost popping day to those who celebrate
August 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
happy gen ai bubble almost popping day to those who celebrate
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sts researchers: :spend decades tracing the way well-intentioned design choices constrained by culture, capital, and the material environment can have negative outcomes in aggregate:
ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires
futurism.com/artificial-i...
ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires
futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
sts researchers: :spend decades tracing the way well-intentioned design choices constrained by culture, capital, and the material environment can have negative outcomes in aggregate:
ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires
futurism.com/artificial-i...
ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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maybe the primitivists were right because i don’t know how to avoid all the companies that are making nakedly fascist turns these days
NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
maybe the primitivists were right because i don’t know how to avoid all the companies that are making nakedly fascist turns these days
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look, I'm sure they meant well, it was just another huge and inexplicable violation of all journalistic principles that favored very identifiable political interests in a very particular direction, this just happens, it's an accident
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
look, I'm sure they meant well, it was just another huge and inexplicable violation of all journalistic principles that favored very identifiable political interests in a very particular direction, this just happens, it's an accident
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every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
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Michael Shannon cooking with gas here:
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Michael Shannon cooking with gas here:
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What is the argument for voting for Democrats for harm reduction if the harm is not fucking reduced
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
What is the argument for voting for Democrats for harm reduction if the harm is not fucking reduced
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"I didn't need him when he was busy ratfucking Mamdani in favor of a rapist endorsed by Trump, Musk, and Miller. And then a week later he guaranteed I lose my healthcare."
And, each person thinking that has literally just come off an *extremely* successful campaign organization.
And, each person thinking that has literally just come off an *extremely* successful campaign organization.
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"I didn't need him when he was busy ratfucking Mamdani in favor of a rapist endorsed by Trump, Musk, and Miller. And then a week later he guaranteed I lose my healthcare."
And, each person thinking that has literally just come off an *extremely* successful campaign organization.
And, each person thinking that has literally just come off an *extremely* successful campaign organization.