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davepermen @davepermen.net · Dec 16

Harm is so normalized, being against it, offends.

To each other.

To animals.

To the planet.

To one selves.

It's so normal, people are offended if you're against it.

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Torsten Menge @tmenge.bsky.social · 2h

Zur Dokumentation; deutsche Intellektuelle und die Verharmlosung und Rechtfertigung von Völkermord.
(mit "ins Gespräch kommen" ist Blocken gemeint).

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Torsten Menge @tmenge.bsky.social · 1d

Man möchte meinen, man sollte Allianzen mit einem Volk unterstützen, das seit Jahrzehnten vertrieben, in einem Apartheidsystem entrechtet, und nun seit zwei Jahren abgeschlachtet wird. Und mit all denen, die dagegen aktiv Widerstand leisten. Aber was weiß ich schon?

bsky.app/profile/leon...

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Torsten Menge @tmenge.bsky.social · 1d

Was jedenfalls nicht in Vergessenheit geraten wird: Wie sich deutsche, vermeintlich liberale oder gar linke Intellektuelle so ohne jedes Zögern daran beteiligt haben, einen Völkermord zu verharmlosen und zu rechtfertigen.
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Mike | Kero Kero Cowboy OUT NOW! 🐸🤠 @metagamemike.bsky.social · 1d

Frog Con 2025 has begun, and so has the CHARITY GAMES BUNDLE benefitting the ASA! Donate at the tadpole tier or higher (starting at $20) & receive all these great froggy games, including Kero Kero Cowboy! 🐸 🤠

Donate here to help our amphibian friends! frogcon.frogcult.org/pages/donate

Frog Con 2025’s charity games bundle includes Kero Kero Cowboy, Frogmageddon, Froggo’s Adventure Verdant Venture, Find My Frogs, Knights & Knewts, and Around Town.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 15h

These people got rich in ways that avoided taking history or literature or any other arts courses, could not handle the internet, and are now just plum out of their minds

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 20h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 16h

It's amazing how politely askinf people to mask as thousands of people per day were dying of a virus completed decimated the societal acceptance of empathy.

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · 16h

"Most moral army", "surgical precision", "targeted operations", "reducing the number of casualties"

samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 1d

This is what is left of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

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davepermen @davepermen.net · 18h

Aber die Spaltmasse!!!11+!+!+ (und die 3-Ecke!!!) (ist ja Füllbar, hast ja die Masse, wenns hart auf hart kommt)

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davepermen @davepermen.net · 21h

Unterste Schublade von dir..

davepermen @davepermen.net · 22h

And the messaging presented? "we're not like the other guys" and "we add fake sound cause that matters".

Climate ofc doesn't matter. And actual performance neither.

Lol 🤷‍♀️

Tim Stevens @timstevens.bsky.social · 22h

If more EVs launched with messaging like this, instead of endless pandering about saving the environment or obliterating your internal organs with ever-faster acceleration times, I feel like the American EV market would be in a much better place today.

open.substack.com/pub/timsteve...

Ferrari launches its Elettrica with one of the best EV marketing analogies of all time

Walking the golden path between simile and spin, there is greatness.

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ShouraHashemi @shourahashemi.bsky.social · 2d

Der palästinensische Botschafter in Österreich bringt die Wurzel des sog. „Nahostkonflikts“, die Besatzung und das (fehlende) Recht auf Selbstbestimmung einem, sagen wir, nicht ganz so informierten Publikum näher.

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davepermen @davepermen.net · 22h

Nenn eins mit Kapitalismus. Gibts auch nicht.

davepermen @davepermen.net · 22h

Mensch bist du widerlich.

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Sebastian Lague @sebastianlague.bsky.social · 1d

My latest coding adventure — attempting to write a grid-based fluid solver and simulate some simple smoke!

youtu.be/Q78wvrQ9xsU?...

Coding Adventure: Simulating Smoke

YouTube video by Sebastian Lague

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 1d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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davepermen @davepermen.net · 1d

Gewaltandrohung gabs immer als Antwort.

Und das Verachten war eher so 'muss man halt, gehört sich so'. Dahinter war der gleiche Rechtsextremismus immer aktiv und vertreten.

Sonst wären wir nicht hier.

Das einzige, was weg ist, ist die Illusion, dass alles gut sei.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Very funny considering this was about six months ago

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Apr 29

Under attack from Nate Silver, "the man who is always right"

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d

people in Portland are taking down ICE with what looks like a party from Chrono Trigger

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davepermen @davepermen.net · 1d

If its ai? Never. Not laughed once as it's just pure depressing. There's no entertainment there. It's just someone wanting your click by fooling you.

davepermen @davepermen.net · 1d

And the reality of that takes way the reason to even watch and enjoy stuff in the first place.

davepermen @davepermen.net · 1d

Funny is never without the execution. The bears and other animals on trampolines where funny cause they seemed real.

Joke videos don't pretend to be real. They show their effort, though.

Those have neither. No reality. No effort.

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davepermen @davepermen.net · 1d

Besides all the listed points of reason, one other thing: it loses the reason to be fun.

Videos are fun cause they're real. Or, because someone put in effort for the joke.

If they're ai, they kill their own reason. And our mood with it.

Atm the dog falling into holes is viral f.e.

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