gleebix
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gleebix.bsky.social
somewhere, deep in the olympic national forest is a hidden cache of approximately 20,000 hush puppies

i know this because i helped sasquatch hide them
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alice22222.bsky.social
that insulation means their concerns are not ours. their largest concerns are social. People viewing them unfavorably. people being mean to them. people saying they do not deserve their immense wealth. or, worst of all, getting kicked out of the litany of inner circles that keep them wealthy.
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alice22222.bsky.social
having interacted with a lot of wealthy people, I think I can shed some light on this.
When you feel you are more important, you feel your problems and concerns are more important. When I ask people to call their reps, rich people are the ones most likely to say "I need to protect my mental health"
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alice22222.bsky.social
they are "just another person" when they don't want to use their immense privilege. And they are above everyone else's problems and concerns when asked to help out.
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thedaxsymbiont.bsky.social
The amount of money you can make pretending to teach people to become published authors is significantly larger than the money you can make being a published author.
rachelfeder.bsky.social
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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cheryllynneaton.bsky.social
"Hello, music industry? It's comics. We need to talk."
trestiffany.bsky.social
This is inherently unserious and completely shameless
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mtsw.bsky.social
Tom Bombadil is a key character to understanding Lord of the Rings and the fact that most adaptations leave him out shows that most adapters don't really get the source material
rachelfeder.bsky.social
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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johannestevans.bsky.social
I love how many cats and dogs are like. If you really loved me you'd fully grab me by my face and muzzle and sort of shake it around, or physically wobble my whole body with your hands. And then you do that and they're like :) yeah!!!!!!!! :)
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marisakabas.bsky.social
maybe this will help some realize that you don’t need access to cover the government effectively. in fact, it’s actually better.
gleebix.bsky.social
a lot of smug, entitled creeps that think this way will utter their conversational bait with such a nasty, shit-eating grin
alicebennett.bsky.social
I first encountered this kind of thinking in union organising where some people believed that there ought to be a “form of words” they could use to force their boss to do the right thing (spoiler, this does not work)
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alicebennett.bsky.social
I first encountered this kind of thinking in union organising where some people believed that there ought to be a “form of words” they could use to force their boss to do the right thing (spoiler, this does not work)
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alicebennett.bsky.social
one thing LLMs have revealed is that the belief that there is a magical incantation that will give you what you want is not just confined to pick-up artists and freemen on the land
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.
A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

Style
Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.
 
#academicsky"
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pookleblinky.bsky.social
Kevin Bacon did a movie called Cop Car where two kids steal a cop car owned by him, a crooked cop, and they go on an adventure with it while he chases them.

Excellent movie, the spiritual successor to White Rapids. He is in his element when he's trying to kill kids in the wilderness.
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patrickclaybon.bsky.social
Some people look at grifters with skepticism...some spot one and see themselves.
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gregpak.net
you cannot "abuse" your rights.

civil rights either are protected and real or they are not.
djbyrnes1.bsky.social
Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.
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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street. 

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore. 

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new 
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
A fun fact is that you cannot search for recipes in Google anymore. All of the results will be slop. Same template for every recipe, random photo of a woman (always a woman!), dodgy instructions.
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imnotahrhitter.bsky.social
One of my favorite little details in DS9 is that Ben Sisko's Dad runs a restaurant, in a world full of replicators, in which no one has to work for money to survive. Why? Because that is what he wants to do. It's simple, but it is one of the most optimistic things about Star Trek.
brendelbored.bsky.social
I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it
gleebix.bsky.social
hertz lost so much money when they tried to run a fleet of rental teslas and then lost more selling them off
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
but in TV, I think this happens in part because long-term shows start to bring in writers who have watched the show too much themselves - this is one of the many factors that creates Flanderization.
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edzitron.com
Yeah it's that simple: OpenAI needs to build 3GW of data center capacity, which will cost over $100bn, and they need to do so in around a year. All three of these deals are based on unreleased chips too. Where the hell is the press on this?
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horseknuckler.bsky.social
Eventually somebody has to actually get paid with these endless IOUs circulating, right? All these companies are being paid in fake scrip, but like, the rest of the world deals in real money, not Altman Farts. When does this stop?
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edzitron.com
the more I read about the promises OpenAI has made, the more disgusted I am. They've promised to deploy 10GW of Broadcom chips *by the end of 2029*, a chip that has yet to tape out, in data centers yet to be planned or funded or the power acquired. We are in a black hole of ethics and good sense.
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cheryllynneaton.bsky.social
Shout out to the photographer though. Your subversiveness has been noted.
brainnotonyet.bsky.social
Time magazine doing Nazi propaganda and using its language

This is very very specific language they only had one parallel and it’s originally in German.
TIME
HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER
ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS
by MUHAMMAD BIN ABDULKARIM AL-ISSA
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faineg.bsky.social
mysterious isn't it
amagire.bsky.social
get the impression that the answer to "if 'AI' can never flip burgers, sew a t-shirt, pick strawberries or wipe an old person's ass, does that mean that is the critical work that defines humanity and everyone who has that kind of job deserves to be compensated extremely well?" is "also, somehow: no"
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dburbach.bsky.social
There is no way this doesn't also imply that citizens are required to carry papers. If I get stopped while out for a walk or sitting on my porch, they'll take my word for it? What proof do I have I'm a citizen? None.

Other than my skin color of course, which is what underlies all this.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.
royalpratt.bsky.social
NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...