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this & other comments i've seen about how bluesky needs to "improve its algorithm" suggest a lot of people have grown to like a totally passive social media experience where a computer pushes an endless stream of content tailored to what it thinks they would like while they clap like seals
February 18, 2026 at 7:17 PM
this & other comments i've seen about how bluesky needs to "improve its algorithm" suggest a lot of people have grown to like a totally passive social media experience where a computer pushes an endless stream of content tailored to what it thinks they would like while they clap like seals
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ICYMI French fascist Quentin Deranque has met with Charlie Kirk in Hell.
February 18, 2026 at 6:55 PM
ICYMI French fascist Quentin Deranque has met with Charlie Kirk in Hell.
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Well done to antifascist comrades in France for showing a fascist that fascism is extremely bad for your health. It really is!
February 18, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Well done to antifascist comrades in France for showing a fascist that fascism is extremely bad for your health. It really is!
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I will take any opportunity to post this again
February 18, 2026 at 4:54 PM
I will take any opportunity to post this again
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At risk of sounding like a lib - it really is surreal that a line like this isn't front page news.
Ted Lieu: “Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children … of Donald Trump threatening to kill children. So I encourage the press to go look at these allegations.”
February 18, 2026 at 6:52 PM
At risk of sounding like a lib - it really is surreal that a line like this isn't front page news.
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Muppet Bladerunner where Deckard is implied to be a Muppet too
February 18, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Muppet Bladerunner where Deckard is implied to be a Muppet too
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I'm sure they're right. Why would anyone vote for a political party that has no political identity?
Labour insiders fear ‘annihilation’ in Lancashire local elections after U-turn
County has highest number of reinstated elections following decision not to delay them for 30 English councils
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2026 at 6:33 PM
I'm sure they're right. Why would anyone vote for a political party that has no political identity?
Reposted by Alan Woke 2
Reposted by Alan Woke 2
"why are you against progress" I yell confidently as my sloppily-implemented algorithms prematurely murder your grandma
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
arstechnica.com
February 18, 2026 at 5:19 PM
"why are you against progress" I yell confidently as my sloppily-implemented algorithms prematurely murder your grandma
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The thing that is especially frustrating about all of this is that none of it’s new; it’s the same bullshit I wrote about over a decade (?!?) ago with different slang
www.doctornerdlove.com/new-impossib...
www.doctornerdlove.com/new-impossib...
February 17, 2026 at 11:52 PM
The thing that is especially frustrating about all of this is that none of it’s new; it’s the same bullshit I wrote about over a decade (?!?) ago with different slang
www.doctornerdlove.com/new-impossib...
www.doctornerdlove.com/new-impossib...
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The “left has not been willing to engage seriously with AI” argument is so lazy because like... I did, and I'm sure a bunch of other left-leaning people did. But, it was really obvious even 2 years ago that it's a shitty piece of tech. That's why I hate it.
I work mostly in non-profit database management, something AI should aid gracefully, and I genuinely gave LLM AI’s a shot in the first few months of all the hype, and it… can’t do anything. It’s also wrong about the historical topic I studied the most. But AI shills still love to tell me I’m naive…
February 18, 2026 at 4:57 PM
The “left has not been willing to engage seriously with AI” argument is so lazy because like... I did, and I'm sure a bunch of other left-leaning people did. But, it was really obvious even 2 years ago that it's a shitty piece of tech. That's why I hate it.
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it's often nothing more than an aesthetic, too, a way of setting yourself apart from others by engaging "seriously" with e.g. fascist ideologies. it's supposedly very high-minded but it's actually incredibly shallow. but at other times it's a way *consciously* of mainstreaming those ideologies.
There’s a certain type of discourse poison that has captured people’s minds wherein the only valid “argument” is one that strives to see the “logic” from all sides of said argument.
And hell nah, we need to re-learn that some things are simply not up for debate. We need not suffer fools.
And hell nah, we need to re-learn that some things are simply not up for debate. We need not suffer fools.
February 18, 2026 at 3:32 PM
it's often nothing more than an aesthetic, too, a way of setting yourself apart from others by engaging "seriously" with e.g. fascist ideologies. it's supposedly very high-minded but it's actually incredibly shallow. but at other times it's a way *consciously* of mainstreaming those ideologies.
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As a Leftist, this is technology I am pretty excited about!
I think more billionaires should keep trying!
I think more billionaires should keep trying!
February 18, 2026 at 3:29 PM
As a Leftist, this is technology I am pretty excited about!
I think more billionaires should keep trying!
I think more billionaires should keep trying!
Reposted by Alan Woke 2
Reposted by Alan Woke 2
Reposted by Alan Woke 2
Reposted by Alan Woke 2
people on reddit keep posting them getting into arguments with chatgpt 5.2 about chatgpt 4o and it just keeps telling them they're unstable and to get a therapist
![Willing_Piccolo1174 1d
5.2 is dangerous
[Analysis]
ChatGPT 5.2 >
Different models can sound different — some a little more concise, some a little more chatty, some more structured. But none of them have personality in the human sense. The warmth you feel is mostly about wording style, pacing, and how closely the phrasing matches your nervous system in that moment.
Right now what's happening isn't really about
5.2 versus 40.
You're dysregulated.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:awzzrtrcrvpnxi3ph2sbhxwv/bafkreie3egwajjf757u2423cxuylmtnqua25vsgnsqg5vyb5w652ssg2ri@jpeg)
February 18, 2026 at 5:42 PM
people on reddit keep posting them getting into arguments with chatgpt 5.2 about chatgpt 4o and it just keeps telling them they're unstable and to get a therapist
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I kinda love how ham-handed every attempt to adjust the overall personally of a LLM chatbots are. Too obsequious? Now it’s an angry offputting asshole. Too woke? Now it’s mechahitler. Not nice enough to Elon Musk? Now it’ll tell you Elon is the best piss drinker in the entire world
February 18, 2026 at 6:14 PM
I kinda love how ham-handed every attempt to adjust the overall personally of a LLM chatbots are. Too obsequious? Now it’s an angry offputting asshole. Too woke? Now it’s mechahitler. Not nice enough to Elon Musk? Now it’ll tell you Elon is the best piss drinker in the entire world
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X is absolutely cooking the brains of the entire political class that remains on there. The ones who think they're immune are probably the most affected.
February 18, 2026 at 5:46 PM
X is absolutely cooking the brains of the entire political class that remains on there. The ones who think they're immune are probably the most affected.
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Help! It’s Fucking February, and I Still Have “Ghost Town” by the Specials Stuck in My Head From Halloween
thehardtimes.net/blog/help-it...
thehardtimes.net/blog/help-it...
Help! It’s Fucking February, and I Still Have “Ghost Town” by the Specials Stuck in My Head From Halloween
Please, someone, anyone — help me. I’ve had the worst earworm of all time, and I’m starting to think that my life is never going to be normal again. I’ve had “Ghost Town” by The Specials stuck in my…
thehardtimes.net
February 18, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Help! It’s Fucking February, and I Still Have “Ghost Town” by the Specials Stuck in My Head From Halloween
thehardtimes.net/blog/help-it...
thehardtimes.net/blog/help-it...
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This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Renee Good memorial site in south Minneapolis doused in gasoline
Damage was minimal but police are investigating.
bit.ly
February 18, 2026 at 5:19 PM
This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
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Well, that’s certainly saying the quiet part out loud, isn’t it.
February 18, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Well, that’s certainly saying the quiet part out loud, isn’t it.
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found a god-tier panel in a history of hyrule promo zine
February 18, 2026 at 7:38 AM
found a god-tier panel in a history of hyrule promo zine
Reposted by Alan Woke 2
Reposted by Alan Woke 2
It's incredible how it was revealed that the anti-trans push over the past decade was concocted in no small part by a literal PEDOPHILE CONSPIRACY and the reaction of transphobic lawmakers, journalists, academics has been a shrug and a "well, we gotta
carry out the orders from pedophile island"
carry out the orders from pedophile island"
February 18, 2026 at 1:02 PM
It's incredible how it was revealed that the anti-trans push over the past decade was concocted in no small part by a literal PEDOPHILE CONSPIRACY and the reaction of transphobic lawmakers, journalists, academics has been a shrug and a "well, we gotta
carry out the orders from pedophile island"
carry out the orders from pedophile island"