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Raj LB @rajlb.bsky.social · 1h

As much as this appears to have turned into a bunch of people shouting at Jonn for:
1) something he didn't say
2) the reality that freelancers don't write headlines because modern media*

I think this is the bit that most chimed with me.

*consider buying a physical paper/news mag

Text: Well - no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, "self-righteous island". But the idea that's why we went is nonsense. That I've largely stopped posting on a site that's done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did

not.

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Raj LB @rajlb.bsky.social · 2h

Hilariously, my immediate thought was "Protoss v Protoss" because I've now become weirdly into Starcraft, a game I haven't played since I was 11 and never even finished.

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Raj LB @rajlb.bsky.social · 2h

Can I ask what PvP means?

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Raj LB @rajlb.bsky.social · 5h

"Yes I know you're an ST7 but you can't be a gastroenterologist unless you've done a knee aspirate"

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Raj LB @rajlb.bsky.social · 5h

Hilariously, the evidence from Scotland is non-religious marriages are the least likely to end in divorce

humanists.uk/2019/03/10/h...

Humanist marriages least likely to end in divorce, official statistics reveal

Couples married in a humanist ceremony are almost four times less likely to divorce compared with all other types of marriages, according to new official statistics on marriage and divorce data in Sco...

humanists.uk

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Raj LB @rajlb.bsky.social · 6h

Mash up bands:

Arctic Monkees

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 14h

Mash up bands:

Deep Purple Floyd

Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 17h

Mash up bands:

Van Fighters

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Raj LB @rajlb.bsky.social · 6h

I still can't believe Clippy made a come back and now it's installed in everything

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Raj LB @rajlb.bsky.social · 7h

*googles "short sell OpenAI"*
*results are AI so returns a recipe for shortbread and tips on how to sell it*

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 15h

"Sceptics are privately - and some now publicly - asking whether the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be, at least in part, the result of what they call 'financial engineering'. In other words - there are fears these companies are overvalued."

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

www.bbc.com

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Elle @centristmum.bsky.social · 18h

This thread is INCREDIBLE. Don't stop scrolling before you get to Laos.

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 20h

You know what, let's do the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread tonight after all. Usual rules apply - this is all in fun, this isn't about the contestants looks or making fun of them, it's about the costumes and appreciating them (or, you know, making fun of them...)

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Raj LB @rajlb.bsky.social · 10h

You can't see but the bottom half of his body is actual black now.

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Raj LB @rajlb.bsky.social · 18h

Bet he's eating cola bottles right now

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Raj LB @rajlb.bsky.social · 18h

I've always hated the term "rationalist" because I think it underpins the sealion atheist mindset. It leads to "well, I'm rational so I must be right", in this case, regarding empirical facts about Jews.

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Raj LB @rajlb.bsky.social · 19h

Propofol ?mg

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Raj LB @rajlb.bsky.social · 19h

Tanks are vegan

Raj LB @rajlb.bsky.social · 20h

I only played Civ II and when I was quite young. My takeaways were:
- Argos is a city in Greece
- everybody is happy under fundamentalist governments
Maybe good I didn't end up in politics

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