Redshift
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🍊🏴☠️ Crew for life baby.
Ex-twit. Singer, keytarist, plant nerd etc.
30+, Any pronouns
Ex-twit. Singer, keytarist, plant nerd etc.
30+, Any pronouns
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Feels fair to say that the current moment is all about refusing to accept what it means to be an adult and actively choosing the opposite.
December 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Feels fair to say that the current moment is all about refusing to accept what it means to be an adult and actively choosing the opposite.
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"Well, wouldn't you rather have a president who does crime in the open and not in the shadows?"
I'd actually prefer to have a president who didn't commit crimes at all, actually. Is that too hard to ask?
I'd actually prefer to have a president who didn't commit crimes at all, actually. Is that too hard to ask?
December 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"Well, wouldn't you rather have a president who does crime in the open and not in the shadows?"
I'd actually prefer to have a president who didn't commit crimes at all, actually. Is that too hard to ask?
I'd actually prefer to have a president who didn't commit crimes at all, actually. Is that too hard to ask?
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Outgoing New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is challenging Rep. Dan Goldman in the Democratic primary. Lander enters the race with an endorsements Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani; Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren; NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams; and the Working Families Party.
Brad Lander announces run for Congress in New York's 10th District
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander says he is running for Congress in New York's 10th District, challenging incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman.
www.cbsnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Outgoing New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is challenging Rep. Dan Goldman in the Democratic primary. Lander enters the race with an endorsements Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani; Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren; NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams; and the Working Families Party.
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People are going to die because of the pending insurance premium hikes. I know the terrain of discourse is inconsistent and goes through a tumble cycle every 24 hours, but I really think we need to hone in on this reality and drive it home for people.
December 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
People are going to die because of the pending insurance premium hikes. I know the terrain of discourse is inconsistent and goes through a tumble cycle every 24 hours, but I really think we need to hone in on this reality and drive it home for people.
Yeah bc the people who think letting “AI” make a little movie clip is a good idea also think that letting “AI” think for them in the writing department is a good idea.
It’s slop all the way down.
It’s slop all the way down.
while i think the backlash was against ai use in this ad, i strongly believe that what makes it bad is the writing. it's a terrible idea. mocking a season people associate with love, family, joy, celebration, etc. and associating your brand with misery, misantrophy, resentment. the intent is off.
McDonald's has taken down a Christmas ad made with AI following online backlash
The company said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI"
The company said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI"
December 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Yeah bc the people who think letting “AI” make a little movie clip is a good idea also think that letting “AI” think for them in the writing department is a good idea.
It’s slop all the way down.
It’s slop all the way down.
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You know in Europe they riot about this kind of thing.
A new investigation has revealed that grocery delivery service Instacart is using a covert, AI-powered dynamic pricing scheme to charge customers different prices for the same items — potentially costing households over $1,000 more a year.
Instacart Reportedly Using Secret AI-Powered Dynamic Pricing to Jack Up Prices
In an experiment, investigators found that the same grocery basket at a Seattle store cost between $114 and $124.
truthout.org
December 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
You know in Europe they riot about this kind of thing.
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NEW: An AI conference was bombarded with complaints about peer reviews sounding AI-generated. A startup jumped in with an outside analysis, estimating that as many 1 in 5 could have been ChatGPT-written. Chaos ensued.
Now the reviews are being reviewed.
www.chronicle.com/article/the-... #ICLR2026
Now the reviews are being reviewed.
www.chronicle.com/article/the-... #ICLR2026
The Conference Where ChatGPT Wrote One in Five Reviews (Maybe)
An AI conference was bombarded with complaints about peer reviews sounding AI-generated. Now the reviews are being reviewed.
www.chronicle.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
NEW: An AI conference was bombarded with complaints about peer reviews sounding AI-generated. A startup jumped in with an outside analysis, estimating that as many 1 in 5 could have been ChatGPT-written. Chaos ensued.
Now the reviews are being reviewed.
www.chronicle.com/article/the-... #ICLR2026
Now the reviews are being reviewed.
www.chronicle.com/article/the-... #ICLR2026
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NEW, from me: One startling stat captures just how badly the year went for the GOP.
Democrats flipped 21% of all GOP-held legislative seats at play.
That's thanks to gains they made in six states this year, and I break it all down in my latest:
Democrats flipped 21% of all GOP-held legislative seats at play.
That's thanks to gains they made in six states this year, and I break it all down in my latest:
In 2025, Democrats Flipped 21 Percent of GOP-Held Legislative Seats - Bolts
At the start of Donald Trump’s first presidency, in 2017, large Democratic victories in New Jersey and Virginia, paired with overperformances in special elections, foreshadowed the blue wave of the......
boltsmag.org
December 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
NEW, from me: One startling stat captures just how badly the year went for the GOP.
Democrats flipped 21% of all GOP-held legislative seats at play.
That's thanks to gains they made in six states this year, and I break it all down in my latest:
Democrats flipped 21% of all GOP-held legislative seats at play.
That's thanks to gains they made in six states this year, and I break it all down in my latest:
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December 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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I agree that we're likely setting ourselves up for a very long process of asbestos-like remediation efforts around "incredibly stupidly and carelessly implemented LLM tools that were rolled out after 2022"
I've noticed that people who use the inevitability argument always make comparisons to email and social media, never to NFTs or DDT.
I think the so-called "AI" stuff is going to be the tech version of asbestos: shoved in everywhere, expensive and time-consuming to remove.
I think the so-called "AI" stuff is going to be the tech version of asbestos: shoved in everywhere, expensive and time-consuming to remove.
December 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I agree that we're likely setting ourselves up for a very long process of asbestos-like remediation efforts around "incredibly stupidly and carelessly implemented LLM tools that were rolled out after 2022"
I really don’t wear makeup almost ever anymore but for folks who do… I keep the Lipslut promo emails bc I like knowing what they’re up to lately, and this is fab
December 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I really don’t wear makeup almost ever anymore but for folks who do… I keep the Lipslut promo emails bc I like knowing what they’re up to lately, and this is fab
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folks we are into “breaking gerrymanders” territory here
we are going to win
we are going to win
This Georgia flip is in a district that the GOP drew to drown Democratic voters in Athens into a neighboring red county, Oconee.
But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.
But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.
December 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
folks we are into “breaking gerrymanders” territory here
we are going to win
we are going to win
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Yeah, and one of the perils that people from cult backgrounds run into is that a cult background tends to leave people vulnerable to similar patterns in other areas without realizing it, and social media algorithms are tailor made to turbocharger large group dynamics
December 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Yeah, and one of the perils that people from cult backgrounds run into is that a cult background tends to leave people vulnerable to similar patterns in other areas without realizing it, and social media algorithms are tailor made to turbocharger large group dynamics
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Me and the fellas beating the toxic masculinity out of each others souls
December 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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I think the coded language most ignored is how the right uses “inefficiency” to mean “things not yet being profit maximized by private equity” rather than “running smoothly with minimal waste”
December 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I think the coded language most ignored is how the right uses “inefficiency” to mean “things not yet being profit maximized by private equity” rather than “running smoothly with minimal waste”
Or, hear me out, instead of persecuting a minority group that is not known for making enough money to afford to own houses, we stop private equity from buying up and hoarding housing to rent out at exorbitant rates.
Immigrants aren’t the problem, capitalists are.
Immigrants aren’t the problem, capitalists are.
Secretary Scott Turner: "We need to continue to deport illegals that are taking houses from the American people"
December 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Or, hear me out, instead of persecuting a minority group that is not known for making enough money to afford to own houses, we stop private equity from buying up and hoarding housing to rent out at exorbitant rates.
Immigrants aren’t the problem, capitalists are.
Immigrants aren’t the problem, capitalists are.
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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What a massive win for moderation and safety. I'm literally not allowed to avoid content I don't want to see until I verify I'm an adult by handing my personal details to social media companies.
Without my mute words, Bsky is nowhere near as usable, frankly.
Without my mute words, Bsky is nowhere near as usable, frankly.
December 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
What a massive win for moderation and safety. I'm literally not allowed to avoid content I don't want to see until I verify I'm an adult by handing my personal details to social media companies.
Without my mute words, Bsky is nowhere near as usable, frankly.
Without my mute words, Bsky is nowhere near as usable, frankly.
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Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud.
Read our full investigation here 👇
Read our full investigation here 👇
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud.
Read our full investigation here 👇
Read our full investigation here 👇
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They want to repeat lies to make them true in people's minds. Every time you hear these lies, remind people that Biden left Donald Trump an economy that The Economist called envy of the world. ZERO% chance of a recession. Donald's regime has dragged it down into a stagflation.
Karoline Leavitt lies with impunity on Fox & Friends: "Don't forget -- a year ago, President Trump inherited the worst inflation crisis in modern American history from the Biden administration."
December 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
They want to repeat lies to make them true in people's minds. Every time you hear these lies, remind people that Biden left Donald Trump an economy that The Economist called envy of the world. ZERO% chance of a recession. Donald's regime has dragged it down into a stagflation.
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Okay, ignoring everything else about this: hyper-realistic police sketches are *worse* than hand-drawn sketches.
When we see a sketch, we intuitively understand it as a rough approximation, and we see similarities. With realistic images, we expect it to look *exactly* the same as the person.
When we see a sketch, we intuitively understand it as a rough approximation, and we see similarities. With realistic images, we expect it to look *exactly* the same as the person.
“…Goodyear’s police department appears to be one of the first to substitute hand-drawn sketches of suspects with lifelike images generated by AI.”
Have you seen this (AI-generated) man? Police swap suspect sketches for AI.
Police in a Phoenix suburb appear to be the first department in the nation to use AI for suspect sketches, a practice that raises concerns among some experts.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Okay, ignoring everything else about this: hyper-realistic police sketches are *worse* than hand-drawn sketches.
When we see a sketch, we intuitively understand it as a rough approximation, and we see similarities. With realistic images, we expect it to look *exactly* the same as the person.
When we see a sketch, we intuitively understand it as a rough approximation, and we see similarities. With realistic images, we expect it to look *exactly* the same as the person.
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The number of parents who I have met that do not understand that their kids are autonomous beings is truly horrifying.
And people wonder why so many adult children of emotionally wretched parents don't want to talk to their folks.
And people wonder why so many adult children of emotionally wretched parents don't want to talk to their folks.
and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you
December 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The number of parents who I have met that do not understand that their kids are autonomous beings is truly horrifying.
And people wonder why so many adult children of emotionally wretched parents don't want to talk to their folks.
And people wonder why so many adult children of emotionally wretched parents don't want to talk to their folks.
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We had 12 of our titles on the list, and it looks like neither we nor our writers/translators are getting anything. 😭 This company has a $350 billion valuation. Blah.
For those of you who think the so-called settlement from Anthropic is good, you should know they stole millions of works, but are only paying for novels. No shorts, non-fiction etc. And if you're a non-US writer, like me, you get nothing even with a US copyright because non-US authors don't count.
December 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We had 12 of our titles on the list, and it looks like neither we nor our writers/translators are getting anything. 😭 This company has a $350 billion valuation. Blah.
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Genuinely unhinged to say “this fascist party being fascist is the reason that I won’t support the opposition to fascism, unless they stop fascism!” Like, no dude, you should OPPOSE FASCISM REGARDLESS, and that isn’t mutually exclusive with criticizing the opposition.
December 9, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Genuinely unhinged to say “this fascist party being fascist is the reason that I won’t support the opposition to fascism, unless they stop fascism!” Like, no dude, you should OPPOSE FASCISM REGARDLESS, and that isn’t mutually exclusive with criticizing the opposition.
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I would like to double down on this by drawing an allusion to Epstein files. You shouldn't care about putting offenders in jail because it advantages your team politically! You should care about putting child sexual abusers in jail, regardless of their status, because it's the right thing to do!
Genuinely unhinged to say “this fascist party being fascist is the reason that I won’t support the opposition to fascism, unless they stop fascism!” Like, no dude, you should OPPOSE FASCISM REGARDLESS, and that isn’t mutually exclusive with criticizing the opposition.
December 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I would like to double down on this by drawing an allusion to Epstein files. You shouldn't care about putting offenders in jail because it advantages your team politically! You should care about putting child sexual abusers in jail, regardless of their status, because it's the right thing to do!