The Bride (aka Rain) I ❤️ the Monster
@simplyrain.bsky.social
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simplyrain.bsky.social
Standard Disclaimer: This is my PERSONAL account.

I dump my life here--work, home, brain, politics--good, bad, & ugly.

I am happy to have you here, but I get it if I too much!
simplyrain.bsky.social
I love when new people follow me after I do a chat & then they are like, "WOAH! I didn't sign-up for THIS much Rain!" 🤣🤣🤣
simplyrain.bsky.social
LOL!

I am serious. I get aked EVERYTHING in the school bathroom.

I can not WAIT until we have staff bathrooms.
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petebuttigieg.bsky.social
The Trump-Vance Administration getting rid of biodefense personnel is, to state the blindingly obvious, a very bad choice.
simplyrain.bsky.social
Like an adult staff member in your building???

I would have LOST it.
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vortexegg.com
OpenAI pivoting to sex bots for adults (notably they have to specify "for adults" because the industry do be like that) is good evidence for my thesis that AI and other synthetic/virtual world technologies are ultimately part of a class of somnambulant social control technologies
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lorifontanes.bsky.social
since the whole purpose seems to be about data scraping so the tech oligarchy can have a sufficient dataset for the post-democratic dystopia well then yeah
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noethematt.bsky.social
The US President is bragging about murdering people in international waters, with zero due process, zero legal authoriy.

You cannot be okay with this.
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Definitely nothing can go wrong with OpenAI having a full record of your sexy chatbot interactions.
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electproject.bsky.social
It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave
atrupar.com
Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."
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resist.bot
🖋️ “Reinstate the Special Education Professionals NOW” hit 250 signers!

💬 Text SIGN PAWZEU to 50409
Reinstate the Special Education Professionals NOW
Text SIGN PAWZEU to 50409 — Congress must act immediately to reinstate the Department of Education’s special education staff, nearly all of whom were laid off last week. These professionals are the backbone of the Office for Special Education Programs, which oversees $15 billion in federal support for 7.5 million students with disabilities. Their abrupt dismissal cripples the federal government’s ability to uphold the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and safeguard the rights of infants, children, and youth with disabilities. This isn’t just a bureaucratic reshuffle—it’s a moral failure. Targeting programs for children with disabilities is cruel and callous, especially from a regime that once claimed to be a champion for those same families. Parents struggling to ensure their children receive a fair education now face a federal government that has abandoned them. It’s clear these cuts are part of a political strategy to punish the public during the shutdown and shift blame elsewhere. But Americans see through it. The people responsible for this decision are millionaires and billionaires who have no idea what these families endure. Meanwhile, the Trump regime found room for a $20 billion loan to Argentina while dismantling protections for children with disabilities. Congress must intervene now: restore every special education position, fund these offices fully, and ensure no administration can again use a shutdown to gut civil rights obligations. Disabled children and their families deserve better than this cruelty disguised as cost-cutting.
resist.bot
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monsieurmiami11.bsky.social
We read this poem in class today. The puppy ad got a number of them distracted and asked if we could have a class dog.
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mattburgess1.bsky.social
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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numb.comfortab.ly
"Upload your government-issued ID to verify your age. It's, like, totally safe."
mattburgess1.bsky.social
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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markhurst.bsky.social
Big Tech is targeting vulnerable communities for its data centers. Residents incur a huge cost in water & power and airborne toxic chemicals. Town officials sign NDAs so citizens have no awareness of the threat.

New from me: data centers and their effects.
buttondown.com/creativegood...
Don't let the data center come to town
In southwest Memphis sits the Colossus, a giant AI slop factory owned by Elon Musk. Gas-powered turbines at the facility foul the air with “nitrogen oxides...
buttondown.com
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freadomfighters.bsky.social
Do this ⬇️
txfreedomread.bsky.social
Contact the NBISD Board, Superintendent and the elected Texas leaders responsible for SB 13 to tell them to restore library access in NBISD now.

Customize your email as you see fit.

actionbutton.nationbuilder.com/share/SPK-QE...
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simplyrain.bsky.social
Thanks.

Many many people have to make much harder decisions than this.