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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 12h

There is no mention of that, that would be a dumb point compared to millions of real protestors, I genuinely think she thought it was real, and there are literally people in the comments saying they didn’t realize it was AI until they saw the comments

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 21h

I mean, the whole thing proves a leftist point: more people are against fascism than for it, and yet Democrats keep fumbling elections by saying “Well we can’t not have the fascists or say mean things about them.”

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 21h

I’m T-Rexy Gross

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

my hot take is today is about showing maybe millions of people how it’s fun to say fuck the government

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 1d

You’re not a serious person if you believe that, but this site will be dead in a year, so, whatever and also bye

Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 1d

We are literally in a thread about someone whose work constitutes medical misinformation, a sub-thread of which is about fed accounts that are trolling people with/whose stated goals are fascist abuses, and no they do not

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 1d

Bluesky: where promoting genocide, medical misinformation, and Nazi propaganda is fine, just don’t screenshot post around a block or else

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 1d

I mean. Surgeons are better now vs. in the 90s, insurance is much more likely to cover it (at least mostly), and people being normal to you is much less fucking stressful.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 1d

Anywho our whole Nazi government just logged onto this site after her saying she wants that on here, after months of her saying she wants that in interviews. Where’s the mystery

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a bad policy, he’s promoting the things *on this platform, which actively hurts a core group of the people who made this platform popular*, and it’s incredibly obviously not a death threat

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 2d

Peaky Blinders meme: No fighting with regime-run accounts. No fucking fighting with regime-run accounts!

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway, block, ignore, talk football.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

The reason they're coming after this place is because they can't control the people on it and it drives them nuts.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 2d

I…one is meth directly and the one with fewer side effects is meth via a series of roundabouts. There’s no functional difference other than longer and less pronounced versus NOW

Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 2d

He’s the fucking governor not their dad

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 2d

Hey so he’s going to say state cops doing this is bad, right? Because otherwise it’s just agreeing with authoritarianism, a thing that is very obvious

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 2d

I do not understand why anyone tries this with adults first. As a prodrug, Vyvanse broadly has way fewer side effects for most people. It starts to feel like the other two options get prescribed so people can feel like something is happening immediately

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 3d

I hate lotteries and think they should be illegal

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 4d

Hey remember “Corporations are people, my friend”
?????maybe?????that belief resulted in some consequences?????????????????????

Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 4d

It literally steals the work of an incredible number of sex workers who will not be paid, at all.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 5d

we’ve gone so far past “sex workers are the canaries in the coal mine” re: internet freedom, to an internet that’s run off and robbed from all the sex workers in order to replace them with planet-destroying simulations of sex workers

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 5d

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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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 5d

No

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 5d

There are few things more briefly, gloriously satisfying than going to look at who said an extremely stupid thing, then getting to say “I have genuinely always disliked her”

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