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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · 3d

it's becoming increasingly clear that all the anti AI people are just idiots or reactionaries reverse polarized into hating it and spewing increasingly incoherent arguments on why it's bad.

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · 11d

pardon, just realized this is a ref to their particular startup

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · 11d

one of the more insane things I've seen, can you specify re: mechanize? do you use this as general term for successionists or is it a unique clique?

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · 13d

this site has the most insane blocking system I have ever seen, and it's still not enough, they want the admins to unperson people for wrongthink on other sites

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · 13d

jay is 100% in the right here btw and the reaction to this is an excellent demonstration of how doomed this site is.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 16d

Are you paying us? Where?

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · 14d

it's insane how proud some people on this site are of... not understanding how LLM's work.

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · 16d

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · 19d

bluesky censoring porn is crazy

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · Sep 16

stancil is 100% correct here, after hearing originally about the groyper thing it took the span of a single minute on the timeline to dismiss it as probably being untrue

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Sep 16

A lot of you really need to sit down and think about how easily you believed a huge, obvious pack of lies about this, in the face of clear evidence to the contrary, just because you heard it repeated a lot and found it ideologically validating. Barely distinguishable from MAGA conspiracy nonsense.

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · Sep 16

the shooter pulled a Dog Day Afternoon I can't believe it

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · Sep 14

game theory is an interesting thing, my question is, when will the libs and left wake up to it and start entrenching?

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · Sep 13

my advice to the libs and leftists on here is honestly to try your best to weaponize this. hammer home, relentlessly, that the right is now cancel culture and policing of people. double and triple down on the false positives like that one journalist. this is their weakest link, unforced error.

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · Sep 13

if they actually remotely succeed in their goals, you are going to see mass radicalization on the left of center in a way that probably has not happened since the 60's. militant radicalization at that.

this is a bad thing.

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · Sep 13

put bluntly, cancel culture and peak woke were the worst excesses of the left. fortunately, they died in 2024. now, after being elected largely on an oppositional platform to cancel culture, they are trying to do it on a scale never before seen.

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · Sep 13

the right is currently attempting to, in one of the stupidest moves I have ever seen, assemble a mass database of leftists and libs who remarked on kirk's death to essentially industrialize cancel culture. I genuinely believe this is the worst, most self defeating thing they've ever done.

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · Sep 13

total schizophreniation

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · Sep 11

i am not a socialist.

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · Sep 10

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · Sep 10

Put bluntly, if you cheer for the death of Charlie Kirk, you are an objectively bad person that is accelerating the coming of the American Years of Lead. I do not think the left would win that.

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · Sep 5

not based on neogaf, but generally yes. there have been quite a few mentions of it tied to FL, and an unusual Halliburton patent for the same

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · Sep 5

"they threw paint at cars and made a general nuisance of themselves" very Just Stop Oil vibes

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · Sep 5

portland is the capital for fake, larping leftist/anarchist 'action' so this bit of non-activism is very fitting

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · Sep 5

there is no "reality" here. if there was, the transparently fake rhetoric about AI datacenters boiling x gallons of water per second would have given way to better arguments. instead, there are acceptable targets, to which anything no matter how absurd can be said in the act of arson.

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · Sep 5

in such an enforced frictionless environment, even milquetoast libs, leftists and the most performative types of people who couldn't hack it on twitter need an outlet. so, anti AI hysteria, sending Will Stancil death threats, and so on. sacrificial strawmen to be burned.

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psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · Sep 5

actual organizing, action, anything effective in the real world does not actually take place here. as such, the site approaches the level of a game, a place both policed with the rigor of a gated community and somehow yet frictionless.

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