ticewithaj.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

submitted 9 days ago • 558 comments

if i can be y’all’s dad for a second: one of the most important things I’ve learned is that acquiring a skill is literally uncomfortable that awful moment where you feel confused and stupid and embarrassed? it means you’re about to learn something. and it’s mandatory if you want to get better

submitted 10 days ago • 100 comments

Utah, y’all. #NoKings

submitted 13 days ago • 56 comments

I wrote about how NGO's working in abortion access and LGBTQ rights could be cutoff from US tech due to Trump issuing sanctions against them. Liberal government's could also find themselves targeted. This is a wake up call. www.thedissident.news/internationa...

submitted 39 days ago • 5 comments

Good piece from my old colleague Brink Lindsay that underscores a source of frequent annoyance & amusement for me, which is how much of what passes as intellectual work on the right is play acting for an audience that can’t tell it’s reading vapid nonsense. open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

Trump Using Pointless, Shitty Tariffs To Bully Countries Into Coddling Elon Musk’s Starlink By now most sentient people realize Trump's tariffs are a mindlessly descructive gambit that's going to decimate inventory, drive smaller companies out of business, and significantly drive up costs for…

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

I always thought that habitual offender laws and three strikes laws emerged in the 1990s as part of the tough-on-crime era. But then I was looking through old state codes and I saw a three strikes law from 1923. Then I found dozens from around this time, and wondered (naively) what was going on.

submitted 52 days ago • 4 comments

Bleak. nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 51 days ago • 108 comments

I want to live in a world where one woman can go topless in public and another woman can wear a niqab in public and neither of them get any grief for it, and I don't think that's too much to ask.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Minnesota Supreme Court: Breasts 'not inherently sexual,' public exposure not indecent

submitted 53 days ago • 31 comments

When someone asks me whether I believe in God, I ask them back, What do you mean by "God?" They describe their God, & I let them know whether I believe in that.

submitted 53 days ago • 24 comments

#Tariffs #MAGA #Project2025 #BadFaith #Fascism archive.is/JQLvk How Trump could make Americans permanently poorer: The most surprising consequence of Trump’s trade war. ⏬ Bluesky 'bite-sized' article thread (15 min) with extra links 📖🍿🔊

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Wrath keeps overtaking me everytime I think about RFK. Why? I'm a type 1 diabetic. I got it when I was 14. Guess what you need if you're a type 1 diabetic? Insulin. Or you die. But my family believed that it could be cured with herbs & faith healing. I had a near death experience when I was 14. 🧵

submitted 56 days ago • 42 comments

Everyone should read this from Chris Martin: chris-martin.org/2025/the-gan...

submitted 58 days ago • 14 comments

The president is playing videos at his political rallies of people getting their heads shaved at what is effectively a concentration camp. He’s sending people to that camp with no due process, and 9 in 10 have no criminal record. The rallies are eating it up. Forget “can.” It is happening here.

submitted 59 days ago • 27 comments

Thought provoking thread worth reading in full.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

My thoughts on the Take It Down Act as someone who used to handle copyright takedown (and other) requests at Google. 🧵 As many have said, this law will be used as the ultimate weapon for the Trump Admin to censor speech from their political opponents (and more). www.theverge.com/policy/62497...

submitted 60 days ago • 9 comments

This is straight up nazi shit. The nazis published propaganda on Jewish crime. If this were blackcrimeuk or immigrantcrimeuk everyone would see it for the bigoted shit that it is.

submitted 60 days ago • 327 comments

Screaming at these people works. They’re fundamentally wimps, we just have to actually DO the screaming instead of preemptively admitting defeat. I am talking about my fellow Americans, not the Democrats. We actually need to scream, gang, not just complain that Schumer isn’t.

submitted 64 days ago • 45 comments

Yes, the reporter there in the corner from the MyPillow-GiulianiCoin Groyper Uprising Newsletter, what's your question?

submitted 64 days ago • 9 comments

gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

New at The Watch: A Texas attorney gave some free legal advice to an undocumented family. Then two law enforcement officers showed up at his door. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

submitted 66 days ago • 52 comments

When it comes to people with autism, particularly children, RFK Jr wants to make it easier for parents and quack doctors to "experiment" and force dangerous and unproven treatments on them. And he wants to make it harder or outright illegal to counter disinformation that harms this industry.

submitted 67 days ago • 47 comments

i think people are missing the forest for the trees with this one. RFK Jr wants complete centralized knowledge of every American's health in order to exact control on what medications are allowed and in order to fabricate "evidence" for each and all of his nonsense theories.

submitted 67 days ago • 179 comments

Thanks to Radley Balko for emphasizing this. The January 6 people had their day in court, as they should. Stephen Miller is lying, as usual.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments