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Apparently it’s wrong for people to be on Bluesky because they’re missing the really important conversations on Xitter.

submitted 25 minutes ago • 0 comments

To give you a sense about the ideological drift being caused by Twitter, here's Noah Smith talking in 2021 about the account that would become "i/o" and "avidseries." And then here's a screenshot from today, where Noah Smith has constant friendly interactions with him.

submitted 3 hours ago • 21 comments

Blows my mind that just a year after the brutally violent crackdowns on campus protests at Columbia and dozens of other universities, there are people out here today trying to say that protests must be done in the "correct way" to avoid being demonized by the press

submitted 8 hours ago • 42 comments

The whole Mexican flags thing is a re-run of Norman Tebbit’s cricket test in the UK. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket... White tenth generation US liberals pushing this line should fuck off. You can love your new country without being forced at lib-point to forget you came from somewhere else.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

This is beautiful and nostalgic. Nostalgic for the time when of course someone like KJK with her “men, come shoot trans women in our toilets” would be banned as a pro-violence lunatic.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

So many AI boosters don’t understand how the tech works. So many of them don’t have the skills to discover this sort of behaviour. They somehow don’t notice that LLMs pander. Like they’re in need of flattery.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

The thing is, they won’t make the leap to realising their model of humanity is wrong. Their model doesn’t comprehend talented people who could make a ton more money at Google choosing public service. And that this is a foundational element of modern industrial /post industrial societies.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

This is why I follow Stancil. He’s a mix of interestingly wrong and right. Here, he’s right. He’s very right. (He provokes people who need someone to be always right.)

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

I’m not saying accidentally pissing in their food would be a good thing to do, but if God isn’t going to turn up and enforce divine justice, someone has to.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Enjoying the wiki article on “I am the Walrus”. I’m sure cooler kids knew all this long ago.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

If not for the Continent I wouldn’t even see this piece of news

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Taking several steps back from the toilets / SC brouhaha... One thing it's clear that anti-trans campaigners didn't factor in was how the manifestation of their segregationist ideology will look to people who haven't drunk the koolaid. They'd got so high on their own supply... 1/

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

Analysis by @garymarcus.bsky.social of this paper, which does seem to show serious challenges to the idea that genAI in the form of of LLMs and LRMS can solve complex problems: garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-knockout...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

So I'm trans and on a female ward in Wes Streeting's NHS and I'm being disallowed from going to the toilet any way other than via bed pan which means that I have the option of direct nursing assistance with my lower body and risk being shifted to a...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Right now, Dems are hiding in their offices, scrolling their phones fearfully, wondering "how are voters going to feel about the National Guard being deployed?" The right, meanwhile, is vigorously *attempting to shape* how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda.

submitted 1 day ago • 804 comments