bbirdiman.bsky.social
the restless reckless performance poet.
food should be free. housing free.
healthcare vision dental mental.
education internet transport.
let my people be free.
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i'm glad my bluesky bubble
continues to remind me to
closely examine the language that
is being deployed against me.
it might just slide by otherwise.
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the "average" is misleading because it has
become clear it is a bimodal distribution.
we know plenty of high-profile people
who've had 5-7 infections.
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few americans know about
the belt and road initiative, a global development plan by china investing in
150+ countries and international organizations.
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right. another straight-up lie.
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i don't know what your game is,
but we've known masks work
for over 100 years now, going back
to the flu epidemic of 1918,
so your account is suspect.
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the ad speaks for itself.
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stop burning money;
it hastens climate change.
shred it instead.
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right. there are a whole lot of people
who, while technically claiming to be
"on our side", will buckle when it gets
to be even slightly inconvenient.
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close, but not quite there yet.
they've decided to eliminate the person
(a "useless eater"), and are now asking
how to do what that person used to do.
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i am pretty sure that fight is
precisely what they have in mind.
they've been preparing for it,
and are sufficiently ready,
so are now instigating it.
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you'd think pundits would
be more thoughtful since all
those mass media news people
were fired after supporting the
"weapons of mass destruction" lie.
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not even calling b.s. on a.i. per se.
seems to me it could have some good uses,
and alt-text generation would be a fine one.
but the hype's gone wild.
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oh, and by the way, it doesn't have to be a.i.
it could be an old hard-coded computer app.
i was just calling b.s. challenge
on the a.i. hype machine.
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cool. i can dig that impulse.
there's a whole lotta stuff
i don't want a.i. doing.
but nobody will let me veto that.
so it might as well save me work.
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i want the system to do it, automatically,
not leave it to every individual user.
and if the a.i. can't do that simple task,
we need to know it can't.
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please include instructions on
how to use the basket to kill a nazi.
thank you.
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right. but it was a straight-up lie.
they did not say
"we do not know if it's dangerous,
so we will assume it is not."
they said "it's not dangerous."
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surely that super-hyped a.i. available
nowadays can do alt-text automatically,
and free us from that task.
let's make these monkeys prove their worth.
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the "precautionary principle" is that
-- if you don't know if it's dangerous --
you treat it as if it might be.
but, as you point out, we always knew.
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i'd likely pack a big picnic basket, and
invite friends to spend a lovely day in the park.
but...
criminals immune from prosecution would...
do crime!
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so yes, it is absolutely unprecedented
having a winter surge smaller than
the summer surge preceding it.
but this plateau was not fully unpredictable.
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and the big surge this past summer
burned itself out to a relatively low autumn,
and a late thanksgiving made it a late surge.
with this long plateau.
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i had hoped that the people here on bluesky
would be smarter than at the old place,
but nope. mike honey came here too, though.
so yes, it's variants.
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the only "end" trump cares to bring to
the war russia is waging against ukraine
are the three letters that are nestled
inside of the word "surrender".
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i don't expect you to read all the comments.
but i pulled out a few that received just
a few more likes than you, so you can
gauge your quality level.
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that's some ratio! 382-40. wow.
a number of the comments have
hundreds of likes themselves,
which is doubly embarrassing.
your take is just very dumb.
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i see. (what's left if you take the iron out of ironic.)
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trump was infamous for saying
"if we don't test, we won't have any cases."
so what exactly do you think his dictate will be
when it comes to bird flu?
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they're using panama as a black site?
(and is it still "a black site" if you announce it,
and the major broadcast media covers it?
i may be confused.)
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not only that, but the statistics are twisted.
where can i get a dozen eggs for $4.95?
where? i'm paying $7.99!
show me the data they used. all of it.
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greta thunberg is assuredly not "a little girl",
as you put it. she is young, and maybe not so tall,
but she is a strong force for good in this world.
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there's also a hoarse in the hospital.
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in a while, crocodile!
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it's easy to figure out.
try to disentangle yourself.
you will find it's nearly impossible.
do you have "find my phone" enabled?
then they've got you.
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i thought that california was gonna
have to send our national guard troops
to defend canada against a u.s. invasion,
but it looks like you're covered.
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you're missing what they're not telling you.
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ha! good one!
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if you live in that world,
the quicksand you're trapped in
is deeper than software.
you need to call out for help
and look for a rope or a branch.
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my friends are immigrants.
my friends are black, and brown.
my friends are queer and gay and lesbian.
if you treat my friends bad, i care.
do you dig?
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ok. but i never got on thefacebook since
i recognized it was a surveillance operation
from its very beginning. i have feel great
about that all along.
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i was following you.
and it did bother me.
so i unfollowed you.
but bluesky now shows you
in my "discover" tab,
so i guess i have to block you.
sorry!
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honestly, i'm not surprised that he's surprised.