shermanfan.bsky.social
Cultural Heritage Data Guy in DC, bar regular, proud public union member. Never construe me speaking on behalf of anything other than myself.
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Helping friend take over local D party ward then bar :)
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Thank you for saying this it’s not isolated to gen ai chatbots
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Weird thing where leftists love writing books like Family Abolition which talks about how women and moms lead the vanguard of truly abolitionist movements but then seem unable to apply that to the wine mom extended universe and that’s kinda weird
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Also as I constantly say regulating AI to solve the problems people talk about on bluesky is basically impossible - your art is already in the models / you can download a model and run it yourself / taking safeguards off models is very doable etc
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there were a lot of loyalists!
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Yea and this dynamic is exactly why hes never been a fascist and instead in hearts of iron 4 modding parlance - a paternal autocrat
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I have yet to receive an Email about the parade route / specs etc which is extremely out of the normal for something happening 2 days and change from now
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what I learned from studying african modern politics is the opinions of grunts are irrelevant its when your NCO class has a class of high officers with who they agree with
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Seems like that dumb strain of theory that says if you are apart of a system at all you must love every part of it and be a rabid supporter.
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I’d be fine with military parades if it was ye olde impractical outfits and bands and marching and not like hardware on display
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Yea at least order like couple dozen pizzas
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I’ve used grok a fair bit just to see how it shakes up and I found it pretty good actually
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Also if someone is incapable of parsing that they’re either bad faith cherry picking or totally ignorant and both are unreachable anyway
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I don’t think about what I’m eating for dinner all day lunch isn’t a distraction I just pick up the dinner thought when I need to
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Also this is easy people aren’t dumb they keep track of staggering amounts of info all the time - the NPC meme of “new thing” is true in that people do compartmentalize but that’s not not thinking actually
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erratic elon
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yea its narrow windows insofar as the feeling of real threat exists - once people aren't in crisis they have time to start doing their normal schtick of psychological defenses
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Did the same at work on Friday
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Small dumb thing it’s wild not just how normalized President spouting off has become in the last decade but also that he’s awake at 2:41am on his phone
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That’s what’s really different from say George Floyd protests - *generally* it seems police depts want to stay out of fed issues and also the protests aren’t about state or local police at all
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Also it’s Pride day in D C and I am grumpy
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yea famously career lawyers who aren't insane do not want to be on cases they know are a total farce - especially criminal ones
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Wait till she finds out about George w bush’s embracing of Islam prior to 9/11!
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Read a good book about confederate foreign policy (they were really bad at it) and put a lot of their effort into Cuba
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And I read the dupont thing as more a local issue than a “we gotta stick it to those queers” a NPS
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Okay everybody say go metro yay metro we love da metro
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calling it now - I'm a CR into FY 26 truther