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The Deadline Is Monday Texas voter registration closes Monday, Oct 5. Miss it, you sit out November. Texas is the hardest state in America to vote in, and that's no accident. It's 150 years of laws built to keep the list short. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...

How Texas Turned Voter Registration Into A Political Weapon

150 years of making it hard on purpose. Check your registration before Monday.

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we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 2d ago

i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE

normal product liability law is pretty foreign to consumer internet companies… …but, this line of talk from Altman may sink OpenAI overall because it is the kind of evidence needed to indict the corporation criminally for manslaughter in the suicide and shootings cases…

They are lost in this "always darkest before the dawn", "can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs", "no pain no gain" bullshit. Bad things happen when egomaniacs like Altman never stop to consider "just because you can, doesn't mean you should".

Fuck Sam Altman and all these psychos. Sanction their companies. If he talks like this, it sure as hell means that the software produced by OpenAI is essentially destructive. We need guardrails more than anytime in history.

Well, so far there are no benefits to AI. It's slop and scams all the way down. We've already got all the "bad things happening." But we don't have any of the "benefits" techbros keep promising The 3 big AI companies are "worth" more than ALL tech corps to IPO since 1990. Tell me it's not a scam.

“The day after I lost $1,800 on basketball in one night … an email popped into my inbox. ‘Welcome to the DraftKings VIP Showcase,’ the subject line read. I couldn’t believe it. My night of loss chasing was being rewarded.”

I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.

Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and…

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