We really have to bring back making fun of fascists for being so fucking weird

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 4d ago

Not only do these dudes not understand science, they are embarrassingly insecure and cringey

My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”

AI is a very useful tool

It is wild to have a dude running public health who learned everything he knows about health care from The Secret Garden and Heidi

Cath RN, PhD@headdoc35.bsky.social · last wk.

They call it “wellness farms”. We call it concentration camps.

FROM KINDERGARTEN Trans people are obviously the primary targets of times like this, but if it wasn't already obvious that the goal is also to abolish girls' and women's sports, this gives up the whole game. Nobody is going to subject their KINDERGARTENER to a PELVIC EXAM so she can play soccer

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · last wk.

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

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It’s bad enough that it tries to flatter you by telling you you’re asking such good and insightful questions. But desperately egging you on to try to make you spend more tokens is just gross. Like if every time you ran a mass spectrometer it tried to upsell you on some more advanced analysis.

BEING PAID,—what will compare with it?

13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

Headlines that contain the word "amid"

Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 2w ago

What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?

Very important to identify this as the propaganda that it is. Claude isn't so advanced it can't be contained, Anthropic just can't be bothered to build a real sandbox. These are children blowing up sand castles with bottle rockets and pretending they built a bunker-busting bomb.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2w ago

Then I opened the story. It’s much worse. “[A]ll three were notified of the incident on Monday, Anthropic said.”

They built the torment nexus again. This is literally the premise of Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End.

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.

I always wear a mask on planes, but for this I would take it off to make loud fart noises into my hands

cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · 2w ago

i'm sorry but they would have to send the air marshal after me if I was on one of these flights

Posting Meatball the Cat daily until I can find a loving home for this sweet kitty cat. I will drive him up to three hours from Detroit for the right owner. He's got a long life ahead of him and he needs you!

Brian in Detroit@kanoki.net · 4w ago

Meatball needs a loving, caring home. He is a sweet, gentle boy who needs to be a permanent indoor cat, as he has FiV, which is a very manageable and uncomplicated chronic illness. He can even live with non-FIV cats! I will deliver him personally within a 3 hour drive of Detroit. Please! I love him

Hey, remember when if your operating system couldn’t run the latest version of a piece of software, you could just go on using the one you had installed, and no matter how evil and rapacious the company that made it was, they couldn’t just make your old version stop working? Those were the days.

The quotes and replies to this made me laugh.

James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 3w ago

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

One of the charms of The Fifth Elements (1997) is its commitment to anti-exposition. I've seen it half a dozen times and I still have no idea what or who the many antagonists are, no real sense of the broader political and social context. Shit just happens and it looks cool as hell. Great movie.

this is why I don't load images on my gmail hahaha fuck you motherfuckers

Jeremy Diamond ☕️@dmnd.me · 3w ago

Counterpoint: Read receipts on emails are the devil

I just remembered this is Darcy’s fault.

"why does the UK change leaders so often?" there are diminishing returns wrt how long each vessel can house thatcher's spirit. by the end of the century we'll be getting through 1000 prime ministers a day

None of these people are okay, all these social strictures are ridiculous, and somehow I care about all this VERY MUCH. Goddammit, Jane Austen.

I cannot overstate how much I hate when people are dicks about babies crying in public (especially airplanes). Do you think the parent is having a good time right now?? Do you think they are not aware of the situation??? Are you going to negotiate with a literal infant????

I have no idea what's going on but I'm just happy everyone is having such a good time

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3w ago

Ted Lasso and Justin Bieber is the collab we never dreamed of but somehow needed

In a stunning moment of erotic fervour, calculator demands BOOBS.

geoffrey@parsnip.bsky.social · last yr.

no it wasn’t and no it didn’t

Heck yeah my first perfect game! @hankgreen.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social

WHITE JEWS, I DO NOT KNOW WHY YOU THINK THAT COLLUSION WITH WHITE SUPREMACY WILL KEEP YOU SAFE IT WILL NOT IT IS DISGUSTING YOU DESECRATE OUR ANCESTORS AND YOU WILL FIND OUT THE HARD WAY HOW THIS WILL END FOR YOU SOLIDARITY IS, AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN, THE ONLY WAY HOME FOR ALL OF US.

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

I am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times

I think a lot about how 21st century fascism and the male grievance politics it channels is about men feeling like they don't get away with rape enough already.

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social · 4w ago

Casually threatening mass rapes