who knew the most important thing we got taught in school for making it in the 21st century was musical chairs in kindergarten

One reason I don’t like genAI is I think people have gotten way too comfortable passively consuming huge quantities of media and I think genAI is another big stride toward anti-intellectualism and abdicating thinking

Did I just see a video of a CEO being smoked on Bluesky

this is an excellent thread. even if a precise account does not yet exist of the ultimate motivations for this kind of social manipulation, it is good to see people catching on to it. it's not simply a matter of identifying the actors involved, but of building a social immune system to counter them

DuendeonFuego@duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 2y ago

So about ten years ago I found a small network of bots on Reddit dedicated to spreading hate. The thing about it is that these weren't even responding to political topics - they were just responding to random keywords with insults and hate. The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵

black mirror? this is straight out of hideo kojima's imagination

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)@theserfstv.bsky.social · 2y ago

I've said it before, there's nothing Black Mirror could write that's anywhere near to the real horrors that Israel is enacting upon Palestinians daily

threads basically feels like x-lite

2025 white house cabinet meeting

Never has a crime so obscene been so confessed to, so endlessly, so shamelessly, so proudly

no one ever seems to highlight the single best feature of this app, the one that hands down holds this place miles above every alternative: no fucking advertisements, none, zero, not every 3 posts, not every 3000 posts, no brand activity at all!! where else besides wikipedia has that kind of freedom

xcited to be here