Mikaela / Soundwave

@mikaelamlp.bsky.social

Fan of music/soundtracks, MLP, movies/TV, retro games. she/they. 35. 🇨🇦 Pfp by suniscathorsis Banner by @crescend.bsky.social Nsfw alt: @mikaela-ad.bsky.social

We do not live in a democracy when affordable housing and better transit takes forever to build due to NIMBYism, but AI data centers get fast-tracked without public consultation because corporations line the governments pockets.

A common rebuttal here is "well bluesky has to expand to survive" and even if that wasn't corpospeak nonsense, why do you have to expand to the right? We already have a healthy population of temporarily embarassed centrists, how bout you start catering to abolitionists and progressive activists?

I actually don't even think this is a "leftist" platform. Its just a vaguely normal non-MAGA website with actual rules in place, which by 2026 standards makes it an ultra-woke bubble or whatever the fuck. You don't need to Balance it out, its already balanced!

At some point as a CEO you have to realize who actually butters your toast. I know this is not the audience you wanted but its the audience you HAVE. Chasing an entirely different audience will just ensure that you lose everything.

Conservative platforms: THIS IS THE ANTI-WOKE PLATFORM, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT FUCK OFF LIBTARD "Liberal" platforms: W-well we would like everyone to be here, we don't want to be an echo chamber. Y-you can even use some slurs if you want, we promise....

The Verge@theverge.com · 6d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

So many of us, even with our disagreements, are stuck for the rest of our lives under the giant thumb of a system that wasn't built for us and that would watch us die in agony and crippling debt and not even blink. Everyone except the people pulling the strings of that power deserves much better.

I feel the same way about this as I did when I found out Dragoneer passed due largely to the American healthcare system failing him. It's hard to put into words. I don't wish even people I consider problematic the kind of unending horror that is having your body fail you in a way you can't afford.

ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social · last wk.

Popular animator hotdiggedydemon has announced that he plans to travel to Switzerland to undergo physician-assisted euthanasia, citing his deteriorating health, fibromyalgia, chronic uncontrollable drooling, and financial difficulties as the reasons behind his decision.

It's one thing to have an AI do boilerplate or track down a bug or something. It's another to just yell "build me an app" or "design me a UI" at it. When the results are clearly beyond your own skillset, it is evident to all who see it. You have not created an asset, you've created a burden.

The idea that productivity as measured by raw output, regardless of quality, is the only metric that matters is the kind of quasi-fashy shit that middle managers think. Just because you can spew shit from a butt faster than I can doesn't mean that in the cold light of day, it wasn't shit all along.

I keep hearing this refrain from the AI bros: "At least I'm creating something!" and...first of all, you do realize that people who don't use AI still create things (myself included), right? Second...you are creating slop, unsupervised garbage, asbestos that fills the walls of the Internet forever.

This is a pretty blatant example of a common trick used by news organizations to push a bigoted agenda while claiming to be just a neutral reporter. Go out and find people who have the view you want to push, and report about them. A key method of propaganda is choosing which facts to report on.

So CNN is just openly suggesting that the Mayor of New York City should not be allowed to attend 9/11 memorial just because he is Muslim. "Some 9/11 families say" and it's one guy who doesn't even live in the city anymore and an online poll with no verification of the status of those polled.