The hippo goes 'Hrugh'
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No profile pic; you just gotta deal with that. He/they enby whatever in the leaf place. Wear a mask to protect yourself against COVID; it's airborne. PS UA SU Pls consider whether it is reasonable to follow 15,000 accounts.
The reason that the Harry Potter apologists won't just read better books is because they're not looking for good stories...if they were, they wouldn't have glommed on to Harry Potter. They're looking for the camaraderie and social phenomenon that Harry Potter was in the 2000s.
Feels like every week I see people going along with something like "Fun new meme haha, without posting PII, share a wikipedia page for something cool that happened on the exact day you were born!!!!"
I can see you.@k-effective.bsky.social · 3w agoreally the best opsec thing you can do is just lie sometimes. a lot of the tricks people use to find other people is aggregating context from a large number of posts to narrow down possibilities. its powerful but completely hopeless against just occasionally throwing bad info into the mix
Want to do your part to push back against eugenics and fascism? Wear an N95
🦀🐌Fake Crab in a Snail Suit@desmigeo.bsky.social · last mo.The MAHA/eugenecist movement of letting people get sick or starve or die to let society get stronger without them isn't just evil, it's 100% wrong. It makes a civilization weaker For every person who dies preventably, many will be harmed in lifelong ways, but still survive and consume resources
Re-upping this from a while ago. This thread did get a fair bit of negative push-back but I stand by it:
Kate Watson@loreandordure.com · 2y agoIn case it helps someone: The phrase “We don’t do / say that here” is immensely useful in managing people who feel emboldened to try to push boundaries and test behaviour norms in your spaces. It’s a bland statement of fact, doesn’t contain an accusation, and can be used by anyone including peers.
"ai psychosis" is better understood as "automated cult dynamics" which is why I've decided to start calling them auto-cults Your cousin who got real into chatgpt and said he transcended physics didn't "get ai psychosis" he joined an auto cult
Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · 5mo agothis is a good look at how what people call "ai psychosis" is more usefully understood as a kind of automated reproduction of cult behavior (endless affirmation like love bombing, maximizing for engagement & isolating from others, mirroring & amplifying delusions, encouraging harmful behavior)
If you are wrestling with existential unease, feeling unsatisfied with your life choices, and worrying that you best days are already behind you, it may mean you are experiencing a midlife crisis; or it may just mean you are experiencing life amidst crises.
I was in one of these recently and it was no big deal. I'm still a closed loop individual of individual sapience. There's definitely no humming of the collective mycelium spirit in the back of my mind. Don't worry about these
Water will find its way through cracks in walls and foundations in such a manner that even the most wondrously designed structure may collapse into pile of rubble. Do not attribute agency to the water; rather, denounce the engineers and the builders and the maintainers who failed in their work.
HappeningNow@happeningnow.news · 2mo agoOpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The… 🔗 https://hnow.live/a/d1289836
I would like to see more companies admit this - being a public company no longer means running a successful, thriving business. It strictly means delivering growth to investors, every single quarter, who do not care at all about the product the company sells or the people who produce it.
Hannah 'Pichy' Stockmann@hpichystockmann.bsky.social · 2mo agoSavage.
It's equal parts weird and pathetic. This time, federal politicians Gary Anandasangaree, the MP for Scarborough—Guildwood—Rouge Park and minister of public safety, and Michael Coteau, who represents Scarborough-Woburn were also on hand for the performance of an announcement. #OnPoli
TheTrillium.ca@thetrillium.bsky.social · 2mo agoFederal and provincial officials delivered prepared remarks at ‘photo op’ with no media
There was a mass disabling event in recent history that could cause long term health issues including but not limited to mobility, recent studies showed that nearly half of those diagnosed with Long Covid have suffered mobility and balance deterioration. I imagine some may need mobility aids.
Nick Barlow@nickbwalking.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn a move that will surprise absolutely no one who's been paying attention, Stock has decided that women with disabilities are suffering from "social contagion"
A new study shows that among people hospitalized with COVID19, other viruses such as EBV, HSV1, and CMV may be reactivated. This effect isn’t limited to those who are immunocompromised, either. So if you’re wondering why I’m still masking indoors in public, have a read.
COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you
Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.
nature.com
being a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.
Jeffrey Epstein models Zuckerberg's Meta glasses. Spoof advertisements featuring the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein wearing Meta’s AI glasses have been installed at bus stops across London in a guerrilla campaign protesting against privacy risks. The activist group Everyone Hates Elon
Spoof Epstein ads go up around London in protest against Meta AI glasses
The activist group Everyone Hates Elon targets smart glasses in a guerrilla campaign over privacy risks and non-consensual recording
thetimes.com
GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.
A personalized vaccine for melanoma cut the risk of cancer returning after five years
If the vaccine is effective in a late-stage trial, it would be “paradigm-shifting,” one expert said.
nbcnews.com
Steve Jobs predicted cities would be designed around this device, which was "as big a deal as the PC." Jeff Bezos called it "one of the most famous and anticipated product introductions of all time." don't let our tech lords fool you into believing they can predict the future.
I included cyberpunk and @doctorow.pluralistic.net's books in my doctoral dissertation (for the shock of some of my law professors) because I didn't believe that everything was going to be fine. And you know what? Everything in them and @greatdismal.bsky.social's books was (unfortunately) on point!
Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 3mo ago“No one gets involved in something like the EFF or becomes a cyberpunk writer because they think everything’s going to be fine,” EFF’s @doctorow.pluralistic.net told @be-giant.bsky.social - remembering how bad people ruined the internet lets us develop tech that liberates rather than oppresses.
Freezing temp take: If people are dissuaded from buying your game because of the way you made it, the answer is not to hide how you made it, but to instead not make it that way.
Field notes from the time I scouted a decommissioned nuclear power plant... This is the control room, and if you look closely, you'll see a dark stripe in the carpet running the perimeter of the room. This was referred to as the "velvet rope," and absolutely NO ONE was allowed -🧵
“Some have pointed to the fact that the Montreal shooter quoted Karl Marx to suggest he was a Marxist — but Marx argued in favour of women’s liberation and against gender inequality. “Don’t let anyone fool you: incel ideology is incompatible with progressive politics.”
Right-wing rage-bait got everything wrong about the Montreal shooting
Monday’s shooting in Montreal points to a problem that Canada’s right wing doesn’t want to talk about: the psychopathic hatred of women.
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New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
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