Pokemon may be cute but let's not forget that they are, in fact, pocket *monsters*

The thing that really butters my biscuits is THESE PEOPLE EXISTED. WE KNOW HOW IT WENT FOR THEM (poorly) AND YET SO MANY PEOPLE ARE ADAMANT TO LEARN ABSOLUTELY NO LESSONS!!

dame@dame.is · 8h ago

I see people taking great pride in the fact that they don’t use AI for work and don’t have AI experience. Some even thinking it will give them an edge? Imagine 30 years ago declaring: “I’ll be able to do my job without the internet or a computer” before anyone knew how encompassing it would be.

Pundits are insufficiently subject to market forces through the forces of nepotism, patronage, and hate clicks. In this talk, I will explain how to properly clicker train your opinion writers… _yanked off stage_

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6h ago

If I had a terminal illness, my My Make A Wish request would be to sit in on an editorial meeting at this magazine www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

jesus christ i missed out on the shrimp futures

Eris@isolyth.dev · 15h ago

Wait since when was effective altruism on the market. I could've been investing this entire fucking time???? Jesus christ I missed out on the shrimp futures :(

Yeah, it cooked my brain a bit, but I'm happy about that because otherwise I might have stayed a right-wing Evangelical.

aegisiondure 🫍@equalnotequals.com · 20h ago

this isn't very popular to say, but for me personally, it was good that i had unrestricted internet access when i was a minor. i was aware of what i was doing and enjoyed it. i don't look back on it and go "well that was a mistake", i look back on it and wish i could do it for the first time again

Its not a polling issue its a power issue, not electricity, political. They dont want the tax money flooding rural counties and making them independant of the local landed gentry and all of the anti ai folks are helping local autocrats stay in power. This is why Marx said luddites were reactionary.

Sean Brodrick@seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 20h ago

Makes me wonder how bad Republicans’ internal polls are in Texas

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i am here equally for and despite it being a left-leaning site

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · yesterday

Not here because it's a left-leaning site, here because I see this as a renewed vision of the internet.

Ok this rules.

Adam Casto@acasto.bsky.social · 3d ago

The gap between those living in denial and those who use this stuff is just incredible. Some are still talking about counting letters while others are doing stuff like this.

This is it, this is my utopia

em@foremphasis.bsky.social · 2d ago

A developer is just someone who lives their life surrounded by a swarm of agents which are accruing a pile of bespoke software based on their day to day interests and whims. You occasionally sell off chunks of the pile through automated brokers.

i love bluesky because you can be arguing with someone named like “Big Titty Sleestak Girlfriend” and then you look up their domain name and it turns out they have 12 patents from intel

This is extremely stupid. Finding a middle ground with these folks is a Devil's Bargain like trying to beat the GOP on being immigration hawks, except maybe worse because it's more subtle. It's kind of disqualifying for any further movement. I expected better from MR too.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d ago

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

Good lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d 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."

The future is offloading your executive function to a bespoke AI panopticon while also thwarting the generalized panopticon. The I or the Eye, if you will.

cee@cee.wtf · 2d ago

accidentally built the Jira panopticon with claude this morning and i think im not going to show my manager

Revolutionary fervor creates paranoia and then cop mindset is emergent. "The Revolution" would be morally and personally toxic, and things are already a crab bucket. I'll take my chances with the libs over the Anarchist HOA any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact · 3d ago

Whoever did this is still free and likely a popular member of the local leftist community

I shouldn't be surprised that dirtbag leftists have no idea how Chinese man milking factories work, since dirtbag leftists don't work lol

Communists for intellectual property rights has to be one of the funniest recurring archetypes online

You can collapse the dichotomy between civilization and nature if you recognize civilization building as the natural path of human tendencies. Civilization is not the tabula rasa possibilityspace of pure biology, but biology isn't a tabula rasa either, it's a set of contingent relationships.

A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 4d ago

An excellent example of this is @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com 's repeated thesis, which imo really can best be summed up as "liberalism segues neatly into transhumanism, it is the defiance of the old system of zero-sum exchange in favor of a prosperous new order both synthetic and superior."

or to quote Vetinari: "Freedom may be mankind’s natural state, but so is sitting in a tree eating your dinner while it is still wriggling.” We are ideologically primed to look for that which is true in that which is natural, because the Enlightenment needed a replacement for divine law.

Seva@seva.bsky.social · 4d ago

that's the opposite of what I'm saying. Liberalism is unnatural to the reptile brain, which is exactly why it's valuable and worth defending bsky.app/profile/mark...

I can't wait until AI does all the work and we can focus on important problems like establishing the fact that the outgroup is bad and that the ingroup is good.

Theres something deeply antifeminist about saying women are too weak willed to use a particular technology

Madness is ofttimes caused by seeing reality clearly enough that you can no longer exist in the world as socially constructed.

Andy Masley@andymasley.bsky.social · 4d ago

I see a lot of PETA's messaging as pretty bad but also like I feel like I haven't fully internalized the animal situation after 10 years as a vegan because if I had I'd also probably go crazy and just do insane tasteless stuff all the time because oh my god

And look, I'm just going to say it: antisemitism is doing to the US political left (not just leftists/DSA) right now, before our very eyes, what transphobia did to the British political left, and anyone who doesn't see it is choosing not to.

Obviously, wherever else you locate the dick, you attach two thrusting dildos in the "no hands" tool sockets.

max dithered 🌌@sneptech.bsky.social · 5d ago

call me when The Discourse turns back to something interesting, like where one would place the dick on the robot Beelzebub centaur

We really invented language models that are more verbally fluent than most famous scifi ai on spaceships (basically zero to hard to tell in five years) & people's response is to say how boring that is

Maybe you should take your newfound moral clarity that we are glad you have now, and look at your own past behaviors.

It has seen multiple people rightfully denounce this behavior. Where were you when she was nearly freezing to death in the vermont wilderness.