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Ok now I'm scared. AI (with sane models) didn't scare me. Quantum computing didn't scare me. The marriage of the two terrifies the living heck outta me!!! blog.google/technology/r...

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Ok now I'm scared. AI (with sane models) didn't scare me. Quantum computing didn't scare me. The marriage of the two terrifies the living heck outta me!!! blog.google/technology/r...

Meet Willow, our state-of-the-...




A new weekend arrived, it is time for the report from my #opensource projects. Changed things: a roguelike game, a static code analyzer, GUI library (all in #Nim) plus restarted work on system cleaner for FreeBSD. More info: www.laeran.pl.eu.org/blog/devblog... Happy weekend, everyone. 😀


It's not just that power users here generate a ton of free content, keeping Bluesky humming. Even despite past disagreements with devs, we have been EVANGELISTS bringing our audiences here and annoying much bigger accounts into doing the same. Growth here has hinged on power user goodwill.

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I cannot imagine what Jesse Singal could possibly bring to this site that would be worth squandering the goodwill of the entire existing power user base

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Experts like @blackamazon.bsky.social have been shouting from the rooftops that dev team needs to stop acting like social media was invented yesterday & LEARN THE LESSONS that two decades of social media have provided. Including... Listen to experts, especially those from vulnerable communities.
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We are not summer babes here, we are a community of people who left Twitter (and the audiences that, for many of us, provided career opportunities and/or income streams) because we were tired of the abuse and the far right propagandists. We are not here to be guinea pigs for libertarians.


I cannot imagine what Jesse Singal could possibly bring to this site that would be worth squandering the goodwill of the entire existing power user base


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I am very nearly done with my "ah fuck tariffs and FEMA gutting" preparation for the Trump admin, next will be data security/privacy stuff and I am dreading it


Remember when Mace faked Antifa vandalism by... spraypainting "pass the PRO Act" on her garage

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For those that think Paxton's theories of out-of-state jurisdiction are something new and limited to abortion... as is so often the case, we see it used first to target trans people. Paxton tried to prosecute Seattle Children's Hospital last year the same way. I broke the filing doc itself.

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Gotta say it’s wild that every time Democrats win an election Republicans form an unbreakable bloc on every issue they prioritize but when Republicans win, Democrats go “oh yeah, mass deport, f the queers, defense of democracy what?” It’s a frustrating feature of American politics.


The U.S. press writes about the "deregulatory agenda" as if real people simply don't exist. Not a fleeting HINT in this article that letting billionaires dismantle labor, consumer, and environmental standards might have some downsides it's so bad it feels satirical

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When they talk about killing FDIC, they are talking about making this disaster a possibility no matter where you put your money

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I have no idea how our family is going to be able to afford vaccination "vacations" to Canada but it's looking like it's something we're going to have to think about planning for, now

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Don't know how true this is, but if it is true, it would be unfortunate. AOC deserves a top spot like Oversight ranking member. She's got a bright political future and platforms like this gives her a chance to further show her leadership chops I hate how these backroom deals go down.

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Let's be clear, they are determined to tear down every public safety net, from vaccines to Medicare to FDIC to social security. They are deadset on creating circumstances where even minor crises are likely to snowball uncontrollably. In ways that could well ruin even the comfortably well-off.

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They want to kill the FDIC and polio vaccinations. These are the most bog standard common sense public goods imaginable, with impacts just exponentially bigger than cost. And they're trying to kill them.



They want to kill the FDIC and polio vaccinations. These are the most bog standard common sense public goods imaginable, with impacts just exponentially bigger than cost. And they're trying to kill them.


The other piece at play here is, we are seeing the fruits of educating a generation and a half by teach-to-test, at the cost of teaching critical thinking skills. Folks have been taught to consume and regurgitate information, but not to evaluate it thoughtfully for factuality.

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This would be bad news at any moment, but it is proving nearly or actually fatal to democracy right now, as false information proliferates across digital platforms that are 1) replacing legacy media and 2) are indifferent or actively hostile to fact.