Becca
@beccastevens.bsky.social
Front end dev | unapologetic fat lady | ADHD | Flyover Country, USA | TERFs and transphobes not welcome
LLM based AI is essentially a mirror of human creative output. It’s using math to regurgitate text and images created by humans in a form that is plausibly in answer to the prompt.
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
LLM based AI is essentially a mirror of human creative output. It’s using math to regurgitate text and images created by humans in a form that is plausibly in answer to the prompt.
Yes, this. Also, the way you prevent most non-white-collar crime is providing a robust social safety net. People who have enough food and secure shelter and access to healthcare are not usually desperate enough to steal or harm others.
I think if housing was free, there would be a lot less domestic violence and abuse
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Yes, this. Also, the way you prevent most non-white-collar crime is providing a robust social safety net. People who have enough food and secure shelter and access to healthcare are not usually desperate enough to steal or harm others.
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After an economic crash you always see headlines like What Was Everyone Thinking? What do you mean everyone, most of us are waving our arms and screaming every day, it's a handful of insanely rich assholes who aren't listening
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
After an economic crash you always see headlines like What Was Everyone Thinking? What do you mean everyone, most of us are waving our arms and screaming every day, it's a handful of insanely rich assholes who aren't listening
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Wielding power over the powerless is the mark of the bully. Wielding strength against the weak is cowardice. Real strength is when you have such power, but choose to use it in defence of the vulnerable instead. That is the mark of the true warrior.
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Wielding power over the powerless is the mark of the bully. Wielding strength against the weak is cowardice. Real strength is when you have such power, but choose to use it in defence of the vulnerable instead. That is the mark of the true warrior.
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This is a wild misunderstanding of what cities are like and who lives and works in them. Unless you work in commercial real estate, remote work isn't destroying your city.
if you cant go in to the office 3 days a week then you really can't complain when cities are hollowed out. cities are places where ppl work and network. getting rid of that makes cities useless
And it's usually something like "but that's not what the literal DNC does!" as if I don't know, as someone who has worked on Dem campaigns, sometimes in conjunction with the DNC what they do. So I'm going to be very specific here: this is the DNC being shitty: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This is a wild misunderstanding of what cities are like and who lives and works in them. Unless you work in commercial real estate, remote work isn't destroying your city.
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If people are moving out of your city because they can work elsewhere more cheaply, your problem is affordability, not remote work.
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
If people are moving out of your city because they can work elsewhere more cheaply, your problem is affordability, not remote work.
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RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
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This is I think an underrated truth: being intelligent is I think primarily a matter of habit. Do you actually listen and try and take on board what you've heard or read before responding? Do you go 'okay, is that true?' about your own thoughts and prejudices? These are learnt, not innate.
and ultimately I think if you’re constantly saying stupid stuff then it just makes you stupid.
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This is I think an underrated truth: being intelligent is I think primarily a matter of habit. Do you actually listen and try and take on board what you've heard or read before responding? Do you go 'okay, is that true?' about your own thoughts and prejudices? These are learnt, not innate.
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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100% true. Some of the best critics of AI are computer scientists or engineers with a holistic intellect: people who truly understand the tech and therefore its limits — eg @cloudquistador.bsky.social. It’s not a matter of tech experts versus intellectuals. The AI cultists do not understand tech!
Many modern technologists and computer scientists are very cogent systems thinker because any sufficiently advanced technology *is people*, all technical systems are socio-technical. The capital T Tech dipshits talking about “alpha” are mainly cosplaying finance people, regardless of their training
This is absolutely the case. Tech Guys of previous generations, to the extent that that category can be read back into the 19th and 20th centuries, were shockingly well-read by modern standards
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
100% true. Some of the best critics of AI are computer scientists or engineers with a holistic intellect: people who truly understand the tech and therefore its limits — eg @cloudquistador.bsky.social. It’s not a matter of tech experts versus intellectuals. The AI cultists do not understand tech!
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Regarding the transgender women in sports “issue” here’s why it’s about transphobia and not fairness🧵
There are two schools of thought on this:
1. Men are in women’s sports. This is a problem.
2. Transgender women do not seem to be disproportionately outcompeting cisgender women. No problem.
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There are two schools of thought on this:
1. Men are in women’s sports. This is a problem.
2. Transgender women do not seem to be disproportionately outcompeting cisgender women. No problem.
1/
November 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Regarding the transgender women in sports “issue” here’s why it’s about transphobia and not fairness🧵
There are two schools of thought on this:
1. Men are in women’s sports. This is a problem.
2. Transgender women do not seem to be disproportionately outcompeting cisgender women. No problem.
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There are two schools of thought on this:
1. Men are in women’s sports. This is a problem.
2. Transgender women do not seem to be disproportionately outcompeting cisgender women. No problem.
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every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation
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So if a newspaper writes negatively about suspending Sarah Kendzior and Link, if a couple journalists get on this and ask you for statements, you'll finally talk to us about those wrongful bans and what your secret policy is?
We usually do that in response to media requests once they hit that threshold. I’ll try not to weigh in here, since that’s still details of an individual case. An interesting topic for a separate write up though, without discussing case specifics.
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
So if a newspaper writes negatively about suspending Sarah Kendzior and Link, if a couple journalists get on this and ask you for statements, you'll finally talk to us about those wrongful bans and what your secret policy is?
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Journalist friends, you know what to do.
Sarah Kendzior was suspended, she doesn’t know why, and the head of T&S said he won’t confirm whether or not the suspension was intentional unless media requests hit a threshold
Sarah Kendzior was suspended, she doesn’t know why, and the head of T&S said he won’t confirm whether or not the suspension was intentional unless media requests hit a threshold
We usually do that in response to media requests once they hit that threshold. I’ll try not to weigh in here, since that’s still details of an individual case. An interesting topic for a separate write up though, without discussing case specifics.
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Journalist friends, you know what to do.
Sarah Kendzior was suspended, she doesn’t know why, and the head of T&S said he won’t confirm whether or not the suspension was intentional unless media requests hit a threshold
Sarah Kendzior was suspended, she doesn’t know why, and the head of T&S said he won’t confirm whether or not the suspension was intentional unless media requests hit a threshold
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Why won’t you tell Sarah why she has been suspended?
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Why won’t you tell Sarah why she has been suspended?
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I want to uplift the women who were girls who were raped by Epstein & Maxwell & Trump & ex-Prince Andrew & abandoned by everyone who's been scrambling lately to say that they didn't know of course they didn't know but they did know & some of them knew because they'd done it too.
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I want to uplift the women who were girls who were raped by Epstein & Maxwell & Trump & ex-Prince Andrew & abandoned by everyone who's been scrambling lately to say that they didn't know of course they didn't know but they did know & some of them knew because they'd done it too.
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Anyone who's ever been through it knows that financially vulnerable people are tossing the same twenty bucks back and forth.
There's never been a fucking Robin Hood.
Just other people who lived it and know.
There's never been a fucking Robin Hood.
Just other people who lived it and know.
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Anyone who's ever been through it knows that financially vulnerable people are tossing the same twenty bucks back and forth.
There's never been a fucking Robin Hood.
Just other people who lived it and know.
There's never been a fucking Robin Hood.
Just other people who lived it and know.
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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So many of us probably have intuited this but it bears repeating that the these fools really believe they can overwrite history and facts and gaslight us into believing their version of events that we lived through and witnessed ourselves while insisting on the infallibility of this tech
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
So many of us probably have intuited this but it bears repeating that the these fools really believe they can overwrite history and facts and gaslight us into believing their version of events that we lived through and witnessed ourselves while insisting on the infallibility of this tech
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August 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
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The whole 'don't eat things with lots of ingredients or ingredients you can't pronounce' is the stupidest advice & makes me immediately skeptical of whoever is offering it. Probably more people in the U.S. can pronounce "butter" and "arsenic" than can pronounce "quinoa," so then what?
“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target. n.pr/4qMrN7P
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The whole 'don't eat things with lots of ingredients or ingredients you can't pronounce' is the stupidest advice & makes me immediately skeptical of whoever is offering it. Probably more people in the U.S. can pronounce "butter" and "arsenic" than can pronounce "quinoa," so then what?
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how the fuck can they have evidence a thing is bad for us if they don't even know what the thing is? How the fuck could you isolate and test for it if you don't know what it is? that's not "evidence", it's "hunches".
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
how the fuck can they have evidence a thing is bad for us if they don't even know what the thing is? How the fuck could you isolate and test for it if you don't know what it is? that's not "evidence", it's "hunches".
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.