"Captain" "Ruck" "Cohlchez"
@captainruck.bsky.social
Ne, ne travaillez jamais
No, never work, that's what they say
Mais ne, ne, ne, nous n'arretons pas
No, don't let's stop until it's done
https://www.mediamagpies.com/author-archive/?i=30&uname=Captain+Nath
No, never work, that's what they say
Mais ne, ne, ne, nous n'arretons pas
No, don't let's stop until it's done
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I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.
I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
February 18, 2026 at 4:37 PM
I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.
I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
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I am guessing this dumbass is a zionist
February 18, 2026 at 11:16 PM
I am guessing this dumbass is a zionist
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Literally only one use for people who can renounce their humanity and participate in this
ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
February 18, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Literally only one use for people who can renounce their humanity and participate in this
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I'm not totally sure, since I don't remember being mad that often, but the two candidates I can think of are from high school and require a longer explanation:
-Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
-My Best Friend's Wedding
-Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
-My Best Friend's Wedding
fun question: what’s the maddest you’ve ever been leaving a movie theater? not necessarily worst movie you’ve seen, but the one that just pissed you off the most. mine is Batman v Superman
February 18, 2026 at 10:18 PM
I'm not totally sure, since I don't remember being mad that often, but the two candidates I can think of are from high school and require a longer explanation:
-Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
-My Best Friend's Wedding
-Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
-My Best Friend's Wedding
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50 years ago was 1976 lmao
Meanwhile, on threads, which actually is like what people on twitter think bluesky is like, a "teacher, author, poet" speaks...
February 18, 2026 at 10:09 PM
50 years ago was 1976 lmao
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Oh! Funniest ever was me being removed from a private screening of the David Ayer Suicide Squad on the Warners lot because I kept laughing and apparently the producers were in the audience. And I was there on assignment to write about it so my editor was mad at me too
fun question: what’s the maddest you’ve ever been leaving a movie theater? not necessarily worst movie you’ve seen, but the one that just pissed you off the most. mine is Batman v Superman
February 18, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Oh! Funniest ever was me being removed from a private screening of the David Ayer Suicide Squad on the Warners lot because I kept laughing and apparently the producers were in the audience. And I was there on assignment to write about it so my editor was mad at me too
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The first two albums rule, I've been hooked since I heard track one album one all the way back in 1996
Fountains of Wayne only being known as the Stacy's Mom band is such a travesty. Don't get me wrong, it's a hit, but it's also a piece of a larger concept album about suburban and exurban Northeast corridor life and people whose lives have quietly calcified into routines they didn't exactly choose!!
February 18, 2026 at 9:39 PM
The first two albums rule, I've been hooked since I heard track one album one all the way back in 1996
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Maybe a quarter century of insisting the "immense threat of an Iranian bomb" is just around the corner, one that started concurrently with the same insistence about Iraq, is contributing to the lack of public buy-in
February 18, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Maybe a quarter century of insisting the "immense threat of an Iranian bomb" is just around the corner, one that started concurrently with the same insistence about Iraq, is contributing to the lack of public buy-in
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If you want to get rid of some incriminating documents you don't want anyone to see, the best course of action is to hide them on the top floors of the most famous twin towers in the world and hit them with two hijacked passenger planes.
February 18, 2026 at 8:42 PM
If you want to get rid of some incriminating documents you don't want anyone to see, the best course of action is to hide them on the top floors of the most famous twin towers in the world and hit them with two hijacked passenger planes.
True - and since we've seen three straight elections where they roundly rejected the candidate that brought in anti-system voters (and then made sure not to have a primary at all so one couldn't run), I'm not super optimistic!
Donald Trump won in 2016 and 2024 because anti-system voters flocked to him.
Democrats need a strategy for competing with anti-system voters in 2028.
This is, in some ways, a very strong case for nominating someone like AOC over Newsom.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/meet-ameri...
Democrats need a strategy for competing with anti-system voters in 2028.
This is, in some ways, a very strong case for nominating someone like AOC over Newsom.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/meet-ameri...
Meet America’s new swing voter: The anti-system voter. (Or: Why Democrats should think through nominating AOC in 2028)
A new paper finds anti-system sentiment — not left-right ideology — decided the 2016 and 2024 elections
www.gelliottmorris.com
February 18, 2026 at 9:37 PM
True - and since we've seen three straight elections where they roundly rejected the candidate that brought in anti-system voters (and then made sure not to have a primary at all so one couldn't run), I'm not super optimistic!
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🚨NEW: The Israeli Government Installed & Maintained Security System at Epstein Apartment
The Israeli gov't installed security equipment and controlled access to a Manhattan apartment building managed by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to emails recently released by the Dep't of...
The Israeli gov't installed security equipment and controlled access to a Manhattan apartment building managed by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to emails recently released by the Dep't of...
February 18, 2026 at 8:20 PM
🚨NEW: The Israeli Government Installed & Maintained Security System at Epstein Apartment
The Israeli gov't installed security equipment and controlled access to a Manhattan apartment building managed by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to emails recently released by the Dep't of...
The Israeli gov't installed security equipment and controlled access to a Manhattan apartment building managed by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to emails recently released by the Dep't of...
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A young impressionable 82 year old, unused to slick big city words
Billionaire Lex Wexner tells lawmakers he was 'naive' and 'conned' by Epstein
Billionaire Lex Wexner tells lawmakers he was 'naive' and 'conned' by Epstein
Testifying before Congress, the former CEO of Victoria's Secret lingerie brand accused Epstein of stealing "vast sums" of money from his family.
www.bbc.com
February 18, 2026 at 9:09 PM
A young impressionable 82 year old, unused to slick big city words
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If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so
Meanwhile, on threads, which actually is like what people on twitter think bluesky is like, a "teacher, author, poet" speaks...
February 18, 2026 at 9:00 PM
If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so
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this & other comments i've seen about how bluesky needs to "improve its algorithm" suggest a lot of people have grown to like a totally passive social media experience where a computer pushes an endless stream of content tailored to what it thinks they would like while they clap like seals
February 18, 2026 at 7:17 PM
this & other comments i've seen about how bluesky needs to "improve its algorithm" suggest a lot of people have grown to like a totally passive social media experience where a computer pushes an endless stream of content tailored to what it thinks they would like while they clap like seals
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Have any of the recent vintage of "reasonable AI discussion wanters" pondered this one yet?
We have lots of (correct) criticisms of generative AI from a labor perspective. But here's a management one, too: You can and will discipline labor. Human beings can be manipulated through material and psychological incentives. But what if your "workers" are software owned by another capitalist?
the chatgpt reddit is the funniest place on earth and they don't even realize it
February 18, 2026 at 7:19 AM
Have any of the recent vintage of "reasonable AI discussion wanters" pondered this one yet?
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In other words, ACTUAL solutions to the problems we face - instead of the collective hallucination that current AI trends will do anything other than put more power into the hands of those who already hold it.
Sure:
Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.
Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
February 18, 2026 at 11:24 AM
In other words, ACTUAL solutions to the problems we face - instead of the collective hallucination that current AI trends will do anything other than put more power into the hands of those who already hold it.
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Another day, another desperate attempt by the powers that refuse to die to pretend that the left somehow means "everyone but anarchists, communists and bare minimum I'm so serious what do you mean you're a 'progressive' it's 2026 socialists"
February 18, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Another day, another desperate attempt by the powers that refuse to die to pretend that the left somehow means "everyone but anarchists, communists and bare minimum I'm so serious what do you mean you're a 'progressive' it's 2026 socialists"
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The Left Won't Embrace Explicitly and Overtly Fascist Technology That Destroys the Water and the Air and Our Very Minds for the Profit of the Worst Most Fascist People Alive and Other Core Definitions of What It Means to be on the Left
February 18, 2026 at 10:46 AM
The Left Won't Embrace Explicitly and Overtly Fascist Technology That Destroys the Water and the Air and Our Very Minds for the Profit of the Worst Most Fascist People Alive and Other Core Definitions of What It Means to be on the Left
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Any Republican or Democrat who continues to support Palantir, takes money from them, or refuses to hold them accountable is not your friend and should not be supported.
February 18, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Any Republican or Democrat who continues to support Palantir, takes money from them, or refuses to hold them accountable is not your friend and should not be supported.
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It's kinda annoying how solar panels were hung around the neck of the left as impractical pie in the sky treehugger shit *right* up until it started outcompeting every other energy source. Then suddenly, instead of going "hey the left was correct about solar" it's no longer a "left" idea!
February 18, 2026 at 3:54 AM
It's kinda annoying how solar panels were hung around the neck of the left as impractical pie in the sky treehugger shit *right* up until it started outcompeting every other energy source. Then suddenly, instead of going "hey the left was correct about solar" it's no longer a "left" idea!
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the "left" also broadly advocated for open access community owned gigabit fiber networks while the right coddled monopoly access to the detriment of progress and affordability for four decades
February 18, 2026 at 4:11 AM
the "left" also broadly advocated for open access community owned gigabit fiber networks while the right coddled monopoly access to the detriment of progress and affordability for four decades
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