I couldn't schedule labwork / blood draws this morning and it took some time to realize this was why.
The AWS outage made it impossible to pay for parking outside the courthouse this morning.
Amazon should not have that kind of influence.
Amazon should not have that kind of influence.
October 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I couldn't schedule labwork / blood draws this morning and it took some time to realize this was why.
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The AWS outage made it impossible to pay for parking outside the courthouse this morning.
Amazon should not have that kind of influence.
Amazon should not have that kind of influence.
October 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The AWS outage made it impossible to pay for parking outside the courthouse this morning.
Amazon should not have that kind of influence.
Amazon should not have that kind of influence.
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If you were at TwitchCon and experienced or witnessed harassment, especially from IRL streamers, I'd like to speak with you for a story.
Please signal boost.
Please signal boost.
October 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
If you were at TwitchCon and experienced or witnessed harassment, especially from IRL streamers, I'd like to speak with you for a story.
Please signal boost.
Please signal boost.
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Yelling at the canary is basically never a wise strategy.
October 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Yelling at the canary is basically never a wise strategy.
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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
I have a modicum of respect for "prompt engineering" as a tool use skill. Very little for LLMs as tools to be clear but learning how to get accurate answers to technical problems out of Google wasn't dissimilar to other research skills. You can't go in with nothing and expect useful results
You don't go to school/college/university to be told stuff. You go to be taught the state of the field, how to tell good info from bad, how to evaluate input, etc etc etc. That is thinking. Without education there is just input with no thought. That is precisely how we got here. And here sucks.
October 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I have a modicum of respect for "prompt engineering" as a tool use skill. Very little for LLMs as tools to be clear but learning how to get accurate answers to technical problems out of Google wasn't dissimilar to other research skills. You can't go in with nothing and expect useful results
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a lot of people want there to be Knowledge That Makes You Good and unfortunately that is not a thing that exists
May 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
a lot of people want there to be Knowledge That Makes You Good and unfortunately that is not a thing that exists
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(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture
October 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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real lesson in bag fumbling! bluesky only hit any kind of mainstream success because they happened to benefit from musk's shitty behavior and there was already an early adopter base of ex-twitter people on here encouraging their friends to come over. most startups never get that lucky!
October 6, 2025 at 4:40 AM
real lesson in bag fumbling! bluesky only hit any kind of mainstream success because they happened to benefit from musk's shitty behavior and there was already an early adopter base of ex-twitter people on here encouraging their friends to come over. most startups never get that lucky!
This is what got me. I do a pretty good job of curating away most of the day to day drama and keeping a good mix of content. I still get plenty of doom and politics but usually only receive drama second or thirdhand. The current set of whackamole bans and discourse is close to first order.
Why would you remove it and Streisand Effect yourself like this? Baffling decisionmaking here.
October 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is what got me. I do a pretty good job of curating away most of the day to day drama and keeping a good mix of content. I still get plenty of doom and politics but usually only receive drama second or thirdhand. The current set of whackamole bans and discourse is close to first order.
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/20 In closing, this is the result that the Right, the Federalist Society, the Heritage Foundation, and their crew have successfully fought for: a system where the federal government can deliberately violate your rights and there is no effective remedy - meaning you don’t really have the right.
September 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
/20 In closing, this is the result that the Right, the Federalist Society, the Heritage Foundation, and their crew have successfully fought for: a system where the federal government can deliberately violate your rights and there is no effective remedy - meaning you don’t really have the right.
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Just a reminder, for no particular reason, that @lataco.bsky.social does amazing journalism:
DAILY MEMO: Rapid Responders Foil ICE Raid Again at The Same Car Wash Targeted a Third Time This Week
@eltragon.bsky.social
@eltragon.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Just a reminder, for no particular reason, that @lataco.bsky.social does amazing journalism:
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The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
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here for no particular reason is a short story i wrote a while ago about a young man who is radicalized into violence by a public figure he admires and eventually kills www.otherstrangeness.com/2024/09/30/s...
Stilts
I thought that everything would change when I got the surgery.
www.otherstrangeness.com
September 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
here for no particular reason is a short story i wrote a while ago about a young man who is radicalized into violence by a public figure he admires and eventually kills www.otherstrangeness.com/2024/09/30/s...
Said goodbye to Gray this morning. He was a good kitty, stubborn to the end. 21 years for an ex feral is a good long life.
September 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Said goodbye to Gray this morning. He was a good kitty, stubborn to the end. 21 years for an ex feral is a good long life.
There's a really interesting field of study I'd like to read more about that concerns the human tendency to anthropomorphize, whether it's pets or things or game NPCs or chatbots. Everyone's got a line below which 'that is clearly not a sentient agent.'
What's going on at Wired
Model welfare is an emerging field of research that seeks to determine whether AI is conscious and, if so, how humanity should respond. www.wired.com/story/model-...
September 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
There's a really interesting field of study I'd like to read more about that concerns the human tendency to anthropomorphize, whether it's pets or things or game NPCs or chatbots. Everyone's got a line below which 'that is clearly not a sentient agent.'
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Day 2 of the @barnesandnoble.com pre-order sale! Only one day left, you better hurry. Also if anyone good at Photoshop could tell me what button I'm hitting that keeps putting these unrelated background images in there, I'd appreciate it.
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/i-will-kil...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/i-will-kil...
September 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Day 2 of the @barnesandnoble.com pre-order sale! Only one day left, you better hurry. Also if anyone good at Photoshop could tell me what button I'm hitting that keeps putting these unrelated background images in there, I'd appreciate it.
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/i-will-kil...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/i-will-kil...
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We've been told for decades that all the sloppy, slobbering violence against women that's so lovingly described in countless death metal songs is "just fantasy"—well, fellas, Castrator wants you to know that us girls can dream, too. salvo.ghost.io/castrator-sh...
Castrator Sharpen Their Knives
The brutal feminist death metallers return with a killer new guitarist, a blood-splattered new album, and plenty of new bones to pick.
salvo.ghost.io
September 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We've been told for decades that all the sloppy, slobbering violence against women that's so lovingly described in countless death metal songs is "just fantasy"—well, fellas, Castrator wants you to know that us girls can dream, too. salvo.ghost.io/castrator-sh...
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If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
August 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
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It really needs to be understood that there's medical and scientific consensus on this, as well as trans people's own knowledge and experience on the subject, which is just as if not more important, as we are the sole stakeholders in our own healthcare.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Utah study on trans youth care extremely inconvenient for politicians who ordered it
The state's ban on gender-affirming pediatric care "cannot be justified" by science, a two-year review concluded.
www.motherjones.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
It really needs to be understood that there's medical and scientific consensus on this, as well as trans people's own knowledge and experience on the subject, which is just as if not more important, as we are the sole stakeholders in our own healthcare.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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File your claim today if you haven’t already!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
File your claim today if you haven’t already!
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I cannot donate because I am on PrEP but if you have friends who are eligible, tell them.
minneapolis/metro area:
if it is possible for you to donate blood today mn recently declared a shortage. you can find out if you’re eligible and where to go from the link below, if there are better resources please correct me
www.mbc.org
if it is possible for you to donate blood today mn recently declared a shortage. you can find out if you’re eligible and where to go from the link below, if there are better resources please correct me
www.mbc.org
Home Page
Donate blood, Help save lives. MBC is your community blood supplier throughout Minnesota and in northwestern Wisconsin. Find a donation center near you.
www.mbc.org
August 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I cannot donate because I am on PrEP but if you have friends who are eligible, tell them.
This is lost in the conversation. Californians had a lot to be proud of in a nonpartisan commission giving genuine representation. Flawed sure but it really felt like an aspirational model and nothing about a nationally aimed grab feels representative of where we want to be headed.
Yeah, there is a reason why we as a state voted for an independent redraw commission to be part of state charter almost 20 years ago to avoid power grabs like this. Disappointed so many people are falling for this without looking at the proposed map.
August 26, 2025 at 3:31 AM
This is lost in the conversation. Californians had a lot to be proud of in a nonpartisan commission giving genuine representation. Flawed sure but it really felt like an aspirational model and nothing about a nationally aimed grab feels representative of where we want to be headed.
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literally every time I talk to friends
March 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
literally every time I talk to friends