Fritz Fressulf
@fressulf.bsky.social
I have no idea what I'm doing here or anywhere.
I sometimes draw, I sometimes photograph, I sometimes practice magick, I sometimes suffer my cat's wrath
he/him/his
I neither use nor support AI/NFT/Crypto
I sometimes draw, I sometimes photograph, I sometimes practice magick, I sometimes suffer my cat's wrath
he/him/his
I neither use nor support AI/NFT/Crypto
At least I managed to find some clearance pants for costume purposes today, which was nice. I want to dress up for Summer Isle burn next month but I've gotten a little bigger since the last time I got to wear costumes, so. Need to try on my old tunic again too, see if I can let it out or sew anew
May 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
At least I managed to find some clearance pants for costume purposes today, which was nice. I want to dress up for Summer Isle burn next month but I've gotten a little bigger since the last time I got to wear costumes, so. Need to try on my old tunic again too, see if I can let it out or sew anew
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All of which is to say that an AI chatbot's explanations of its own behavior are no more reliable than its description of the outside world, and that they're unreliable for exactly the same reasons. IT DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING AND DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO KNOW ANYTHING.
May 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
All of which is to say that an AI chatbot's explanations of its own behavior are no more reliable than its description of the outside world, and that they're unreliable for exactly the same reasons. IT DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING AND DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO KNOW ANYTHING.
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Yep. And I'd encourage folks who don't understand this to make a personal one-time exception to any "don't ever use AI for anything ever" policies they may have. Because if you actually push on this stuff, it's quite illuminating. (Quick thread.)
It’s genuinely embarrassing that people keep falling for these “AI explains the hidden secrets of its programming” posts. Grok is not sentient, it cannot explain what it’s doing and why.
An X USER, to Grok: “Why are you launching into conversations about white genocide, unprompted?” 🤡
May 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Yep. And I'd encourage folks who don't understand this to make a personal one-time exception to any "don't ever use AI for anything ever" policies they may have. Because if you actually push on this stuff, it's quite illuminating. (Quick thread.)
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Please keep calling concerning this. Not just for the arts and environment but also for the increasing number of sexual deep fakes that are being made of children and to uphold the importance of state rights.
Update: The TERRIBLE 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulations advanced House Committee. What does this mean?
It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators today! Called a few days ago? Call again!
Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban!
(Info in thread)
It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators today! Called a few days ago? Call again!
Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban!
(Info in thread)
May 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Please keep calling concerning this. Not just for the arts and environment but also for the increasing number of sexual deep fakes that are being made of children and to uphold the importance of state rights.
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Update: The TERRIBLE 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulations advanced House Committee. What does this mean?
It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators today! Called a few days ago? Call again!
Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban!
(Info in thread)
It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators today! Called a few days ago? Call again!
Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban!
(Info in thread)
May 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Update: The TERRIBLE 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulations advanced House Committee. What does this mean?
It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators today! Called a few days ago? Call again!
Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban!
(Info in thread)
It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators today! Called a few days ago? Call again!
Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban!
(Info in thread)
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Rwanda Redux.
Britain has opened formal talks about sending failed asylum seekers to detention centres abroad, The Times reports.
Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and North Macedonia could be destinations.
Britain has opened formal talks about sending failed asylum seekers to detention centres abroad, The Times reports.
Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and North Macedonia could be destinations.
May 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Rwanda Redux.
Britain has opened formal talks about sending failed asylum seekers to detention centres abroad, The Times reports.
Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and North Macedonia could be destinations.
Britain has opened formal talks about sending failed asylum seekers to detention centres abroad, The Times reports.
Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and North Macedonia could be destinations.
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the single best thing democrats could do to win back trust with voters — and a good number of those voters who have a low opinion of the democratic party are democrats themselves! — is adopt an aggressively partisan orientation toward republicans and loudly perform their opposition
May 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
the single best thing democrats could do to win back trust with voters — and a good number of those voters who have a low opinion of the democratic party are democrats themselves! — is adopt an aggressively partisan orientation toward republicans and loudly perform their opposition
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KOSA will absolutely be used to actively target and discriminate against LGBTQIA+ people; it will be used to frame literally *Existing* as an LGBTQIA+ person as "pornographic;" you can know this because Blackburn has admitted it out loud.
Do not let this fucking bill pass. Call your senators, now.
Do not let this fucking bill pass. Call your senators, now.
GOD FUCKING DAMN IT.
KOSA is vile & every single republican openly plans to weaponize it.
blackburn straight up said it exists to “protect minors from the transgender in society” & 22 GOP attorneys general openly said, “yes, i *would* use it to go after abortion info.”
KOSA IS A GIFT TO FASCISTS.
KOSA is vile & every single republican openly plans to weaponize it.
blackburn straight up said it exists to “protect minors from the transgender in society” & 22 GOP attorneys general openly said, “yes, i *would* use it to go after abortion info.”
KOSA IS A GIFT TO FASCISTS.
Senators Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal reintroduce the Kids Online Safety Act, mandating platforms like Meta to mitigate harms; Apple supports KOSA (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
May 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
KOSA will absolutely be used to actively target and discriminate against LGBTQIA+ people; it will be used to frame literally *Existing* as an LGBTQIA+ person as "pornographic;" you can know this because Blackburn has admitted it out loud.
Do not let this fucking bill pass. Call your senators, now.
Do not let this fucking bill pass. Call your senators, now.
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8.6 million people.
That's how many people could lose health care under Trump & House Republicans’ budget—many through Medicaid cuts.
That’s someone’s child, someone’s grandma, someone’s only shot at seeing a doctor this year. All so billionaires can get another tax break.
That's how many people could lose health care under Trump & House Republicans’ budget—many through Medicaid cuts.
That’s someone’s child, someone’s grandma, someone’s only shot at seeing a doctor this year. All so billionaires can get another tax break.
Three key panels are addressing some of the thorniest issues poised to make or break the Republicans' massive bill for Trump's agenda.
Tax committee passes its portion of Trump agenda bill as other panels grapple with Medicaid cuts, SNAP benefits
Three key panels are addressing some of the thorniest issues poised to make or break the Republicans' massive bill for Trump's agenda.
nbcnews.to
May 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
8.6 million people.
That's how many people could lose health care under Trump & House Republicans’ budget—many through Medicaid cuts.
That’s someone’s child, someone’s grandma, someone’s only shot at seeing a doctor this year. All so billionaires can get another tax break.
That's how many people could lose health care under Trump & House Republicans’ budget—many through Medicaid cuts.
That’s someone’s child, someone’s grandma, someone’s only shot at seeing a doctor this year. All so billionaires can get another tax break.
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Welcome to Gilead.
Republicans are introducing a bill to make pornography a federal offense; Project 2025 outlines the process clearly.
Next, they will designate and formally categorize the entire LGBTQ+ community as “pornography.”
The result: literally outlawing existence as an “out” member of the LQBTQ community.
Next, they will designate and formally categorize the entire LGBTQ+ community as “pornography.”
The result: literally outlawing existence as an “out” member of the LQBTQ community.
May 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Welcome to Gilead.
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71% of all online engagement in Ireland is far right bots from foreign adversaries attacking Irish people. It’d be great if the EU would sort this out. It’s gotten out of hand and doing genuine damage.
May 14, 2025 at 6:21 AM
71% of all online engagement in Ireland is far right bots from foreign adversaries attacking Irish people. It’d be great if the EU would sort this out. It’s gotten out of hand and doing genuine damage.
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The cruelty hurts, but the joy they receive from their cruelty is worse.
There is no reason for this whatsoever - the only goal here is to cause harm and try to force us out of public life.
There is no reason for this whatsoever - the only goal here is to cause harm and try to force us out of public life.
Earlier today, I was leaked a copy of the Executive Secretariat Style Guide for the US State Department. The new guide included a new section requiring that all trans State employees must be misgendered in all official communications. www.patreon.com/posts/new-st...
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May 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The cruelty hurts, but the joy they receive from their cruelty is worse.
There is no reason for this whatsoever - the only goal here is to cause harm and try to force us out of public life.
There is no reason for this whatsoever - the only goal here is to cause harm and try to force us out of public life.
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Chilling final paragraph and editor’s note.
May 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Chilling final paragraph and editor’s note.
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🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨
TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts.
MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here.
Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️
OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid
TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts.
MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here.
Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️
OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid
Save Medicaid
Please call your Representative right now and leave a voicemail, or first thing on Monday morning before the mark up session begins.
OcasioCortez.com
May 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨
TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts.
MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here.
Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️
OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid
TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts.
MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here.
Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️
OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid
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Right now U.S. Republicans in Congress are jammed up
a) the protests are working to make the most vulnerable nervous (keep calling and protesting)
b) they DO NOT want their constituents to realize they are set to cut $880 B from Medicaid and MORE
c) they are at odds with each other
Push Hard Now
a) the protests are working to make the most vulnerable nervous (keep calling and protesting)
b) they DO NOT want their constituents to realize they are set to cut $880 B from Medicaid and MORE
c) they are at odds with each other
Push Hard Now
May 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Right now U.S. Republicans in Congress are jammed up
a) the protests are working to make the most vulnerable nervous (keep calling and protesting)
b) they DO NOT want their constituents to realize they are set to cut $880 B from Medicaid and MORE
c) they are at odds with each other
Push Hard Now
a) the protests are working to make the most vulnerable nervous (keep calling and protesting)
b) they DO NOT want their constituents to realize they are set to cut $880 B from Medicaid and MORE
c) they are at odds with each other
Push Hard Now
Speaking of geese, I still think about a news story out of Waterloo, ON I saw a little while back abt a neighborhood that was terrorized by geese lol
Geese walking down the street patrolling and running down any humans they saw
A whole box of Costco croissants flying into the air: spoils of war
Geese walking down the street patrolling and running down any humans they saw
A whole box of Costco croissants flying into the air: spoils of war
May 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Speaking of geese, I still think about a news story out of Waterloo, ON I saw a little while back abt a neighborhood that was terrorized by geese lol
Geese walking down the street patrolling and running down any humans they saw
A whole box of Costco croissants flying into the air: spoils of war
Geese walking down the street patrolling and running down any humans they saw
A whole box of Costco croissants flying into the air: spoils of war
Not much going on here-- some Canadian geese made a nest at a neighbor's pond, so now we get to see a goose family with six little goslings in the backyard. We've seen that the geese don't mind rabbits joining their party to graze, but they will chase deer! Makes sense -- deer might crush or eat
May 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Not much going on here-- some Canadian geese made a nest at a neighbor's pond, so now we get to see a goose family with six little goslings in the backyard. We've seen that the geese don't mind rabbits joining their party to graze, but they will chase deer! Makes sense -- deer might crush or eat
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If knowing your rights didn’t matter, then 100+ right-wing sockpuppets would not show up to deny that your rights matter, dismiss your concerns, derail the discussion, and defend ICE on every single post of a Know Your Rights card
old.reddit.com/r/garland/co...
238 comments total. ~175 trolls.
old.reddit.com/r/garland/co...
238 comments total. ~175 trolls.
May 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
If knowing your rights didn’t matter, then 100+ right-wing sockpuppets would not show up to deny that your rights matter, dismiss your concerns, derail the discussion, and defend ICE on every single post of a Know Your Rights card
old.reddit.com/r/garland/co...
238 comments total. ~175 trolls.
old.reddit.com/r/garland/co...
238 comments total. ~175 trolls.
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The Cass Review gets peer reviewed and absolutely shredded
Cass is the Wakefield of our time. A scandal in broad daylight
Cass is the Wakefield of our time. A scandal in broad daylight
May 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The Cass Review gets peer reviewed and absolutely shredded
Cass is the Wakefield of our time. A scandal in broad daylight
Cass is the Wakefield of our time. A scandal in broad daylight
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