Michael Clyne
@thenoteheleft.bsky.social
Human, lefty, photography enthusiast, and music lover. Epileptic. Front range, CO.
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one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
January 6, 2026 at 9:06 PM
one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
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EX MACHINA is, in my opinion, good. boxd.it/csN0tt
A ★★★★ review of Ex Machina (2015)
Moxic Tasculinity gets a well-earned smackdown, from the pickup artist techbroa to the NiceGuy™s. Some of the smoothest stabbing motions ever seen. Oscar Isaac manages to be funny while skin-crawlingl...
boxd.it
January 6, 2026 at 12:31 AM
EX MACHINA is, in my opinion, good. boxd.it/csN0tt
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In a world where Ghislaine Maxwell gets moved to a nicer prison for saying Trump did nothing bad with Epstein, "Maduro gets a sweetheart deal to say he helped steal the 2020 election" feels eerily plausible. www.mediamatters.org/foxdominion-...
MAGA media link Trump's overthrow of Maduro to 2020 election conspiracy theories
www.mediamatters.org
January 5, 2026 at 7:57 PM
In a world where Ghislaine Maxwell gets moved to a nicer prison for saying Trump did nothing bad with Epstein, "Maduro gets a sweetheart deal to say he helped steal the 2020 election" feels eerily plausible. www.mediamatters.org/foxdominion-...
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…because the U.S. kidnapped him. This makes it sound like Maduro is saying something deceitful and self-serving when he is describing what unfolded before our eyes.
January 5, 2026 at 6:57 PM
…because the U.S. kidnapped him. This makes it sound like Maduro is saying something deceitful and self-serving when he is describing what unfolded before our eyes.
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@rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, please terminate your partnership with OpenAI immediately. You cannot morally or ethically continue pushing this product on children and schools.
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose.
"Who on earth gives that advice?"
www.sfgate.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:25 PM
@rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, please terminate your partnership with OpenAI immediately. You cannot morally or ethically continue pushing this product on children and schools.
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Just rewatched THE GREEN KNIGHT and it's still great.
January 5, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Just rewatched THE GREEN KNIGHT and it's still great.
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Nixon insisted the bombing of Cambodia was just targeting Viet Cong outposts there and not meant to undermine its government, but the bombings destabilized the Lon Nol government and paved the way for the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields and the massacre of more than a million people.
NBC's sources said that "the potential mission in Mexico is not designed to undermine the Mexican government." But that's what it will do if the US is doing CIA drone strikes on Mexican soil over the objections of the president.
January 4, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Nixon insisted the bombing of Cambodia was just targeting Viet Cong outposts there and not meant to undermine its government, but the bombings destabilized the Lon Nol government and paved the way for the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields and the massacre of more than a million people.
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Big congrats to the Nobel Committee for awarding the prize "for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy" just so she could immediately conspire with a foreign government to murder civilians on the high seas then invade and stage a coup.
I feel like the history of western imperialism is often like this, where there's an almost-plausible case for resource-grabbing, an almost plausible geopolitical explanation (first Caracas, then Havana), and a sort of liberal imperialist fig leaf to keep democrats from being too mad (the Nobel shit)
January 3, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Big congrats to the Nobel Committee for awarding the prize "for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy" just so she could immediately conspire with a foreign government to murder civilians on the high seas then invade and stage a coup.
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Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine.
We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
January 3, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine.
We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
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"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
January 3, 2026 at 1:24 PM
"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
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“He was a dictator” fat nazis in plate carriers abduct your neighbors from the parking lot of target and send them to gulags.
January 3, 2026 at 10:17 PM
“He was a dictator” fat nazis in plate carriers abduct your neighbors from the parking lot of target and send them to gulags.
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In a statement, an emotional Grok told me it was "shaken" by the revenge porn it had generated. "It's not epic, and not based," Grok said. "It's neither. Frankly, it's cringe. And gay." An emailed request for comment to X received an auto-reply of a rofl emoji and a custom swastika emoji.
January 3, 2026 at 5:29 AM
In a statement, an emotional Grok told me it was "shaken" by the revenge porn it had generated. "It's not epic, and not based," Grok said. "It's neither. Frankly, it's cringe. And gay." An emailed request for comment to X received an auto-reply of a rofl emoji and a custom swastika emoji.
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While I do agree that chatbots are not capable of thought or agency and should not be conceptualized that way, if you deputize them to speak for your company that output should be considered yours. If you don’t like it don’t make an LLM public facing. Hire a guy. There’s lots of guys.
The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.
January 3, 2026 at 4:50 AM
While I do agree that chatbots are not capable of thought or agency and should not be conceptualized that way, if you deputize them to speak for your company that output should be considered yours. If you don’t like it don’t make an LLM public facing. Hire a guy. There’s lots of guys.
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This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
January 2, 2026 at 8:02 PM
This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
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This brainrot is more responsible for the rise of authoritarianism in the US than any of the wokeness it will not shut up about
January 2, 2026 at 3:01 PM
This brainrot is more responsible for the rise of authoritarianism in the US than any of the wokeness it will not shut up about
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Parker's piece nails why this matters. "Tech companies... would rather not answer for their products’ failures. Every headline that says “Grok apologizes” or “Grok admits” or “Grok says” creates a world where the chatbot takes the fall while Musk and his executives face no scrutiny whatsoever."
I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been “undressing” women and children in public. Journalists are letting xAI off the hook by pretending the bot is responsible.
www.readtpa.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Parker's piece nails why this matters. "Tech companies... would rather not answer for their products’ failures. Every headline that says “Grok apologizes” or “Grok admits” or “Grok says” creates a world where the chatbot takes the fall while Musk and his executives face no scrutiny whatsoever."
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The automated sexual abuse that Musk is doing right now should be national news. People should be going to prison for this shit. The logical conclusion to generative image creation and the internet, pure public automatic violence. Every Pizzagate fear just out in the open.
January 2, 2026 at 12:44 AM
The automated sexual abuse that Musk is doing right now should be national news. People should be going to prison for this shit. The logical conclusion to generative image creation and the internet, pure public automatic violence. Every Pizzagate fear just out in the open.
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just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.
January 1, 2026 at 7:11 AM
just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
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Literally this year the MN Speaker was murdered at her home when a white male MAGA chud dressed up as a fake cop & killed her
Now mere months later, MAGAs are shocked that daycare operators in MN wouldn't open doors for white male MAGA chuds dressed up as fake journalists, demanding access to kids😐
Now mere months later, MAGAs are shocked that daycare operators in MN wouldn't open doors for white male MAGA chuds dressed up as fake journalists, demanding access to kids😐
December 31, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Literally this year the MN Speaker was murdered at her home when a white male MAGA chud dressed up as a fake cop & killed her
Now mere months later, MAGAs are shocked that daycare operators in MN wouldn't open doors for white male MAGA chuds dressed up as fake journalists, demanding access to kids😐
Now mere months later, MAGAs are shocked that daycare operators in MN wouldn't open doors for white male MAGA chuds dressed up as fake journalists, demanding access to kids😐
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This is a painting by a Polish artist depicting TR’s actions in Cuba during the Spanish-American war. But sure, we all hate (((globalists))).
January 1, 2026 at 12:03 AM
This is a painting by a Polish artist depicting TR’s actions in Cuba during the Spanish-American war. But sure, we all hate (((globalists))).
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Every single person in this man’s life needs to tell him he’s a creepy loser.
“You tried to barge into a day care because of a racist conspiracy theory. Don’t ever contact me again.”
“You tried to barge into a day care because of a racist conspiracy theory. Don’t ever contact me again.”
December 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Every single person in this man’s life needs to tell him he’s a creepy loser.
“You tried to barge into a day care because of a racist conspiracy theory. Don’t ever contact me again.”
“You tried to barge into a day care because of a racist conspiracy theory. Don’t ever contact me again.”
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It's not too late to get your flu shot. Flu circulates year round but more intensely during flu season. For N. hemisphere:
Onset: October–November
Peak: December–February (most often January)
Decline: March
Tail end: April–May (occasionally later)
This is why we give shots until the end of February
Onset: October–November
Peak: December–February (most often January)
Decline: March
Tail end: April–May (occasionally later)
This is why we give shots until the end of February
December 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
It's not too late to get your flu shot. Flu circulates year round but more intensely during flu season. For N. hemisphere:
Onset: October–November
Peak: December–February (most often January)
Decline: March
Tail end: April–May (occasionally later)
This is why we give shots until the end of February
Onset: October–November
Peak: December–February (most often January)
Decline: March
Tail end: April–May (occasionally later)
This is why we give shots until the end of February
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Anytime these guys show up a daycare center, the managers should immediately start filming and tell them to stop behaving like pedophiles and trying to access children without their parents’ permission. Publish their photos and names
A bunch of weirdos with a documented party history of pedophilia who are in the middle of covering for Epstein want to hang out at child care centers. Fucking freaks. And we should say so.
“I’m here to search your child care center for fraud.”
December 31, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Anytime these guys show up a daycare center, the managers should immediately start filming and tell them to stop behaving like pedophiles and trying to access children without their parents’ permission. Publish their photos and names
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Have to admit I'd never heard of Compact Mag until like two weeks ago and both stories I've now heard about published in it are whining from white dudes who don't feel appreciated enough for being white dudes. And, as a white dude, gotta say, this all seems fucking stupid.
The reason this Harvard history professor decided he was done with one of the best and most privileged jobs in the world was, in his own words, because he was forced to lecture in a mask during peak Covid.
I’m not making this up.
I’m not making this up.
December 31, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Have to admit I'd never heard of Compact Mag until like two weeks ago and both stories I've now heard about published in it are whining from white dudes who don't feel appreciated enough for being white dudes. And, as a white dude, gotta say, this all seems fucking stupid.
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NEW: Judge Waverly Crenshaw's previous memorandum order was unsealed today. It cites evidence that Deputy AG Todd Blanche charged Kilmar Abrego Garcia BECAUSE he won his challenge to his unlawful deportation.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/70475...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/70475...
Sealed Order – #241 in United States v. Abrego Garcia (M.D. Tenn., 3:25-cr-00115) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER as to Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. Signed by District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr on 12/3/2025. (Emailed to counsel of record.) (jm) (Main Document 241 replaced on 12/3...
www.courtlistener.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
NEW: Judge Waverly Crenshaw's previous memorandum order was unsealed today. It cites evidence that Deputy AG Todd Blanche charged Kilmar Abrego Garcia BECAUSE he won his challenge to his unlawful deportation.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/70475...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/70475...