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alexowah.bsky.social
Did an LLM write this estimate?
"In June, a report by the London School of Economics had an unexpectedly sunny estimate – AI could reduce global greenhouse gases by 3.2bn to 5.4bn tonnes in the next decade, even factoring in its vast energy consumption."
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
alexowah.bsky.social
Any movement, progressive or otherwise, that grants immense power to its leaders will be vulnerable to Mr L types. People who are drawn to the trappings and displays of power and strength. Lead a protest; "play soldier"; work for Blackwater; get a totenkopf tattoo; run for Senate - it's all cool.
October 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
alexowah.bsky.social
You really could have fit the whole quote into this post
“We absolutely need to stop the boats,” Polanski said, “but let’s stop the boats by offering safe and legal routes to asylum and not having people clinging on to dinghies for dear life.”
October 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
alexowah.bsky.social
It would appear so www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/what-go...
October 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
alexowah.bsky.social
How did they fuck up copying and pasting this badly?!
The same climb 20 times, but they keep changing the length and gradient labels
September 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
alexowah.bsky.social
Jan, when he sees 40km on his bike computer:
September 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
alexowah.bsky.social
Whut??
September 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
alexowah.bsky.social
It's wild that every youtube video I have watched for the last week has had a pre-roll ad, featuring an AI fake of my country's PM promoting an AI scam, from multiple different sponsors, and youtube is apparently powerless to prevent it. www.reddit.com/r/onguardfor...
August 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
alexowah.bsky.social
Part 2. It's presented as an individual choice to make you feel small and powerless, but really, they are powerless without your compliance
August 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
alexowah.bsky.social
Even if you don't actively fight it, there will come a time when the fascist state demands your compliance. This excerpt (continued in next post) from "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-1945" by Milton Mayer and read by @iwriteok.bsky.social clarifies the significance of that choice.
August 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
alexowah.bsky.social
It's always funny when companies go straight to the "our customers know that we are lying to them" well
"Tesla has a technology product that they have branded itself as FSD, which is 'fully self-driving.' There are levels of automated driving. One-two-three-four-five. But their FSD tech corresponds to Level Three, not Level Five. Thus, one can argue that it is misleading," said Moura. Moura explains what Level Three means. "It does not drive itself completely in all situations and the driver cannot go 'brain off' and not pay attention," said Moura. Tesla contends that consumers are smart and regardless of what their advertising says, people know they are not autonomous.
July 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
alexowah.bsky.social
Happy Canada Day from Bowen Island 🍁
A tiny Canadian flag being held in Vancouver A tiny Canada Flag being held on the Bowen Island Ferry in Horseshoe Bay A tiny Canadian flag being held from Mount Gardner on Bowen Island, looking towards Sunshine Coast
July 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
alexowah.bsky.social
Stating the obvious, but of course it fucking would!! This is why we shouldn't be consuming AI representations of anything, it's distorting our perceptions of reality all the time.
Sparrow says some people may benefit from the comfort of reconnecting with loved ones but the risks of such novel technology are vast. (Highlighted): “One of the most interesting questions is whether these artefacts risk distorting or even poisoning your memory of your deceased relative,” he says.
May 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
alexowah.bsky.social
Made the mistake of going on Facebook to see how bad it was. Lukas posting AI images, unlabelled as such, was the first thing I saw. 90%of the comments were: "WOW! So amazing! How do they get the energy?!"

Time to delete, I reckon
April 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
alexowah.bsky.social
Most are not actually held there. This is a great investigation by @nikkimcr.bsky.social at Rolling Stone, highlighting how little is known: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Disappeared is an apt description for the state of those in El Salvador’s prisons. Cristosal and other advocacy groups working with the families of the detained say that CECOT is just “the public face” of a much larger system of prisons in El Salvador holding the vast majority of those arrested under the state of exception. The Bukele administration makes it nearly impossible to track the whereabouts of an arrestee once they’ve entered the system. Family members are not allowed contact with inmates, and are given little information on their condition and location. Release papers, if they manage to secure them, are often ignored. “We do work with hundreds of families of people, innocent people have been detained, and they don’t even know for sure if they’re alive.” Bullock says. “They bring monthly packages [of basic goods] to the prisons out of fear that their loved ones don’t think they’ve been forgotten, but they have no guarantees or assurances that they’re even there or they ever received the packages.” (In many Latin American countries, prisons do not provide basic goods for inmates, whose families are expected to collect and deliver them to detention centers on a monthly basis.) In 2024, Cristosal published a report detailing alleged torture within El Salvador’s prison system, unreported deaths of inmates, and the systematic dissappearances of those arrested. The organization has received thousands of complaints, investigated over 1,000 specific cases of alleged abuse, and documented the deaths in custody of over 200 prisoners. Cristosal provided Rolling Stone with recorded testimony from a former inmate named Oscar who said he and other detainees are often forced to sign confessions by arresting officers, crammed into cells with over 250 other inmates, and regularly beaten by guards. Oscar describes witnessing food deprivation, denial of medical treatment, frequent transfers (he spent time at several prisons in El Salvador), deaths of inmates due to illness or abuse, and burials in mass graves. In a 2023 report examining in-custody deaths investigated by the state-run Institute of Legal Medicine (IML), Cristosal was able to corroborate that the institute has investigated at least 28 deaths within prisons that were likely caused by torture. The actual number is estimated to be at least in the hundreds. Deaths in custody are often reported to be the result of chronic disease or natural causes, despite inmates’ families claiming they had no known conditions before being arrested. n the case of a 30-year-old man whose IML reports were obtained by Cristosal, “the forensic medical examination of the IML stated that he had died as a result of ‘mechanical asphyxia by strangulation.’ The corpse presented a kind of protuberance at the level of the sternocleidomastoid muscle and hematomas, possibly perpetrated with a rigid object. That is to say, he could have been strangled with a stick, club, or tonfa.” One 24-year-old man, whose family spoke to Cristosal, died of a burst intestine theorized to have been caused by a severe beating. After an initial hospitalization due to malnutrition after seven months in prison, he was granted special release by a judge who told him that the “good news” was that a polygraph determined he was innocent — but the bad news was that he had “terminal renal insufficiency.” He told a relative shortly before he died that at Mariona Prison the “water is hot and tastes like chlorine and they hardly give us food, we get fed once a day, they don’t give us breakfast or lunch only dinner … we wait in line in a large court and everyone who gets food receives two hard blows on the back … so I stopped going out to eat so they wouldn’t hit me, because those blows hurt.” One man previously incarcerated at Mariona testified to Cristosal that at one point, guards “showed up with a bucket of food. We arrived on a Thursday (and it was Monday), the guard asked, ‘Are you hungry?’ When we answered yes, the guard threw the food on the floor, which was full of mud and other dirt, and said, ‘You are only going to pick the food up with your mouth and if you grab it with your hands I will take you out and I will beat you,’ and gave them five seconds to pick up the food with their mouths.”
April 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
alexowah.bsky.social
Dril tweet saying "and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad."
April 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
alexowah.bsky.social
Seems to be 41 pounds at cheapest
ticketmaster site for Jimmy Carr in Brighton, showing a minimum cost of 41 pounds
April 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
alexowah.bsky.social
Elon may not be in the inner circle anymore, but they have realized he is really good at breaking things within the federal government. They will be happy for him to keep doing that, and will let him continue to do so in a way that benefits him as a form of payment
Screenshot of two posts. First post from More Perfect Union mentions Elon Musk firing National Highway Traffic Safety Administration workers, including ones working on automation safety. Second post, from Aaron Rupar, discusses Elon Musk's diminishing influence, mentioning a cabinet meeting.
April 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
alexowah.bsky.social
I was about to ask who you think will be the tallest winner of a WT one day will be, but i didn't realise how tall Soren is!!
March 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
alexowah.bsky.social
Like, if someone thinks that America is 55% Christian, 30% Muslim, 30% Jewish and 30% atheist, then they should notice that something is wrong with their perception, but they don't
March 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM