Daniel Fletcher
@flaniel.bsky.social
trust & safety engineering, ex-tweep 🫡 💙
the new generation of kids growing up with AI should be named GenAI
July 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
the new generation of kids growing up with AI should be named GenAI
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It has long been clear that this was X’s final destination … as the data generation arm of a slop factory
Elon Musk says xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction valuing xAI at $80B and X at $33B (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)
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March 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
It has long been clear that this was X’s final destination … as the data generation arm of a slop factory
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Me looking at my AI clone and its equally dogshit tweets
March 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Me looking at my AI clone and its equally dogshit tweets
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looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.
February 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.
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If I had a clown nose I would honk it until it bled every day
February 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
If I had a clown nose I would honk it until it bled every day
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I bet doom scroll meant something way cooler in the middle ages.
February 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I bet doom scroll meant something way cooler in the middle ages.
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i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
January 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
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ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do
January 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do
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Loads of spelling mistakes in this.
January 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Loads of spelling mistakes in this.
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Glitch In Country Allows Citizens To Temporarily Walk Through Tables
theonion.com/glitch-...
theonion.com/glitch-...
January 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Glitch In Country Allows Citizens To Temporarily Walk Through Tables
theonion.com/glitch-...
theonion.com/glitch-...
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Mark Cuban posted a TikTok video that he wants to support or invest in somebody who creates a TikTok replacement built on the bluesky AT protocol.
January 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Mark Cuban posted a TikTok video that he wants to support or invest in somebody who creates a TikTok replacement built on the bluesky AT protocol.
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Welcome, teens coming here from tiktok. I think you’ll find that through the magic of the written word I am able to craft sentences that are as vivid and compelling as any short-form video!
January 19, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Welcome, teens coming here from tiktok. I think you’ll find that through the magic of the written word I am able to craft sentences that are as vivid and compelling as any short-form video!
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ME: They make you license this thing? Guess that's why they say the two best days of your life are the day you buy your boat and the day you sell your boat.
CHARON, FERRYMAN OF THE RIVER STYX: *starts rowing faster*
CHARON, FERRYMAN OF THE RIVER STYX: *starts rowing faster*
December 2, 2024 at 12:29 PM
ME: They make you license this thing? Guess that's why they say the two best days of your life are the day you buy your boat and the day you sell your boat.
CHARON, FERRYMAN OF THE RIVER STYX: *starts rowing faster*
CHARON, FERRYMAN OF THE RIVER STYX: *starts rowing faster*
I will sit here for hours grinning idiotically and speed clicking over and over without breaks like one of those lab rats pushing buttons for opium doses til I die of starvation
January 8, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I will sit here for hours grinning idiotically and speed clicking over and over without breaks like one of those lab rats pushing buttons for opium doses til I die of starvation
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Just going to reiterate -
We are on this bot problem. We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight them in the signup process, we shall fight them in the notifications
We are on this bot problem. We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight them in the signup process, we shall fight them in the notifications
January 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Just going to reiterate -
We are on this bot problem. We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight them in the signup process, we shall fight them in the notifications
We are on this bot problem. We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight them in the signup process, we shall fight them in the notifications
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Claim
It's 9 o'clock on a Saturday
[…]
The manager gives me a smile
Cause he knows that it's me they've been coming to see
To forget about life for a while
Rating
❌ Mostly False
Given the time and day, it is unlikely a bar would need to drum up extra business. The patrons are likely 𝗮𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘀.
It's 9 o'clock on a Saturday
[…]
The manager gives me a smile
Cause he knows that it's me they've been coming to see
To forget about life for a while
Rating
❌ Mostly False
Given the time and day, it is unlikely a bar would need to drum up extra business. The patrons are likely 𝗮𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘀.
January 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Claim
It's 9 o'clock on a Saturday
[…]
The manager gives me a smile
Cause he knows that it's me they've been coming to see
To forget about life for a while
Rating
❌ Mostly False
Given the time and day, it is unlikely a bar would need to drum up extra business. The patrons are likely 𝗮𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘀.
It's 9 o'clock on a Saturday
[…]
The manager gives me a smile
Cause he knows that it's me they've been coming to see
To forget about life for a while
Rating
❌ Mostly False
Given the time and day, it is unlikely a bar would need to drum up extra business. The patrons are likely 𝗮𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘀.
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People are mad about this but my work as a weird reply guy allows me to put food on the table for my family in an industry where I am under constant threat of being replaced by AI.
January 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
People are mad about this but my work as a weird reply guy allows me to put food on the table for my family in an industry where I am under constant threat of being replaced by AI.
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2024 ending with synchronized lightning strikes on the Washington Monument and the Capitol is a little too on the nose
Watch: Lightning hit the U.S. Capitol at 5:36 pm, simultaneously to - or a few seconds after - lightning hit the Washington Monument. Happy New Year. @capitalweather.bsky.social @stormhour.bsky.social @arlnow.bsky.social
#weather #stormhour #DC
#weather #stormhour #DC
January 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
2024 ending with synchronized lightning strikes on the Washington Monument and the Capitol is a little too on the nose
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me: do you think he called himself T.S. Eliot so nobody would notice that T. Eliot is toilet backwards?
librarian: stop talking
librarian: stop talking
July 3, 2023 at 5:21 AM
me: do you think he called himself T.S. Eliot so nobody would notice that T. Eliot is toilet backwards?
librarian: stop talking
librarian: stop talking
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Here's why "alignment research" when it comes to LLMs is a big mess, as I see it.
Claude is not a real guy. Claude is a character in the stories that an LLM has been programmed to write. Just to give it a distinct name, let's call the LLM "the Shoggoth".
Claude is not a real guy. Claude is a character in the stories that an LLM has been programmed to write. Just to give it a distinct name, let's call the LLM "the Shoggoth".
December 19, 2024 at 11:15 PM
Here's why "alignment research" when it comes to LLMs is a big mess, as I see it.
Claude is not a real guy. Claude is a character in the stories that an LLM has been programmed to write. Just to give it a distinct name, let's call the LLM "the Shoggoth".
Claude is not a real guy. Claude is a character in the stories that an LLM has been programmed to write. Just to give it a distinct name, let's call the LLM "the Shoggoth".
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(bernie sanders voice) no one should wake up and find they have seventy five new emails
December 9, 2024 at 2:03 PM
(bernie sanders voice) no one should wake up and find they have seventy five new emails