We went through SO MUCH of this at MetaFilter and our users were SO MAD about it when it would come up (meaning/use distinction, "show me the policy," "didn't you understand my reference?") I think we can all agree that a violent rhetoric policy at least needs to be enforced more often than monthly.

Of all the potential moderation policies a site needs to have, the violent rhetoric one is consistently the one that causes the most uproar, because people will almost never agree that two posts are equivalent if they are directed at two different targets, even if the words are identical.

But even without that, the violent rhetoric policy is a fucking bitch to create and apply consistently. It often comes down to single words in a post: "I will" may be a violation while "I would" might not be, etc.

It likely does not help that Bluesky was one of the six social media sites that got the letter from Clay Higgins, chair of the law enforcement subcommittee of the House oversight committee, about violent rhetoric after Charlie Kirk's death: clayhiggins.house.gov/2025/09/15/h...

So these two trends—AI as smokescreen for management's ulterior motives/misplaced belief in its hype, and AI as an automation system for producing cheap knockoff art and writing (at the expense of artists and writers)—are what I think are the biggest impacts of AI on jobs so far.

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😊 Left handed fountain pens are amazing works of craftsmanship. The fact that they work differently isn't something I'd thought about before dating someone that's left handed. Like, in hindsight, it makes *sense*, but.

My fave brand for ink usually comes from Pilot. Don't get nibblers-

Fun fact: It was first published in 2011.

Then, I switched publishers, because a Singaporean urban fantasy couldn't sell (because no spicy bits!).

You can get them here: www.foxspirit.co.uk/books/young-...