Fi
@macfi.bsky.social
I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good. Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide.
she/her
Ngunnawal country
she/her
Ngunnawal country
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Rob Reiner 1947 - 2025 | TCM Remembers
YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies
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December 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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I'm not going back to a place that suppresses all my links, allows my misgendering, and stole my blue check for profit.
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I'm not going back to a place that suppresses all my links, allows my misgendering, and stole my blue check for profit.
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Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.
December 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.
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If the US can seize a Venezuelan tanker carrying sanctioned oil, then can other tankers in other places, say the Baltic or the Black Sea, also be seized?
December 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
If the US can seize a Venezuelan tanker carrying sanctioned oil, then can other tankers in other places, say the Baltic or the Black Sea, also be seized?
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"The platform stripped me of my right to say no. … yet the thought of being replaced by a machine that could do it 'better' wasn’t comforting either. I wasn’t just exploited, I was also disposable. … I was reduced to a voice without a will, a presence without consent."
Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
data-workers.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:49 AM
"The platform stripped me of my right to say no. … yet the thought of being replaced by a machine that could do it 'better' wasn’t comforting either. I wasn’t just exploited, I was also disposable. … I was reduced to a voice without a will, a presence without consent."
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The teenagers are skeptics (as are the parents)
The data collection being granted is nuts even if the socials economy is evil.
A Grand Social Media Experiment Begins in Australia www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/w...
The data collection being granted is nuts even if the socials economy is evil.
A Grand Social Media Experiment Begins in Australia www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/w...
A Grand Social Media Experiment Begins in Australia
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The teenagers are skeptics (as are the parents)
The data collection being granted is nuts even if the socials economy is evil.
A Grand Social Media Experiment Begins in Australia www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/w...
The data collection being granted is nuts even if the socials economy is evil.
A Grand Social Media Experiment Begins in Australia www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/w...
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Remember: Trump or Russian propagandists might say otherwise, but Putin is not winning, and the Ukrainians are not losing.
I am told that internal Ukrainian army information shows that more than 26,000 Russian soldiers were killed or critically wounded in the month of November. Confirmed by videos. No wonder Putin wants to get Trump to give him territory for free
one.no
December 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Remember: Trump or Russian propagandists might say otherwise, but Putin is not winning, and the Ukrainians are not losing.
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Smells like Robodebt 2. And given that clear warning/lesson exists, I hope that all decision makers face genuine consequences when this catastrophically fucks up. I’m just deeply saddened that we can’t just shut it down now before it hurts people.
Funding and support plans for NDIS participants will be generated by a computer program & staff will have no discretion to amend them. The initial I-CAN is meant to be delivered by AHP, it won’t be.
This will harm people @australianlabor.bsky.social
#NDIS #Auspol #Eugenics
This will harm people @australianlabor.bsky.social
#NDIS #Auspol #Eugenics
NDIS plans will be computer-generated, with human involvement dramatically cut under sweeping overhaul
Exclusive: Staff were told of major changes to the way NDIS funding and support plans will be made during a recent internal briefing
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Smells like Robodebt 2. And given that clear warning/lesson exists, I hope that all decision makers face genuine consequences when this catastrophically fucks up. I’m just deeply saddened that we can’t just shut it down now before it hurts people.
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Wait, does he think the fog of war is literally smoke?
December 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Wait, does he think the fog of war is literally smoke?
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It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
December 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
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Arcadia is my all time favourite play
Anyway, here's my favorite passage in all of Tom Stoppard's work in what I think might be the greatest play written in the English language in the last century or so, not that everything has to be a competition, but one does like to make lists.
We shed as we pick up.
[farewell to the master]
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Arcadia is my all time favourite play
Arcadia is my all time favourite play
Anyway, here's my favorite passage in all of Tom Stoppard's work in what I think might be the greatest play written in the English language in the last century or so, not that everything has to be a competition, but one does like to make lists.
We shed as we pick up.
[farewell to the master]
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Arcadia is my all time favourite play
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Our Christmas countdown for nature lovers is back! 😍🎄
A little bit of wildlife magic every morning...
Who's ready to open door 1 with us?
#RSPBAdvent
A little bit of wildlife magic every morning...
Who's ready to open door 1 with us?
#RSPBAdvent
December 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Our Christmas countdown for nature lovers is back! 😍🎄
A little bit of wildlife magic every morning...
Who's ready to open door 1 with us?
#RSPBAdvent
A little bit of wildlife magic every morning...
Who's ready to open door 1 with us?
#RSPBAdvent
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On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.
December 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.
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You’re asking for:
• emotional maturity
• stability
• consistency
• communication
• financial responsibility
• support
• intention
• safety
That’s standard adult behavior.
• emotional maturity
• stability
• consistency
• communication
• financial responsibility
• support
• intention
• safety
That’s standard adult behavior.
November 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
You’re asking for:
• emotional maturity
• stability
• consistency
• communication
• financial responsibility
• support
• intention
• safety
That’s standard adult behavior.
• emotional maturity
• stability
• consistency
• communication
• financial responsibility
• support
• intention
• safety
That’s standard adult behavior.
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This was well done and also what I’ve been saying for years, glad to see more people on it
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This was well done and also what I’ve been saying for years, glad to see more people on it
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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Oof. He was truly a master, from Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern to Arcadia to Leopoldstadt—just a lifetime of tremendous, thought-provoking, hilarious work. RIP. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Oof. He was truly a master, from Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern to Arcadia to Leopoldstadt—just a lifetime of tremendous, thought-provoking, hilarious work. RIP. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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thinking about the “we have enough hot takes” lady for some reason lately
October 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
thinking about the “we have enough hot takes” lady for some reason lately
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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
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I've lost count of the times I've said "no" to Google when it's asked me to use its AI assistant.
Is AI harassment a thing?
Is AI harassment a thing?
I often have to make ads on LinkedIn for work and today I had to click 'no' on exactly 8 prompts to make my ad with AI. If it's that good, or good for me, something tells me they wouldn't need to sell it so hard.
November 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I've lost count of the times I've said "no" to Google when it's asked me to use its AI assistant.
Is AI harassment a thing?
Is AI harassment a thing?
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If a British person responds to your opinion with a jaunty 'Fair enough!' then the conversation is over and they think you're a prick.
November 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
If a British person responds to your opinion with a jaunty 'Fair enough!' then the conversation is over and they think you're a prick.