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rabagast
@rabagast.bsky.social
· Oct 17
followers i haven't followed back yet, there are more of you than i'm used to and i'm a bit overwhelmed (i'm easily overwhelmed). it's not personal and i generally do follow back if we interact, but if i don't do it right away, i tend to forget. i appreciate you all (except the musk impersonators).
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“It’s a bullshit grift bubble for software that’s not intelligent or even useful outside of very limited cases with small data sets that’s about to crash the economy, hopefully before it undoes every environmental gain of the last quarter century.”
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving.
In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what should I know about it? https://cnn.it/48i1z4p
In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what should I know about it? https://cnn.it/48i1z4p
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“It’s a bullshit grift bubble for software that’s not intelligent or even useful outside of very limited cases with small data sets that’s about to crash the economy, hopefully before it undoes every environmental gain of the last quarter century.”
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We're talking about a technology where even the term used to describe it - 'AI' - is a lie used to convince people they're interacting with something that's actually sapient.
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We're talking about a technology where even the term used to describe it - 'AI' - is a lie used to convince people they're interacting with something that's actually sapient.
you know you're not having a great week when you wake up to a text message from your parent telling you they want to give you a big present for your upcoming birthday and you're instantly wide awake with existential dread and moderate panic.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
you know you're not having a great week when you wake up to a text message from your parent telling you they want to give you a big present for your upcoming birthday and you're instantly wide awake with existential dread and moderate panic.
2 hours less of daylight per day only since the start of this month, another 45 minutes from now until solstice, and the sun is barely above the horizon even at noon. less than 6 hours of substandard daylight per day is not enough for someone who can't hibernate through it.
November 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
2 hours less of daylight per day only since the start of this month, another 45 minutes from now until solstice, and the sun is barely above the horizon even at noon. less than 6 hours of substandard daylight per day is not enough for someone who can't hibernate through it.
our editorial team is back from a big media conference and reporting on the happenings there. turns out everybody's fallen out of love with AI, having experienced how it keeps failing as a tool, not living up to expectations.
so now they're gonna pivot to video.
one step forward, two steps back.
so now they're gonna pivot to video.
one step forward, two steps back.
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
our editorial team is back from a big media conference and reporting on the happenings there. turns out everybody's fallen out of love with AI, having experienced how it keeps failing as a tool, not living up to expectations.
so now they're gonna pivot to video.
one step forward, two steps back.
so now they're gonna pivot to video.
one step forward, two steps back.
*ringer mattilsynets telefon for helt akutte tilfeller*
BIEN ENTENDU l'affiche de cet événement "convivial et authentique" (comprendre reac) est fait en IA gen parce que POURQUOI PAS.
Il y a des putains de meules de viande au sol.
Il y a des putains de meules de viande au sol.
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
*ringer mattilsynets telefon for helt akutte tilfeller*
my grandpa and great grandpa were masons and this thing hurts me on a personal level.
also that spliced post on the left reminds me of my legs and spine (my legs are not the same length, so my spine curves like a sideways s and my leg/hip/shoulder joints are all wrong)
also that spliced post on the left reminds me of my legs and spine (my legs are not the same length, so my spine curves like a sideways s and my leg/hip/shoulder joints are all wrong)
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
my grandpa and great grandpa were masons and this thing hurts me on a personal level.
also that spliced post on the left reminds me of my legs and spine (my legs are not the same length, so my spine curves like a sideways s and my leg/hip/shoulder joints are all wrong)
also that spliced post on the left reminds me of my legs and spine (my legs are not the same length, so my spine curves like a sideways s and my leg/hip/shoulder joints are all wrong)
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Oh boy, this is going to be funny:
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Oh boy, this is going to be funny:
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We've moved on to REALLY hating it. Fuck AI.
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 AM
We've moved on to REALLY hating it. Fuck AI.
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Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me
December 4, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me
found yet another chatGPT-invented entry from that botched translation today, this one had also been published.
i have initiated further clarification of our AI policy to keep this from happening again. my coworker who did this spent all day either unaware or pretending to be unaware he fucked up.
i have initiated further clarification of our AI policy to keep this from happening again. my coworker who did this spent all day either unaware or pretending to be unaware he fucked up.
more fun with that chatgpt translation: turns out the bot invented a table entry in translation. that my coworkers added to our database and went ahead and published. i just discovered this now while doing human translation.
i'd be so embarrased if i'd been involved in letting this happen.
i'd be so embarrased if i'd been involved in letting this happen.
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
found yet another chatGPT-invented entry from that botched translation today, this one had also been published.
i have initiated further clarification of our AI policy to keep this from happening again. my coworker who did this spent all day either unaware or pretending to be unaware he fucked up.
i have initiated further clarification of our AI policy to keep this from happening again. my coworker who did this spent all day either unaware or pretending to be unaware he fucked up.
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dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus
watching the dr who season from earlier this year, and that handsome young officer with the nuclear football in a house of dynamite being a dr who villain sure adds some layers to both.
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
watching the dr who season from earlier this year, and that handsome young officer with the nuclear football in a house of dynamite being a dr who villain sure adds some layers to both.
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fun fact: the borg collective is technically entirely voluntary, but it only lets you choose "assimilate me later" as an option so most people just end up going for it right away to avoid the annoying popups
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
fun fact: the borg collective is technically entirely voluntary, but it only lets you choose "assimilate me later" as an option so most people just end up going for it right away to avoid the annoying popups
oh dang
Many Rivers To Cross
YouTube video by Jimmy Cliff - Topic
music.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
oh dang
[V3cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
YouTube video by USGS
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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wow you just decided to yeet the goalposts right into the sun, huh?
November 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
wow you just decided to yeet the goalposts right into the sun, huh?
can people who realized they inadvertently paid $10 or whatever it was to read a poem of sorts (i'm being very generous here) describing RFK jr's sex fantasies get a refund? there's going to be a lot of eye bleach and therapy required to deal with the psychic damage.
November 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
can people who realized they inadvertently paid $10 or whatever it was to read a poem of sorts (i'm being very generous here) describing RFK jr's sex fantasies get a refund? there's going to be a lot of eye bleach and therapy required to deal with the psychic damage.
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In 1945, the US Army put out a training manual intended to help rank and file soldiers spot incipient fascism in the US. One of the telltale signs that one was dealing with a fascist was that they called everyone to their left "a communist." bsky.app/profile/seth...
The third fascistic tactic to watch out for is their tendency to label anyone they disagree with who is to their left "a Communist." Fascists claim that they alone can save their nations from "the communist menace." Anyway, the 2024 GOP platform contains the phrase "Christ-hating communists."
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In 1945, the US Army put out a training manual intended to help rank and file soldiers spot incipient fascism in the US. One of the telltale signs that one was dealing with a fascist was that they called everyone to their left "a communist." bsky.app/profile/seth...
woke up to the first snow of the season. blech. it'll take care of itself, air temperature is above freezing and there's rain coming later today and tomorrow. maybe not so great driving conditions on the road, but i'm not driving anywhere anyway.
November 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
woke up to the first snow of the season. blech. it'll take care of itself, air temperature is above freezing and there's rain coming later today and tomorrow. maybe not so great driving conditions on the road, but i'm not driving anywhere anyway.
nei. iran vudrerer å flytte *selve hovedstaden* på grunn av vannmangel. og det er noe helt annet enn å flytte *til* hovedstaden, som er en ganske vanlig ting for folk å gjøre og ville ha begrenset nyhetsverdi.
www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/gka...
www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/gka...
November 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
nei. iran vudrerer å flytte *selve hovedstaden* på grunn av vannmangel. og det er noe helt annet enn å flytte *til* hovedstaden, som er en ganske vanlig ting for folk å gjøre og ville ha begrenset nyhetsverdi.
www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/gka...
www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/gka...
i hope in a few years we can look back at this and say hey, remember 2025, that year was weird af.
and not like 2016 that we all thought at the time was the worst year ever and then it turned out it was just the warm-up.
and not like 2016 that we all thought at the time was the worst year ever and then it turned out it was just the warm-up.
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
i hope in a few years we can look back at this and say hey, remember 2025, that year was weird af.
and not like 2016 that we all thought at the time was the worst year ever and then it turned out it was just the warm-up.
and not like 2016 that we all thought at the time was the worst year ever and then it turned out it was just the warm-up.
hey, anyone remember how through the 1st trump presidency he kept replacing staff and cabinet members so frequently there were memes about it and scaramucci and stuff, and have i been missing it or has he actually not been doing that this time around?
November 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
hey, anyone remember how through the 1st trump presidency he kept replacing staff and cabinet members so frequently there were memes about it and scaramucci and stuff, and have i been missing it or has he actually not been doing that this time around?
20 days. and he's writing a bloody memoir about it.
i'm gonna write two memoirs about that time i had a cold for 6 weeks and didn't go out much, that's twice as long as sarkozy was in jail so i reckon that's got to be enough material for two memoirs about staying inside.
i'm gonna write two memoirs about that time i had a cold for 6 weeks and didn't go out much, that's twice as long as sarkozy was in jail so i reckon that's got to be enough material for two memoirs about staying inside.
Nicolas Sarkozy to write prison memoir on his 20 days in jail
Former French president complains about noise in extract from A Prisoner’s Diary, to be released next month
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
20 days. and he's writing a bloody memoir about it.
i'm gonna write two memoirs about that time i had a cold for 6 weeks and didn't go out much, that's twice as long as sarkozy was in jail so i reckon that's got to be enough material for two memoirs about staying inside.
i'm gonna write two memoirs about that time i had a cold for 6 weeks and didn't go out much, that's twice as long as sarkozy was in jail so i reckon that's got to be enough material for two memoirs about staying inside.