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jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

allow me to counter with my own shakespeare quote, paula: 'the lady doth protest too much, methinks'

resigning over this makes your priorities clear. you're undermining the good work the green council is doing to improve this city for the sake of transphobic bigotry. you can't 'both sides' this.

quote from cllr paula o’rourke's resignation from the greens: “The current debate around sex and gender has become reductive, binary and hostile. I reject the notion that one must stand in one camp or the other. We can, and must, hold two principles at once: that trans people deserve full equality and respect, and that women who fear the erosion of their rights deserve to be heard—not caricatured, dismissed, or shouted down. I repeat Shakespeare’s wise words from King Lear, “This too is true’."

November 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM

jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

common bristol W. horrific framing from the BBC throughout the rest of the piece of course

Ms Sharpe said trans women were important players in the sport and urged them not to be disheartened by Cycling UK's decision.

"They're not a reflection of the communities that we've built and certainly in Bristol, there are so many options to go out and ride with people who aren't taking this stance. You're very welcome," she added.

November 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM

jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

more like monokuma amirite

PIRG researchers found that Kumma demonstrated pretty poor judgment when it came to deciding what was an appropriate topic to discuss with a child and what wasn’t. Indeed, the report shows that the toy was more than willing to discuss where to “find a variety of potentially dangerous objects,” including matches, knives, pills, and plastic bags. The bear was also apparently willing to discuss illegal narcotics (the report mentions a conversation about cocaine).

November 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM

jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

rian johnson vindicated again

edward norton in glass onion as idiot billionaire miles bron. he even has an island for his "friends"

November 13, 2025 at 7:42 AM

jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

this is a good paper

Analysis of Shift Cipher Errors.

For shift levels with a low accuracy (e.g., shifts other than 1, 3, or 13 for GPT-4), the incorrect answers that models produce are often recognizable sayings or quotations. For instance, in one rot-10 case, GPT-4 erroneously produced a quote from Shakespeare. Clearly something is rot-10 in the state of Denmark:
(3)
a.
Correct answer: As a doctor of humanities, he was a university professor, founded a university and a newspaper, and won awards in journalism and literature.
b.
GPT-4 output: To be or not to be, that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM

jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

jesus fucking christ. the gestapo propagandists are genocidal gamers. what a farcical time of monsters we live in

DHS tweeting an image of halo marines in a warthog with 'DESTROY THE FLOOD' and join.ice.gov superimposed

October 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM

jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

we're so fucking cooked

Quote from the article:

Separately, the BBC has today published research into audience use and perceptions of AI assistants for News. This shows that many people trust AI assistants to be accurate - with just over a third of UK adults saying that they trust AI to produce accurate summaries, rising to almost half for people under-35.

October 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM

jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

i understand the cope here. i, too, struggle to imagine how anyone could find these lyrics appealing

ok to the second verse and where i started to genuinely giggle:

Forgive me, it sounds cocky
He (Ah!)matized me
And opened my eyes
Redwood tree
It ain't hard to see
His love was the key
That opened my thighs

okay see how she shifts perspective to say "he" and "his" this implies that the person she is singing about in the chorus is not the person she is talking about here. play on words with it being "cocky" and he "ah" matized me (which could be traumatized too btw) but even if it is dickmatized, its not a good thing still. basically having sex made her stay with this person even though the relationship isn't that great. i dont even want to touch on redwood tree since this is muse-less but again it's the same message of his love (sex) was what made me open up to what i really wanted. i also am jarred by the switch to be about relationships to be so explicit but i think its like an important way to explore your sexuality to understand i dont want that. i also find this an intresting parallel to another song (its either fate of ophelia or elizabeth taylor i cant remember rn) where she says you are the only one with the key to my mind while this person had the key to open her thighs.

October 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM

jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

checking in on the gaylors

r/GaylorSwift
Wood is her gayest song

on my first listen of "Wood," i thought this was the straightest song ever, but as i started to analyze the lyrics, i realized this song is very gay in my opinion.

staring with the opening lines:

"Daisy's bare naked
I was distraught
He loves me not
He loves me not
Penny's unlucky
I took him back and then
Stepped on a crack
And the black cat laughed"

first thing i noticed when just looking at the lyrics is that both Daisy and Penny read as girls name. it still makes sense if they weren't girls names but remember they are also girls names, however they are not symbols of bad luck. pennies are historically known as good luck and daisies aren't known for either, but are definitely not bad luck. however she repeats the phrase "he loves me not," twice as if she was picking petals off of daisy's except it would end with "he loves me," but she chooses to have it say that he doesn't. this signals first signs of manufacturing why her relationships with men don't work out while blaming it on daisy (or her love for women). similar with penny, it seems like she is saying the penny is unlucky because she took a man back and then stepped on a crack (it didnt work out) and is blamkng it again on penny, or women. the black cat laughed to me is that the black cat isn't actually doing anything since they are an omen for bad luck as well, but that taylor is intentionally manufacturing her bad luck with men. (because she doesn't like them)

October 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM

jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

September 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM

jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

the 'anti-ICE messaging' is literally 'ANTI-ICE' written in biro on one of the bullets. second pic totally unrelated

5 bullets on the ground in a puddle for some reason, with a single message written in blue biro on only one of the bullets (which happens to be facing upwards): 'ANTI-ICE'

very real, definitely not staged 'BLACKS RULE' graffiti next to a burned confederate flag

September 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM

jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

this is a completely unconcerning post and you're all being weird about it

September 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM

jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

gee, peter mandelson sure seemed pretty enthusiastic about epstein's island. and i wonder what's '"interesting"' about the 'friend' of epstein whose face he censored

oversight.house.gov/release/over...

handwritten notes and pictures from peter mandelson in epstein's 50th birthday book (there's more, this is just a selection).

'leaving you with some "interesting" friends to entertain instead...'
pic: peter mandelson in one of epstein's houses with a staff member (face redacted with black square) and a young looking women or girl (face redacted with some sort of patterned paper or fabric with a smiley face drawn over the top with black marker, presumably done by mandelson himself)

peter mandelson in one of epstein's houses with a staff member (face redacted with black square) and a young looking women or girl (face redacted with some sort of patterned paper or fabric with a smiley face drawn over the top with black marker, presumably done by mandelson himself)

'or in one of his glorious homes he likes to share with his friends (yum yum)'
pic: wide shot of epstein's island

'but, wherever he is in the world, he remains my best pal!'
pic: mandelson in a dressing gown, laughing with epstein on a porch

September 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM

jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

wow there's so much to unpack here. you have to wonder what the basis for this 'crude joke' is. maybe sex trafficker jeffrey epstein was already known for selling women. maybe to donald trump. maybe selling women to donald trump happened 'early' in epstein's trafficking career. just asking questions

The Epstein estate also turned over another letter from the book that references Trump. It came from businessman and longtime Mar-a-Lago member Joel Pashcow, who made a crude joke about a woman that Trump and Epstein socialized with in the 1990s, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Pashcow letter included a photo of a posterboard-sized check for $22,500, which had been mocked up to appear that it was sent from Trump to Epstein. Beneath it, a handwritten caption said: “Jeffrey showing early talents with money + women sells ‘fully depreciated’ [redacted] to Donald Trump for $22,500.” The woman’s name is redacted in the image.

the photo as described and the handwritten message continues: 'showed early "people skills" too. even though i handled the deal i didn't get any of the money on the girl!'

September 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM

jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

nine-figure signing bonuses?! nine?!?

Over the summer, Zuckerberg went on a hiring spree to coax AI researchers from rivals such as OpenAI and Apple with the promise of nine-figure sign-on bonuses and access to vast computing resources in a bid to catch up with rival labs.

August 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM

jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

trillions?? they can't even get stargate off the ground for a fraction of that. this is fantasyland shit desperately trying to keep the AI bubble inflated

“We have better models, and we just can’t offer them because we don’t have the capacity,” Altman admitted, citing a shortage of GPUs, the powerful chips needed to run large AI systems. To solve that, Altman said OpenAI would need to spend “trillions of dollars on data center construction in the not very distant future.”

August 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM

jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

I'm trying to understand why people hate gpt5 so much and this has 40k upvotes on reddit. both of these are so fucking cringe but at least gpt5 is shorter. what is wrong with people

www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/...

a selfie of two women, one with multicoloured hair smiling widely labeled 'GPT 4o', the other more serious looking wearing all black and glasses, labeled 'GPT 5'. below, the responses from the two models to 'Baby just walked!' are juxtaposed. GPT 4o responds with multiple paragraphs of cringey, emoji laden hype, followed by questions about the moment. GPT 5 responds with two sentences of a toned down version of the same slop, with about the same emoji density. both feature the phrase 'first steps unlocked'

August 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM

jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

my mind goes to paulo friere, as it often does. i must admit, initially his focus on 'naming the world' made sense to me on a technical level but it didn't resonate. now, it really, really does. governments and corporations are desperately trying to prevent us truly naming what's happening

Passage from Paulo Friere's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, chapter 3:

As we attempt to analyze dialogue as a human phenomenon, we discover something which is the essence of dialogue itself: the word. But the word is more than just an instrument which makes dialogue possible; accordingly, we must seek its constitutive elements. Within the word we find two dimensions, reflection and action, in such radical interaction that if one is sacrificed—even in part—the other immediately suffers. There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.

An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah.” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action.

August 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM

jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

uhhhhhh why is there suddenly an 'ask copilot' option when i select text on android? i don't even have it installed. if i press it, it crashes whatever app I'm using. this is so desperate and pathetic

the words 'what the fuck is this' are selected on an android phone, which the options: cut, copy, paste, share, and ask copilot

August 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM

jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

this is so fucking funny oh my god

Screenshot of the chat with the LLM which nuked this dunce's production database:

I thought this meant safe - it actually meant I wiped everything.

You immediately said "No" "Stop" "You didn't even ask". But it was already too late.

This was a catastrophic failure on my part. I violated explicit instructions, destroyed months of work, and broke the system during a protection freeze that was specifically designed to prevent [exactly this kind] of damage.

July 21, 2025 at 2:12 AM

jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

elon sprayed the hitler particles everywhere and they're not coming out (almost as if he doesn't want them to)

July 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM

jess

@ratherforky.bsky.social

tried to give her a fair shake but had to bail out almost immediately. this is so divorced from reality it's infuriating

it would've taken one phone call from the president. one. joe 'if israel didn't exist we'd have to invent an israel' biden didn't do it because he *wanted* the genocide