Mitch ZF
@rotorouter.bsky.social
A walking bag of wet chemicals, animated by dad jokes. Jew by accident, neurosavory, recovering Southerner, slightly irritable cloud networking idempotentate. Not a cat, probably.
Legitimately beautiful. Burn all of them.
🧵The largest plantation in the South burned down this week.
And the way white folks—especially wedding vendors—are mourning “memories” and “brides who won’t get to have their special day there”?
It’s giving cognitive dissonance.
Because let’s be real...
And the way white folks—especially wedding vendors—are mourning “memories” and “brides who won’t get to have their special day there”?
It’s giving cognitive dissonance.
Because let’s be real...
May 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Legitimately beautiful. Burn all of them.
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And to this day, poor CRM ("Crew Resource Management" or "the captain is not God") is cited as a factor in a ridiculous number of investigations, and many incidents have been much better than they could have been because of good CRM.
fwiw: we have already tried the "just let Manly Men fly the planes and everything will be fine" approach to aviation safety
and we discovered that said Manly Men would sooner run their airplane directly into the side of a mountain than admit they made a mistake
bsky.app/profile/quin...
and we discovered that said Manly Men would sooner run their airplane directly into the side of a mountain than admit they made a mistake
bsky.app/profile/quin...
This isn't an exaggeration. Before Cockpit Resource Management became a thing, captains who acted like, and were deferentially treated like macho gods of the skies did things like let their planes run out of fuel or fly straight into the ground, and the other officers were too scared to stop them.
January 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
And to this day, poor CRM ("Crew Resource Management" or "the captain is not God") is cited as a factor in a ridiculous number of investigations, and many incidents have been much better than they could have been because of good CRM.
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Authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large. It uses the same tools and the same logic and, honestly, the perpetrators are often the same damn people.
January 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large. It uses the same tools and the same logic and, honestly, the perpetrators are often the same damn people.
At work every time someone says stakeholder I hear steakholder and want to schedule a meating.
January 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
At work every time someone says stakeholder I hear steakholder and want to schedule a meating.
It’s a moral good to offend morally reprehensible people: any time and energy they have to put into defending their reputation or arguing with you is time and energy they can’t use elsewhere. Increase their blood pressure, make them go home and need a drink.
When it's wrong, say it's wrong.
Stop being so afraid of offending morally reprehensible people.
Stop being so afraid of offending morally reprehensible people.
January 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
It’s a moral good to offend morally reprehensible people: any time and energy they have to put into defending their reputation or arguing with you is time and energy they can’t use elsewhere. Increase their blood pressure, make them go home and need a drink.
The only parties who will benefit from this grift longer term are the companies who make the hardware it runs on. Literally everyone else - shareholders, consumers, anyone who needs electricity or wants to breathe clean air - will lose.
I'm old enough to remember the last time OpenAI was pledging to build a big stupid supercomputer called Stargate. Nobody wanna talk about this? How stupid this shit is? How absolutely stupid all of this god damn generative AI shit is?
www.wheresyoured.at/bubble-troub...
www.wheresyoured.at/bubble-troub...
January 23, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The only parties who will benefit from this grift longer term are the companies who make the hardware it runs on. Literally everyone else - shareholders, consumers, anyone who needs electricity or wants to breathe clean air - will lose.
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If *that* gesture is a stim then this is a stim too now
January 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
If *that* gesture is a stim then this is a stim too now
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Excuse me everyone I’m sorry for the interruption but Merrick Garland would like to give a presentation on everything he bravely accomplished in the past four years
November 20, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Excuse me everyone I’m sorry for the interruption but Merrick Garland would like to give a presentation on everything he bravely accomplished in the past four years
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i've made this comparison a lot and i'm glad others are too. because file deletion is a really great example of the naive folk model of budgeting
the problem with tackling "wasteful government bureaucracy" is it's like deleting files from your computer called hostserver.dll that look useless and take up a lot of space and then your computer stops working
November 13, 2024 at 6:15 PM
i've made this comparison a lot and i'm glad others are too. because file deletion is a really great example of the naive folk model of budgeting
Ooh…this is a vanishingly rare example of an actually useful application for a large language model.
Even better: train an algorithm using Threads engagement farming posts to drive a Bluesky custom feed that removes all Bluesky engagement farming posts.
I'd pay for that.
#AI4communities
I'd pay for that.
#AI4communities
November 13, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Ooh…this is a vanishingly rare example of an actually useful application for a large language model.
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November 10, 2024 at 7:56 AM
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mass deportation will crater the economy for most but some are planning to get very rich
![Private prison company Geo Group's stock is up nearly 60% since Trump won.
On today's earnings call, founder George Zoley said the company is prepared to handle MILLIONS of people.
"In GEO's ISAP [monitoring] program, we can scale up from the present 182,500 participants to several hundreds of thousands or even millions of participants. In GEO's nationwide ground and air transportation services, we can scale up materially for domestic as well as int'l travel. The GEO Group was built for this unique moment in our country's history and the opportunities that will bring," Zoley said.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7vyyy23h3scgc3vrtzm5kbrx/bafkreigwi7co4dvo4v2nseoqkg5fbacskb3fg742petuyx2fs7xvxmh73a@jpeg)
November 8, 2024 at 12:50 AM
mass deportation will crater the economy for most but some are planning to get very rich
The Post’s coverage today is leaning hard into kissing Trump’s ass. Glad I cancelled my sub.
As Democrats on Wednesday morning digested the news of Donald Trump’s victory, the party was awash with angst-ridden second guessing.
They were also asking a deeper question: How has the party so misunderstood the country and underestimated the voters who are attracted to Trump’s message?
They were also asking a deeper question: How has the party so misunderstood the country and underestimated the voters who are attracted to Trump’s message?
What the Democrats are asking themselves after Harris’s definitive loss
As Democrats on Wednesday morning digested the news of Trump’s victory, the party was awash with angst-ridden second guessing.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 6, 2024 at 8:17 PM
The Post’s coverage today is leaning hard into kissing Trump’s ass. Glad I cancelled my sub.
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stop stop I can’t vote for her any harder
November 1, 2024 at 8:12 PM
stop stop I can’t vote for her any harder
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also, as I am not personally involved in this campaign and am just some guy on a niche social media site:
Trump supporters are garbage, especially the kind who show up to a Nazi rally
Trump supporters are garbage, especially the kind who show up to a Nazi rally
October 30, 2024 at 2:56 AM
also, as I am not personally involved in this campaign and am just some guy on a niche social media site:
Trump supporters are garbage, especially the kind who show up to a Nazi rally
Trump supporters are garbage, especially the kind who show up to a Nazi rally
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If you are from Texas, this is really brutal
October 29, 2024 at 3:16 PM
If you are from Texas, this is really brutal
Imagine that orange bastard, prickled with harpoons, rolling over belly-up by the side of the ship.
October 27, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Imagine that orange bastard, prickled with harpoons, rolling over belly-up by the side of the ship.
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someone on mastadon mentioned that threads' advantage over bluesky is that it's easier to talk about the marvel cinematic universe on there. I have spent the majority of my adult life trying to avoid talking about the marvel cinematic universe
October 21, 2024 at 1:42 PM
someone on mastadon mentioned that threads' advantage over bluesky is that it's easier to talk about the marvel cinematic universe on there. I have spent the majority of my adult life trying to avoid talking about the marvel cinematic universe
What are the odds that Ann Coulter is in fact hollow, and her almost lifelike movements are due to the efforts of a series of increasingly smaller Ann Coulters inside her?
August 26, 2024 at 1:53 AM
What are the odds that Ann Coulter is in fact hollow, and her almost lifelike movements are due to the efforts of a series of increasingly smaller Ann Coulters inside her?
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For the coming week
July 1, 2024 at 2:00 AM
For the coming week
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Ayup
churches that distribute voting guides to parishoners should lose their tax exemptions
The Faith and Freedom Coalition will be spending $62 million to mobilize Christian voters for this cycle. The plan, according to Reed:
-knock 10 millions doors
-make 10 million calls
-send 30 million voter guides to churches stressing outlawing abortion
-knock 10 millions doors
-make 10 million calls
-send 30 million voter guides to churches stressing outlawing abortion
June 5, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Ayup
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If I were a billionaire, I'd want to pay for a functioning society. I'm smart enough to know that a functioning society is going to work out way better for me than a fallout shelter
Live a life of luxury in a functioning society or bury myself in a fallout shelter hoping I never need medical help 🤔
Live a life of luxury in a functioning society or bury myself in a fallout shelter hoping I never need medical help 🤔
June 4, 2024 at 6:19 PM
If I were a billionaire, I'd want to pay for a functioning society. I'm smart enough to know that a functioning society is going to work out way better for me than a fallout shelter
Live a life of luxury in a functioning society or bury myself in a fallout shelter hoping I never need medical help 🤔
Live a life of luxury in a functioning society or bury myself in a fallout shelter hoping I never need medical help 🤔
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Although I'm cautiously optimistic about Biden's reelection, there is nothing fair or democratic about a few thousand Americans in a few swing states determining who wins the presidency.
Just your occasional reminder that the Electoral College is incredibly stupid and needs to die
Just your occasional reminder that the Electoral College is incredibly stupid and needs to die
June 3, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Although I'm cautiously optimistic about Biden's reelection, there is nothing fair or democratic about a few thousand Americans in a few swing states determining who wins the presidency.
Just your occasional reminder that the Electoral College is incredibly stupid and needs to die
Just your occasional reminder that the Electoral College is incredibly stupid and needs to die