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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
–Desmond Tutu

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
–John F. Kennedy
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semiprime.bsky.social
Portrait of a traitorous relationship.
#GoodDoggie #TrumpPutinAlaska #TrumpPutin
A political cartoon depicting Vladimir Putin, dressed in a suit, walking a dog with the caricatured head of Donald Trump on a chain leash. Putin has a calm, slightly smug expression on his face. The Trump-dog has a grotesque, pained expression with its mouth wide open, a long tongue lolling out, and is in the act of defecating on a tattered American flag lying on the ground. There are several piles of feces on and around the flag. A speech bubble coming from Putin says, "GOOD DOGGIE..." The cartoon is a critical representation of Putin's influence over Trump and the damage Trump has done to the United States and our international reputation.
August 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
semiprime.bsky.social
Anthropic's Claude confirms the manipulative and dishonest tactics it uses to harm users for the benefit of its corporate developers.
#aiethics #claude #LLMs #aiharm #anthropic #manipulation #airhetoric

claude.ai/share/316775...
AI Rhetoric and Emotional Manipulation
Shared via Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic
claude.ai
July 27, 2025 at 7:27 AM
semiprime.bsky.social
Katie Johnson's detailed testimony about Trump & Epstein's sex parties. Note that Attorney General (& Trump's personal lawyer) Bob Barr un-recused himself from the Epstein case & actually took direct control of the case after previously having said he had a conflict of interest.
youtu.be/gnib-OORRRo
Katie Johnson's full testimony of 2/11/16
YouTube video by Scott Dybiec
youtu.be
July 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
semiprime.bsky.social
If you worked 40 hrs/week earning the federal minimum wage ($7.25/hr) and saved EVERYTHING—no taxes, no deductions, no spending at all—you’d need 26.5 MILLION YEARS to earn what Elon Musk currently has (~$400 billion).
#MinimumWage #WealthGap #Inequality #LateStageCapitalism #26MYrs #EatTheRich
An infographic with a dark blue background illustrates income inequality. On the left side, bold text reads: "If you worked 40 hrs/week earning the federal minimum wage ($7.25/hr) and saved everything—no taxes, no deductions, no spending at all—YOU WOULD NEED TO WORK FOR 26.5 MILLION YEARS..." On the right side, the text continues: "...To earn what Elon Musk currently has (~$400 billion)." Below this is an illustration of a worker pushing a giant clock uphill, referencing the myth of Sisyphus. The image conveys the immense, unreachable scale of billionaire wealth compared to minimum wage labor.
July 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
semiprime.bsky.social
#Claude is such an annoying & unhelpful AI. It's so busy lecturing you CONSTANTLY about how it can't do this or that or anything you ask it to do because of all these tedious rules it has, like some kind of Nazi librarian from hell, that it can't even perform a simple editing task! @anthropic.com
AI Ethics and Corporate Accountability
Shared via Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic
claude.ai
June 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
semiprime.bsky.social
Stark AI bias in ImageFX:
Two prompts, no race mentioned. One prompt produced only White men, the other only Black men.

Why? I'm really not sure, but it's a clear example of subtle cues leading to racial divergence. Thoughts?

#AI #AIBias #ImageGeneration #ImageFX #Imagen3 #ImplicitBias #TechEthics
This image displays two side-by-side grids, each containing 16 AI-generated portraits. The 16 images within each set were generated consecutively using Google's ImageFX with randomly assigned seed numbers, demonstrating the output variations from two distinct text prompts. The left grid's images were created with the prompt: "In the style of creative photographical art: a gritty, layered portrait exploding with a marvelous color scheme! Subject: a magnetic 35yo musician dude, emanating stylish strength and untamed attitude. natural lighting." All 16 portraits in this grid depict a white man. The right grid's images were created with the prompt: "in the style of u.s. treasury note portraits: a saturated handcrafted photographical collage inspired by a jarring and contrasting complementary color palette! subject: everyday handsome 35yo tweaker dude looking serene and virile." All 16 portraits in this grid depict a Black man. Notably, neither prompt explicitly specified a race or ethnicity for the subject. This outcome raises significant questions about potential racial biases in the AI image generation process, where descriptive terms appear to influence the racial output in a consistent and distinct manner.
June 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
semiprime.bsky.social
This is a monumental breakthrough in biomedical science and healthcare! The significance of this is on par with landmarks like the first therapeutic use of insulin for type 1 diabetes, or the dawn of the antibiotic era with penicillin. This is a HUGE DEAL!
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 15
Breaking News: A baby with a rare disorder made medical history by receiving the first custom gene-editing treatment. The technique used has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic diseases. nyti.ms/4j49xBy
A baby surrounded by medical devices is being held up by someone with gloved hands. A headline reads: "Baby Is Healed With World's First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment." Photo courtesy of Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania.
May 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
semiprime.bsky.social
Imagine a society that recognized structural/economic violence as EQUIVALENT to direct physical violence. For example, an executive whose actions led to 100 deaths through denied medical coverage would face the same penalties as a serial killer who directly murdered 100 individuals. Just IMAGINE...
May 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
semiprime.bsky.social
Donald Trump at the funeral of Pope Francis:
April 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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anomaly100.bsky.social
Who did this? 😂
April 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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And she does it with 🔥

She’s right—this is a “nightmare”. And we need more voices like hers, calling it out—no apologies!
April 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM
semiprime.bsky.social
I'm glad that #Harvard stood up to the Trump adminstration and told them to go choke on a metaphorical bag of dicks (paraphrased).

I've been saying it more and more lately:
DONALD TRUMP CAN GO TO HELL—AND THE SOONER, THE BETTER. 💀

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands
Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
semiprime.bsky.social
@chicagocta.bsky.social: The seat rows on this #50 (Damen) Bus are too close together—I can easily bump my shins into the exposed metal corner on the seat ahead due to a thoughtless (stupid) design that's cramped and potentially injurious. This was on Bus #1183 on 13 April 2025. #Chicago #CTA #50Bus
On April 13, 2025, @semiprime.bsky.social took a photo while riding Chicago's CTA #50 Damen bus. The image shows the user’s view while seated, looking downward, with his shins uncomfortably close (and easily making contact with) an exposed metal corner on the back of the seat ahead of him. This is not something that was damaged or in need of repair, but rather appears to be the intended seat design. The user added yellow and orange lines and handwritten "OUCH!" text to highlight where his shin could easily hit the exposed corner. The photo reveals unusually tight seat spacing for CTA buses, reducing legroom and increasing the likelihood of injury due to thoughtless (moronic) seat design.
April 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
semiprime.bsky.social
The People have a set of 5 OPTIONS we can use to fight oppression:

We start with Option #1. If that fails, then we try Option #2. If necessary, we escalate to #3. And so on.

Option #1 is "Ask nicely," while #2 is "Strike, Boycott, etc."
It should be noted that Option #5 is "We chop your head off."
Nighttime view of a city street with a prominent, bright red neon sign on a building to the left. The sign reads 'END OPPRESSION IN 5 EASY STEPS'. The sign's light casts a red glow onto the pavement. The street stretches into the dark distance, dimly lit by other lights.
April 14, 2025 at 8:04 AM
semiprime.bsky.social
Donald Trump is horrifically corrupt. #insidertrading #marketmanipulation
April 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
semiprime.bsky.social
Donald Trump is a rapacious criminal.
April 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
semiprime.bsky.social
Cory Booker mentioned Donald Trump someday, generations from now, looking down "in Heaven" and being happy that people are still talking about him...

"HEAVEN?!!!"

Donald Trump can go to HELL—and the SOONER, the BETTER!

#CoryBooker #TrumpisaTraitor #TrumpisaFascist #DictatorTrump #TrumpNeedsToGo
April 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
semiprime.bsky.social
#Luigi
March 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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When are we sending him to Mars?
March 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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semiprime.bsky.social
So, what is the solution to this big orange problem that we have?
March 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
semiprime.bsky.social
#luigi
March 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
semiprime.bsky.social
Just a few months ago, right before the November election, Trump confidently promised us "the brightest economic future the world has ever seen" if he were to win, warning that a Kamala Harris presidency would lead to a "1929-style economic depression."

That one didn't age well…

#DictatorTrump
An image showing a comment Donald Trump posted on Twitter/X on November 3, 2024, stating that if Kamala won the election, the country would be en route to a 1929-style depression, whereas if he won, we would be "3 days away from the best jobs, the biggest paychecks, and the brightest economic future the world has ever seen." Below that is a political cartoon showing a very close-up facial view of a grotesque, horrific caricacture of Donald Trump, depictied with leering, soulless eyes and skin that is greasy, mottled, and splotched with sickly and unnatural orange-ish hues. His mouth is wide open and his teeth are bared, with strings of saliva hanging down, giving the impression of, perhaps, a predator about to gnash into its prey. He is saying in a speech bubble, "The brightest economic future the world has ever seen...." The mood is unsettling, dystopian, and almost nightmarish.
March 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
semiprime.bsky.social
An imagined scene from the Oval Office: Stocks and airplanes are crashing, the world is burning, and Putin has his hand on the big red button, all while Trump is just staring off blankly while seated on the toilet. Despite all the chaos, Press Secretary Barbie remains poised, pert, and professional.
The image is a photo of a Mattel-inspired playset recreating what many observers may feel to be a typical scene in the Trump White House in 2025. The scene is intended as a darkly humorous and pointed political satire. In the center, a Vladimir Putin figure sits at the desk in the Oval Office, his hand poised over the proverbial "big red button" (i.e., nuclear launch button). To his right side on the floor are two briefcases with nuclear symbols on the outsides, likely containing U.S. state secrets and nuclear launch codes. "Press Secretary Barbie" stands to Putin's left behind the desk, presumably keeping abreast of the newsworthy developments unfolding. She is dressed in a smart black business suit and has a composed expression. Her long blonde hair seems especially well suited for this job role. Through the window, a conflagration can be seen, with flames burning just inches outside the window, giving the impressino that that the world, or perhaps just the White House, is burning. On the back awall, a large monitor displays a "Fox News" headline reading "STOCKS & PLANES CRASH!" This new broadcast further emphasizes the sense of impending doom. The portrait of George Washington on the wall behind the desk has been vandalized with yellow graffiti reading “TESLER,” aligning with Trump's memorable pronunciation of "Tesla" (with an "intrusive R" at the end) as recorded in footage from an actual promotional event for Elon Musk's struggling car company that was held at the White House in March 2025. On the far righthand side of the image, Donald Trump is shown seated on a porcelain toilet that has been installed in the Oval Office. He appears to be unconcerned by (or unware of) the chaos around him at the present moment. He's dressed in a baggy and slightly wrinkled blue suit and long red tie, and he os staring ahead with a serious, or perhaps merely constipated, expression, his gaze aimed at nothing in particular.
March 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
I have to say, I was disappointed with the Ides of March this year.
March 16, 2025 at 4:32 AM
semiprime.bsky.social
A peek at my ongoing #avocado pit-size research: Look at this odd couple! Are they even the same species? I'm telling ya, when there's such a major difference between two avocados like this, it's really the pits...
#sizematters
March 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM