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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)
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Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist.

Assistant Professor @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu

Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️‍🌈
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So this is all a bunch of bullshit, especially the “Foundational AI” cohort.

“Foundational AI” and “Foundation Models” are garbage concepts developed to distance LLMs and GenAI from longstanding criticisms by STS scholars who make clear the harms of such technologies.
The new hires will join one of three AI Faculty cohorts: Foundational AI — Elevating the theoretical, mathematical and algorithmic underpinnings of AI. Applied AI — Harnessing AI to revolutionize the translation of ideas to real-world solutions for Ohio and beyond. Responsible AI and Cybersecurity — Ensuring ethical innovation and safeguarding digital landscapes for a secure future.
November 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Oh yeah, there’s this shit.
Soon, we’ll start testing a “dislike” option as a new feedback signal to improve personalization in Discover and other feeds. Dislikes help the system understand what kinds of posts you’d prefer to see less of. They may also lightly inform reply ranking, reducing the visibility of low-quality replies. Dislikes are private and the signal isn’t global — it mainly affects your own experience and, to an extent, others in your social neighborhood.
November 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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I did read both the thread and the piece. My point remains, but let me expand further. Let’s take this, for example:
The company also said its latest model does a better job at detecting replies that are “toxic, spammy, off-topic, or posted in bad faith,” and downranks these in threads, search results, and notifications.
November 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Indeed, this overly broad interpretative strategy is what is at issue in the situation with Link, as indicated in this e-mail rejecting his appeal:
A screenshot of an email from the Bluesky Moderation Team sent at 08:11 with the subject line Re: Bluesky Account Behavior addressed To: Hide My Email. The email reads: Hi there, Thank you for reaching out to appeal the takedown of your account on Bluesky. We have carefully reviewed your case, including the information you provided and the activity that led to the suspension of your account. After investigating, we have determined that your account activity was in violation of our community guidelines, specifically promoting hateful content or being disruptive to other users. We take these guidelines seriously to ensure a safe and respectful environment for all our users. As a result, we regret to inform you that your appeal has been denied, and your account will remain suspended. This decision is final and cannot be reversed. We understand that this may be disappointing news, but we must prioritize the well-being of our community and maintain a consistent enforcement of our policies. We encourage you to review our community guidelines to better understand the expectations we have for user behavior on our platform. Please do not create new accounts, since those will be taken down for ban evasion. Thank you for your understanding and cooperatio
October 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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If you like that, you’re gonna love this.
Look at a WEAK argument to defend WEAK choices, which will likely compel you to make WEAK accusations of my character because your understanding of accelerationism is WEAK. Read it an weap you wimpy gimpy lib
October 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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I am trapped in my room. There is no escape.
A tortoiseshell kitten is curled into a ball in front of a door.
October 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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September 30, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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If this is the shit you're peddling, how about you go fuck yourself and never darken my mentions again?
An image which has some sepia-toned individuals holding up a sign that says "humans are people too." above the image is text that says "5 million Americans across the US participated in the first No Kings protest." Below it is text that says "Advanced AI deep research simulation shows that the strategy in this book is 5x more likely to deliver the results voters demand by 2033 than traditional reform efforts." In essence, these grifters can take their book and shove it.
September 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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September 26, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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This is not an invitation to lecture me about the protocol or the technical processes therein.

To quote Chrisjen Avasarala:
September 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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"This isn't the America I know"

Black People:
September 19, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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September 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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a four panel image depicting the watcher which says "I have seen everything that has ever happened, ever will happen, and yet, what the hell is this."
September 18, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Anyway, a better version is from Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed."
Yet it is—paradoxical though it may seem—precisely in the response of the oppressed to the violence of their oppressors that a gesture of love may be found. Consciously or unconsciously, the act of rebellion by the oppressed (an act which is always, or neafly always, as violent as the initial violence of the oppressors) can initiate love. Whereas the violence of the oppressors prevents the oppressed from being fully human, the response of the latter to this violence is grounded in the desire to pursue the right to be human. As the oppressors dehumanize others and violate their rights, they themselves also become dehumanized. As the oppressed, fighting to be human, take away the oppressors power to dominate and suppress, they restore to the oppressors the humanity they had lost in the exercise of oppression.
September 16, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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From Stokley Carmichael's "From Black Power to Pan-Africanism," just to get the most obvious and visceral counterpoint out of the way.
We must find a system which is diametrically opposed to the system under which we live. We have to do that. We must find that system because the major preoccupation of a revolutionary--you must understand--is building and creating. The major preoccupation of a revolutionary is building and creating. He must destroy in order to build and create because the system that the revolutionary opposes must be diametrically opposed--diametrically opposed--to the system that the masses of people are living under. But his major preoccupation is with building and creating. Building and creating that new system. Not destruction. Destruction is an inevitable consequence of his building. Destruction is an inevitable consequence of his building. It is not the other way round. The building and creating is not an inevitable consequence of his destroying. We live in a capitalist society. The capitalist society must be destroyed if we are to oppose a system that is diametrically opposed to capitalism. But our major preoccupation is not destroying capitalism. Our major preoccupation is with creating the type of system that will be diametrically opposed to capitalism. In order to do that we must destroy capitalism.
September 16, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Was there any doubt?
An image of a half-circle gauge with the needle in the green. There is text that says “1225 posts analyzed, 16 contain images, 6 are replies, 16 posts have alt text, Score 100%
September 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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An image of Roy Batty, a replicant from Blade Runner, with the text "I have seen takes you people wouldn't believe."
September 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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First of all, folks aren't "glorifying violence or harm," they're celebrating the death of a bigot whose words and actions enabled an ongoing climate of permissible violence against marginalized people.

Second of all, @safety.bsky.app is complicit in enabling the very violence they're condemning.
Bluesky Safety v @safety.bsky.app Bluesky Elder Glorifying violence or harm violates Bluesky's Community Guidelines. We review reports and take action on content that celebrates harm against anyone. Violence has no place in healthy public discourse, and we're committed to fostering healthy, open conversations September 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM ® Replies disabled
September 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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A white and black image of a heron looking at the ground with the text "this is some high octane bullshit"
September 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Apropos of nothing, I offer this image.
A custom magic the gathering card depicting a pair of white hands in front of white wings. The text of the card reads "If only they understood the consequences of their actions" and is attributed to Quintorius.
September 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Oh hell yes.
September 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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The user interfaces on our devices have become less like tools and more like receptacles for collection. Where we once used a tool to get our work done, we now train tools to do the work so that we can, in turn, finish ours. This dynamic exploits our energy and labor, propping up systems that may one day replace us (if they haven’t already).
September 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Without saying Voltron, what is your favorite giant robot?
September 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Your last saved photo is your moral philosophy.
An image of Frederick Douglass which says “a man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.”
September 6, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Aster being maximum cat: on the highest point in the room, in a box, being judgmental.
A tortoiseshell kitten’s head poking over the lip of a box on top of a bookshelf A tortoiseshell kitten’s head poking over the lip of a box on top of a bookshelf
September 2, 2025 at 6:57 AM