SwiftOne
@swiftone.bsky.social
He/him. Web developer; Instructor; TTRPG GM/player of multiple systems
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adore this concept & fully support it as a strategy. buy airhorns & do this for Christmas.
This is the best bit of advice I’ve seen on the internet 😂
November 24, 2023 at 3:03 AM
adore this concept & fully support it as a strategy. buy airhorns & do this for Christmas.
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June 2018. I'm in court defending a woman in her late 30s, who was charged with possession of marijuana
School's out for the summer, so she has her high school-aged son with her
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School's out for the summer, so she has her high school-aged son with her
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What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
June 2018. I'm in court defending a woman in her late 30s, who was charged with possession of marijuana
School's out for the summer, so she has her high school-aged son with her
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School's out for the summer, so she has her high school-aged son with her
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Pretty sure you mix all that, plus the damage Long COVID does to the brain, and you get a perfect storm of "we're fucked." Season it with AI, and it's pretty easy to see why kids today are just disillusioned with everything. Why bother when they can ask ChatGPT to do it for them? ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Pretty sure you mix all that, plus the damage Long COVID does to the brain, and you get a perfect storm of "we're fucked." Season it with AI, and it's pretty easy to see why kids today are just disillusioned with everything. Why bother when they can ask ChatGPT to do it for them? ⤵️
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"experts say"
www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...
www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...
September 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
"experts say"
www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...
www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...
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The stuff that, 15 years ago, would have been a screaming 72-point all-caps headline — and now appears in the sixth paragraph, almost as an aside
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
August 12, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The stuff that, 15 years ago, would have been a screaming 72-point all-caps headline — and now appears in the sixth paragraph, almost as an aside
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Bombing another country and then saying publicly "We're not at war with you and you had better not react unless you want more of the same" is about the most American and Republican thing ever.
June 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Bombing another country and then saying publicly "We're not at war with you and you had better not react unless you want more of the same" is about the most American and Republican thing ever.
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This is what drives me mad about people who say AI will "inevitably" continue down its current disastrous path, and that everyone has to learn how to make the most of it.
There are actual people with agency making decisions about AI, and they're mostly sociopaths.
There are actual people with agency making decisions about AI, and they're mostly sociopaths.
June 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This is what drives me mad about people who say AI will "inevitably" continue down its current disastrous path, and that everyone has to learn how to make the most of it.
There are actual people with agency making decisions about AI, and they're mostly sociopaths.
There are actual people with agency making decisions about AI, and they're mostly sociopaths.
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The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.
June 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.
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I feel like we used to have more time in our lives, because we were spending less of it fighting with enshittification of the most basic stuff.
June 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I feel like we used to have more time in our lives, because we were spending less of it fighting with enshittification of the most basic stuff.
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Worth reading. And, spoiler warning:
June 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Worth reading. And, spoiler warning:
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It’s pretty enervating that cruelly “deporting” legal residents to a slave camp in El Salvador, child separation, ruining the lives of thousands of public servants, bombing civilian dwellings by emoji, etc., didn’t move the needle for anyone in the Beltway, but crashing the stock market did
April 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
It’s pretty enervating that cruelly “deporting” legal residents to a slave camp in El Salvador, child separation, ruining the lives of thousands of public servants, bombing civilian dwellings by emoji, etc., didn’t move the needle for anyone in the Beltway, but crashing the stock market did
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…papers in the past 4 months alone demonstrating that over-reliance on "AI" tools diminishes critical thinking capacity & prevents students from building the kinds of foundational skills which allow them to learn more complex concepts, adapt to novel situations, & grow into experts.
This is so bad.
This is so bad.
So OpenAI is actively marketing ChatGPT to students during college finals season in the U.S.
We've talked many (many) times before about the kinds of harm that can come from giving over too much epistemic and heuristic authority over to these systems, but additionally, there's been at least three…
We've talked many (many) times before about the kinds of harm that can come from giving over too much epistemic and heuristic authority over to these systems, but additionally, there's been at least three…
![Screenshot of ChatpGPT page:
ChaptGPT
Promo: 2 months free for students
ChatGPT Plus is now free for college students through May
Offer valid for students in the US and Canada
[Buttons reading "Claim offer" and "learn more"
An image of a pencil scrawling a scribbly and looping line]
ChatGPT Plus is here to help you through finals](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybkylffhwhn2an2ic2lxh76k/bafkreidh6mhffosfxhbgnxx6aybjycvgj3c2ygzto2xhzvsohdsv3g6evm@jpeg)
April 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
…papers in the past 4 months alone demonstrating that over-reliance on "AI" tools diminishes critical thinking capacity & prevents students from building the kinds of foundational skills which allow them to learn more complex concepts, adapt to novel situations, & grow into experts.
This is so bad.
This is so bad.
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We're expediting sex designation change requests on birth certificates. People born in WA who want to change the sex designation on their birth certificate can do so by filing a request with us. . doh.wa.gov/DesignationC...
Sex Designation Change on a Birth Certificate
We are currently processing requests in three (3) business days. Please allow up to two (2) weeks for delivery and mail time for ordered certificates.
doh.wa.gov
February 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
We're expediting sex designation change requests on birth certificates. People born in WA who want to change the sex designation on their birth certificate can do so by filing a request with us. . doh.wa.gov/DesignationC...
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Under fascism, no one is safe.
Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.
Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.
Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.
Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.
Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
February 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Under fascism, no one is safe.
Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.
Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.
Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.
Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.
Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
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People keep asking “what does this look like.”
It looks like people literally standing in the way. As many as we can get. If you aren’t able to do that, you help people who are in whatever capacity you have.
It looks like people literally standing in the way. As many as we can get. If you aren’t able to do that, you help people who are in whatever capacity you have.
It is beyond crucial that this injunction be enforced.
If Trump won’t do it, we need to.
If Trump won’t do it, we need to.
BREAKING: Early this morning a federal judge issued an injunction stopping Musk team’s access to Treasury.
The showdown is about to happen.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/n...
The showdown is about to happen.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/n...
February 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
People keep asking “what does this look like.”
It looks like people literally standing in the way. As many as we can get. If you aren’t able to do that, you help people who are in whatever capacity you have.
It looks like people literally standing in the way. As many as we can get. If you aren’t able to do that, you help people who are in whatever capacity you have.
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Every activist group I know spent the last year or more engaged in intense scenario planning so that we could hit the ground running in the event trump won
Democrats have infinity money and an endless parade of overpaid consultants and they’re like “uh gee wow give us some time to get our sea legs”
Democrats have infinity money and an endless parade of overpaid consultants and they’re like “uh gee wow give us some time to get our sea legs”
“We’re obviously in a bit of disarray,” a Democratic senator told Semafor. “I don’t think people are really completely sure about what lesson is to be learned in this election.”
“Give us a little time,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin also said. “This is brand new.”
“Give us a little time,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin also said. “This is brand new.”
January 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Every activist group I know spent the last year or more engaged in intense scenario planning so that we could hit the ground running in the event trump won
Democrats have infinity money and an endless parade of overpaid consultants and they’re like “uh gee wow give us some time to get our sea legs”
Democrats have infinity money and an endless parade of overpaid consultants and they’re like “uh gee wow give us some time to get our sea legs”
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AI is the perfect seductress of the cheat. It purposely invokes a random seed to give the illusion it's not stateful, that everyone who asks it something would get exactly the same answer.
And it is the perfect illusion of playing the role using the vocabulary and grammatical structure of authority.
And it is the perfect illusion of playing the role using the vocabulary and grammatical structure of authority.
January 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
AI is the perfect seductress of the cheat. It purposely invokes a random seed to give the illusion it's not stateful, that everyone who asks it something would get exactly the same answer.
And it is the perfect illusion of playing the role using the vocabulary and grammatical structure of authority.
And it is the perfect illusion of playing the role using the vocabulary and grammatical structure of authority.
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Wish the Dems would understand this. The public opinion research is pretty clear that mass opinion follows the cues of their leaders. It's why every R believes there was mass fraud in 2020.
Dems, every single time Trump does something bad: "Let's see how the public reacts to X before we react"
*public does not react*
*Dems do not react*
*nobody reacts*
Dems: "Ah, well, nevertheless! Surely his next overreach will be the one!"
*public does not react*
*Dems do not react*
*nobody reacts*
Dems: "Ah, well, nevertheless! Surely his next overreach will be the one!"
January 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Wish the Dems would understand this. The public opinion research is pretty clear that mass opinion follows the cues of their leaders. It's why every R believes there was mass fraud in 2020.
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To my trans family, friends, and readers: you are loved.
If I can help, soothe, comfort or protect, I will.
If I can help, soothe, comfort or protect, I will.
January 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
To my trans family, friends, and readers: you are loved.
If I can help, soothe, comfort or protect, I will.
If I can help, soothe, comfort or protect, I will.
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At least with tutorial hell, they were learning something while watching the videos and typing the code but this skips both of those steps.
Or when the AI gets it wrong, they believe they learned the correct concept and just run with it, so when they hit a roadblock, they can't understand why.
Or when the AI gets it wrong, they believe they learned the correct concept and just run with it, so when they hit a roadblock, they can't understand why.
January 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
At least with tutorial hell, they were learning something while watching the videos and typing the code but this skips both of those steps.
Or when the AI gets it wrong, they believe they learned the correct concept and just run with it, so when they hit a roadblock, they can't understand why.
Or when the AI gets it wrong, they believe they learned the correct concept and just run with it, so when they hit a roadblock, they can't understand why.
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Unless a fine is "all profits from the the involved project/deal plus 10%", this is a worse than worthless tool.
January 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Unless a fine is "all profits from the the involved project/deal plus 10%", this is a worse than worthless tool.
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Four years since the attempted coup. What can you say at this point? We live in an embarrassing country, surrounded by unthinkable material prosperity but angrier & dumber all the time, tearing ourselves apart for effectively no reason. It's just sad.
January 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Four years since the attempted coup. What can you say at this point? We live in an embarrassing country, surrounded by unthinkable material prosperity but angrier & dumber all the time, tearing ourselves apart for effectively no reason. It's just sad.
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“Nobody said anything on the campaign trail about attacking legal immigrants.” Lady, they were trying to incite pogroms against legal Haitian immigrants in Ohio.
December 28, 2024 at 8:39 PM
“Nobody said anything on the campaign trail about attacking legal immigrants.” Lady, they were trying to incite pogroms against legal Haitian immigrants in Ohio.
