sz3
@sz3.bsky.social
Software engineer. Writer. 25% serious. Pessimistic about pessimism.
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Need an extension that blocks not only the poster but also everyone who liked/rt’d the thing
December 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Need an extension that blocks not only the poster but also everyone who liked/rt’d the thing
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Japanese Monk Racks
Brain For Haiku That Will Knock
Them On Their Asses
https://theonion.com/japanese-monk-racksbrain-for-haiku-that-will-knockthem-on-their-asses/
Brain For Haiku That Will Knock
Them On Their Asses
https://theonion.com/japanese-monk-racksbrain-for-haiku-that-will-knockthem-on-their-asses/
December 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Japanese Monk Racks
Brain For Haiku That Will Knock
Them On Their Asses
https://theonion.com/japanese-monk-racksbrain-for-haiku-that-will-knockthem-on-their-asses/
Brain For Haiku That Will Knock
Them On Their Asses
https://theonion.com/japanese-monk-racksbrain-for-haiku-that-will-knockthem-on-their-asses/
The fact is, as LLM capex continues to increase exponentially (as ai corps are projecting), it becomes increasingly economical to Mechanical Turk the thing
Today, DWI publishes a powerful essay by @mgasia.bsky.social, who works impersonating an AI sex companion: data-workers.org/michael/
This piece offers a rare glimpse into the psychological and economic realities behind one of the fastest-growing sectors: AI-assisted intimacy.
This piece offers a rare glimpse into the psychological and economic realities behind one of the fastest-growing sectors: AI-assisted intimacy.
December 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
The fact is, as LLM capex continues to increase exponentially (as ai corps are projecting), it becomes increasingly economical to Mechanical Turk the thing
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You know, it just occurred to me that I never reposted my old Twitter thread about the stuff I found in my car after it was recovered a month after being stolen. Spoiler! It was stolen by a woman. who left her journal in it.
December 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
You know, it just occurred to me that I never reposted my old Twitter thread about the stuff I found in my car after it was recovered a month after being stolen. Spoiler! It was stolen by a woman. who left her journal in it.
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just riffing on this, in 1944 my grandad's friend Paddy, who would go on to become a very distinguished writer, kidnapped a German general in occupied Crete and took him up into the mountains with a resistance team, from where he was sent on to the UK by submarine. Now, up in the mountains ...
there is not any particularly strong evidence that study of the humanities make people good people. the elites of many brutal empires were extremely well-read!
December 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
just riffing on this, in 1944 my grandad's friend Paddy, who would go on to become a very distinguished writer, kidnapped a German general in occupied Crete and took him up into the mountains with a resistance team, from where he was sent on to the UK by submarine. Now, up in the mountains ...
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Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
December 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
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More Zelda movie set leaks from New Zealand
December 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
More Zelda movie set leaks from New Zealand
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff
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Magnitude : 7.5
Region: *Hokkaido, Japan *
Time: 2025-12-08 14:15:10 UTC
Epicenter : 142.17°E 41.01°N
Depth: 44 km
*First posted at: 14:24 UTC*
https://geofon.gfz-potsdam.de/eqexplorer/events/gfz2025yact/general
##GEOFON ##GFZ ##earthquake ##magnitude
Region: *Hokkaido, Japan *
Time: 2025-12-08 14:15:10 UTC
Epicenter : 142.17°E 41.01°N
Depth: 44 km
*First posted at: 14:24 UTC*
https://geofon.gfz-potsdam.de/eqexplorer/events/gfz2025yact/general
##GEOFON ##GFZ ##earthquake ##magnitude
December 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Magnitude : 7.5
Region: *Hokkaido, Japan *
Time: 2025-12-08 14:15:10 UTC
Epicenter : 142.17°E 41.01°N
Depth: 44 km
*First posted at: 14:24 UTC*
https://geofon.gfz-potsdam.de/eqexplorer/events/gfz2025yact/general
##GEOFON ##GFZ ##earthquake ##magnitude
Region: *Hokkaido, Japan *
Time: 2025-12-08 14:15:10 UTC
Epicenter : 142.17°E 41.01°N
Depth: 44 km
*First posted at: 14:24 UTC*
https://geofon.gfz-potsdam.de/eqexplorer/events/gfz2025yact/general
##GEOFON ##GFZ ##earthquake ##magnitude
Patrick Mahomes tonight:
December 8, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Patrick Mahomes tonight:
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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The absolute highlight of the Kennaook/Cape Grim #AtmosChem science meeting is always Paul Krummel's update on the Antarctic #OzoneHole. This year, the hole closed by the end of November #CSIRO
December 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The absolute highlight of the Kennaook/Cape Grim #AtmosChem science meeting is always Paul Krummel's update on the Antarctic #OzoneHole. This year, the hole closed by the end of November #CSIRO
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As someone in the process of pursuing long-term residency abroad, one of the most dehumanizing things is, even with all my education and income, looking at the requirements and realizing I'm not "high value" in the eyes of increasingly anti-immigrant states only interested in the super-well off
December 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
As someone in the process of pursuing long-term residency abroad, one of the most dehumanizing things is, even with all my education and income, looking at the requirements and realizing I'm not "high value" in the eyes of increasingly anti-immigrant states only interested in the super-well off
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Im no crowd size expert but when the livestreamer pans out, walks through crowd, the crowd looks like it has grown.
People are chanting, offering pizza and water. There's amplified sound. Person yelling, "We aren't leaving. We're here for you until they leave."
Maple Lane in Elgin Illinois.
People are chanting, offering pizza and water. There's amplified sound. Person yelling, "We aren't leaving. We're here for you until they leave."
Maple Lane in Elgin Illinois.
December 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Im no crowd size expert but when the livestreamer pans out, walks through crowd, the crowd looks like it has grown.
People are chanting, offering pizza and water. There's amplified sound. Person yelling, "We aren't leaving. We're here for you until they leave."
Maple Lane in Elgin Illinois.
People are chanting, offering pizza and water. There's amplified sound. Person yelling, "We aren't leaving. We're here for you until they leave."
Maple Lane in Elgin Illinois.
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Lines, there's a shampoo CEO that styles himself as a warlord and bankrolls the Claremont Institute and runs his own post-apocalyptic secret society. I promise you I am not making this up.
Sorry what is this insane screed?!
December 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Lines, there's a shampoo CEO that styles himself as a warlord and bankrolls the Claremont Institute and runs his own post-apocalyptic secret society. I promise you I am not making this up.
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the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
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dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
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Daniel Jones’ college teammates helped him with custom collarbone protection while Jones was still at Duke.
Seven years later, his former roommate hand-delivered a custom pad to guard Jones’ fractured fibula the night before Week 12.
I spoke with him: www.nytimes.com/athletic/686...
Seven years later, his former roommate hand-delivered a custom pad to guard Jones’ fractured fibula the night before Week 12.
I spoke with him: www.nytimes.com/athletic/686...
December 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Daniel Jones’ college teammates helped him with custom collarbone protection while Jones was still at Duke.
Seven years later, his former roommate hand-delivered a custom pad to guard Jones’ fractured fibula the night before Week 12.
I spoke with him: www.nytimes.com/athletic/686...
Seven years later, his former roommate hand-delivered a custom pad to guard Jones’ fractured fibula the night before Week 12.
I spoke with him: www.nytimes.com/athletic/686...
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In South Minneapolis, Minnesota, nearly two dozen neighbors confronted and surrounded ICE goons after rapid-response alerts were issued. The goons were questioning an East African man when the situation escalated, and they eventually left the area without making any arrests.
December 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
In South Minneapolis, Minnesota, nearly two dozen neighbors confronted and surrounded ICE goons after rapid-response alerts were issued. The goons were questioning an East African man when the situation escalated, and they eventually left the area without making any arrests.
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Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.
Women gamers boycott global esports tournament over trans ban
Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.
bit.ly
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.
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you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit