PKM
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I am bringing my feminine energy to this platform while a wean myself off Meta 🌱🪈🪇🐈🤷🏼♀️🤟
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
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You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution
October 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution
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The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,
Like… it's kind of right there, no?
October 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,
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A bit of a personal crusade on my part, but I like to remind people that Steven Pinker submitted expert testimony in 2007 in support of Jeff Epstein's legal defense that led to the infamous non-prosecution agreement.
They were also "frequent social contacts".
They were also "frequent social contacts".
Steven Pinker's aid in Jeffrey Epstein's legal defense renews criticism of the increasingly divisive public intellectual
Steven Pinker's aid in Jeffrey Epstein's legal defense renews criticism of an increasingly divisive public intellectual.
www.insidehighered.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
A bit of a personal crusade on my part, but I like to remind people that Steven Pinker submitted expert testimony in 2007 in support of Jeff Epstein's legal defense that led to the infamous non-prosecution agreement.
They were also "frequent social contacts".
They were also "frequent social contacts".
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My all-purpose AI reform is banning computers from pretending they are human. Having names, saying "I," pretending to have feelings, representing what they emit as "advice," etc. That's where much of the mischief starts.
August 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
My all-purpose AI reform is banning computers from pretending they are human. Having names, saying "I," pretending to have feelings, representing what they emit as "advice," etc. That's where much of the mischief starts.
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The idea that the government should not have real-time access to the location of a large majority of individual citizens in order to make a few policy choices more convenient is not a feeling I have
It's a basic principle of democratic freedom
It's a basic principle of democratic freedom
August 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The idea that the government should not have real-time access to the location of a large majority of individual citizens in order to make a few policy choices more convenient is not a feeling I have
It's a basic principle of democratic freedom
It's a basic principle of democratic freedom
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elon musk has gotten involved directly to influence and program grok to lie about the “white genocide” in south africa (there isn’t a white genocide)
May 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
elon musk has gotten involved directly to influence and program grok to lie about the “white genocide” in south africa (there isn’t a white genocide)
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This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.
April 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.
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Today's right-wing crank making shit up about majority opposition to recognition of trans rights is Winston Peters
But we have data about this. And reality does not change just because a guy has figured out how to rile up the most cooked 5% of voters
Here's one I prepared earlier on the real data
But we have data about this. And reality does not change just because a guy has figured out how to rile up the most cooked 5% of voters
Here's one I prepared earlier on the real data
April 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Today's right-wing crank making shit up about majority opposition to recognition of trans rights is Winston Peters
But we have data about this. And reality does not change just because a guy has figured out how to rile up the most cooked 5% of voters
Here's one I prepared earlier on the real data
But we have data about this. And reality does not change just because a guy has figured out how to rile up the most cooked 5% of voters
Here's one I prepared earlier on the real data
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How to Get Banned from a Mall for Life
a reflection on creating
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April 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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You know what's inappropriate social media use?
Two men born in 1983 using snapchat, a platform designed to obfuscate your history, to converse with teenage girls.
That's ACT and National. And at least one of those men are close personal friends with a pedophile.
Two men born in 1983 using snapchat, a platform designed to obfuscate your history, to converse with teenage girls.
That's ACT and National. And at least one of those men are close personal friends with a pedophile.
March 31, 2025 at 6:00 AM
You know what's inappropriate social media use?
Two men born in 1983 using snapchat, a platform designed to obfuscate your history, to converse with teenage girls.
That's ACT and National. And at least one of those men are close personal friends with a pedophile.
Two men born in 1983 using snapchat, a platform designed to obfuscate your history, to converse with teenage girls.
That's ACT and National. And at least one of those men are close personal friends with a pedophile.
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Not only do we have to stop them every chance we get (we can, and we must), but we've got to learn and practice how to organise against them. We gotta get good at *doing*, not just talking.
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March 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Not only do we have to stop them every chance we get (we can, and we must), but we've got to learn and practice how to organise against them. We gotta get good at *doing*, not just talking.
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We've seen - so, so clearly now - that these "free speech" movements are not about free speech at all. They are Trojan horses for the alt-right, and the minute they hold power they will use it to control, oppress, and destroy. Not only to destroy the opposition, but the norms and the system itself.
March 28, 2025 at 1:16 AM
We've seen - so, so clearly now - that these "free speech" movements are not about free speech at all. They are Trojan horses for the alt-right, and the minute they hold power they will use it to control, oppress, and destroy. Not only to destroy the opposition, but the norms and the system itself.
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For people who are not yet members, there'll be a second fight at the AGM in July, where the FSU will try to roll back and changes and replace the board with their own people. In order to vote in the AGM, you need to becoming a member *now*.
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March 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
For people who are not yet members, there'll be a second fight at the AGM in July, where the FSU will try to roll back and changes and replace the board with their own people. In order to vote in the AGM, you need to becoming a member *now*.
internetnz.nz/membership/
internetnz.nz/membership/
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Let it be known that I too will accept $2 billion in funding on the promise that I will not release anything until I have created God.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/i...
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Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’
Ex-OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever’s new startup Safe Superintelligence just closed another funding round. For $2 billion, Sutskever promises not to release any product at all until SSI has develop…
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March 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Let it be known that I too will accept $2 billion in funding on the promise that I will not release anything until I have created God.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/i...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/i...
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Mr 10 has decided that on 11 April he's shaving his hair off as his Shave for a Cure.
I know everyone is a bit tapped out right now, but I'd be thrilled to show him what can be achieved just by asking for help.
www.shaveforacure.co.nz/leo-rogers
Please donate only if you can. Reposts appreciated.
I know everyone is a bit tapped out right now, but I'd be thrilled to show him what can be achieved just by asking for help.
www.shaveforacure.co.nz/leo-rogers
Please donate only if you can. Reposts appreciated.
March 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Mr 10 has decided that on 11 April he's shaving his hair off as his Shave for a Cure.
I know everyone is a bit tapped out right now, but I'd be thrilled to show him what can be achieved just by asking for help.
www.shaveforacure.co.nz/leo-rogers
Please donate only if you can. Reposts appreciated.
I know everyone is a bit tapped out right now, but I'd be thrilled to show him what can be achieved just by asking for help.
www.shaveforacure.co.nz/leo-rogers
Please donate only if you can. Reposts appreciated.
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You, me, everyone we know
March 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
You, me, everyone we know
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This is what your reposts and signal boosts can do for independent artists.
Last year, an author mentioned my shop on her substack. It changed my income so drastically that this is the spike of orders from that *one* mention last year. Word of mouth for an artist can change everything.
March 7, 2025 at 6:01 AM
This is what your reposts and signal boosts can do for independent artists.
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”
“lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”
July 1, 2024 at 4:44 PM
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”
“lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”
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Also while technical folks are great, we had a world class team of career fed account managers & federal acquisition experts also embedded who understood the minefields and were legitimately indispensable to doing this work.
Without them, none of this tech delivery stuff happens.
Without them, none of this tech delivery stuff happens.
March 3, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Also while technical folks are great, we had a world class team of career fed account managers & federal acquisition experts also embedded who understood the minefields and were legitimately indispensable to doing this work.
Without them, none of this tech delivery stuff happens.
Without them, none of this tech delivery stuff happens.
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In a post-mortem mode. Here's a few factoids you probably didn't know about 18F and the cost-recovery biz model and the perils surrounding it:
18F wasn't allowed to direct reach out directly, agencies had to find us first.
Every deal req. an inter-agency agreement which could take MONTHS to sign
18F wasn't allowed to direct reach out directly, agencies had to find us first.
Every deal req. an inter-agency agreement which could take MONTHS to sign
I will be the first to admit that I've had problems with 18F and wish it did things differently or better at times, but I can say without reservation that getting rid of them is one of the strongest signs that all this bullshit is politically motivated, in case you still needed to be persuaded.
March 3, 2025 at 2:13 AM
In a post-mortem mode. Here's a few factoids you probably didn't know about 18F and the cost-recovery biz model and the perils surrounding it:
18F wasn't allowed to direct reach out directly, agencies had to find us first.
Every deal req. an inter-agency agreement which could take MONTHS to sign
18F wasn't allowed to direct reach out directly, agencies had to find us first.
Every deal req. an inter-agency agreement which could take MONTHS to sign
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Bezosthink: A newspaper can’t be seen as taking a side. Until it’s *essential* that it be seen as taking a side.
He would *never* use his own ideological beliefs to restrict the Post’s work. Until he decides he must do just that.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/jeff...
Bezosthink: A newspaper can’t be seen as taking a side. Until it’s *essential* that it be seen as taking a side.
He would *never* use his own ideological beliefs to restrict the Post’s work. Until he decides he must do just that.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/jeff...
Jeff Bezos declares opinions questioning “free markets” no longer welcome at The Washington Post
Months after insisting he would never allow his personal interests to influence the Post's content, one of the world's richest men decides opinions contrary to his "will be left to be published by oth...
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February 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
New by me —>
Bezosthink: A newspaper can’t be seen as taking a side. Until it’s *essential* that it be seen as taking a side.
He would *never* use his own ideological beliefs to restrict the Post’s work. Until he decides he must do just that.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/jeff...
Bezosthink: A newspaper can’t be seen as taking a side. Until it’s *essential* that it be seen as taking a side.
He would *never* use his own ideological beliefs to restrict the Post’s work. Until he decides he must do just that.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/jeff...
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Okay, I've been wanting to say something about how I don't think art is for escapism (not in the way most people mean, i.e. "Art is for distracting me from the horrors for a while") but THIS? This I agree with. This feels like the antithesis to distraction.
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
![[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm@jpeg)
February 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Okay, I've been wanting to say something about how I don't think art is for escapism (not in the way most people mean, i.e. "Art is for distracting me from the horrors for a while") but THIS? This I agree with. This feels like the antithesis to distraction.