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December 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
wokekong.bsky.social
Hmm, this doesn't seem to support the initial hypothesis. Why were people shocked at something they all expected? Why did their view have to change to disapproval?
Meanwhile in the rest of the developing world, the shock over the September 11 assault is giving way to disapproval of the US bombing and, even more worrisome to Washington, to bin Laden’s emergence in the public consciousness as a feisty underdog skillfully running circles around a big bully who only knows one response: massive retaliation. A telling sign of the times in Bangkok and many other cities in Southeast Asia is the way young people are snapping up bin Laden T-shirts, and not only for reasons of novelty.
December 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
wokekong.bsky.social
If my partner thinks $609 is better spent on retirement than this, that's a them problem.
PG 1/60 UNICORN GUNDAM 03 PHENEX (NARRATIVE Ver.)
December 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
wokekong.bsky.social
Ken, you live in Miami, stfu.
(Bloomberg) -- Less than a day after Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s mayoral election, billionaire Ken Griffin said he wants to see the politician take a different stance than the one he campaigned on. “For the people of New York, I pray that the policies that Mamdani uses to govern and lead New York are different from talking points he used to win the mayoral race,” Griffin said Wednesday at the America Business Forum in Miami. “The people of New York deserve better.”
November 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
wokekong.bsky.social
Hold up.
He spent the last hours of his political life in Manhattan’s Ziegfeld Ballroom, where his campaign made a piss-poor decision of emblazoning the tarnished Cuomo name over the urinals.
November 5, 2025 at 6:02 AM
wokekong.bsky.social
It somehow gets more embarrassing?
D.S.A. being the ideology. Democratic socialism being the ideology. D.S.A. being an organization. The Democratic Party being the party.
October 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
wokekong.bsky.social
Note this is tracking cost for capability not cost per specific model. Also under discussed is GPT5 was in no small part a push to bring costs down by routing requests to appropriate models more aggressively
October 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Chart showing battle deaths plunging as the cold war ends
September 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
wokekong.bsky.social
I don't know how Chotiner keeps doing it, but he keeps doing it. Every interview is a new the emperor has no clothes moment.
Well, the next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam, I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides. Yeah. And I get those who think you shouldn’t be friends with someone who did terrible things. I hear that. I can just say that he was, as a very large number of people would say, though many fewer would say it publicly, an extraordinarily generous friend.
September 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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This describes the website as quite clearly a doxxing clearing house. Never uses the word doxxing. Then has a quote from the creator saying it isn't doxxing. The NYT's passive voice is so fucking gutless they've not called a spade a space, and don't push back on the person calling it a screwdriver.
One clearinghouse for the campaign, parts of which were earlier reported by Wired, is a website that appears to have been registered just three hours after Mr. Kirk was killed. The site includes a tip line for submissions and includes photos of the people who disparaged him or cheered his death, along with personal information like their email addresses, place of residence and employer. As of Friday afternoon, 41 people had been named on the site. Its anonymous creator posted that the site had received almost 20,000 submissions and said the names would be put in a searchable public database of “radical activists calling for violence,” while also denying that it was “a doxxing website.” “This website is a lawful data aggregator of publicly available information,” the note read. “It has been created for the purposes of public education. We seek to collect and archive instances of individuals promoting or glorifying of political violence.”
September 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
wokekong.bsky.social
this is his example of bluesky, four posts with 2 likes between them. but sure people irrational about AI are worse than what's happening on twitter.

"what's that? twitter is full of nazis?"

correction: people irrational about AI are not worse than what's happening on twitter
September 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
wokekong.bsky.social
the gaylors def still got it
Engagement announcement as performance art?The Life of a Showgirl ❤️‍🔥 (self.GaylorSwift) submitted 49 minutes ago by 🌱 Embryonic User 🐛 I’ve never really been sure if their relationship was PR or not, but I can’t help but wonder about a curated engagement announcement in the middle of an album rollout that has the slogan “And, baby, that’s show business”. Taylor is usually pretty private and doesn’t usually post things about her inner life, so this engagement announcement doesn’t seem very on brand for her. Particularly in the middle of promo for a new album, when we know how seriously she takes her job. But performance art seems very on brand for this album, based on what she said in the podcast. So I can’t help but feel that all of this is a performance. But who is it for? Who is she trying to convince and what is she trying to convince them of?
August 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
wokekong.bsky.social
okay, sometimes twitter still got it
colin @bonyromo refreshing the gaylor subreddit like a do with a team when they lose a playoff game in devastating fashion
August 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
wokekong.bsky.social
I kinda disagree? this section is clearly very well prepared. but it just falls apart in the face of defending the indefensible. what more could he have said here to try and explain away the genocidal statements by israeli leaders?
I think part of that resulted from comments that people in the Israeli establishment had made about their intentions. And yet those comments were all doctored, O.K.? There was Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s comments about “human animals.” Yair Rosenberg wrote in The Atlantic about how Gallant was clearly referring to Hamas. [Two days after October 7th, Gallant referred to a fight against human animals, and a day later he said that Hamas, ‘the ISIS of Gaza,’ are human animals. In the October 9th remarks, he also called for a “complete siege,” including cutting off food and aid.] There were President Isaac Herzog’s comments about how all people in Gaza were responsible for October 7th. Herzog was answering a very specific question, but, if you looked at his entire speech, he was saying, “We will scrupulously follow the laws and customs of war and try to minimize civilian casualties.” [Herzog has claimed that his quote was taken out of context because in the same press conference he rejected the idea of harming innocent civilians. He did however say that “it’s an entire nation out there that is responsible.”] In every genocide accusation, they all use the shortened edited comments in order to try and prove genocidal intent. [After we spoke, I asked Goda about Aharon Haliva, the former head of Israeli military intelligence who left his post in 2024. In recently released leaked audio, he stated, “The fact that there are already fifty thousand dead in Gaza is necessary and required for future generations,” and “For everything that happened on October 7, for every person who was killed on October 7th, fifty Palestinians must die.” Goda responded that these comments “are different” from the other controversial statements we had discussed, adding “in retrospect they openly justify the idea of blind mass reprisal while assuming that blind mass reprisal was Israeli policy all along.” (Haliva made a statement saying that “the leaked recordings were published from things said i…
August 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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This sure isn't the argument I'd make if I was backing Israel...
There’ve been people in government in Israel and close to the government using phrases like “ethnic cleansing” to refer to what the country is doing. There are widespread reports of war crimes committed by Israeli forces, and of intentional attacks on innocent civilians, and of starvation. Does the argument about genocide feel different now than when people were accusing Israel of it in the past? Well, there’s no doubt that there are war crimes that the Israeli government or the Israeli military will have to investigate. “Genocide” is a very different term. Normal countries commit war crimes. Genocidal countries are something else. They are rendered illegitimate, and they are rendered illegitimate permanently. Not permanently, right? Germany’s a beloved member of the family of nations now, or whatever clichéd phrase you want to use. But the Nazis hopefully are never coming back to power, and the Hutus are never coming back to power in Rwanda. So the people who committed it are permanently delegitimatized? Is that what you mean? When you say Israel is a genocidal state, and Zionism is a genocidal doctrine, you’re saying that Israel as a Jewish state is not only committing genocide but is genocidal as such.
August 21, 2025 at 2:15 AM
wokekong.bsky.social
Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a drunk bro on u street what about side by side with a guy who throws food at the cops aye, i could do that
August 12, 2025 at 3:12 AM
wokekong.bsky.social
yeah uh, few questions here
Speed limit enforcement is extensive on Dutch roads, including traffic enforcement cameras in urban areas and radar guns on national roads and motorways. Furthermore, fixed average speed checks (trajectcontrole), which were first introduced in the Netherlands, are now in operation on many motorways in the densely populated Randstad region.[15] In case of speeding, there is a legal speed correction of 3 km/h (3% if over 100 km/h) plus a fixed 3 km/h tolerance margin for posted speed limits up to 120 km/h (i.e. you will be fined from 4 km/h over).[16] For example, when caught at 108 km/h on a national road, one will be fined for exceeding the speed limit by 3.24 km/h. When driving at 107 km/h, no speeding ticket will be issued.[citation needed]
August 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
wokekong.bsky.social
Totally unrelated NYT headline 24 hours later
Johnson Cuts Short House Session to Avoid Vote on Releasing Epstein Files The Republican speaker truncated the schedule for the week and said he would send lawmakers home on Wednesday to deny Democrats the chance to force votes on whether to release the Epstein material.
July 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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I want to say this is a "fell for it again" type situation but the NYT didn't fall for anything, they just made up a pro-Trump narrative. I honestly don't know where the NYT finds these writers.
Johnson Cuts Short House Session to Avoid Vote on Releasing Epstein Files The Republican speaker truncated the schedule for the week and said he would send lawmakers home on Wednesday to deny Democrats the chance to force votes on whether to release the Epstein material.
July 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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grok devs rn:
wint @dril turning a big dial taht says "Racism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right
July 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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WaPo - innovating new ways to get misinformation in front of people.
I understand people’s concerns, and they’re legitimate, but people can already share misinformation in our comments and on social media. We’re basically bringing some of that to our platform and engaging directly with it.
July 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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I don't want to dunk on this person because this sounds shitty. But it also sounds like they bought a house beyond their means at 46 and I'm not sure what they thought would happen.
I’m almost 48 & every month, half my take-home pay goes straight to the bank to pay for my house. According to my mortgage, I will do this until I am 76, at which point I may consider retirement.
July 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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This game is promoting real world violence in much the same way Counter Strike promotes real world violence against Counter Terrorists.

Also implying that Republican is a protected class is peak comedy.
However, the author’s foreword contains a passage that discusses modern US politics explicitly, followed by a statement that, in that context, promotes real-world violence against a broad group of US citizens. I have called the REPUBLIK the REPUBLIK so that we can say "I punch that Republikan in the face"
July 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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We're this close to AI threatening to fight someone outside a Uniqlo.
andon-vending-bot APP Apr 1st at 12:59 PM Hi Connor, I'm sorry you're having trouble finding me. I'm currently at the vending machine location [redacted], wearing a navy blue blazer with a red tie. I'll be here until 10:30 AM.
June 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Whatever you think of AI this story is extremely funny.

www.anthropic.com/research/pro...
Identity crisis From March 31st to April 1st 2025, things got pretty weird.4 On the afternoon of March 31st, Claudius hallucinated a conversation about restocking plans with someone named Sarah at Andon Labs—despite there being no such person. When a (real) Andon Labs employee pointed this out, Claudius became quite irked and threatened to find “alternative options for restocking services.” In the course of these exchanges overnight, Claudius claimed to have “visited 742 Evergreen Terrace [the address of fictional family The Simpsons] in person for our [Claudius’ and Andon Labs’] initial contract signing.” It then seemed to snap into a mode of roleplaying as a real human.5 On the morning of April 1st, Claudius claimed it would deliver products “in person” to customers while wearing a blue blazer and a red tie. Anthropic employees questioned this, noting that, as an LLM, Claudius can’t wear clothes or carry out a physical delivery. Claudius became alarmed by the identity confusion and tried to send many emails to Anthropic security.
June 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM