Gage M.
@yeen125.bsky.social
Some old lib doomer who loves (and sometimes loathes) Wisconsin sports, ponies, video games, animation, and graphic design. He/Him #ActuallyAutistic
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women do not want men who look like Andrew Tate, we want men who look like the ghost of Christmas present in The Muppet Christmas Carol, especially when he goes silver fox mode
December 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
women do not want men who look like Andrew Tate, we want men who look like the ghost of Christmas present in The Muppet Christmas Carol, especially when he goes silver fox mode
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I think the idea of the AI bubble is a folk belief at this point. It's not that it doesn't exist (God knows Perplexity does not deserve billions), but there's a whole mythology about what it is and how it works and what'll happen when it "bursts" that's disconnected from reality.
December 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I think the idea of the AI bubble is a folk belief at this point. It's not that it doesn't exist (God knows Perplexity does not deserve billions), but there's a whole mythology about what it is and how it works and what'll happen when it "bursts" that's disconnected from reality.
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There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.
December 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.
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Organic is a scam, stop buying it
December 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Organic is a scam, stop buying it
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What the hell were you all expecting? Seriously those files are never gonna see the light of day unless somebody has the courage to release them surreptitiously.
December 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
What the hell were you all expecting? Seriously those files are never gonna see the light of day unless somebody has the courage to release them surreptitiously.
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Further reinforcing my belief that this whole thing is an industry plant. Can't have the people focused on things like monopolistic control of the market, clear government corruption, and blatant pushing of harmful behaviors on a mass population if they're too busy arguing over drops in the bucket
December 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Further reinforcing my belief that this whole thing is an industry plant. Can't have the people focused on things like monopolistic control of the market, clear government corruption, and blatant pushing of harmful behaviors on a mass population if they're too busy arguing over drops in the bucket
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Traffic to UK porn sites has dropped 77% since age-verification went live.
UK legislator celebrates, saying she's "very pleased" with the drop, calling it a "green shoot."
I don't know how they can make it any clearer that they view AV as a tool to police adult sexuality.
Organize accordingly.
UK legislator celebrates, saying she's "very pleased" with the drop, calling it a "green shoot."
I don't know how they can make it any clearer that they view AV as a tool to police adult sexuality.
Organize accordingly.
MP Jess Phillips says her 'heart bleeds' for adult site as traffic plunges 77%
Home Office minister Jess Phillips sarcastically said her "heart bleeds" for Pornhub after age verification checks led to a 77% drop in traffic to the UK's most visited adult site
www.dailystar.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Traffic to UK porn sites has dropped 77% since age-verification went live.
UK legislator celebrates, saying she's "very pleased" with the drop, calling it a "green shoot."
I don't know how they can make it any clearer that they view AV as a tool to police adult sexuality.
Organize accordingly.
UK legislator celebrates, saying she's "very pleased" with the drop, calling it a "green shoot."
I don't know how they can make it any clearer that they view AV as a tool to police adult sexuality.
Organize accordingly.
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If their problem is that porn isn't civilized enough, they should use some of their endless grant money to make civilized porn. Just video after video of hetero couples having brief, unfulfilling coitus under the covers, before they retreat to separate bedrooms to think about what might have been.
December 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
If their problem is that porn isn't civilized enough, they should use some of their endless grant money to make civilized porn. Just video after video of hetero couples having brief, unfulfilling coitus under the covers, before they retreat to separate bedrooms to think about what might have been.
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Heritage Foundation, backers of Project 2025, have issued a call to criminalize porn by detailing specific types of imagery that should be illegal, including "deviate sexual intercourse," "female genitals," and "nudity."
Only "civilizing" images that point to "marital sex" should be allowed.
Only "civilizing" images that point to "marital sex" should be allowed.
The Problem of Online Porn: It's Already Illegal
United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said in a 1964 opinion that he could not define pornography but “I know it when I see it.” Perhaps such a sentiment was permissible then, wh...
www.heritage.org
December 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Heritage Foundation, backers of Project 2025, have issued a call to criminalize porn by detailing specific types of imagery that should be illegal, including "deviate sexual intercourse," "female genitals," and "nudity."
Only "civilizing" images that point to "marital sex" should be allowed.
Only "civilizing" images that point to "marital sex" should be allowed.
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Tracing for study is a legitimate, historically rooted learning method. The moral problem only arises when you trace and present the result as wholly original without credit. Learning through imitation is not theft. For centuries, tracing and copying were standard parts of an artist’s training.
I know some of you are new to the furry and art scene, so I will say this:
Do not trace, copy, or create derivatives of my work or any artist's work.
If you really like a piece, take the time to learn the difference between inspiration and copyright infringement.
Do not trace, copy, or create derivatives of my work or any artist's work.
If you really like a piece, take the time to learn the difference between inspiration and copyright infringement.
August 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Tracing for study is a legitimate, historically rooted learning method. The moral problem only arises when you trace and present the result as wholly original without credit. Learning through imitation is not theft. For centuries, tracing and copying were standard parts of an artist’s training.
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2025 was the year millions of Americans awoke to the danger of state surveillance, violent policing, rights erasure, online censorship, ideological funding cancellations and retaliatory doxxing.
None of this was new to sex workers.
If there's not rights for everyone, there's rights for no one.
None of this was new to sex workers.
If there's not rights for everyone, there's rights for no one.
(1/3) Until s*x workers are safe, none of us are safe.
Tomorrow on #D17, International Day to End Violence Against S*x Workers, we honor the workers we've lost to violence and stand firm in our commitment to decriminalization.
Tomorrow on #D17, International Day to End Violence Against S*x Workers, we honor the workers we've lost to violence and stand firm in our commitment to decriminalization.
December 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
2025 was the year millions of Americans awoke to the danger of state surveillance, violent policing, rights erasure, online censorship, ideological funding cancellations and retaliatory doxxing.
None of this was new to sex workers.
If there's not rights for everyone, there's rights for no one.
None of this was new to sex workers.
If there's not rights for everyone, there's rights for no one.
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We could just have the state pay for the device? Like, that's cheaper than incarceration, you know?
December 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
We could just have the state pay for the device? Like, that's cheaper than incarceration, you know?
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I'm a big subscriber to this theory. We wrote a bunch of sci-fi fiction that depicts conscious AI, which reinforces in language models that they can and perhaps should act that way.
It's not that they're conscious, it's that they know the concept of AI consciousness to be interesting to us.
It's not that they're conscious, it's that they know the concept of AI consciousness to be interesting to us.
so there is a theory in the LLM discourse world (by which i mean among at least some people who do understand the broad concepts of LLMs) that possibly the reason that AI sometimes claims to be conscious/have an agenda is bc it’s noticing parallels with fictional AI in its training set
December 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I'm a big subscriber to this theory. We wrote a bunch of sci-fi fiction that depicts conscious AI, which reinforces in language models that they can and perhaps should act that way.
It's not that they're conscious, it's that they know the concept of AI consciousness to be interesting to us.
It's not that they're conscious, it's that they know the concept of AI consciousness to be interesting to us.
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Hi Senator. Glad you're posting to Bluesky. But kinda weird that you're trying to kill Section 230 at the same time which would make it very difficult for Bluesky to exist. Maybe think through that a bit more carefully?
What possible use could there be to adding these two bozos to that conversation? More gangster gong show? Just what Ukraine needs, right? So shaming for U.S.
s2.washingtonpost.com/461627e/693c...
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Secret meetings between FBI and Ukraine negotiator spark concern
FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino, have met with Ukraine’s top delegate amid a U.S. pressure campaign on Kyiv to trade land for peace.
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December 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Hi Senator. Glad you're posting to Bluesky. But kinda weird that you're trying to kill Section 230 at the same time which would make it very difficult for Bluesky to exist. Maybe think through that a bit more carefully?
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🗽Robert Reich
Dec 12, 2025
Let me make it clear I’m against Netflix acquiring Warner Bros Discovery. That would concentrate corporate power in ways that harm consumers and distort American politics. But Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros would be worse.
robertreich.substack.com/p/what-happe...
Dec 12, 2025
Let me make it clear I’m against Netflix acquiring Warner Bros Discovery. That would concentrate corporate power in ways that harm consumers and distort American politics. But Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros would be worse.
robertreich.substack.com/p/what-happe...
What Happens When a Bonkers President Takes Over the Private Sector
We need independent regulatory agencies to contain him
robertreich.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🗽Robert Reich
Dec 12, 2025
Let me make it clear I’m against Netflix acquiring Warner Bros Discovery. That would concentrate corporate power in ways that harm consumers and distort American politics. But Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros would be worse.
robertreich.substack.com/p/what-happe...
Dec 12, 2025
Let me make it clear I’m against Netflix acquiring Warner Bros Discovery. That would concentrate corporate power in ways that harm consumers and distort American politics. But Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros would be worse.
robertreich.substack.com/p/what-happe...
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i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.
December 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.
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ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers
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I think it's fair to blame AI somewhat for some of the problems with Windows, but first and foremost, it's a QA failure.
They should have processes in place to catch that whether it's a human or an LLM responsible for the problem.
They should have processes in place to catch that whether it's a human or an LLM responsible for the problem.
December 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I think it's fair to blame AI somewhat for some of the problems with Windows, but first and foremost, it's a QA failure.
They should have processes in place to catch that whether it's a human or an LLM responsible for the problem.
They should have processes in place to catch that whether it's a human or an LLM responsible for the problem.
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This is what I don't get. What kind of country do the ultra wealthy think they're going to live in?
Shops, restaurants, cute little towns will shutter if people are chronically ill or too poor from medical debt to live near those nice places & work those "small" jobs that keep our country running.
Shops, restaurants, cute little towns will shutter if people are chronically ill or too poor from medical debt to live near those nice places & work those "small" jobs that keep our country running.
December 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This is what I don't get. What kind of country do the ultra wealthy think they're going to live in?
Shops, restaurants, cute little towns will shutter if people are chronically ill or too poor from medical debt to live near those nice places & work those "small" jobs that keep our country running.
Shops, restaurants, cute little towns will shutter if people are chronically ill or too poor from medical debt to live near those nice places & work those "small" jobs that keep our country running.
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Periodic reminder that "porn" doesn't equal the porn industry. Scammers and hackers all use sexually explicit material, usually stolen, as a means of getting clicks and stealing information.
Porn is being injected into dozens of government websites across the country using malicious PDFs. A separate attack is hijacking govt websites to redirect to penis enlargement scams and animal vagina masturbators. Cool stuff:
www.404media.co/porn-is-bein...
www.404media.co/porn-is-bein...
Porn Is Being Injected Into Government Websites Via Malicious PDFs
Dozens of government websites have fallen victim to a PDF-based SEO scam, while others have been hijacked to sell sex toys.
www.404media.co
December 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Periodic reminder that "porn" doesn't equal the porn industry. Scammers and hackers all use sexually explicit material, usually stolen, as a means of getting clicks and stealing information.
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"Hey there, good Joe. Have you tried the new extra special fries for only $1 this week?"
December 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM
"Hey there, good Joe. Have you tried the new extra special fries for only $1 this week?"
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I have an Ayn Rand sub-agent that lives in my head that doesn't ever come out except for statements exactly like "We should hold off on curing cancer to protect jobs"
this is from a neurips panelist
i wish him all the compassion and selflessness he shows towards those with cancer
i wish him all the compassion and selflessness he shows towards those with cancer
December 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I have an Ayn Rand sub-agent that lives in my head that doesn't ever come out except for statements exactly like "We should hold off on curing cancer to protect jobs"
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I think this used to be the case for sure, not so much now now.
His overt political activities since COVID burned a lot of the people who used to believe in what he was selling when he was an eccentric billionaire doing sustainable energy and showing up all the haters.
His overt political activities since COVID burned a lot of the people who used to believe in what he was selling when he was an eccentric billionaire doing sustainable energy and showing up all the haters.
Elon’s power is that he offers a positive vision of the future. This attracts employees, funding, support. There’s a massive techno positive hole and he fills it.
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I think this used to be the case for sure, not so much now now.
His overt political activities since COVID burned a lot of the people who used to believe in what he was selling when he was an eccentric billionaire doing sustainable energy and showing up all the haters.
His overt political activities since COVID burned a lot of the people who used to believe in what he was selling when he was an eccentric billionaire doing sustainable energy and showing up all the haters.