Masters Preferred

BRAZIL YOU HAVE SHOCKED THE WORLD

But I don't wanna get my shit together!

In recent cases, it's not that AI somehow "escaped containment" or "went rogue." That's anthropomorphizing at best. It's more like if a Boston Dynamics robot dog nudged open an already open door and walked in.

let’s check out google trends from today’s ai outage to see how it affected the aggregate psychosis

we huff opium in this web zone

i would love 1000% less "can women trust any man" and 1000% more "what would a world look like where women are structurally less vulnerable to untrustworthy men" in feminist blogging these days

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Irresponsible journalism. Think of how many hauntings and possessions this will enable.

my NYT op-ed, “If You Can’t Tell, I’m Projecting Onto Graham Platner”, is postponed out of respect for those involved

ugh, content

important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day

many people have been saying this

how great it will be when colbert announces his revival on infowars

the daughter from the barbie movie was completely correct

Saying hello, while time runs out. masters-preferred.ghost.io/introductions/

there are hank hills everywhere for those with eyes to see

UBI Before AGI

threatening aura

my humble thought for the woke 2 planning committee is to promote proportionality when engaging in Discourse Online(tm). If one seeks tea, ask how much there really is, what has been steeping in it, who is serving it, and consider what bitterness comes when it’s too hot for too long ☯️

DJ Pauly K breaking it down like no other in the neo-gilded age

youtu.be/nh6Hf5_ZYPI?...

I am once again fantasizing about respectable employment doing something that benefits society in a tangible way

“Always ask: What is someone trying to make me feel, and why?”

This is also how to think of everyone posting here, on Al Gore’s internet

Tukey xkcd.com/3104/

researchers, librarians, laywers, anyone with familiarity with the LOC: What do you think is most at risk if the current administration gained more control over the Library of Congress?

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

As of today, there are more kids infected with measles than there are trans athletes playing in college sports in the U.S.

maybe jeremy renner had the right idea about social media and we should just have our own individual apps we make our loved ones use

#krasnov

Street Interviews during a strike in Durban, South Africa, 1973 youtu.be/QColiLCwErk

an unfornate truth! At least Guinness gave us the t-test

So about ten years ago I found a small network of bots on Reddit dedicated to spreading hate. The thing about it is that these weren't even responding to political topics - they were just responding to random keywords with insults and hate. The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵

🧵There are 45 days until Inauguration Day, and I’m working on updating the Capitol Riot Map—an interactive visualization of the more than 1,500 individuals arrested or charged in connection to January 6th. Follow this thread for updates, and explore the interactive visualization: capitolriotmap.com

More thoughts on Bluesky & business models. We need social networks with business models akin to Craigslist, where money is intentionally left on the table. Do you think they could live with that? tedium.co/2024/12/05/b... new @tedium.co

Every public action on Bluesky is available via a stream of events known as the firehose. By monitoring the firehose for repeated text, it is sometimes possible to quickly detect groups of spam accounts as they spawn.

I'm going to try to post more about papers I read. This morning I read "Stoking the Flames: Understanding Escalation in an Online Harassment Community" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/.... In the paper, @kejsitake.bsky.social and co-authors look at the harassment community Kiwi Farms.