Quantum Ham-OOO-logist

An important piece missing from our public understanding of this stuff is the very real academic research on forecasting via prediction markets, which convinced an awful lot of techbro/econobro types that gambling could predict the future if "smart" people did it. www.brookings.edu/articles/pre...

I think we underestimate the appeal of antigambling politics because every problem gambler is surrounded by 3-10 people who are absolutely sick of their shit.

We published this story late Friday afternoon amid an avalanche of news so I’m reposting it now because Kohen Wiley’s life mattered more than a box of diapers.

"Our mortars will blot out the sun." "Then we will fi-"BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM

Anti-trans Democrats are spreading poison when we can least afford it, during elections in this ongoing fascist takeover. As a strategy, it’s a recipe for failure. As a moral stand, it’s reprehensible. PS I’m the father of young trans woman and I’ll never forgive anyone who makes her life harder.

DA RULING CLASS MUST END - dashare.zone ADMIN

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

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I *do* think it's important to document what the far right is up to, but I can recognize that I'm not really the person in the business of documenting. Gonna try to keep this in mind.

Just learned this today! Thought it was cool, showed it to my highschooler, they were like, "Yeah, duh, we learned that in school." So there's something to be said for the US education system.

I have a theory that all "Great Men" of history can be sorted into either "and the device shows me boobs?" or "the moon in the fucking sky?" Lenin, Trotsky, Adam Smith, and George Washington are all "went to the moon?" Ben Franklin, Hamilton, Socrates, and Bakunin are instances of "shows me boobs?"

This is such a fantastic photo: "The Witches' Tea Party" but I want to use it to explain the origin of the tall, pointy witches hat. The real story of this photo: These are residents at the Hospital of the Holy & Undivided Trinity: an almshouse in Castle Rising, Norfolk, England established 1610.

Oh boy, as a working class person myself I can’t wait to see how Labour wants to focus on my needs. Guys? Guys? I am the type of working class you want to court right? Former factory worker and typist who started her own small business with a turnover of less than £50k per year. Right?

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

I am legitimately baffled at the fact that every single thing I've seen complaining about this has focused on the Cheesecake Factory part, as opposed to comparing the president of the United States to noted dictator and sadist Saddam Hussein.

I knew his face

Come to Bluesky for the Alf Hog. Stay to watch a politician lose 110% of his shit over horrible NFL commentary.

How it feels right now

This is literally what happens in the footage

The pro-Bolsonaro movement has begun instructing its far-right peons to go to polling stations and further disrupt the already-frail extended polling times. Reports say the instructions consist of starting rumours of polling fraud in case of a Lula win. It has begun.

I did not collect Garbage Pail Kids so that Art Spiegelman could make AI slop

Art Spiegelman? More like Prompt Spiegelman.

Now that this is out in the open, I can say that a certain book I did for a certain publisher affiliated with one of these people had generative expand used on my cover art without my permission, and it wasn’t removed before publication

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

Hatred of Acton’s biological mother doesnt mean we should punch down at unhoused people.

OK FINE

He looks like if Smeagol sued the hobbits, won, and then moved to Beverly Hills and got a lot of plastic surgery.

Hello, CIA? It's me, Cuban Dissident. Haha, yes sir, "hola" to you as well.

... the largest bicycle tour event in the *world* - RAGBRAI - happens in Iowa. The event has been held annually for over fifty yeas.

people are acting like this is about AI bots hacking into people's bank accounts but it's actually about people who have given their AI agents access to their computer on purpose

Here's a photo of a helicopter landed on Joanne's 227 foot support yacht that follows around her 290 foot main yacht

#mutualaid ❤️❤️

wow, JKR & HBO must be scared shitless about the backlash to the new HP series. I can't wait to cancel my HBO subscription on December 1st – you should too!

You might have seen the original "no genAI seal" by @kanaratron.bsky.social. I've made the icon into a set of assets in both PNG and vector formats that can be more widely used in different contexts. You can find them here: www.joramwolters.com/no-gen-ai-ico/

who’s up for some tankie (laudatory) posting on Bluesky TONIGHT??

Yes... if they put some effort into the costumes.

If a bunch of slave-owning rapists and their political buddies all show up to yell at me in the afterlife, my first worry is going to be which afterlife I ended up in.

Yeah, I'm in the same place, and the fact that you're using our collective trauma as cover to call a trans person expressing her fears "abhorrent" - especially when Dems have made it clear her survival is optional to them - is why the rest of us build power without you.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

I just ordered a copy through my friendly local comic shop. Excited to get it.

HOLY SHIT. For international free speech nerds, this is like finding out your nice greeter at the restaurant is Daniel Ellsberg.