realhumanbeing.bsky.social

realhumanbeing.bsky.social

@realhumanbeing.bsky.social

Person known directly to some of you here - a little uncomfortable with this biography thing - this is where I go to make little jokes and zone out - such things shouldn't be too "public"

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Eh, I think the “post-left” going mask-off was actually good for the closely-associated “dirtbag left.” It became too disgusting to ignore, and most either faded away from politics or made a shift into sincere, humane leftism (Halkias is a good example of the latter)

Jane Coaston@janecoaston.bsky.social

I'm not saying every "dirtbag leftist" was and is an amoral garbage bag, but I'm not not saying that.

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as a guy who decided to go inside the system because being outside it struck me as rather personally perilous, it appears i did not factor in exactly how incompetent everyone making decisions inside the system would turn out to be

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No disrespect intended it’s just I don’t where a blazer or slacks to work and I’ve grown like 30 pounds since I last had to and I don’t get invited to these things often so it’s not been a priority to replace them, those clothes are kind of expensive and I’d rather put the money into house projects

By this standard almost everyone who ever got title insurance would lose it. On the other hand, they wouldn’t miss it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Dr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"

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there's some through line I'm not equipped to articulate from what google was publishing as SEO best practices between like 2017-2022 and what we now call AI and someone who can explain that evolution in plain language will probably be doing all of us a big favor

John Herrman@jwherrman.bsky.social

People have wondered what happens when the web fully rots out from underneath chatbots and search engines. Now we know at least one answer: AI is watching a lot of YouTube nymag.com/intelligence...

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I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.

Dave Willner@dwillner.bsky.social

Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.

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honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

arstechnica.comUnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit allegesFor the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

There have always been humans who thought: 1) The world will end soon 2) It will happen in a cool, exciting way 3) It’ll happen to me personally 4) I’ll be a martyred prophet, or a warlord, or otherwise special 5) People who don’t see this are lesser “Sexy apocalypse” is a great phrase for that

A big piano fell, and the security guar, who was whistling and walking back and forth twirling his baton, was seconds away from being crushed by the piano and all his teeth would be replaced by the piano keys.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The Kennedy Center is in a virtual state of collapse, and has been for many years ... unfortunately, the Building is destined to doom. Isn’t that too bad?"

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The president ordering USPS to illegally throw out millions of ballots is at least on par with what he tried to do for 2020, and in big ways it's worse. It's another attempted self-coup, trying to create a fake Congress. That he's even attempting it is already a deadly serious constitutional crisis.

If you voted for Trump or even sat one out in a state that mattered, I’m willing to entertain the idea that you had some grievance that mattered. There’s fucked up things besides him. But you also made a huge misread on the national politics scale, and you do have to figure out why.

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i'll tell you one thing though and that's that washingtonians are long on spite. we are a sharp, funny, spiteful as hell people. if i had to guess i'd say my hometown's about to be the epicenter of jury nullification

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everyone knows DC is my favorite place. so much glorious diversity packed into so little space. walk for an hour and you can pass through like six neighborhoods. great food everywhere, music everywhere, trees and parkland everywhere. past year's felt like i'm watching the cossacks burn down anatevka

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social

DC is a deeply eerie place right now. phalanxes of feds and national guard everywhere you look, trump's ugly fucking mug staring down at you from every other federal building. my hometown is maybe the loveliest walking-around-type city in the country and they are trying like hell to ruin it

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This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.

Great Aliyah game, great Diamond game, Kennedy working on both ends of the floor, Charlisse playing toug, Ashton having the best game of her career so far, Saniya getting some of her swagger back on offense to go with great D. Still love this team, gonna get the most out of every game.