Miranda Osthoff

People used to get online famous by saying like, “Uhh yeah, I love making my HOT BEAN JUICE every single morning!!!” But now you have to say like, the Monopoly Man fucked my ass

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

I’m glad that Lula won for a lot of reasons but selfishly it kinda confirms that “swagless son of a fascist freak” will probably be a losing ticket when Trump dies and if the boys make a go for it.

I think that if AI, GLP-1s, and anti-trans Democrats were all truly so necessary, people would spend less money advertising them and not individually threaten people who refused to co-sign them.

Bumper sticker reading “MY OTHER MAP IS THE TERRITORY”

I'm sure it's good that over the past several days I have seen multiple vibecoding people say their individual versions of "yeah this is like playing a slot machine for me and I find it hard to stop and I love that actually"

Something about the shape of the universe in people once railing against in-game currency being bought with real money, now generating YT content using robots that do 10,000 thefts to produce one kind of usable thing, but only if you feed them enough “tokens”

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...

James Talarico gave up his principles to make Elon Musk happy. Not for conservative voters—polls are generally showing trans issues are not high priority to anyone this cycle. Dem reversals on trans rights are *only* to assuage Musk & his one-man nationwide ad campaign. This is how Elon Musk reacts

I have refused to use the term “Somali gangs” despite tremendous pressure. Why? It’s a political narrative, not an accurate descriptor of gun violence, even if it was committed by a Somali youth. Who is driving this narrative? Republicans, the Strib, and police. Brilliant reporting below.

DEEP DIVE is up! How the Star Tribune turned Republican “Somali gangs” rhetoric into an election-year crime narrative—and helped give demands for expanded local, state, and federal enforcement the authority of news.

If you’re an author who’s been receiving verbose AI scam emails on a daily basis, and you’re wondering how gullible and ego-driven people think you are, this article helps to explain them. Sadly, they are successful enough to have been built into a big business. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

This shit is so cool. They took away being able to afford computers for this shit.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

“Liked by Bluesky” on this is very rich considering its leadership draws the line somewhere between “having politics” and “saying anything about that as an individual”

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

How to escape samsara how to escape samsara fast how to escape samsara solo run how to escape samsara reddit how to escape samsara -pinterest

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

I think being quoted this month right next to Tarn in Edge magazine is a career highlight. What a truly lovely bloke. Check out this awesome article

I’d never heard the Hassabis quote “[brains are] a biological approximation to a Turing machine,” but wow that is incredibly wrong, nonsensical even lol www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. www.404media.co/humans-readi...

Apparently nothing is all good or bad and we need to take a middling stance on everything except people who think using your brain is, sometimes, a good thing :)

the best part of the internet is about ten years ago we got really up in arms about truth in media and so on and so forth and we have nicely corralled that impulse into "constantly sharing screenshots of random social media accounts that adopt the tone of news sources with no context or verification

I'm convinced Newsom isn't running for President at all. Sure, he might have a committee and use it as a slush fund, but he's running to be appointed to corporate boards and fake think tanks and stuff. Just too many examples of him going out of his way to show he's not aligned with the Dem base.

I would be EXTREMELY annoyed to discover my PR is "AI"-generated, and as someone bombarded with dozens of "AI"-generated emails daily, I assure you the stink of "AI" is immediately noticable and immediately dismissible. Publishers are not doing their new books any favors in using it.

This race has undeniable national implications. BOLTS mag has identified our campaign as a top 25 race shaping ICE accountability. Prosecute ICE: Vote Frazier

I keep saying it and research keeps agreeing: as someone with ADHD, when tasks feel miserable/low value/not immediate, it takes a ton of fucking energy to do them; this shit is making everyone feel that way about basic things. Why would I want more of that. No.

🧵 it's exhausting that once or twice a year, mainstream media outlets will publish "study shows LGBTQ+ identification in 'free fall'!" articles without 1) mentioning other recent studies showing otherwise, 2) providing proper context about what it possibly means... bsky.app/profile/them...