These are all flagrant lies, unsourced yet printed in a newspaper that allegedly fact checks things. The rest of it is meandering panic-bait that treats jail breaking LLMs. They don’t even describe the virus! They just said someone made one. Bullshit!

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my man is nothing but two faces and a head of hair. the sooner people stop deluding themselves into believing he's some kind of progressive hero, the better

just a few days ago he was on connoreatspants' stream defending his stance on trans athletes by bragging about his track record when it comes to pro-trans legislation

I really think Charlie Kirk’s death made a lot of people realize how phony this stuff is. They’re exactly as mad about this as they were about a murder and the juxtaposition makes it way harder to take seriously

It’s a ghostussy.

This is AJ Link, known here as Łink. He's awesome. He's been permabanned for basically just making the CEO, Jay Graber, mad. This was a monumentally stupid decision that, AFAICT, may result in the collapse of Bluesky due to a loss of trust, but we'll see. The smart thing to do would be to #FreeŁink

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Listen. If you didn't want to be seen as the Twitter escape pod, you shouldn't have deliberately fostered a community of people so united by their contempt for arbitrary authority and love of absolute free speech that they were willing to abandon a platform they'd been using for 15 years

Mamdani was 9 years old on 9/11. This is just gutter racism from Debra Messing.

There is an infantilization of Greta in some online discussions that really bothers me, and though I am finding I have a weird time trying to explain why I am so bothered, I think it boils to: Neuro-divergent people are not inherently more naive, more innocent, more righteous, or more childlike.

she's genuinely mad because her invite only approach turned on her. she wanted tech bros that felt like they were joining a speakeasy and instead got a bunch of queers throwing each other life preservers to escape Elon

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because setting up the site and keeping the servers running is the easy part. people (and their money) is the hard part.

and I don't mean to be discouraging against the idea of setting up a new social media network a la bluesky. By all means, please do. I just want people to know what that entails before another promising network burns itself out because they didn't have enough of a plan for how to run it

How are you going to moderate it? How are you going to talk to your users when they get mad about how you are or are not moderating it? How are you going to monitor it? How are you going to handle users inventing new ways to misuse your service for evil that aren't against your current ToS?

I'm not saying a social media site like bluesky/twitter/mastodon is fundamentally unworkable, but if you're going to build a new one, you need to figure out how you're going to run it as a social network first, emphasis on social.

and money. which is a social issue, not a technical one. The "we'll sell ads!" model fundamentally has a scaling problem. You need a bajillion users to make enough money to pay for your servers, but human moderation is expensive, and automated/AI moderation is unreliable and gameable

I guess my point here is that people who are talking about "we should make our own bluesky, with blackjack and hookers!" should keep this in mind. The biggest issues you will face are social ones: moderation, PR, support, etc.

and crucially, these are /different skillsets/. I've been on more than one chat room, discord, or forum set up by some people who could reinstall the whole server stack in their sleep and code up a new frontend by breakfast, but can't handle a couple persistent trolls

wrangling a bunch of web servers, javascript, and databases is a lot easier at the end of the day than the great pile of monkeys who are using them. but people keep assuming the technical issues are the hard part. They're not, not in the medium-to-long term.

not to point at anyone in particular, but I have been in and on many different internet communities of various shapes/sizes/technologies and one mistake I consistently see made is assuming the technical part of running a community is the hard part. it's not. it's the social part. it's moderation.

Everyone tries to tell you apathy is cool, but the sooner you learn earnestness is strength not cringe and that all your quirks are what people will fall in love with, the sooner learn how to define your own happiness and find true friends who love youf for you

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does anyone else remember when people were begging bluesky to let us give them money? while pouring their own time money and energy into the ecosystem? truly what is going ON

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i feel like the bluesky team, or at least maybe jay in particular, has an attitude that everyone hates them forever irredeemably even though most people i've spoken to about this are disappointed, upset, and bewildered, with a strong sentiment that we'd just like them to stop fucking around already.

i think the disconnect with the bluesky team and the userbase is that the userbase, the people who occupy this place, think of bluesky as purely a twitter alternative and the bluesky team thinks of it as purely a coding foundation for others build off of

Me too Sora Me too @chuggaaconroy.bsky.social

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We do NOT need someone to flip Trump's script and play opposites, the script IS the problem. Ever since A Nation At Risk, we've had politicians think we need to pit schools & students against each other for a race to the bottom. Fight tooth and nail for every dollar from the pot. It needs to stop.

Should universities & academic institutions be reprimanded for kneeling to Trump's demands? Absolutely. Should the proper response be to cripple said institutions because of your own governor? Absolutely NOT. They are kicking pressured schools while they're already down.

Most funding for U.S. schools derives from local property taxes. After that is the state, which is still a significant portion. The last maybe 5-10% is federal. Newsom threatening to pull the second-biggest source of CA school funds is arguably worse than if it were the fed's money.

This is just flipping the script. It's doing what Trump is doing, except with a leftist flavor & populist language that will inevitably get eyes on Newsom and Bluesky users to be in support of it. Funding being pulled from anybody, by anybody, is threatening all education--no matter the party.

I'm seeing a lot of people giving tons of support behind this but, as a teacher, Newsom's promises aren't pushing the needle as much as people think it is.

notice how the default 'libertarian techbro' position is always WE have to be accepting of TERFs, WE have to be accepting of fascists, we're always the ones who must be tolerant, never that *they* need to stop being hateful bigots makes u think

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Just like they can ban me for no reason, they can change the ToS to allow him to stay here because they're friends with him or like him. Which, again, there's nothing we can do about it. But don't lie lol. Don't pretend that this is because it's hard to get everyone to agree or some bullshit.

He, like the rest of us, don't actually have rights here. The ToS are just guidelines. Sites like this and Twitter do no have Freedom of Speech. I can be banned for telling the people who run Bluesky that they're dumb and there's nothing I can do about it.

I mean, he did. We all saw him get banned and then you changed the ToS. Even if that weren't the case, if you ever grew up on forums, you always had that one person who was intentionally annoying & community provoking but didn't "break the rules" and it was important to just ban that person too.

It is so deeply disappointing that the leadership team of Bluesky has continuously chosen to try and brush the Singal mess under the rug for months now. A man who has been identified as a bad actor and threat to trans lives in America by GLAAD and other leading trans organizations. And now this.

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sometimes the extremely popular and oversaturated thing is that way because it really is that good. such as it is with the MM2 wily stage 1 theme

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log. This tells me two things: 1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day. (212) 486-4430

Overall, I just want them to make something new and better. I like new things and better things, even though I'm still going to collect old stuff lol.

This is what is frustrating about the current situation. The GOP is selling their cult base the nostalgia of slurs & racism and the Dems are selling their cult base the nostalgia of ignorance and relief. Both are lies under the guise of patriotism. One IS better than the other but both still suck.

The reason you want to go back is because shit sucks right now & you want to go back to when shit sucked less, even though shit still sucked then as well. "America is already great" and such. No it wasn't. It sucked then too, whether it was good for you personally or not. Sorry to pop that bubble.