I especially like how “Flex Platform” makes this sound like a feature instead of a symptom of the collision of two flavors of capitalism that are almost equally stupid.

Google Maps in Japan: go to platform X and use train car Y for fastest access to exit Z at your destination Google Maps in Germany: Flex Platform

Sitting in the airport in Tokyo and wondering what it would have been like here. It’s hard to imagine cheering but surely there would be some kind of celebration.

Tokyo is funny because you go to some random place and have the best ramen or tonkatsu you’ve ever eaten, which makes sense, but then you go to another random place and have the best canelé, the best brisket, the best lobster roll, etc.

If anyone has a couple minutes to waste, you could report this GitHub account and the X account downthread for impersonation. I’m not too worried about either, but I am curious about whether the platforms will do anything.

I got my first AI impersonator, and AFAICT it’s just complete nonsense. They copied a repo where I publish X Community Notes data, rebranded it as “angelic cognition”, and pushed new (unsigned) commits with my email address on them.

I have no idea who the fuck “Joe Walsh” is but one of his posts just showed up in my feed and this is incredible levels of Bluesky: ✅ Screenshot of tweet ✅ No alt text ✅ Date cropped off ✅ Attribution also cropped off ✅ Substack in bio

Flunkyball is such a weird part of German culture. I have no problem with teenagers getting drunk in the park at 9:30 on a Monday morning, but there’s always broken glass and they never clean up after themselves.

I grew up in a place without many trees, and as a child my strongest political belief was that anyone who cuts down a tree deserves the death penalty. My priorities have changed, but I don’t think I was entirely wrong.

I pulled Google Maps activity for all of these Proud Boys donors, and almost half (947) are contributors. 398 are Level 3+ Local Guides! Nobody’s made it past Level 7, though.

What a nice little surprise to wake up to on a Saturday morning

Correction: I misspelled “MeidasTouch” here. Posting this so that it comes up in search if people are looking for examples of Filipkowski and co. sharing misinformation.

I missed that this X screenshot had also been posted (even more virally) by Ron Filipkowski, the fucking MidasTouch guy. He has 774k followers on here. I hate this place so much.

Every time I open Bluesky I end up spending like 15 minutes just getting angry about US liberals posting misinformation and/or Nazi shit. I’m not going back to X obviously but at least there the assholes working to make the world a shittier place aren’t ostensibly on my side.

I don’t care that this Betty Bowers account is satire. If you’re posting shit like this on a website full of credulous hashtag resistance dipshits you are a part of the disinformation machine. We don’t need this trash.

This “Iran News” account is not “Iranian news”, because of course it fucking isn’t. It used to be a backup for “Nadira Ali”, an account that has claimed to be operated from Pakistan and that quotes a neo-Nazi in its header image.

You know the Barron bought oil story is the good stuff because it came from an X account that used to have the display name “AndrewTateTristanTate” and was popularized by a Facebook page by a content-farm guy who also publishes stories about Chinese dick sucking machines.

Every morning I wake up and read about fucked up shit happening in the US, but I can’t remember the last time the shit was this shockingly fucked up.

Claude is better than Stack Overflow for getting answers to programming questions in every way, except that it’s worse for the environment, worse for developer communication skills, worse for the long-term health of open source projects, benefits worse people, etc.

You will never make me care about US soldiers more than I care about the life of any other human being on earth. Never.

Seeing people casually use “degenerate” on here feels a little like reading “Lebensraum” on an interpretive panel describing a kind of bird in a German park. Like I know this isn’t actually Nazi shit but surely you could find another word?

Just saw speculation that US gas prices could go up to $5.50 / gallon and even that is so fucking cheap. It’s no wonder cars have turned almost every place in that country into a miserable shithole.

We need to be keeping track of everything every one of these hateful little shits is posting now because one day there will be consequences again for this kind of violent extremism. For the rest of their lives every potential employer, partner, etc. needs to know that this is who they are.

this is what conservative students on university campuses really want: the freedom to say Nazi slogans, the n-word and call for violently killing Black people and more, without consequences of any kind. No protest from fellow students, faculty or admin. Utter impunity to be hateful little prats

When I first moved to Berlin I was impressed by how well-trained all the dogs I met were, but now I have my own dog here, and she’s better behaved than her German friends, so I think the takeaway is just that Americans tend to be really bad at stuff.

In a coffee shop where an American tech bro has been loudly taking video calls and then left without bussing his table and like JFC man, it’s not the week for that

Just ID’d a Nazi (the literal 14 words kind) who lives in Stockholm and works for Swedbank (he’s been there for years and actively represents them on LinkedIn). He’s just going on the pile for now, but if any local folks want to take a shot at getting him fired, let me know.

Somehow I missed that this motherfucker posted “I agree with the teachings of Jesus” last Tuesday? I think we may be down to double digits for the “Christ is King” counter.

Was just reminded that “TizzyEnt” exists and noticed that his most recent post on here is misinformation about Enrique Tarrio being a member of ICE. Which is not surprising, but it’s nice to have a solid reason to block him after years of just finding him annoying and grifty.

Lots of talk on here about how people are confusing the Internet Archive (mostly great!) with Archive Today (bad in many ways), and I don’t get it. Just because they both have “Archive” in the name? Is this one of those fucked up American reading pedagogy things?

Something to think about the next time you click a Substack link here: X recently suspended a community that claimed (accurately, AFAICT) to be “the largest National Socialist community on Twitter”, and the organizer’s response was “we’re going to focus on TG and Substack”.

This is why you shouldn’t publish speculative identifications, even if you hedge appropriately, and if even if everyone involved is a terrible person. Every time it gets repeated a layer of your hedging is stripped off, and pretty soon people who should know better are doing this shit.

Subskeeting here but saying that the End Wokeness X account is “allegedly” run by Jack Posobiec is still misinformation. The only person seriously alleging this is an OSINT influencer whose “evidence” is based on several misunderstandings.

I wouldn’t say I like this article or agree with all of it (the title is bad and the framing in general isn’t much better), but he’s not wrong about how irresponsible “ha ha spicy autocomplete” is as a response to generative AI.

Bluesky in a nutshell. Some context: BLS released its jobs numbers today, which were better than expected, and resistance libs would rather stay mad/conspiratorial than listen to actual on-the-ground experts that the data is still reliable.

yeah. if palantir was putting 10 billion into metaverse operations I'd laugh and be glad the enemy was wasting money. 10 billion into AI-driven surveillance? Less funny.

The metaverse and NFTs may have disappeared basically without a trace, but one thing they’ve given us is a whole genre of lazy and incompetent AI criticism.

Anonymous account: not a red flag, many people need anonymity Independent journalist: not a red flag, many of them are doing important work Anonymous account with “independent journalist” in bio: yeah there’s like a 90% chance that’s a fucking Nazi

Some of these antisemitic posters have X accounts where they’re promoting literal Nazis, they just adapt their content slightly for Bluesky, and their progressive / leftist audiences here love it, because Bluesky is also garbage.

All I want is a social network that bans Nazis, but also bans all the Scotts Horton, Tennessee Hollers, etc. This shit isn’t a gray area: if you consistently present other people’s content as your own or don’t take down misinformation, you should not have a platform.

we need to stop excusing "weird old guys" who are in positions of power and prestige and being shitty esp to women that's the only way to change things

Here’s an email I got from Scott Horton when I contacted him last month to confirm that he runs this account. There’s something very wrong with this guy, and yet I see him posting misinformation and ripping off actual journalists in my feed every day, because Bluesky runs on this shit.

It’s so fucked up that emergency services still use X. I just checked the 47 X accounts listed on the official RCMP social media page, and 10 have no gray check. It’s like an open invitation to impersonators.

This fits - the DSA was one of the main topics at a right-wing conference at the European Parliament I attended this week, which brought together a global alliance of right-wing extremists and reactionaries. If someone has leads on which German think tanks Rogers was talking to, drop me a message.

It’s so frustrating that a conspiracy-brained, Nazi-friendly anonymous weirdo like this can show up here and fit right in. This place is trash.

Looking more closely at this, and it’s some very funny unhinged bullshit. “Normal Island News” seems to be the same person as “Council Estate Media”. The branding and URLs match up across many of these 115 Twitter screen names, with some of the accounts switching between the two identities.

Personally I think there’s a tiny bit of plausible deniability in the “reclaim the goyim slur” thing (I can imagine some Bluesky dipshit reading the Epstein files and posting something like that). The second you also promote Stew Peters on X that goes out the window, you’re just a fucking Nazi.

“Normal Island News” is one of a set of six Twitter accounts that have shared distinctive screen names at different times, and that seem to be run by the same person (or pair of people?). Three of the others are posting Pizzagate shit and retweeting Stew Peters, Ian Carroll, Candace Owens, etc.

How much longer are we gonna allow billionaires to wreck everything good?